The IIT RTC Conference goes virtual this year. The health and well-being of our speakers, staff, partners and industry and academic colleagues is our top priority, so we have decided to host a virtual conference for 2020. We know this is the right decision to ensure the safety of the entire RTC Conference community, and we’re very excited to be delivering the premier global thought-leadership event for industry and academic experts in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications to you online for FREE! Without the expense and burden of travel, we expect an expanded audience will enhance opportunities to engage speakers and participants in a mix of talks, panels, and large- and small group discussions, using the methods that Real Time Communications provide.

By going virtual, the IIT RTC Conference and Expo will exemplify our tagline of  “connecting the future to today in real-time”. To be held October 12 -16, the conference will become an online venue 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. Take advantage of this opportunity to share your expertise with, and learn from, hundreds of 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 and Real Time Applications
• Internet of Things
• Programmable Telecom Networks
• Next Generation Emergency Communications
• VoiceTech

The IPTComm 2020 Conference is an academic conference  that runs as a separate track within the RTC Conference. Papers that are accepted by the IPTComm TPC and presented in the IPTComm Conference will be published in IEEE Xplore. For more information on submission to IPTComm please visit IPTComm Call For Papers.

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 31, 2020, but please make your proposals as early as possible to ensure a place on this year’s agenda! 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 IIT RTC Conference is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together software developers, network engineers, entrepreneurs, business executives, students, 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

IPTComm brings together researchers from academia, industry and government to discuss challenges, share ideas, views, results and experiences in IP communications research and services. The conference addresses current topics such as programmable network services, internet of things, machine learning in interactive communications with focus on the reliability, security, privacy, performance and scalability, as well as on the applicability of these technologies for public-safety applications such as Next Generation 9-1-1. We invite paper submissions addressing theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and technological advancements.

IPTComm is hosted by the IIT Real-Time Communications (RTC) Conference, at the Chicago campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).  In addition to hosting the IPTComm Research track, the RTC Conference will have tracks related to IoT, WebRTC, Programmable Telecom Networks and Applications, and NextGen Emergency Services. The demonstrations and presentations in these tracks will complement the material to be presented in the IPTComm track and serve as a source of new ideas and research partners in industry. The Call for Speakers for these remaining tracks will be issued in early Spring, and will be accessible via the Conference website.  

IPTComm 2020 is sponsored by the IEEE Chicago Section and all peer-reviewed and accepted papers that are presented at the conference by one of the authors will be archived in IEEE Xplore digital library.The list of topics for IPTComm includes but is not limited to:

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 submission will be done via EDAS – https://edas.info/N27261
• 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 in IEEE double-column 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: Monday, July 06, 2020, 18:00 EST

Notification to authors: Monday, August 17, 2020, 18:00 EST

Final camera-ready submission: Monday, September 21, 2020, 18:00 EST

Conference dates: October 14 – 16, 2019

Additional details can be found on the conference website – https://www.iptcomm.org/#cfp . If you have any questions about conference or paper submissions please contact the TPC chairs [email protected] 

TADHack Global—October 10–11, 2020 

Illinois Tech RTC Conference—October 12–14, 2020 

IPTComm—October 13, 2020

All events take place on Illinois Tech’s Mies Campus in Chicago

Please post to your calendar and save the date!

Illinois Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the Real-Time Communications Lab will host its annual Real-Time Communications (RTC) Conference and Expo on October 12–14, 2020, in Hermann Hall on Illinois Tech’s Mies Campus in Chicago.

The RTC Conference 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 and the standards, policy, regulatory, and research arenas to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development.

This is a multi-tracked three-day conference that will run over three days, focused on major themes including:

• Internet of things (IoT)
• WebRTC
• Next-generation emergency services
• Cloud communications and CPaaS
• Juried research papers
• Programmable real-time networks and applications

TADHack Global is anticipated to attract over 3,000 registrants from around the world, and the local portion of TADHack Global will be held October 10–11 at the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship on Mies Campus. The Chicago winners will then pitch to the main conference, which includes a mix of industry leaders, academics, telcos, and vendors.

On Monday, October 12, conference registrants have the opportunity to participate in a day of tutorials that will cover timely topics in real-time communications that are taught by leading subject-matter experts. Tutorials are complimentary for full conference registrants.

IPTComm, an independent academic conference that will focus on applied research in the area of real-time communications, will, again, be hosted as a track in the RTC Conference. Research papers accepted by IPTComm will be presented in the track and published. Publication details will be available on the IPTComm website.

The co-location of the RTC Conference and IPTComm offers our registrants, speakers, and sponsors the opportunity to attend two conferences in one, and builds on our unparalleled reputation for connecting industry leaders with academic researchers.

Further updates can be found on the RTC Conference Twitter page, Facebook page, and LinkedIn.

The 15th Annual IIT Real-Time Communications Conference 2019, this year expanded its emphasis on the art, science and technology 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. 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 IIT School of Applied Technology 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.

