RTE2020 will offer two days of dynamic speakers, learning
sessions and a virtual afterparty produced with Virbela
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a real-time engagement
(RTE) platform-as-a-service provider, today announced the speaker
schedule and program for its premier virtual conference RTE2020 on
October 13-14, 2020. The lineup for
the free conference, themed around Building the Future of
Real-Time Engagement - Together, is now available at
rte2020.agora.io.
Programming on Oct. 13 will focus
on What's Trending topics, including speeches and panels
about opportunities for product and developer teams to bring people
closer together worldwide. On Oct.
14, Community Day programs will empower attendees to
improve hands-on skills and launch their businesses during Startup
101 sessions and more.
"Our physical and digital worlds are converging in truly unique
ways that enable meaningful, global engagement," says Reggie Yativ, Chief Operations Officer and Chief
Revenue Officer at Agora Labs Inc. "For RTE2020, we've laid out an
ambitious agenda featuring some of the brightest minds reimagining
how we live, work and play together. We look forward to
collaborating with all our speakers and attendees on the future of
virtual, real-time engagement."
Agora is partnering with Virbela, an immersive technology
platform, to host a virtual afterparty and capture the socially
engaging conference environment. The afterparty, hosted on
Virbela's platform, will allow guests to create customized avatars
and socialize in a dynamic metaverse complete with drinks and
dancing.
"In today's new reality, businesses and event organizers are
looking to recreate the human connection and spontaneous social
interaction one gets with in-person events," said Marko Stankovic, VP of marketing at Virbela.
"We're excited to partner with Agora to bring RTE2020 to life as a
virtual event and provide attendees with a unique experience to
explore, network, and socialize as they would in the real
world."
Ranging from media and entertainment, to education and gaming,
hear from business leaders at some of today's most innovative
companies including Scener, The Meet Group, and Talkspace to
learn how they are leveraging RTE in their mobile, web and desktop
applications. See below for an overview of key sessions or visit
rte2020.agora.io to see the full schedule and register for
free.
October 13: What's
Trending
|
Real-Time
Engagement: The Vision Keynote
Tony Zhao,
co-founder & CEO of Agora
Reggie Yativ, COO
& CRO of Agora Labs Inc.
Virginia Liu, SVP
of Marketing & Ecosystems at Agora
Clive Downie,
chief marketing officer of Unity
Geoff Cook, CEO of
The Meet Group
|
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
PDT(-07:00)
|
Future Trends in
Technology for Sports, Dating and Entertainment
Tony Wang, head of
emerging technology & markets for Agora
Eugene Wei,
product expert at Interactive Media
Geoff Cook, CEO of
The Meet Group
Alex Kruglov,
co-founder & CEO of Pop.in
Geremie Camara,
chief creative officer for Live Play Mobile
|
09:30 - 10:30AM
PDT
|
Selecting the Best
Video Codec to Scale Your Apps for RTE
Mark Donnigan,
head of video market development at Visionular
Jerome Jang,
software engineer at Google
Josh Barnard,
technical dir. at iStreamPlanet
Pierre
Seigneurbieux, VP of media engineering at BlueJeans
Rui Zhang,
distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems
|
09:30AM - 11:00AM
PDT
|
Successfully
Reinvent How We Educate
Jabez LeBret, CEO
of Applejax; Heather Dorrian, instructional designer at
Samsung
Wyatt Oren, COO of
Applejax
Patrick Leonard,
COO of MIDAS Education
David Damico,
exec. dir. of technology services at Beverly Hills Unified School
District
|
10:45-11:45am
PDT
|
Getting It Right:
How to Synchronize Content During Watch Parties
Sid Sharma,
director of developers relations & partner engineer at
Agora
Joe Braidwood,
co-founder & COO of Scener
Carlos Lucas, CEO
of NextPlayer
Mark Ollila, CEO
of Kast
Miheer Walavalkar,
CEO of LiveLike
|
01:15 - 02:15 PM
PDT
|
Programs and
Technologies that Revolutionize Mental Wellness Care
Suzanne Nguyen,
sr. dir. communications, brand & communities at
Agora
Melissa Barker,
founder & CEO of Phoenix Project
Renée Daley, LCSW,
sr. clinical product manager at Talkspace
Andromeda Peters,
Miss United States 2018, speaker, therapist, actor and
model
|
01:15 - 02:15PM
PDT
|
October 14:
Community Day
|
Creating Immersive
Experiences Through AR/VR Sam Speaight, CEO of VRJAM
|
10:45 - 11:15AM
PDT
|
The Latest on
WebRTC Huib Kleinhout,
product manager at Google
|
11:15 – 11:45AM
PDT
|
Remote Collaboration
is Amazing, Terrifying & Wistful Evan McGee, CTO and co-founder of
Signalwire
|
01:45 - 02:15PM
PDT
|
Build Video Chat
into Your Unreal Game (Blueprinting) Joel Thomas, developer evangelist at
Agora
|
03:45 - 04:45PM
PDT
|
RTE2020 is free to register, and the full schedule is available
online now. For more information, visit rte2020.agora.io.
About Agora
Agora's mission is to make real-time engagement ubiquitous,
allowing everyone to interact with anyone, in any application,
anytime and anywhere. Agora's platform provides developers simple,
flexible and powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs,
to embed real-time video and voice engagement experiences into
their applications.
About Virbela
Virbela is an immersive technology platform for business, events
and education. Its modern, cloud-based environment provides a
virtual experience for workers, attendees, students and more to
communicate, collaborate, meet and socialize. For more information,
visit the company's website at virbela.com.
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