Real Time Communications Conference & Expo at Illinois Tech

After a three-year hiatus, we were delighted to welcome you back in person this year for two exciting events: the inaugural HackRTC, held from September 30th to October 1st, and the 19th Annual Real-Time Communications Conference at Illinois Tech from October 3rd to 4th.

Accessing Valuable Content

We’re happy to announce that videos of this year’s HackRTC demo pitches, along with the talks, and presentation slides from our esteemed RTC Conference speakers are now available. In 2023, our conference expanded its focus on the art, science, and technology that underpin Real-Time Communications. The presentations provided valuable insights into the current state of the industry, introduced emerging technologies, and shared innovative ideas and methods that will shape the future of Real-Time Communications.

Where to Find the Content

• HackRTC demo pitches are available on our Illinois Tech YouTube channel in a dedicated playlist.
• Conference presentation videos can also be found in a separate playlist on the Illinois Tech YouTube channel.
• You can also access these videos along with presentation slides for speakers who submitted their slide decks directly from the Conference Speakers page on our conference website. Simply scroll to an individual presentation, click on the title to display the abstract, and you’ll find links at the bottom of each abstract to view both the presentation slides and videos.

A Grateful Thank You

We owe a massive thanks to all our HackRTC & Conference Sponsors without whom neither of these incredible events would have been possible!

Additionally, a big shout out to our dedicated team of track chairs for making IIT RTC Conference 2023 a resounding success. Their hard work and commitment ensured that this year’s conference succeeded in being both highly informative and engaging!

Looking Ahead to 2024

We have an exciting milestone approaching in 2024 as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the RTC Conference at Illinois Tech. Few technology conferences reach such a significant milestone, and hosting everyone in person this year has reinvigorated our commitment to delivering an even better conference in 2024. We invite you to plan on joining us to celebrate, learn, and collaborate. The tentative dates are October 5-6, 2024, for HackRTC and October 8-10, 2024, for the RTC Conference. If these dates conflict with any events that might make participation challenging for you or other members of the RTC community, please reach out to Carol Davids ([email protected]), Warren Bent ([email protected]), or Tom Costello ([email protected]) to share any concerns or suggestions.

About the IIT RTC Conference

The RTC Conference at Illinois Tech is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together technical professionals, software developers, network engineers, entrepreneurs, and business executives from the data and telecommunications industry, standards bodies, policy and regulatory institutions, and academic students, 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 look forward to your continued support and participation, and to an even more exciting event in 2024!

We are delighted to share the Schedule of the 2023 RTC Conference at Illinois Tech with you. The conference takes place October 3 – 4, 2023 on IIT’s Main Campus in Chicago, Illinois, in Hermann Hall, 3241 S Federal St, Chicago IL 60616

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. Please visit Conference Speakers where you will find a list of the speakers. Click on the title of the talk or panel to read its abstract. Click on the name of the speaker to view the speaker’s affiliation and bio.

Remote Access for Live-Streaming

This year’s stellar Conference Schedule is packed with plenary keynotes, panels, and talks covering the most pressing topics and latest innovations in real-time communications, presented by an impressive lineup of leading subject matter experts. While we hope you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to learn from, and share and network with your peers by joining us in Chicago, we recognize that is not feasible for all. For those unable to attend, we’re excited to still be able to share the entire conference content via Youtube live stream.

We know there is no substitute for being here! However, if you can only stay for part of the conference or if you are unable to attend this year, you may want to follow one or another of the tracks or pick up a particular talk, panel or keynote. The url’s for the livestream channels are listed at the end of this mailing.

How to use the live streaming option:

During the keynotes there will be a single stream corresponding to the McCormick Ballroom, while the remainder of the day will feature two simultaneous feeds corresponding to the concurrent tracks underway. Just choose the desired content from the Conference Program, and point your browser to the corresponding url from the day and room list below:

Tuesday October 3

Welcome and Keynote Presenters – https://youtube.com/live/6NymVen0wVo?feature=share  

Room 1 – WebRTC & Real Time Applications – https://youtube.com/live/m5K4HOXf8g4?feature=share 

Room 2 – Internet of Things – https://youtube.com/live/6tC-65uLxPo?feature=share

Wednesday October 4th 

Keynote Presenters – https://youtube.com/live/yQXpznkc1AU?feature=share 

Room 1 – Research Track – https://youtube.com/live/eUz46leygOk?feature=share

Room 2 – Next Generation Emergency Communications Services – https://youtube.com/live/9No5dqTKJBE?feature=share 

About the Conference

The RTC Conference at Illinois Techis 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.

