In-DepthTechnical Insights
Hear the latest insights from leading experts and hands-on practitioners in real-time AI, conversational AI, multimodal models, RTC, embodied intelligence and application development.
Highlights
HIGHLIGHTS
FreshIndustry Perspectives
Join industry forums on enterprise agents, AI hardware, global AI expansion, entertainment and education. Exchange perspectives with the people shaping these industries.
Hands-onDeveloper Activities
Connect with technology leaders and thousands of developers. Share engineering practices and career experiences, and develop both technical expertise and professional skills.
Real-Time AIShowcase
Discover robots and robot dogs, drones, smart home devices, AI wearables, companions and educational hardware. See AI and RTE come to life.
- Global technology leaders and industry experts
- Talks on technology and industry
- Developers in the RTE community
- Product, operations and industry professionals
- Entrepreneurs in real-time technology
- Investors focused on real-time technology and AI
Speakers
SPEAKERS
Tony Zhao
Founder and CEO, Agora
Tony Wang
Co-founder, Agora
Lei Xie
Professor and PhD Supervisor, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University; Director, ASLP@NPU
- Curator
Zhizheng Wu
Associate Professor and PhD Supervisor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Founder, Amphion
Guoxiang Cai
Co-founder and Head of Ecosystem, Rokid
Weike Guo
COO, PETKIT
Wei Chen
Founder, Xieyue Intelligence
Chengyuan Jiang
Vice President, Smart Home Division, Uniview
Huancheng Bai
AI Product Manager and RTE Developer Community Evangelist; former Technical Lead, Linux China
- Curator
Zhili Liu
CEO, Beijing Guanke Technology
Agenda
AGENDA
Friday, October 23
Main Forum
Conversational AGI: The Next Chapter for Real-Time Engagement
- Tony ZhaoFounder and CEO, Agora
Panel Discussion
- Tony WangCo-founder, Agora
Panel Discussion
- Bo CuiModerator · Chief Business Officer, Shengwang
- Wei ChenPanelist · Founder, Xieyue Intelligence
- Zhili LiuPanelist · CEO, Guanke Technology
- Guoxiang CaiPanelist · Co-founder and Head of Ecosystem, Rokid
- Kan WuPanelist · CEO, Titan Qiming
Curated by Guanghua Yao and Ting Li; Media partner: Everyone Is a Product Manager
Agora Open Mic: What's New This Year
The latest Shengwang product launches and company updates.
Curated by Fan Yang and Ying Li; Media partner: Jiazi Guangnian
The Last Mile of Customer Service Agents: From Conversation to Resolution
Enterprise customer service agents are moving rapidly into production. This forum explores the evolution of Voice Agents, end-to-end business workflows, and how to measure value as agents move from conversation to resolution, conversion, and growth.
Curated by Lei Xie, Professor and PhD Supervisor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Bo Wu, Head of Multimodal AI at Shengwang
Interaction Is Intelligence: Conversational AI and Interactive Models
From end-to-end speech models to new multimodal architectures that listen, speak, reason, and act at once, this forum explores the evolution of conversational AI, full-duplex interaction, and the boundaries of next-generation models.
Curated by Huancheng Bai, RTE Developer Community Evangelist and AI Product Manager, and Zhen Chen, Agora Developer Experience Architect
Voice Agents 101 for Developers
What technical hurdles stand between a demo and a production-ready voice agent? This forum covers the RTE fundamentals developers need most, from audio pipelines and full-duplex conversation to interruption handling and latency optimization.
Curated by the Supersonic Program and RTE Developer Community
RTE Demo Day: New Frontiers in Real-Time Engagement
A showcase of the year's most compelling conversational AI hardware and software. Discover possibilities for the next generation of real-time engagement through emerging ideas and unconventional perspectives.
