Real Time Communications Conference & Expo at Illinois Tech

The RTC Conference and Expo at Illinois Tech – September 30 – October 5 – 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.  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.

Taking place at Hermann Hall on IIT’s Mies Campus in Chicago, RTC Conference and Expo at Illinois Tech is an International Conference of the IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. This brings the conference an especially wide audience of technical professionals who are eager to contribute and to learn from the talks and demonstrations that will be presented, ensuring It will serve as an outstanding platform for knowledge exchange, networking opportunities, and exploring the latest advancements in real-time communications. 

By becoming a sponsor of the RTC Conference & Expo at Illinois Tech, your organization will gain exceptional exposure and access to a highly influential audience. Here are some compelling reasons why you should consider joining us as a sponsor:

1. Unparalleled Brand Visibility: The RTC Conference& Expo at Illinois Tech expects a significant turnout of industry and academic experts, thought leaders, and innovators from around the globe. You will receive extensive exposure throughout the conference, including prominent logo placement, branding opportunities in marketing materials, event signage, and online platforms, ensuring maximum visibility.
2. Thought Leadership Positioning: Demonstrate your expertise and thought leadership by participating in panel discussions and delivering presentations. Share your insights and experiences with a diverse audience, positioning your company as a go-to resource within the real-time communications community.
3. Talent Acquisition: The RTC Conference & Expo at Illinois Tech will attract top-tier talent from academia, startups, and established organizations. Engage with talented students and professionals, and showcase your company’s culture and career prospects, creating a powerful recruitment platform.
4. Showcase Your Company: Use the conference as a platform to exhibit your latest technological advancements. This will enable you to capture the attention of potential customers and partners, and receive valuable feedback from industry experts.
5. Help Shape Future Industry Research Initiatives: Partner with the RTC Lab to identify, develop and execute R&D projects that are mutually beneficial to industry and academia.
6. Help Build the Applications Development Ecosystem: Educate developers and evangelize the power of programmable real-time communications by sponsoring HackRTC, a weekend long real-time communications focused hackathon the weekend prior to the main conference.

We offer various sponsorship packages designed to suit your organization’s goals, ranging from Platinum, Gold, and Silver conference levels, as well as a HackRTC sponsorship level. Customized sponsorship options that align with your unique requirements offer discounts for combining Conference sponsorship with HackRTC sponsorship, and/or Exhibitor space in your sponsorship. Each package includes an array of benefits and privileges tailored to meet your specific objectives.

Please join us in shaping the future of real-time communications. Your sponsorship will play a pivotal role in making this event a resounding success and will position your brand as a key player within the industry.

Our dedicated sponsorship team is ready to assist you in exploring sponsorship opportunities and discussing available packages. We are eager to provide you with further details, answer any questions you may have, and work together to create a mutually beneficial partnership. For more information, and to secure your conference sponsorship, please contact Tom Costello at [email protected] or (847) 890-5061.

The RTC Conference and Expo at Illinois Tech – October 3 –5, 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 excited to be returning to an in-person event at IIT’s Mies Campus in Chicago! 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.

RTC Conference and Expo at Illinois Tech 2023 is an International Conference of the IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. This brings the conference an especially wide audience of technical professionals who are eager to contribute and to learn from the talks and demonstrations that will be presented. Take advantage of this opportunity to share your expertise with, and learn from, fellow real-time communications leaders from across the globe by proposing a presentation at this Fall’s conference!

Topics of Interest

We’re soliciting presentation proposals at the leading technical and industrial 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)

Track descriptions 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.

Call for Speakers vs. Call for Papers

This Call for Speakers is distinct from the separate Call for Papers issued earlier this year for the RTC Conference’s Research Track. The Research Track is an academic track in which juried papers that are selected based on a peer review process, will be presented at the conference and then submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.

The Call for Speakers covers all tracks other than the Research Track. 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. The proposal deadline is July 16, 2023, but please make your proposals as early as possible to ensure a place on this year’s agenda!

Great Expectations

Please note that this is an in-person event with all the advantages that the format offers. The in-person format, in particular, gives participants the opportunity to meet and talk with the presenters during the breaks and social events. Talks that are accepted for the program will be given in person and not online. Please note also, that 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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Call for Papers – Call for Speakers – What is the difference?

In the section below we reprint the Call for Papers for presentation in  the RTC Conference’s Research Track.  Papers submitted will be peer reviewed. Those that are accepted and presented will be submitted for publication in the IEEE XPlore digital archive.

The RTC Conference uses the services of EDAS to facilitate the receipt and evaluation of the research papers proposed for presentation in this track. The link at which papers can be uploaded is https://edas.info/N30764 <https://edas.info/N30764>. The CfP (copied below and also available at RTC CfP <https://www.rtc-conference.com/2023/wp-content/uploads/CFP-RTC-Research-Track-2023.pdf>) contains more information about the scope and requirements for these papers.

There are five other tracks in the RTC Conference – Internet of Things, WebRTC & Real-Time Applications, Programmable Real-Time Networks and Cloud Communications, VoiceTech, and Next Generation Emergency Services . These tracks welcome proposals for talks and demonstrations whose content complements the material presented in the Research track.  These talks and demos can serve as a source of new ideas and industry- and academic research partners.

