We are delighted to announce four exciting keynote presentations for the 2019 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 14 – 16, 2019 on IIT’s Main Campus in Chicago, Illinois. 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. Register now to reserve your spot to join our stellar keynote sessions!
Keynote addresses
Tuesday, October 15
11:00 AM – Noon: How to make a Difference: Communication Protocols and Regulatory Protocols; Eric Burger, Georgetown University.
As former CTO of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Dr. Eric Burger is uniquely qualified to share his insights into the priorities and realities of the regulators. Come learn how engineers can constructively contribute to making the world a better place.
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Meet the TADHack Winners & TADHack Global Review; Alan Quayle, TADS
This is an opportunity to meet some of the TADHack Global winners from the prior weekend (12-13 October), and see the power of what programmable telecoms can accomplish. The hacks demonstrate what teams can create by mashing up programmable telecoms with many other services available over the web to solve problems across all aspects of people’s lives.
Wednesday, October 16
11:00 AM – Noon: Networking research – A reflection in the middle years; Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
Join former CTO of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University Henning Schulzrinne as he shares his perspective on the role of network engineering in an era where the Internet has matured into a vast and critical infrastructure.
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Robocalling Mitigation – Implementing the STIR/SHAKEN Framework; Panelists, Chris Wendt, Comcast; Drew Morin, T-Mobile; Eric Ashby, AT&T
With unwanted robocalls representing far and away the biggest consumer complaint to the FCC (over 200,000 complaints each year – around 60 percent of all the complaints received), there has been a massive response by regulatory and judicial parties as well as the telephone service providers and their vendors to help solve this problem. This panel of experts from major tier 1 carriers will discuss some of the various ways that the US telephone network is transforming to adapt to helping consumers control their telephone experience, identify bad actors in the telephone network and block them, and ultimately with the help of SHAKEN/STIR, restore trust in calling party identity.
Early-bird Registration – Hotel Reservations
Early-bird conference registration expires September 1. Attendees who register by September 1 can take advantage of attractive early bird full conference registration price of $300. Register now!
Discounted rooms at the Chicago South Loop Hotel are also available through September 1. Further information to help you with hotel reservations is available at Travel/Hotel page of the Conference website.
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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