Babelsberg stands for more than 100 years of film and media history — while also being a place for new technologies, research and innovation. Across 36 pages, the new SPOT BOOK BABELSBERG shows what defines the media hub today and which companies and institutions are shaping its ecosystem. MediaTech Hub Potsdam is also featured in the new edition.

Anyone who associates Babelsberg only with film studios is seeing just one part of the picture. Here, film and television meet VFX, virtual production, artificial intelligence and IT; established companies meet startups; and production meets research. More than 100 years of media history come together with the question of how media will be created in the future.

The new SPOT BOOK BABELSBERG brings this ecosystem together in one publication. We are delighted that MediaTech Hub Potsdam is featured alongside the many organisations and companies that shape the location, including Studio Babelsberg, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, UNESCO City of Film, the Erich Pommer Institut, rbb, filmfriend, Arkanum Pictures, UFA, GZSZ, Raccoon Features, seven200.AI Studios, Dark Bay, the German Broadcasting Archive, Interlake, the Hasso Plattner Institute, the University of Potsdam, KW Development and D-Labs GmbH.

It is precisely this mix of media production, technology, research, startups and established companies that defines Babelsberg — and makes it a shared media and technology ecosystem.

Anyone who would like to read the printed SPOT BOOK can find the new edition at #MTHCON26 on 29 and 30 September 2026 at Studio Babelsberg. A ticket is required to attend the conference.

Everyone else can read the German edition online here.