Date: Tuesday and Wednesday, October 3-4, 2023
Where: Hermann Hall Conference Center,
3241 S. Federal Chicago, IL 60616

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We are delighted to announce five exciting keynote presentations for the 2023
RTC Conference at Illinois Tech, covering the most pressing topics and latest
innovations in real-time communications, presented by leading subject matter
experts! The conference takes place October 3 – 4, 2023. 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

VoiceTech futures : from Siri to ChatGPT John Burkey, Brighten Ai
From Codecs to Conversations: AI-Driven WebRTC Unleashed Varun Singh, Daily
The Future of Next Generation 911 – Ubiquitous Sharing of Critical Data – a LIVE DEMO!!! Carol Davids, Illinois Institute of Technology: Chandy Ghosh, Sinch; Eric Hagerson, T-Mobile; Suresh Gursahaney, MicroAutomoation; Mark Fletcher, 911inform, LLC
Connecting the unconnected – It’s only partially about technology Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
IMS Data Channel – Revolutionizing the Phone Call Anne Lee, Nokia Bell Labs.

Conference Schedule and 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 Conference Speakers
page of the conference website where you can access additional information,
including all the presentation abstracts, and speaker bios. To see when and
where the keynotes will take place, as well as plan the remainder of your
conference participation, please visit the Conference Schedule to view the
entire agenda. Please register to join us!

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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Date: Saturday and Sunday, September 30 – October 1, 2023
Time: Saturday – 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM; Sunday – 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Register Free at: HackRTC Registration
Sponsors: HackRTC Sponsors

Where: The Kaplan Center on IIT’s Mies Campus

HackRTC is a weekend-long hackathon focused on creating real-time communications enabled hacks – prototype applications – utilizing software resources supplied by the HackRTC sponsors. We bring together developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts over a weekend to create prototype solutions to real-world challenges, while providing a venue in which participants can showcase their skills, learn from industry experts, network with sponsors, and compete for prizes. To create your hack, you can hack solo, or bring a team, or find some team mates at the event!

Sponsors: Thank you to our sponsors,LiveKit and INdigital without whom HackRTC would not be possible. In order to be eligible to win a prize, your hack must incorporate one (or both) of the sponsors developer resources. To get started on setting up an account and review sample use cases for each of their resources we’ve recorded a short webinar to help you get started which you can view here using passcode: *p80R5NJ

Food: Throughout HackRTC we’ll be fueling hackers energy with tons of great food and drink.

Prizes: At the conclusion of the event, on Sunday afternoon, the hacking teams produce 5 – minute demo-pitches showcasing what they have created. Based on these pitches, judges from the sponsors award prize money to the teams that created the most compelling hacks on the sponsor resources. Presentations: Winning teams will be invited to deliver their demo pitches again to an influential group of industry leaders at the RTC Conference and Expo, October 3-4.

Additionally, all demo pitches will be live-streamed, and recorded and published on our website so hackers effort is rewarded with collateral that can be used on their resumes, at work, or simply to wow friends. We are eager to see what you create as you mash up programmable telecoms with some of the many other services available over the web to solve problems across all aspects of people’s lives!
For More Information: Please contact the track Co-Chairs: Muhammad Hamza Nasir and Kanwarjeet Randhawa

About the RTC Conference

The RTC Conference at Illinois Tech is passionate about fostering innovation, collaboration, and technological advancements. The Conference hosts HackRTC as a separate, free track with the RTC Conference. The 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.

When: Tuesday October, 3 – Wednesday October, 4

Where: Hermann Hall on IIT’s Mies Campus

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From voice assistants to conversational bots, speech and artificial intelligence technologies give way to amazing opportunities for business applications as well as academic research. Speech technology has certainly changed the nature of our daily interactions.

Despite recent advances in the field of AI, most conversational technologies still require a high degree of design skill to make this technology useful and effective. Additionally, there are ethical, privacy, and data security implications associated with the use of Chat GPT-4 and similar generative models.

This track brings attendees up-to-date on current and emerging natural language understanding (NLU) technology, analyzing how state-of-the-art technology is applied and the potential implications when it fails. This track will highlight recent developments in NLU, challenge the operational impact of emerging technology, and identify opportunities for growth and improvement in the field of VoiceTech.

Track Highlights

• Digits Micro-Model: Enhancing Digit Recognition with Domain-Specific ASR, Chirag Chhablani, Vail Systems
• Evaluating Speech Separation Through Pre-trained Deep Neural Network Models, Deeksha Prabhakar, IIT
• VoiceTech futures : from Siri to ChatGPT, John Burkey, Brighten Ai
• Trusting Unreliable Genius, Midam Kim, University of Kansas & Polly Allen, AI Career Boost
• Empowering Healthcare with Big Data and Speech Technology: Transforming Diagnoses, Personalized Care, and Patient Well-being, Mohan Krishna Mangamuri, Health Care Service Corporation
• Protecting the Organization Against Deep Fakes, Nancy Munro, Verbal Transactions

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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Stay tuned to our Conference Website and mailing lists for further updates and follow us on:

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