The room where the industry decides. Be part of what it decides.
CASA is the annual summit of CPaaSAA: around 150 senior people from operators, cloud communications platforms, AI companies, analysts and investors, in one room, for three days, working out who runs the conversation in an AI economy and how value flows between network, platform and model. Sponsorship is how you shape it, not just attend it.
Not an audience. A working group of the ecosystem.
We laid the CASA26 badges out on a table the night before it opened. This is what the room looked like. The full account, session by session, is being published on casa26.amsterdam every week until Mobile World Congress.
Senior leaders, from more than 20 countries, over two programme days plus the GSMA Telco Roundtable
Seats held by people who own a network or build on one: 40+ from operators, close to 40 from 18 cloud communications platforms
Badges reading founder or C-level. Most of the rest own a number: sales, go-to-market, strategy, product
Participants with a session on the programme. The speakers are peers, not headliners flown in
The people inside the telco looking for partners
Not procurement, not network operations. The teams running network APIs, new services, voice and UC portfolios, whose job is the next revenue line, and who know they cannot build it alone.
The bridge between AI and communications, built here
AI-first companies and the founders building AI into the heart of communications shared the stage with operators and platforms. Not a separate AI track: the same sessions, the same argument.
The people who carry the argument out
A real analyst bench, media partners who make sure the sessions travel, and the strategic partners who set the frame: GSMA Open Gateway on network APIs, Sandbox on founders, applied innovation and capital.
Who was there, in detail: Look Around the Room · The CASA26 sponsor lineup
Three things a sponsor gets that a ticket does not
Make the argument where it can be questioned
Two CASA26 sponsors made significant AI announcements the week before the summit, from opposite ends of the same debate, and then argued it out in Amsterdam in front of forty operators. That is what the stage is for. Keynotes, panels and sessions are built with you, around a question the room is actually stuck on.
Your session is a campaign, not a slot
Keynotes and stage sessions are recorded and published, session by session, across CPaaSAA, our media partners and the CASA site, with a write-up of the argument. CASA26 sessions run weekly until Mobile World Congress 2027. Sponsors get the footage, the write-up and the audience.
You become part of what follows
Dinners, the social programme and meeting space during CASA; introductions, working groups and CPaaSAA’s acceleration work afterwards. Sponsors are in the programme committee conversations from the start, which is where the partnerships get made.
An announcement of that scale needs to be made again in Europe, in front of operators, in a room where it can be questioned. That is what Amsterdam is for.Why a cloud communications platform joined CASA26 as a sponsor within days of its own launch event
Three pillars, one question
Intelligence is getting cheap. Trust is not. CASA27 picks up where CASA26 left off: how high can you build on the layer this industry owns, and with whom?
AI voice, agents and where the value in a conversation goes
Voice is back and it is AI. Who runs the conversation, who keeps what it produces, and what the operator and platform business models look like when the model is a commodity.
Network signals, identity, consent and sovereignty
Network APIs as the layer AI cannot get anywhere else: identity, verification, fraud, data residency. Business models, channels and the use cases that actually get bought, with GSMA Open Gateway underneath.
Partnerships, business models, capital
Operators separating networks from services, platforms converging with telcos, founders and capital moving in. The four futures for 2030 our analysts put to the CASA26 room, and what the room voted, are the starting point.
The CASA27 agenda is built from what members are working on. Sponsors who commit early sit in those conversations, and pay less for the privilege.
From a seat at the table to a seat on the programme committee
The room is limited, so the packages are too: one Platinum, three Gold, six Silver, ten Bronze. CASA26 sold out. Packages are indicative and follow CASA26; every one is shaped in a conversation. Early birds: 10% off for partners signed and invoiced by 31 December 2026, 5% off by 31 March 2027. Earlier also means first choice of theme and slot. Accelerate and Grow members get a further 25% and 10% off.
Community
- Presence within the CASA environment
- Two passes, or guest invitations
- Access to curated discussions and networking
Bronze
- Increased visibility across CASA
- Three passes, or guest invitations
- Participation in panels or discussions
- Inclusion in pre- and post-event content
- Expo presence as an add-on, subject to space
Silver
- Strong visibility within CASA and related content
- Five passes, or guest invitations
- Speaking slot and panel opportunities
- Pre- and post-event content
- Expo space within the event
Gold
- Premium visibility across CASA and all related communications
- Ten passes, or guest invitations
- Keynote or high-profile speaking opportunity
- Pre- and post-event content marketing, including session videos
- Expo space, plus dedicated space for meetings and engagement
Platinum
One partner, with its name on the summit. For a company that wants CASA27 to be the place where it makes its argument to the whole triangle at once: operators, platforms and AI, in one room, with the analysts watching. Everything in Gold, and then the things only one partner can have.
- Headline partner of CASA27 across every channel, before, during and after
- The opening or closing keynote, and a hand in the question the summit is built around
- Host of the CASA27 dinner
- Fifteen passes, or guest invitations, and the largest expo and meeting space
- A seat on the programme committee, and category exclusivity for the edition
Shape a theme. Bring the ecosystem. Lead a track.
Strategic partners are not sponsors in the usual sense. They are a small group of ecosystem players, industry bodies, consultancies and innovation partners rather than vendors, who co-shape CASA’s core themes and bring their own ecosystem into the room. For selected themes, one category lead takes ownership of a track: keynote and curated session leadership, close involvement in programme design, and full Gold-level presence throughout.
Three seats, by invitation, one per pillar. GSMA Open Gateway and Sandbox return for CASA27; one seat is open.
- Lead a core theme: AI voice and intelligence, trust and network APIs, or transformation and capital
- A seat on the small programme committee that shapes agenda, speakers and participants
- Bring partners, customers and new voices into CASA
- Beyond the event: research, ecosystem pilots and go-to-market initiatives with CPaaSAA through the year
Members pay less. Accelerate members get 25% off any package, Grow members 10%, on top of the early-bird terms. Every CPaaSAA membership already includes CASA passes, and members buy additional passes at half price. Sponsorship is the other route in, and the one that puts you on the programme. How CASA runs, in detail: By members, for members.
From a conversation now to a stage in September
Theme, package and slot agreed in a conversation. Signed and invoiced in 2026: 10% off, and first choice of theme. Fits this year’s budget.
Signed and invoiced by 31 March 2027: 5% off. Programme committee forms: agenda, speakers and participants take shape. Sponsor announced across CPaaSAA, media partners and the CASA site; pre-event Talks and content start.
Sessions built with you around a question the room is stuck on. Guest invitations go out. Social programme and meeting space confirmed.
Three days in Amsterdam. Then the sessions, the write-ups and the introductions: published week by week for months afterwards, and carried into the working groups.
Competitors sit at the same table. That is the point.
Telcos and hyperscalers, platforms and CRM vendors, AI-native founders and incumbents. Diversity of players is why the arguments finish. Discussions are open and nobody gets put on the spot; keynotes and stage sessions are recorded, working sessions are not, and you always know which room you are in. Everything runs under our antitrust compliance statement and code of conduct.
Let’s talk about CASA27.
Tell us what you would want out of the room: a theme to lead, a launch to make in Europe, operators to meet, or a category to own. We come back personally within a few days, with a proposal rather than a brochure.