Where ecosystem leaders talk about what comes next.
September 21, 2026, Amsterdam
Dstny is joining CASA26 — three days of real conversations with the operators, cloud providers, and AI innovators shaping the future of communications.
Why we will be there...
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We are bringing our team to Amsterdam to listen, share what we are building, and find the partners who want to grow together. We'll be sharing what Dstny Always-On Communications looks like - carrier-grade voice, Microsoft Teams connectivity, AI agents that never sleep and intelligence that makes every conversation count.
Daan De Wever
CEO & Co-Founder
Daan founded Dstny in 2008 and has built it into one of Europe's leading cloud communications platforms — serving more than 5 million users across 8 countries. Under his leadership, Dstny has shifted from a regional UCaaS player to an Always-On Communications platform for service providers worldwide, spanning voice, Microsoft Teams integration, AI agents, and conversation intelligence.
Igor Pais
Chief Customer Officer, Dstny
Igor leads customer journeys and lifecycle at Dstny, with deep expertise across the full telecoms stack — network, service, and subscriber domains. His work aligns solutions, sales, and go-to-market teams around a shared product vision, drawing on a strong background in cloud-native software, automation, and AI-driven analytics. At CASA26, he is the person to talk to about what it actually looks like to operate Always-On Communications at scale — and how Dstny supports its partners from deployment to growth.
Pieter Verstraeten
Chief Operating Officer, Dstny
Pieter spent more than a decade at Proximus — Belgium's national telco — in strategic advisory roles. He also spent a decade in executive leadership at large IT integrators. Between the two, he has seen the communications industry from almost every angle — as a network operator, a technology buyer, and a transformation leader. He joined Dstny in 2025 as Chief Operating Officer, bringing a rare combination of operator-side depth and commercial instinct. At CASA26, he brings the perspective of someone who has sat on both sides of the table — as a service provider, and now as the person helping them grow.
Akshay John
VP Product Marketing
Akshay brings more than two decades of experience in telecoms and IT, having worked across vendor, reseller, and service provider environments — a breadth that gives him a rare end-to-end view of how the industry actually works. His background spans operations, engineering, professional services, and sales, with a consistent focus on helping customers and channel partners identify opportunities and differentiate in a competitive market. At CASA26, he combines technical credibility with commercial experience to have the kind of conversation that goes beyond the pitch.
Michal Podoski
VP of Product Management
Michal leads product management at Dstny, shaping how the platform evolves across voice, AI, and cloud communications. With over two decades in the industry — starting from engineering and architecture before moving into executive product leadership — he brings a technical depth to product strategy that is rare at this level. His current focus is on integrating AI into Dstny's core product portfolio in ways that create real, deployable value for service providers and their customers.