Agora Announces RTE2020

 

-Two days of impressive speaker sessions on Real Time Engagement in Sports, Entertainment, Edutech, Mental Wellness and many more

-Partnership with Virbela to host a virtual afterparty allowing guests to create customized avatars and socialize in a dynamic metaverse

 

 

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.

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	09:30 - 10:30AM PDT
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
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

Bangalore, 8 October, 2020