The Official CommCon 2023 Round Up Blog 😎🎉

**CommCon 2023 was a blast! Here is our official round-up: **

CommCon 2023 took place at the stunning Dunkenhalgh Hotel in Blackburn, Lancashire, UK on 19 - 23 June. Our first event back IRL since 2019, and it was a great success!

Our 'Just an RTC Minute' game going down well with the crowd

We brought the community together with a bunch of fun activities, including funfair games, karaoke, and even a surprise trip to Blackpool! Thank you to all our sponsors for making them possible 🧡

The Signalwire team striking a collective power pose in Blackpool

Dave and Will from Element enjoying some karaoke

Keynotes

Vonage founder Jeff Pulver, indie ISP supplier Tom Rigg and open source champion Amanda Brock gave us some top-notch keynotes.

Jeff gave us a big dose of inspiration and reminded us of the power of connecting, Amanda got everyone’s minds whirring about the future of open source and how it drives economies, and Tom gave us a fascinating insight into how fiber broadband is deployed and how pushing content and computing to the edge impacts quality.

Jeff Pulver giving an inspiring first day keynote

Tom Rigg telling us all about rural community fiber

Amanda Brock giving us the lowdown on the future of open source

Topics and themes from this year

This year we covered open media as well as real-time comms. It was great to have some more video folks in the mix.

Big themes were AI (of course), the ways that RTC and traditional media are merging, and open source continuing to be awesome.

Session highlights

Here’s just a few team highlights to give you a flavour of the talks this year:

Dan’s favourites

Garrett Graves from Twitch gave an awe-inspiring talk on his project S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y., a brilliant use of tech and Renan Dincer from Cloudflare gave us a glimpse into how a large scale company like Cloudflare runs services worldwide.

Marco’s favourites

Marco loved the innovative thinking and technical content in talks from Javi B from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Tim Panton from |pipe| and Evan from Signalwire.

If you missed out on being with us in person, you can grab a VOD ticket to watch all the sessions back.

If you were an attendee this year, you can use your ticket reference number to access all VOD sessions for free.

Video On Demand Sessions

You all loved it!

Everyone had a great time - even if we do say so ourselves 😏😆

Here’s what you had to say:

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That’s all for now,

– Team CommCon