EVS

EVS Broadcast Equipment is the Belgian live-production technology company that owned the architectural whiteboard at the SMART STORIES mpts.london reveal on 14 May 2026, presenting the three-region SOM runtime (LIVE / NEARLIVE / DISTRO) and the Cerebrum reasoning agent layered above it. The company's role in the consortium positions it as the infrastructure backbone of what the project's backers are calling the broadcast industry's Intelligence era .

EVS was founded in Liège, Belgium in February 1994 by Pierre L'Hoest and Laurent Minguet. The company pioneered tapeless television with its Live Slow-Motion (LSM) system, which became the global standard for sports replay. Listed on Euronext Brussels since 1998, EVS now employs more than 800 people across offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, serving clients in over 100 countries. Its core products power outside broadcast vans and live production galleries across major sporting events.

EVS's SMART STORIES contribution is the most technically substantive of any vendor in the consortium: it authored the whiteboard diagram that maps how the Story Object Model synchronises between Local and Regional tiers and specifies the Skills-based agent layer above the live router. That architectural role, combined with its installed base across broadcast infrastructure globally, gives EVS disproportionate influence over how the SOM spec lands in production newsrooms .