The 23rd ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production — CVMP 2026 — is back at BFI Southbank on 8–9 December, and the first keynote alone makes it worth a look. Victor Perez — VFX supervisor whose credits include The Dark Knight Rises, Rogue One and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — opens … Read more

UK Screen Alliance is launching a new conference this autumn, and it’s refreshingly honest about what it is: INsight ’26 is about the business of VFX and post-production, not the tech demos. On Wednesday 8 October at the Courthouse Hotel in Soho, the inaugural edition brings together studio leads, operations managers and strategists for a … Read more

Beyond The Music is the co-operative global music and media conference and festival, returning to MediaCity, Salford for its 2026 edition — four days and nights where the music, film, broadcast, gaming and innovation worlds actually sit in one room and try to agree what they build together. What’s on • Festival (6–9 Oct) — … Read more

Here’s something a bit different: a free, one-day AI hackathon at the Renold Building on Friday 16 October that puts Greater Manchester’s ten boroughs at the centre of the build. The format is genuinely interesting. Each of the ten boroughs — Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan — gets its … Read more