When: Tuesday October, 12 – Thursday October, 14
Where: Virtually on SignalWire Events – Register now at no charge!
We are delighted to announce five exciting keynote presentations for the 2021 RTC Conference at Illinois Tech, covering the most pressing topics and latest innovations in real-time communications, presented by leading subject matter experts! Registration is free of charge for the conference, taking place virtually October 12 – 14, 2021 via SignalWire Events. 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 Challenges of Building for Developers; Anthony Minessale, SignalWire
When the RTC Conference at Illinois Tech held its inaugural event back in 2005, building real-time communications applications and services was a daunting task even for the most accomplished developers. Since that time, many tools have been created to make real-time communications programmable, resulting in immense benefits to society. But building for developers isn’t easy. Come hear the Founder of FREESwitch and SignalWire describe his journey of paving the way to empower developers, and what still needs to be accomplished.
CalOES Self Assessemnt of a Statewide NG911 Deployment – The Good, the Bad, and the Lessons Learned; Mark Fletcher, 911inform, LLC; Budge Currier, California Governors Office of Emergency Services; Laurie Flaherty, US Department of Transportation; Brooks Shannon, RapidDeploy
Developing standards for NG 9-1-1 differs greatly from actually building an NG 9-1-1 solution. Join this panel of experts for the lessons learned building a NG 9-1-1 solution in California to support 450 PSAP’s handling 27 million 9-1-1 calls annually
AI/ML are not sufficient: How to Program Billions and Billions of IoT Devices; Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
As IoT transitions to a general-purpose network of sensors and actuators, identifying nodes by MAC or IP address is likely to result in functionality that is brittle and hard to maintain over time. Join former CTO of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University Henning Schulzrinne as he describes a prototype effort to leverage well known SQL models to retrieve data, and create abstractions that do not depend on network architecture and hardware modules, improving the utility of large, multi-administration networks of IoT devices.
What analyzing call center conversations can teach us about good conversational AI; Mariano Tan, Prosodica
Getting speech technology to work well is hard. Natural human communication is spontaneous, fragmented, and disorganized while technology wants to be predictable, structured, and organized. Join Prosodica’s CEO Mariano Tan as he describes lessons learned from analyzing millions of real human conversations to provide insights into how we might improve our speech technologies, and describes a speech analytics architecture that utilizes digital signal processing, distributional semantics, and prosodics to support better recognition, mitigate bias, and reliably model intent.
A new approach to telecom: The benefits of operating a service provider like an IT company; Azita Arvani, Rakuten Symphony
While 5G promises to facilitate the transformation of countless verticals, the telecom industry can benefit from its own transformation. Join Rakuten Symphony General Manager Azita Arvani as she shares how to minimize a telco footprint while optimizing service, how to move traditional telco functions to the cloud, and how becoming the world’s first cloud native Open RAN-based mobile network has resulted in substantial automation, programmable infrastructure, and cost savings that are passed on to customers.
Conference Speakers List and Schedule
To learn more about the conference keynotes, as well as the rest of the incredible 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. Then check out the full Conference Schedule for a listing of the dates and times.
A Big “Thank You” to our Sponsors
We’re excited to be able to bring this awesome content to the real-time communications community completely free of charge as a result of the support of our Conference Sponsors. We’re honored to welcome SignalWire, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon as Platinum Sponsors, Google as a Gold Sponsor, and Vail Systems, Millicast, and webRTC.ventures as Silver Sponsors. Thank you for making the RTC Conference at Illinois Tech possible!
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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