Real Time Communications Conference & Expo at Illinois Tech

The 18th Annual IIT Real-Time Communications Conference 2022, an International Conference of the IEEE, was held virtually on Oct. 11-13, using the real-time communications platform offered by Signal Wire Events .

This year’s conference expanded its emphasis on the arts, science and technologies that support the rapidly evolving field of Real-Time Communications. Presentations examined the status of the real-time communications industry, explained emerging technologies and introduced new ideas and methods that will shape the future. Leveraging our unique academic setting, the Conference brought together a diverse range of telecom, IT, web and academic professionals from around the globe.

Videos of this year’s keynote talks as well as the presentation slides provided by many of our speakers are now available! The presentation videos are available as a YouTube playlist on the Illinois Tech YouTube channel. You can also access the videos and the presentation slides via the Speaker page of the conference website. To access this content from the Speaker page, scroll to an individual presentation and click on the title, to display the presentation abstract. At the bottom of each abstract will be links to view both the presentation slides and the presentation videos.

A big thanks to our dedicated team of track chairs for making IIT RTC Conference 2022 a success! 

Looking Ahead: We are already planning the 2023 Conference. Next year we hope to return to a face-to-face conference with all the added benefits that real-time and real-space communications provide. The tentative date is October 16 – 19, 2023.  Please let us know if this date conflicts with any events that might make it difficult for you or other members of the RTC community to participate. Contact Carol Davids, (davids@iit.edu) , Warren Bent, (warrenbent@inchargesys.com) , or Tom Costello, (t.costello@iit.edu) to share this and other information about the dates or content of next year’s event.

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, 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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October 11-13, 2022 Free Registration Here!

The RTC Conference 2022 will be held online this year. Registration is free,
thanks to our generous sponsors and exhibitors.

We are delighted with the breadth, variety and technical content of the talks,
panels and keynotes and hope that you will join us for as many of them as you
can.

This year’s schedule is available from the Program tab where you can read the
abstracts of the conference’s six tracks and then follow the Schedule link to view
the times and days on which each of our talks, panels and keynotes will be
held.

A separate alphabetical listing of our speakers is available at the Conference
Speakers tab. This list can be filtered to show only the speakers in a given track,
or only the keynote speakers.

HIGHLIGHTS – THURSDAY

The VoiceTech track features speakers from Grand Studio, Verbal
Transactions, Vixen Labs, University of Pittsburgh, and more

The Morning Keynote at 11 AM CT: Humanizing Speech Technologies – Shyamala Prayaga, NVIDIA

The WebRTC and Real-Time Applications track features speakers from Daily
and Agora.io.

Thursday is the last half-day of the conference! To pick the tracks and
talks you want to attend, you can view the schedule at RTC Conference
Schedule and follow the links there to read the abstracts of the talks and
panels, and the speaker bios.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

October 11-13, 2022 Free Registration Here!

The RTC Conference 2022 will be held online this year. Registration is free,
thanks to our generous sponsors and exhibitors.

We are delighted with the breadth, variety and technical content of the talks,
panels and keynotes and hope that you will join us for as many of them as you
can.

This year’s schedule is available from the Program tab where you can read the
abstracts of the conference’s six tracks and then follow the Schedule link to view
the times and days on which each of our talks, panels and keynotes will be
held.

A separate alphabetical listing of our speakers is available at the Conference
Speakers tab. This list can be filtered to show only the speakers in a given track,
or only the keynote speakers.

HIGHLIGHTS – WEDNESDAY

The Next-Generation Emergency Communications track features speakers
from T-Mobile, INDigital, NENA, Frequentis, 911Inform, LLC, CISA and more.

A Tribute to Barbra Kemp, a beloved and revered leader in the field of
Emergency Communications and a strong supporter of the RTC Lab and its
activities, is included in this morning’s program.

The Morning Keynote at 11 AM CT: Topology and Vision for Accelerating NG9-1-
1 Deployments – Chandy Ghosh – GM of Sinch Voice Emergency Services

The Programmable Real-Time Networks track features speakers from IBM,
Ericsson, Wireless Emergency Response Team, and more.

The Afternoon Keynote at 3 PM CT: How to realize scalable and programmable
infrastructure by solving 3C+3D=6G equation – Mallik Tatipamula – CTO
Ericsson

The RTC Research track includes a Keynote entitled, Responsible AI for Telecom
by Anne Lee, CTO Partner – Bell Labs Fellow at Nokia.

