Agora also announced its Extensions Marketplace, a plan to devote $100M to the RTE Ecosystem, and the winner of its Startup Battleground Competition
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a pioneer and leading API platform for real-time engagement, hosted day one of RTE2021, the company’s flagship virtual conference and the world’s largest event exploring real-time engagement (RTE) technologies. RTE2021 brought together leading global voices to discuss voice, video, and streaming innovations when these are perhaps more important than ever.
“Seven billion people from across the globe are ready for real-time engagement,” said Reggie Yativ, Agora ’s CRO and COO. “This is the biggest community we’ve ever seen and it’s the true meaning of a global village. Members of this community want to stay connected to each other, whether it’s through work or social engagements. And these connections are happening today by leveraging new and exciting technologies that take people off their isolated islands and out of their silos, connecting them together in a more natural and meaningful way.”
Highlights from the two-day virtual conference, which recorded thousands of attendees from over 100 countries and across five continents, include:
“RTE technology is allowing everyone to be creators, empowering more people to build new communities while forging new networks of connections from work to school to anywhere at any time,” said Agora ’s CEO, Tony Zhao. “As technologies continue to advance, we have seen tremendous business opportunities across every industry and in every part of the world.”
For more info, visit https://rte2021.agora.io/.
About Agora
Agora is a Real-time Engagement Platform as a Service (RTE PaaS) company. 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 with simple, flexible and powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs, to embed real-time video and voice engagement experiences into their applications.
Real-time engagement
RTE refers to interactive, collaborative, and shared digital experiences that occur through technology such as live video and audio and augmented and virtual reality. According to Agora , consumers increasingly want RTE video or audio features in the apps they use.
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