Presentations and demonstrations in these tracks will be selected  by the RTC Conference Track Chairs and Steering Committee based on relevance and technical content. The Call for Speakers for these tracks will be issued soon and will be accessible via the conference website.

Call for Papers

RTC Conference Research Track

The functions and scope of real-time mixed media applications are expanding as these applications are integrated with IoT, ML/AI, blockchain, voice- and financial technologies, and more. While there are conferences devoted to each of these technologies separately, and to the underlying networks and platforms that support them, the RTC Conference Technical Program is specifically interested in exploring the issues, opportunities and challenges associated with the integration of these disparate technologies. The online version of this Call for Papers can be found at Call for Papers (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2023/research-track-cfp/).

The RTC Research Track invites paper submissions in the area of interactive multimedia communications describing architectures, design, theoretical results, experiments, innovative systems, prototyping efforts and case studies. Papers that are accepted and presented at the conference will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.

We are in particular interested in works at the intersection of multimedia interactive communications with technologies in the area of internet of things, vehicular networking, confidential computing, machine learning, network management, programmable network services, security, privacy, machine learning, voice technologies, blockchain, gaming, and robotics. The Technical Program inherits the 14-year legacy of the IPTComm Conference which evolved from a focus on Voice over IP to include some topics listed above. The archive of IPTComm publications is located at archive (http://iptcomm.org/archive.html).

We invite paper and poster submissions including but not limited to the following topics of interest:

Evolving Technologies and their impact on- and use within RTC Applications

1. Innovations in WebRTC applications and algorithms

2. Programmable networks and edge computing

3. 5G/6G networks – applications and research

4. IoT networks

5. Video / audio codecs

6. Augmented and virtual reality, gaming, and robotics

7. Automated driving and autonomous transportation

8. Vehicular and other transportation networking

9. Industrial communication networks

10. Innovative applications to sectors including finance, energy, healthcare, education and social services

11. Cloud native evolution

12. Network functions running on hyperscalers

Network Management and Resilience methods and their effect on RTC applications

13. Scaling, monitoring and management

14. Reliability engineering

15. GPU computing

16. Performance benchmarking

17. Quality of Experience (QoE)

18. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN)

19. Autonomous network management

Impact of Security and Privacy methods on RTC

20. Identity management and privacy

21. IoT security and privacy models

22. Privacy-aware computation

23. Intrusion detection and prevention

24. Forensics and diagnostics

25. Watermarking and steganography

26. Autonomous security operations

27. Blockchains in communication

28. Disinformation: challenges and models

AI/ML in RTC Applications and Services

29. Natural language engines: optimizations & explanation

30. Voice/Video biometrics and authentication

31. Network threat detection and intelligence

32. Adversarial ML attacks and countermeasures

33. ML Operations

34. Large language models & conversational AI frameworks

Submission Guidelines

Paper submissions must describe original research, not published nor currently under review for another conference or journal. The program committee will referee all papers. At least one author of each paper must be registered and present their paper at the conference.

All paper submissions must be done through EDAS (https://edas.info/N30764)

Regular paper submissions should follow the guidelines and use the formatting tools available at the IEEE Manuscript Templates page.

Regular papers are limited to 8 pages, double-column IEEE format, including figures, references and appendices.

Work-in-progress papers should have no more than 4 pages in IEEE double-column format, including figures, references and appendices. Work-in-progress papers must include “Work in Progress” in the title.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: Sunday, July 16 – 1800 EDT

Notification of acceptance: Sunday, August 13 – 1800 EDT

Final camera-ready submission: Sunday, September 10 – 1800 EDT

Conference Dates: October 2-5, 2023

Conference Chairs

Carol Davids (Illinois Institute of Technology & School of Applied Technology, USA)

Vijay K Gurbani (Vail Systems, Inc. & Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Ronald Marx (Huawei German Research Center, Germany)

Jose Aguerre (Evercast & University of the Republic, Uruguay)

Technical Program Committee

tbd

An IEEE International Conference at Illinois Tech

October 2 – 5, 2023

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IEEE is pleased to announce the Real-Time Communications Lab at Illinois Tech will host the 19^th annual Real-Time Communications (RTC) Conference and Expo at IIT – October 2 – 5, 2023. We are eager to once again be able to meet and collaborate with friends and colleagues face-to-face, and are excited to be returning to Hermann Hall on the IIT main campus in Chicago, IL. for an in-person event!

The RTC Conference at IIT is a globally recognized collaborative event where the interactive multimedia and real-time communications industries and academia connect. The conference  brings together developers, technical professionals and business executives from industry, standards, policy, regulatory, and research, promoting an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications.

This year’s event promises to be the biggest and best to date! This is a multi-tracked conference that will run over three days, focusing on the major areas of:

• Internet of Things (IoT)
• WebRTC & CPaaS
• Next Generation Emergency Services
• Cloud Communications and Programmable Networks
• VoiceTech
• Research Track (juried papers)

We’re excited to announce that this year’s conference will again be 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 IIT expands on its reputation for delivering the broadest range of unbiased real-time communications content in one amazing event.

Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for this exciting event. In the meantime, stay tuned to our website and mailing lists for further updates or at:

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