Real Time Communications Conference & Expo at Illinois Tech

When: Wednesday October, 14 – Thursday October, 15

Where: Virtually on Hopin – Register now at no charge!

Real Time Applications are no longer a niche – they are a crucial part of the modern internet and of our distributed and socially-distanced lives. Live video is a key component of this new experience, as well as real-time data transfers that keep us informed even when working apart.

WebRTC video has come a long way since 2012 when it became an open source standard for allowing JavaScript code to access the microphone and camera via the browser, permitting peer-to-peer video, audio, and data connections to be created directly between browsers.

Today, WebRTC is being used in billions of browsers and mobile phones by popular services including Google Meet, Facebook Messenger, Houseparty, and many, many others. It currently enables video and audio communications in a wide range of industries, including social media, telecommunications, healthcare, education, broadcasting, and more.

WebRTC usage is growing dramatically in 2020 with the increased need to work from home and hold remote meetings due to coronavirus quarantines globally. This further increases the visibility and need for WebRTC and brings with it conversations around scaling and usability.

In this track we will:

• Go over the current status of WebRTC from a standards and market perspective
• Explore best practices for implementing Real Time Applications and WebRTC, covering topics such as web/mobile development, testing, and security
• Examine leading use cases for WebRTC and Real Time communication applications
• Learn how to scale WebRTC
• Discuss the future of the WebRTC standard

Track Highlights include:

COVID19 and Video: Call Quality and Scalability from the Trenches – Emil Ivov, 8×8, Varun Singh, 8×8; Saúl Ibarra Corretgé, 8×8 – Track Keynote

What’s New in WebRTC – Bernard Aboba, Microsoft

TADHack Global Hackathon Results – Alan Quayle, Independent

Can SFU’s and MCU’s be friends? – Lorenzo, Miniero, Meetecho

Building Dana the Stream Gatekeeper – Dan Jenkins, Nimble Ape

Real-Time Av1: the dawn of High-Quality, secure, self-adaptive Video in WebRTC – Dr. Alex Gouaillard, CoSMo Software 

How to Secure Your WebRTC Application – Natalie Silvanovich, Google

Pion: Solving Production RTC problems with composable Open Source Go libraries – Sean DuBois, Pion

About the RTC Conference: 

The IIT RTC Conference is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.

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When: Tuesday October, 13

Where: Virtually on Hopin – Register now at no charge!

By 2021, the IoT is expected to connect 21 billion smart objects to the network. Applications and their enablement play a critical role in harnessing this connectivity growth and the data generated from these objects. IoT relies upon a vast confluence of technologies and standards – including sensors and actuators, wearable computing, communications & protocols, network, storage and compute infrastructure, big data and analytics, middleware, security, visualization and control and finally immersive applications.

IT technology development, whether it is Silicon, Multimedia Communication, Devices & Systems, Software, Solutions, System Integration & Services is being augmented through this new IoT paradigm. Vertical industry segments such as manufacturing, healthcare, digital workplace technologies, transportation and public sector continue to heavily invest their resources to capitalize on this burgeoning market which is poised to have an overall impact of many trillion dollars. Through these applications, data collected can foster breakthroughs in decision making, operational efficiencies, safety, and security and have an effect on nearly every aspect of the customer experience.

This track will bring together researchers from academia and industry to contribute with their latest research works from various fields of the state-of-the-art pertaining to this new IoT paradigm. 

Track Highlights

Edge Intelligence: The Convergence of Humans, Things, and AI – Shahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria – Track Keynote

Small Footprint Embedded Edge Analytics Technology – Alan Clark, Telchemy

Internet of Telescopes: Development of a Passively Safe Network of Small Telescopes Connected Using IBM Internet of Things Protocols (IoT) – Arunava Majumdar, IBM; Dr. Jeff Terry, IIT, Rahul Gupta, IBM

Communication based power system modeling for online security detection – Lina He, University of Illinois at Chicago

Adding Plug and Play to your IoT device – Manjula Iyer, Microsoft

5G in IoT – Seiran Khaledian, Motorola 

About the Conference

The IIT RTC Conference is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.

