A flurry of IBC 2022 warm-up announcements have flown over the wires as the six-week countdown to Amsterdam commences. The first IBC show in three years is set to be a topical one for sustainability in media and broadcast technologies. We all recognize the irony of thousands of people from around the world all simultaneously boarding airplanes, but what we have learned over the past two and a half years is that certain pockets of the media and entertainment ecosystem cannot survive without physical contact. Others thrive without it. Ateme is one of the first through passport control, as the French video compression vendor prepares to prove how its high-density suite of technologies can slash the carbon footprint of video…