Juried papers will be presented on the topics:

• Maximizing Stable Throughput in Age of Information-Based Cognitive Radio
• Image Processing for Detecting Botnet Attacks: A Novel Approach for Flexibility and Scalability
• Edge Computing for Real Time Botnet Propagation Detection

The VoiceCon track includes speakers from Strolid, V2verify, and Vail Systems. This track continues into the morning Conference session on Thursday.

Can’t wait for the Thursday highlights? You can view the schedule at RTC Conference Schedule and follow the links there to read the abstracts of the talks and panels and the speaker bios.

October 11-13, 2022    Free Registration Here!

The RTC Conference 2022 will be held online this year.  Registration is free, thanks to our generous sponsors and exhibitors.  

We are delighted with the breadth, variety and technical content of the talks, panels and keynotes and hope that you will join us for as many of them as you can. 

This year’s schedule is available from the Program tab where you can read the abstracts of the conference’s six tracks and then follow the Schedule link to view the times and days on which each of our talks, panels and keynotes will be held.  

A separate alphabetical listing of our speakers is available at the  Conference Speakers tab.  This list can be filtered to show only the speakers in a given track, or only the keynote speakers.

HIGHLIGHTS – TUESDAY

The WebRTC track features speakers from MeetEcho, Kamailio, Mozilla, LiveSwitch, WebRTC.ventures, Microsoft, LiveKit, Daily, Agora, Evercast, and Red5. 

Morning Keynote: Why is Zoom so much more popular than standards-based videoconferencing? – Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

The IoT Track features speakers from Argonne National Labs, Microsoft Research, Redmond, the Universities of Bologna and Perugia, Italy, and the Universities of Nebraska-Lincoln, of Illinois, Chicago.

Afternoon Keynote: Sustainable Next-Generation IoT: RF-Enabled Sensing, Powering, and Communication – Mahmoud Wagih, University of Glasgow, UK

The NG Emergency Services track starts on Tuesday afternoon and continues on Wednesday morning.  Tuesday’s session includes speakers from 911inform, LLC and CalOES Public Safety Communications.

We will send highlights of Wednesday and Thursday’s program in the days ahead.  Can’t wait? View them right now at RTC Conference Schedule

The RTC Conference and Expo at IllinoisTech – October 10 –13, is a venue for connecting the future to today in real-time where thought leaders from industry and academia gather to discuss, debate and shape the future of the rapidly changing real-time communications field. We are planning a hybrid event, in-person on IIT’s Mies Campus and online. 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.

We’re excited this year’s conference is once again sponsored by IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. IEEE and its members inspire a global community to innovate for a better tomorrow through its more than 419,000 members in over 160 countries, and its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. By partnering with IEEE, the RTC Conference and Expo at IllinoisTech broadens its exposure to a wider audience, while expanding on its reputation for delivering the broadest range of unbiased real-time communications content in one amazing event. Take advantage of this opportunity to share your expertise with, and learn from, 300+ fellow real-time communications leaders from across the globe by proposing a presentation at this Fall’s conference!

We’re soliciting presentation proposals at the leading technical and business edge of how we think about, create, and implement real-time communications networks, services and applications. Presentations will be placed into the following conference tracks:

• WebRTC & Real-Time Applications
• Internet of Things
• Programmable Real-Time Networks
• Next Generation Emergency Communications
• VoiceTech
• Research Track (Juried Papers)

The Research Track is the RTC Conference’s academic track in which juried papers will be presented, and is not part of this Call for Speakers, which covers all remaining conference tracks. A separate Call for Papers for the Research Track was issued last week and is posted to the News tab of the conference website. Papers accepted in the Research Track and presented at the conference will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore. For more information on submitting a paper for the Research Track please visit Research Track CFP.

Track abstracts and other related information can be found under the Program link on the conference website. To propose a presentation for this year’s conference, please provide a title, abstract, and brief presenter bio via the Propose a Talk link on our website.

The proposal deadline is July 25, 2022, but please make your proposals as early as possible to ensure a place on this year’s agenda! Since we intend to host a hybrid event, we are accepting proposals from speakers who are willing to come to Chicago as well as speakers to join us online from around the world. Please note preference will be given to those who are able to join us in person in Chicago. On the Propose a Talk form, please indicate which you prefer. Presentation proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee as they are received. Ongoing notifications of acceptance will be made based on content, relevance, and speaker qualifications. Please note, our audience has high expectations! They expect our speakers will present meaningful, thought-leading content. Overt marketing pitches will not be accepted.

The RTC Conference at IIT 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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