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We are delighted to announce six exciting keynote presentations for the 2020 IIT RTC Conference, covering the most pressing topics and latest innovations in real-time communications, presented by leading subject matter experts! The conference takes place October 13 – 15, 2020. Everyone working at the intersection of voice, video, messaging, mobility, the Cloud and the Web has things to share, things to learn and people to meet at this year’s conference. 

Keynote addresses

The Communications Fabric: 5G, COVID-19, and a vision for the future; Anne Lee, Nokia Bell Labs.

With roughly 2 billion live Internet wireless communications users in the world, the technology presents an extreme-scale solution to new avenues of services in telemedicine, work-from-home, and remote education cases, all of which are acting to combat the crises caused by Covid-19. While the pandemic may end in another year, some of its impacts on how we conduct our lives will be permanent. This presentation will talk about COVID-19 and 5G through the lens of the global Internet-based wireless communications network. 

AI for Using Voice; Kristen Summers, IBM

Voice technology is becoming ubiquitous, and it generates enormous user excitement about the potential of AI. Meeting those user expectations requires far more than recognizing and generating the speech itself. This talk will position Natural Language Processing (NLP) within AI and analytics, focusing on the characteristics of well understood tasks and of capabilities that are farther in the future. It will demystify AI, and it will describe a range of types of NLP and related understanding to enable natural and engaging voice experiences, including the exciting new advances that are making far more understanding possible than in the past 

Technology Policy During a Pandemic: Possibilities and Limits; Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

Even as the pandemic is likely far from over, we can draw a number of lessons for policy issues and how computer scientists (and builders of real-time communication systems) can help countries weather both the health and the economic crisis. Join former CTO of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University Henning Schulzrinne as he shares new opportunities for research, for service and for political engagement by computer scientists based on his perspective from having served in a Congressional office during the pandemic.

Edge Intelligence: The Convergence of Humans, Things, and AI; Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

As humans, things, and AI continue to grow closer together, systems engineers and researchers are faced with new and unique challenges. In this talk, we analyze the role of Edge computing and AI in the evolution of cyber-human partnerships, and identify challenges that Edge computing systems will consequently be faced with. We take a closer look at how a cyber-physical fabric will be complemented by AI operationalization to enable seamless end-to-end Edge intelligence systems.

COVID19 and Video: Call Quality and Scalability from the Trenches; Emil Ivov, Varun Singh and Saúl Ibarra Corretgé, 8×8

During 2020, millions of people around the world have experienced an unprecedented change in their daily routines due to the global pandemic. This keynote will present data from millions of video and audio calls in over 1000 WebRTC apps to help paint a picture of some of the changes to usage and call quality. It will also share how a small but highly motivated team took on the challenges of 2020 and managed to accomplish their mission of providing the best meeting experience to an unprecedented amount of people, including the lessons they learned the hard way, and how they achieved the level of scalability required  

NextGen Emergency Communications and the FCC; Lisa Fowlkes, FCC 

The FCC’s Chief of Public Safety Homeland Security Bureau, Lisa Fowlkes will speak on current NG emergency services initiatives being addressed by the Commission.

Preliminary Speakers List

To learn more about the conference keynotes, as well as the rest of the slate of confirmed presentations and speakers, please visit the Speakers page of the conference website where you can access additional information, including all the presentation abstracts, and speaker bios. Note, this is a preliminary list, and additional presentations/speakers will continue to be added, so check back often for updates!

About the Conference

The IIT RTC Conference is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.

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Register now!

Registration is now open for the Illinois Institute of Technology Real-Time Communications Conference & Expo, October 13 – 15, 2020. To ensure the safety of the entire RTC Conference community, this year’s conference is being hosted virtually on Hopin, the first all-in-one live online events platform where attendees can learn, interact, and connect with people from anywhere in the world. We’re very excited to be delivering the premier global thought-leadership event for industry and academic experts in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications to you online for FREE! 

