
Now that everyone’s back from summer break here in Madrid, it feels like the right time to recap AI Tinkerers Madrid: AI in Real-Time Communication Systems, which WebRTC.ventures sponsored and hosted this past July alongside BTS, who provided their offices and a great spread of local snacks.

The annual ClueCon conference founded by the creators of FreeSWITCH has always been where the real-time communications community gathers to share what’s working, what’s breaking, and what’s next. This year’s edition, August 10-14 at The Midland Hotel in Chicago, made one thing unmistakably clear: AI is no

AI-powered voice agents continue to expand into telephony, healthcare, and enterprise customer service. Teams building these systems face a shared set of problems: keeping latency low, keeping calls reliable, and keeping the underlying infrastructure fast enough to support real-time audio at scale. Two members of the WebRTC.ventures
Building real-time applications with AI requires disciplined engineering, not just clever prompting. That was the core thesis of the June 2026 AI Tinkerers San Salvador meetup, sponsored by WebRTC.ventures and AgilityFeat. In this post, we share key takeaways from the event: starting with real-world applications like an