The Intelligent Engagement alliance
Intelligence is getting cheap. Trust is not.
AI is moving into every business conversation. Somebody has to carry the trust. CPaaSAA is where telcos, platforms and AI companies build it, together.
What is happening
The communications stack is being rebuilt around AI.
Networks are splitting from services
Operators are separating the infrastructure they own from the customers they keep. What remains is a services business, and it looks a lot like cloud communications.
Voice is back, and it is AI
The models are ready. Product, consent, business models and distribution are not. Nobody has settled who runs the conversation.
Trust is the scarce asset
Anyone can generate a voice. Knowing who is on the line, and whether consent exists, is something only the network can tell.
The argument in full: Somebody Has to Build the Bar.
Where are you standing?
Six seats at the table. Which one is yours?
The evidence
Research, not hype.



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¿Qué pasa?
What is going on, and who is playing. In two places.
From CPaaSAA research and Talks
From CASA26 our flagship event · casa26.amsterdam
Who we are
The people you need, already in the room.
Telcos, cloud communications and AI: the triangle where the next business gets built. The market keeps changing and so do we, since 2019. For members, by members, and aimed at one thing: turning that room into business.
“The CPaaSAA Playbook would have saved me six months building our strategy.”
Global Telco Strategy Lead, CPaaSAA member
- Who is in the room
- Operators, cloud communications and contact centre platforms, AI voice and speech companies, hyperscalers and analysts.
- What we do
- Research as the foundation, rooms like CASA and CAVE, and introductions that become partnerships and pipeline.
- What we work on
- Intelligent Engagement, through three pillars: Intelligence, Trust and Transformation.
- Strategic partners
- GSMA on Open Gateway and network APIs. Sandbox on founders, innovation and capital. With our events and channels, they take our reach well beyond our members.
- Membership
- Per company, four tiers, from seed-stage startups to global operators. Options
Player, or bystander?