Summer Camp 2026 | Kick-off: The Open Source AI Co-Pilot for Media Archives

Join us for the kickoff of AI Co-Pilot for Media Archives, one of the open-source projects of Summer Camp 2026!

This session will introduce the vision, objectives, and collaboration plan, exploring how AI and RAG strategies can help media organizations (like SMPTE and its partners) make sense of the massive, fragmented archives they’ve built over time.

The problem
Across the media industry, archives are rarely a single, unified collection. They’re a mix of data scattered across multiple formats and systems: PDFs, videos, images, audio, Word documents, meeting notes, webinars, and more. For organizations like SMPTE, this diversity makes it increasingly difficult to find, connect, and reuse valuable knowledge.

🎯 The goal
To build an AI-powered assistant that can search and interpret these diverse data sources, understand relationships between them, and provide contextual answers — while laying the groundwork for future provenance and access-control capabilities.

👥 Tech Sponsor: Andy Beach (Think Alchemy)
Summer Project Leads: Nicolás Levy and Fabián Cancela

Whether you’re passionate about AI, knowledge graphs, or media-tech innovation, join us to discover how this project aims to redefine the way the SMPTE community, and the broader industry, explores its archives.

Let’s build the AI Co-Pilot that will help unlock the archives of the future.