Highlights of the 2019 Conference

TADHack: On Saturday and Sunday, October 12-13, the IIT RTC Lab hosted TADHack Global‘s Chicago location in IIT’s Kaplan Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship. TADHack, the world’s largest telecom-focused hackathon took place in eight locations that ran in parallel around the world. From the $24K global pot, several prizes were awarded to Chicago location hackers, including Scamdrop (Chicago location winner), Utenz (hSenid Mobile, Chicago location winner and VoIP Innovations global runner-up), and TechBuddy (VoIP Innovations global 3rd place), each of which subsequently gave their demo pitches as part of Alan Quayle’s conference keynote the following Tuesday.

Tutorials: On Monday, October 14, we presented two half-day Tutorials covering some of the most important and timely topics in real-time communications today, taught by leading subject-matter experts. Vail Systems: The morning tutorial on “Enable an App with Voice and SMS”, taught by Alex Haynes and Jake Schmitz of Vail Systems, was a hands-on course that walked developers through the process of using Vail Systems API to create an application that answered a phone call, gathered input from a caller, and responded with a text. Microsoft: In the afternoon, Bernard Aboba of Microsoft gave the “WebRTC/ORTC” Tutorial, which covered the WebRTC 1.0 Candidate Recommendation now shipping in all browsers, as well as related APIs such as Media Capture, Screen Sharing and Content-Hints.

The three-tracked portion of the conference was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 15-16.

TADSummit Americas:  We were delighted to welcome TADSummit Americas which joined the RTC conference this year as a collocated event. TADSummit is the premier annual thought-leadership event in the programmable telecom space covering areas such as CPaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS, open source telecom software, Telecom APIs, and Cloud Communications. By partnering with TADSummit Americas, we were able to offer our registrants, speakers, and sponsors the opportunity to attend both conferences with a single registration, expanding our unparalleled reputation for delivering the broadest range of unbiased real-time communications content in one amazing event.

Programmable Telecom Networks Track:  The “Programmable Telecom Networks” track, chaired by Chris Mayer, was added to this year’s agenda.  It examined the rise of a new class of developer – network engineers armed with the ability to programmatically interact with the networks they administer. This track explored programmatic interfaces that enable network engineers to automate the creation of new network services (rapidly accelerating Telco network creation and service activation functions), and to monitor and scale existing network services in real time to meet the rapidly increasing demands of the applications that run on top of them, and offer developers the ability to better integrate their applications with the networks upon which they rely.

WebRTC Track: The WebRTC track, chaired by Arin Sime, was expanded this year to reflect the growth in the use of WebRTC, which has taken the HTML5 standard from the realm of niche telecommunications developers, and introduced it into enterprise application development, making communications technology accessible to a wider range of development teams. The track reviewed the current status of WebRTC from a standards- and market perspective, as well as explored best practices for implementing WebRTC, and examined leading use cases.

The “Internet of Things” track, chaired by Maureen Stillman, was expanded to reflect developments in this burgeoning field.  The “NextGen Emergency Communications Services” track, chaired by Mark Fletcher, drew added attention this year as Public Safety communications centers are on the verge of the most meaningful upgrade in the last 40 years. The track highlighted the technology, current projects underway, and new best practices required for Next Generation emergency services. Finally, “IPTComm”, the academic conference whose juried papers are published by IEEE, was once again a featured track, co-chaired by Vijay Gurbani and Carol Davids.

A big thanks to our dedicated team of track chairs, as well as all our Sponsors, Exhibitors and Partners for making IIT RTC Conference 2019 a success! 

Looking Ahead: We are already planning the 2020 Conference. The tentative date is October 12-14. 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, ([email protected]) , Warren Bent, ([email protected]) , or Tom Costello, ([email protected]) to share this and other information about the dates or content of next year’s event.

We also hope to coordinate with TADHack Global to host the Chicago location the weekend prior to the conference on October 10 -11. More details on these events will be forthcoming early next year.

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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We are delighted to share the Schedule of the 2019 IIT RTC Conference with you. We know that you will want to attend all four exciting, informative keynote presentations and participate in the Monday Tutorials . 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.

These links will help you plan your participation in this, the 15th annual RTC Conference at IIT. If you have not yet registered, please do so at Registration !

The conference takes place October 14 – 16, 2019 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. Below we list highlights of the IIT RTC conference, the place where industry and academia connect!

Keynote addresses

• Meet the TADHack Global Winners & TADHack Global Review – Alan Quayle, TADS
• Robo-calling Mitigation – Implementing the STIR/SHAKEN Framework – Chris Wendt, Comcast
• How to Make a Difference: Communication Protocols and Regulatory Protocols – Eric Burger, Georgetown University
• Networking research — A reflection in the middle years – Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

Six Tracks

The conference includes six tracks addressing issues important to real time communications. Track content is described on the Program page. The tracks are:

• Programmable Telecom Networks
• TADSummit Americas
• NextGen Emergency Communications
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• WebRTC
• IPTComm – juried papers track to be published in IEEE Xplore

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 next week, 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 three 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 15th
West: Alumni Lounge Break-Out Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3eFLe4gGtg

East: Hermann Lounge Break-Out Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq9evAuvkX0

Middle: McCormick Ballroom Keynote and Break-Out Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbrJnzTk5rI

Wednesday October 16th
West: Alumni Lounge Break-Out Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30fZP0dy3w

East: Hermann Lounge Break-Out Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPEkyghj7zc

Middle: McCormick Ballroom Keynote and Break-Out Sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mQvJaFatQQ

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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