Saturday, October 24
Curated by Mingya Hu and Ying Li; Media partner: Beluga Global
Beyond Boundaries: From Human Connections to Human-Agent Interaction
Global in-app spending on social apps reached USD 15 billion in 2025, up 16% year over year. Generative AI is extending real-time engagement from person-to-person interaction to human-agent experiences. This forum explores new social entertainment formats, real-time content generation, AI companionship, and global growth.
Curated by the RTE Community, Dongdong Zuo, Zhijie Li, Xiaodong Feng, and Zikun Zhang; Media partner: Zhixingxing
The Real-Time Evolution of IoT: AI Growth and Open-Source Devices
IoT is expanding into homes, education, and companionship. Real-time engagement and large language models are making previously impossible experiences practical. This forum covers multimodal intelligence, models and developers, chips and devices, global growth, open-source innovation, and new AI hardware.
Voice AI and Acoustics: Real-Time Speech Engineering in the Real World
From speech recognition and acoustic processing in challenging environments to industry adaptation, personalized recognition, and security verification, this forum focuses on the practical challenges of deploying Voice AI.
Curated by Lianfu Hao, Chief Frontend Architect at Shengwang
Decoding the Next Generation of Real-Time Engagement
Explore the evolution of core RTE technology, from high concurrency, global networks, and quality observability to audio and video codecs, WebRTC, and SDKs.
Curated by Mingya Hu and Ying Li
Online Education Reimagined: Innovation in the AI Era
Online education is entering a new phase of sustained growth as learner needs and teaching models evolve. AI is improving content creation, personalized learning, tutoring, and assessment, while real-time engagement enhances the learning experience. This forum explores practical AI, interactive education, and new paths to growth.
Curated by Qianze Zhang, Head of Developer Experience and Platform at Agora
Tools as Productivity: AI Coding, Skills, and Agent Development
AI coding is changing how software is built, while Skills make expertise, tools, and workflows easier to capture and reuse. Agent development is moving beyond simple calls toward richer collaboration and workflows. Practitioners share what they are building, the challenges they face, and the changes that matter in developer tooling.
From Real-Time Video Generation to Interactive World Models
AI video generation is moving from asynchronous workflows to real-time interaction and converging with conversational digital humans and world models. This forum explores real-time video, spatial audio, and codecs for the next generation of immersive experiences.
Real-Time Inference and the New AI Infrastructure
As large models expand beyond text into speech, vision, and omnimodal inference, low latency, high concurrency, and streaming orchestration become essential infrastructure challenges. Infrastructure experts explore the foundation for the next generation of real-time intelligence.
More to Explore
MORE TO EXPLORE
RTE Workshop
Go beyond the talks and bring an idea to life. Work solo or team up to experiment with real-time audio and video, Voice AI, agents and smart hardware. Use Agora Skills, SDKs, open-source frameworks or connected devices to build, debug and demonstrate a working real-time experience on site. Bring your laptop and an idea, and start building.
Past Events
PAST EVENTS
Bin Zhao, CEO, Shengwang
Conversational AI Accelerates RTE into the Trillion-Minute Era
RTE Enters the Trillion-Minute Era
Conversational AI Opens a RMB 100 Billion Opportunity for RTE
Industry Landscape
Conversational AI Landscape: 13+ Use Cases and 70+ Applications and Products
Partners
SUPPORT
About iRTE
Founded in 2015 by Agora and the RTE Developer Community, the Real-Time Engagement Conference has been held for eleven consecutive years. What began as a technical exchange for developers has grown into one of the most influential gatherings in audio and video technology. Along the way, it has followed the growth of real-time engagement, from RTC technologies to a broad ecosystem of RTE experiences and industries.
This year, RTE evolves into iRTE, the intelligent Real-Time Engagement Conference: the first industry-wide summit dedicated to real-time engagement between human and AI. Explore how RTE technologies can become the nervous system connecting multimodal models, embodied intelligence and AI agents with the physical world, bringing AI from thinking in the cloud to interacting in real time.
