Context

The JPEG Trust Summit 2026 will bring together international experts from academia, industry, government, cultural heritage institutions, and standardisation bodies to advance trustworthy and interoperable solutions for media provenance and authenticity.

JPEG Trust is a series of international standards by the JPEG standardisation committee (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1) that provides a framework for establishing trust in media. This framework includes aspects of authenticity, provenance, attribution, intellectual property rights, and integrity through secure and reliable annotation of media assets throughout their life cycle.

Focused on the JPEG Trust series of standards (ISO/IEC 21617), the summit will provide a platform to explore legal frameworks, real-world implementation, cross-sector collaboration, and pathways towards adoption.

Practical information

• Date: Thursday and Friday, November 12-13, 2026
• Venue: Alan Turing Institute, Central London, United Kingdom
• Registration: In-person attendance is currently fully booked. You can express your interest in attending online to attend online and optionally join the waiting list for in-person attendance in case of cancellations.

Program

The programme below is preliminary and may change as speakers’ contributions are confirmed.

Thursday, November 12, 2026 - Legal frameworks and policy making

• 10:30-11:00: Registration and networking
• 11:00-12:40: Trust in media
  • Welcome address by JPEG and the Alan Turing Institute - Professor Touradj Ebrahimi, JPEG Convenor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and tbc, Alan Turing Institute
  • Opening address - Baroness Beeban Kidron, House of Lords, United Kingdom
  • Impact of false information, a keynote address - Inès Gentil, EU DisinfoLab
  • Introduction to JPEG Trust - Professor Frederik Temmermans, Chair of the JPEG Trust AhG, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec
  • Trust in media, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - Philippe Rixhon, Co-Chair of the JPEG Trust AhG, Chair of Valunode Management Board, and the speakers of this session
• 12:40-13:40: Lunch break
• 13:40-15:10: Legal frameworks and policy making
  • Policies and priorities of the European Union, a keynote address - tbc
  • Policies and priorities of the People’s Republic of China, a keynote address - Juyuan Tang, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
  • Policies and priorities in the United States of America, a keynote address - Kate Murray, US Library of Congress
  • Legal frameworks and policy making, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - Philippe Rixhon, Baroness Kidron, and the speakers of this session
• 15:10-15:30: Break - opportunity for demonstrations and exchanges
• 15:30-17:00: The role of standards
  • How a global standards body of the news media provides the technical foundation for that ecosystem, a keynote address - Brendan Quinn, Managing Director at International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)
  • Content provenance and authenticity and the JPEG Trust Framework, a keynote address - Leonard Rosenthol, Chair, C2PA Technical Working Group, Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe
  • JPEG trust and authenticity at the elementary stream level for video and audio coding, a keynote address – Professor Jonathan Pfaff, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and University of Potsdam
  • JPEG Trust in action, walking through a first deployment - Deepayan Bhowmik, Co-Director, Newcastle University Centre of Research Excellence in Data Science and AI, and Philippe Rixhon
  • Wrap-up of the day in dialogue with the participants - Sabrina Caldwell, Co-Chair of the JPEG Trust AhG, Senior Lecturer, Ethics in Technology, University of New South Wales, and the speakers of this session
• 19:00-21:00: Dinner

Friday, November 13, 2026 - Use cases and user adoption

• 09:00-09:45: Registration and networking
• 09:45-10:10: Welcome address
• 10:10-12:30: Use cases
  • IP and frontier technologies, a keynote address - Ulrike Till, Director IP and Frontier Technologies Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Trust in visual content matters, a keynote address - Gilles Devicq, President, CEPIC, and Philippe François, Chief Imagery, Belga News Agency
  • Trust in satellite imagery matters, a keynote address - Andrew Tewkesbury, Solutions Consultant at Airbus Defence and Space
  • Trust in cultural heritage matters, a keynote address - Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium, International Consortium for Photographic Heritage
  • Trust in editorial content matters - Lina Ghazal, Director of Public Affairs, The Press Association
  • Use cases, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - Frederik Temmermans and the speakers of this session
• 12:30-13:30: Lunch break - opportunity for demonstrations and exchanges
• 13:30-15:20: User adoption
  • An Open Rights Data Framework to declare and exchange interoperable and trustworthy rights information, a keynote address - Anna Vuopala, Finnish Ministry of Culture and Education, Copyright Infrastructure Task Force
  • Stop&Scan, the role of agentic AI and gamification to pause, verify, analyse, align, and reflect - Dr Alessandra Sala, AI and Multimedia Authenticity Standards collaboration (AMAS)
  • User interface and trust pipelines, keys for standards adoption, a keynote address illustrated by a second deployment - Professor Frederik Temmermans
  • Trust in education, a keynote address - Matthew Forshaw, Head of Skills for AI Assurance, UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • A strategy for user adoption, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - Matthew Forshaw and the speakers of this session
• 15:20-15:40: Closing
  • Wrap-up of the summit and perspectives - Frederik Temmermans, Sabrina Caldwell, and Philippe Rixhon, Co-Chairs of the JPEG Trust AhG

Organizing committee

• Deepayan Bhowmik
• Philippe Rixhon
• Frederik Temmermans
• Sabrina Caldwell
• Touradj Ebrahimi
• Leonard Rosenthol
• Kang Xin
• Walt Husak

Sponsors

In kind

• Alan Turing Institute

Platinum

• Newcastle University

Gold

• Huawei

Silver

• RayShaper

Bronze

• EPFL
• UNSW Canberra
• Valunode
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec

More information

Further information about JPEG Trust and its activities is available on the JPEG Trust website. Interested parties are invited to regularly consult the JPEG.org website for the latest news.