Conference Hosts

Many of television’s most important innovations were first shown at the annual INPUT Screening Conference. Each May in a different city, an estimated 1000 television professionals from 50 countries and five continents gather together for one special week to screen 80 hours of the world’s finest TV programmes.

Most uniquely, the producers and directors who made these remarkable programmes are in attendance at INPUT, eager to debate and discuss their work. This conference is a rare opportunity to see and question what colleagues from other cultures are doing, and to explore methods and techniques with peers from other countries.

The way it works is, that the programmes are shown in three screening rooms in English (working language) or with English subtitles. After each screening a moderator - an experienced professional from one of the dozens of countries of INPUT - introduces the programme-maker, and the debate starts.

Valuable professional contacts are made at INPUT. Many co-productions, joint ventures and sales have been conceived at the gatherings.

Each year, different public broadcasters, or a conglomeration of broadcasters apply at the INPUT International Board to host an INPUT Conference.

Since 1977, each year an INPUT conference has been held. This has only been possible with the kind support of many volunteers and driven organisers and hosts, who believe in the idea of INPUT.