Real Time Communications Conference & Expo at Illinois Tech

When: Tuesday October, 12 – Thursday October, 14

Where: Hermann Hall on IIT’s Mies Campus, or Virtually on SignalWire Events

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Real Time Applications are no longer a niche – they are a crucial part of the modern internet and our distributed and socially distanced lives. Live audio and video is a key component of this new experience, as well as real-time data transfers that keep us informed even when working apart.

WebRTC video has come a long way since 2012 when it was proposed as a standard for allowing JavaScript code to access the microphone and camera via the browser, permitting peer-to-peer video, audio, and data connections to be created directly between browsers.

WebRTC usage has been growing dramatically since 2020 with the increased need to work from home and to have physically distant interactions due to coronavirus quarantines globally. This further increases the visibility and need for WebRTC and brings with it conversations around scalability, higher quality and usability. 

This year, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) announced WebRTC as an official standard, and today its being used in billions of browsers, mobile phones and other devices. It enables video and audio communications in a wide range of industries, including: social media, telecommunications, healthcare, education, broadcasting, and more. 

In this track we will:

• Go over the current status of WebRTC from a standards and market perspective
• Explore best practices for implementing Real Time Applications and WebRTC, covering topics such as web/mobile development, testing, and security
• Examine leading use cases for WebRTC applications
• Learn how to scale WebRTC

Track Highlights include:

TADHack Global 2021- The results –Alan Quayle, TADHack

Professional AV with WebRTC – Dan Jenkins, Nimble Ape

Maintainable WebRTC Applications – Justin Williams, WebRTC.ventures

WISH-a-WHIP: WebRTC ingest for broadcasting – Lorenzo, Miniero, Meetecho

A Progress-Report on WebRTC Browser Implementations – Dr. Karl Stolley, Illinois Institute of Technology

Monitoring is Boring – Lorenzo Mangani, QXIP 

Pion: Excitement at the fringe of WebRTC – Sean DuBois, Pion

Beyond the plain-old phone call – the rapid shift of voice communications to “context-based” RTC – Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis

About the RTC 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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Registration is now open for the Real-Time Communications Conference & Expo at Illinois Institute of Technology, October 12 – 14, 2021.

-The conference is hybrid this year. You can attend in-person on IIT’s Main Campus in Chicago, IL., or virtually via SignalWire Events from wherever you may be!

-Attendees who register by September 11 for the in-person event can take advantage of the attractive early bird full conference registration price of $300.

-Remote attendance is available for $100.

-For those attending in person, we have secured a block of hotel rooms at the Chicago South Loop Hotel at the discounted price of $179/night. Further details on reserving your room can be found on the Travel/Hotels page of the conference website.

RTC Conference/IPTComm Oct. 12 -14, 2021

Tuesday morning, October 12 kicks off 3 information-filled days addressing the latest developments in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications. The Conference is internationally recognized as the real-time communications industry’s most objective venue for unbiased educational content presented by leading industry visionaries from around the globe. The inclusion of IPTComm offers our registrants, speakers, and sponsors the opportunity to attend two conferences in one, and builds on our unparalleled reputation for connecting industry thought leaders with academic researchers.

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 are developing the conference agenda with a team of domain experts who have generously donated their time to serve as track chairs. Track abstracts describing the content to be discussed in each track can be found on the Program page of the conference website.

An excellent set of presentations is under review, and we anticipate releasing an initial agenda in the coming weeks. If you’re interested in a speaking role at this year’s Conference, there is still time to submit your presentation proposal. Details can be found in the Call for Speakers.

Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from and network with leading industry thought-leaders by registering at discounted early bird rates today!

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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The RTC Conference and Expo at IllinoisTech – October 11 –14, 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 tentatively planning a hybrid event taking place both 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 being 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

IPTComm 2021 is the RTC Conference’s academic track in which juried papers will be presented. A separate Call for Papers for IPTComm was previously issued and is posted to the News tab of the conference website. Papers accepted in IPTComm and presented at the conference will be submitted for publication 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 August 2, 2021, 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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IPTComm is the academic track within the Real-Time Communications Conference & Expo. Papers accepted and presented at IPTComm will be submitted for publication to the IEEE Xplore archive.

The 14th IPTComm, the academic track within the RTC Conference and Expo, will take place on October 13, 2021. We are making tentative plans to host the RTC Conference as an in-person event in Hermann Hall on the IIT main campus in Chicago, IL. We will provide updates later in the year regarding conference format as pandemic restrictions evolve.

IPTComm brings together researchers from academia, industry and government to advance Real-Time IP communications. The conference addresses current topics in Real Time Communications, including programmable network services, internet of things, interactive multimedia communications, artificial intelligence in communications networks with focus on their reliability , security , privacy, performance and scalability. The list of topics for IPTComm includes, but is not limited to:

Submission Guidelines

• Papers should be uploaded to EDAS – https://edas.info/N28222

• Regular papers are limited to 8 pages, work-in-progress papers to 4-6 pages.

• Page limits include figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be double-column and follow the guidelines available at IEEE conference templates.

• Work-in-progress papers must include ‘Work in progress’ in the title.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: Monday, July 19, 2021, 18:00 EDT

• Notification to authors: Monday, August 30, 2021, 18:00 EDT

• Final camera-ready submission: Monday, October 4, 2021, 18:00 EDT

Additional details can be found on the conference website, http://iptcomm.org.

If you have any questions about the conference or paper submissions, please contact the TPC chairs at [email protected].

Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo

IPTComm 2021 is hosted as a track within the Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo at IIT (RTC Conference), an international conference sponsored by the IEEE. Other tracks within the RTC Conference feature talks related to IoT, WebRTC, Programmable Telecom Networks and Applications, VoiceTech, and Next Generation Emergency Services. The demonstrations and presentations in these tracks will complement the material presented in the IPTComm track and serve as a source of new ideas and research partners in industry. The Call for Speakers for the remaining Conference tracks will be issued soon and will be accessible via the conference website.

October 11 – 14, 2021

co-located with

IPTComm – October 13, 2021

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IEEE is pleased to announce the Real-Time Communications Lab at IllinoisTech will host the annual Real-Time Communications (RTC) Conference and Expo at IIT – October 11 – 14, 2021. We are making tentative plans to return to Hermann Hall on the IIT main campus in Chicago, IL. For an in-person event, but will provide updates later in the year regarding conference format.

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 Telecoms
• IPTComm – Juried research papers
• VoiceTech

The RTC Conference will once again feature peer-reviewed research papers as part of the IPTComm track. IPTComm brings together researchers from academia, industry and government to advance real-time IP communications. 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. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and the proceedings will be archived on IEEE Xplore after the conference (pending final approval from IEEE). Submission details are available on the IPTComm website (http://iptcomm.org). The inclusion of the IPTComm conference offers our registrants, speakers, and sponsors the opportunity to attend two conferences in one, and builds on our unparalleled reputation for connecting industry thought leaders with academic researchers.

We’re excited to announce that this year’s conference is being 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 these exciting events. In the meantime, stay tuned to our website and mailing lists for further updates or at:

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