Best WebRTC Events and Conferences

This post is a recap of all interesting conferences I found regarding the WebRTC ecosystem. If you want to see and discuss with WebRTC engineers, this is where you have to go!

Introduction

The first things to say about WebRTC events is that, there are some, not a lot of but an umbrella of different kinds of events. Some are proposed by the industry (Telco companies, CPaaS companies), some by the institutes (W3c) and some by the companies or individuals who are experts on the subject.

As usual, attending to these events is a powerful manner to understand, learn and progress on WebRTC as well as to meet wonderful people.

Here is my WebRTC-list:

Note: Order don’t matter.

WebRTC conferences

The conferences in that part focus on WebRTC as the central topic: API, implementation, use cases… Attending to these conferences will help you to understand deeper how to implement, scale and test your WebRTC based solution. They are mainly for developers.

WebRTC Unconference

Motto: Basically, a bunch of geeks getting together, informally sharing experiences while having a good time.

Kranky Geek

Motto: Our goal is to bring knowledge of WebRTC and related technologies with the practical expertise to anyone with interest at absolutely no charge to the viewer

Cool event on WebRTC by WebRTC experts. For sure the event to follow to have a good overview on the current WebRTC topics. WebRTC roadmap from Google or other browser vendors in bonus.

WebRTC ventures

Motto: A webinar series about the latest use cases and technical updates to this popular coding standard for live video

Even if it is dedicated to one topic only, this is each time a great opportunity to discover something new or to deep dive into a specific WebRTC’s corner.

CommCon

Motto CommCon Virtual is a conference around Real Time Media - whether that’s transporting media (including the data channel) via WebRTC, creating VoIP calls with SIP or something entirely different. We want to hear the stories behind them all; if you’re transporting real time media from A to B we want to hear about it.

I didn’t have the opportunity to attend yet.

VOIP & Real Time Communication conferences

These conferences take place one time or twice per year. They can be seen as traditional events which can last several days with a lot of attendees, in big conferences center. Sponsors coming from the industry often use these conferences to have booths where they make demos. This is the conference where you can grab a lot of goodies from these exhibitors and to meet in real competitors or other companies in the market :-)

Some of these conferences are technical other not. For developers, it could be the opportunity to see real use cases and how WebRTC can be used in different domains such as healthcare, transportation or education. Conferences given by the industry are more interesting for decision makers and technical sales with the chance to discuss with other actors and to feel the trends.

IIT RTC Conference and Expo

(RealTime Communications Conference and Expo. IEEE International Conference)

Motto: The IIT RTC Conference and Expo is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect.

17th annual conference in 2021. WebRTC is in the backdrop of the majority of the presentations It is a great come back to school to learn things

UC&C Summit

Motto: The first event that gathers Managed Service Providers and System Integrators to present them with news from the market and inform them on the new frontiers of technology.

Organized since 2018 Not really for developers but this conference shows how UC solutions move to the cloud for using pure cloud services instead of legacy hardware PBXs thanks to the WebRTC technology.

RealTime Conference

Motto: The World’s Premiere Event for Real-Time Technologies. The Year-Round Hub for the Global Real-Time Community

More and more dedicated to Virtual environments and Metaverse Focus on visual aspects as well as real time 3D environments with sponsors like Nvidia, Sony, the Unreal Engine…

Demuxed

Motto: Our community is dedicated to providing an inclusive, enjoyable experience for everyone in the video industry

TADSummit (Telecom Application Development Summit)

Motto: TADSummit is the event for programmable communications since 2013

W3C TPAC

Moto: W3C’s virtual 2021 TPAC focuses on collaborative meetings that gather the community to create momentum and collective brainstorming.

A great opportunity to discover people who work for the W3C Lot of status done by each Working Group that work on different APIs

Platforms focused events

These conferences are dedicated to a piece of software and promoted by the people behind.

Januscon

Motto: Janus, Pizza and Napoli

Never attended but should be the event to not missed in case of working on a Janus based solution. Lots of detailed topics on Janus as well as integration with pbx based solution such as FreeSWITCH

ClueCon

Motto: ClueCon is a conference for developers by developers: an annual technology conference held every summer hosted by the team behind the FreeSWITCH open source project

Started in 2005 Like for Januscon, this is the event to attend if your solution is based on FreeSWITCH

Others

In that section are the other interesting conferences or talks that are not live.

Fiddle of the Month

Motto: Every month we pick a WebRTC topic, develop a short fiddle for it, which shows the technical aspects of the topic and then explain it in a short lesson

Very interesting deep dive to the code that often unveils new WebRTC possibilities or help to overcome tricky parts.

WebRTC.ventures tips

These episodes either explain how to add some features to your application (such as a pre-call tests, the recording, etc…) or explain some WebRTC concepts like Stun/Turn or SFU/MCU, etc…

Help me to complete the list

If you don’t see an event a WebRTC event, don’t hesitate to send me the link in order to complete that panel. Thanks in advance!