Be sure to register early to receive all our updates as to how best to use Hopin to achieve the optimal conference experience!

Highlights of the 2020 Conference

TADHack Global – October 10-11

For the 7th year running, the Real-Time Communications Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology is hosting the Chicago / North America location for TADHack Global. This Fall, TADHack Global will run over the 10th – 11th October (Saturday-Sunday), and is transitioning to a hybrid in-person / remote format to accommodate hackers from throughout North America.

The in-person component of TADHack will return to the Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship on IIT’s Main Campus where we’ll be operating with a maximum capacity of 50, while requiring face masks, adhering to social distancing guidelines, and providing plenty of hand sanitizer. If you’re unable to make it to the in-person event, or are avoiding gatherings due to the pandemic, we’ll also be live-streaming the entire event, and encourage people from throughout North America to register to participate remotely. TADHack is free of charge, but requires a separate registration in addition to registering for the Main Conference.

IIT RTC Conference &  IPTComm – October 13 -15

Tuesday morning, October 13 kicks off 3 information-filled days addressing the latest developments in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications. The Conference is internationally recognized as the real-time communications industry’s most objective venue for unbiased educational content presented by leading industry visionaries from around the globe. The inclusion of IPTComm offers our registrants, speakers, and sponsors the opportunity to attend two conferences in one, and builds on our unparalleled reputation for connecting industry thought leaders with academic researchers.

The Speakers and the Schedule

The conference schedule is being developed by a team of domain experts who have generously donated their time to serve as track chairs.  Please visit the Program page of the conference website to learn about the content of each of our 6 tracks. Learn about our excellent slate of approved speakers/presentations on the Speakers page of the conference website. 

About the IIT RTC Conference

The IIT RTC Conference is a globally recognized collaborative events, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.

Everyone living at the intersection of voice, video, messaging, mobility, the cloud, and the Web – technical developers, innovators, engineers, academic researchers, product managers, marketers, entrepreneurs – has things to learn, things to teach and people to meet at this conference.Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from and network with leading industry thought-leaders by registering today!  

Stay tuned to the RTC Conference website. Watch mailings for further updates. Follow us on:

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As we transition to a virtual conference, we’re increasingly excited about the opportunities this new format presents to host the premier global thought-leadership event for industry and academic experts in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications! We’ve been delighted by the response we’ve received so far, and are looking forward to sharing more details next month regarding the conference format, a preliminary speakers list, and how to register for free. In the interim, please note the deadlines below for submitting a presentation proposal to share your expertise at the leading technical and business edge of how we think about, create, and implement real-time communications networks, services and applications. 

IPTCOMM 2020

The 13th IPTComm Conference will be held on October 13-14, 2020 as a virtual event. IPTComm brings together researchers from academia, industry and government to advance real-time multi-media, IP-based communications.

The conference is focused on current topics, including programmable network services, 5G, internet of things, and machine learning in interactive communications (natural language understanding and processing). The reliability, security, privacy, performance and scalability of real-time services that rely on or incorporate these technologies is of special concern.

The deadline for submission of papers is August 31, 2020. Please visit the Call for Papers for complete information regarding topics of interest and deadlines. Regular papers as well as works-in-progress are welcome. Application demos are encouraged.

IPTComm 2020 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Chicago section. Accepted papers that are presented at the conference will be published in IEEE Xplore.

Real Time Communications Conference 2020

IPTComm 2020 is affiliated with the  Real-Time Communications (RTC) Conference organized by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago. In addition to hosting the IPTComm Research track, the RTC Conference will have tracks related to IoT, WebRTC and Real-Time Applications, Programmable Real-Time Networks, VoiceTech, and NextGen Emergency Communications. A brief description of each of the tracks can be found on the Program page of the conference website.

The deadline for submitting speaking proposals is July 31, 2020. Please visit the Propose a Talk page of the Conference website to submit a speaker bio and presentation title, and presentation abstract.

The IIT RTC Conference and Expo is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together software developers, network engineers, entrepreneurs, business executives, students, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.