The SIP Forum Announces Conference Lineup for 2026 – BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT 2026 and SIPNOC 2026 Dates Set
BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT 2026 is a special webinar series to be held the week of May 18, 2026; SIPNOC 2026, the 15th Annual SIP Network Operators Conference, will feature in-person proceedings September 15-17, 2026 in Herndon, VA
NORTH ANDOVER, MA – The SIP Forum proudly announced today its event lineup for 2026, which includes a reprise of the virtual BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT, a special webinar series focused on the emerging new breed of communications services that allow businesses to brand their outbound communications with additional context in the caller ID so call recipients can know and trust who’s calling. In addition to business name and number, additional call information can include a logo, reason for the call, and a checkmark indicating the call has been authenticated and not spoofed.
The BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT 2026 is scheduled to be held the week of May 18, 2026, and will focus on new Branded Calling solutions, opportunities and best practices; the associated benefits, issues and challenges involving effective identity verification in the branded calling ecosystem; the status of RCD standards work; as well as current governmental regulatory, enforcement and legislative actions and considerations such as the Federal Communications Commission October 2025 Call Branding Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and related industry comments.
SIPNOC 2026, a three-day live and in-person educational conference, will be held on September 15-17, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Dulles Hotel in Herndon, VA, and will continue and expand its focus on the broad Call Authentication and identity verification ecosystem, including STIR/SHAKEN, Call Analytics and Vetting, Branded Calling and Rich Call Data, International Traceback and STIR/SHAKEN adoption, KYC initiatives, Enterprise requirements and challenges, SMS Text Authentication initiatives, new AI-powered communications applications, associated International, U.S. Federal and State regulatory, legislative and enforcement actions, and much more.
Developed jointly by the SIP Forum and ATIS (the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) to efficiently implement the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) STIR (for Secure Telephony Identity Revisited) standard, SHAKEN (for Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) defines a mechanism to verify the calling number and specifies how it will be transported across communications networks.
Together, the STIR/SHAKEN Call Authentication Framework offers a practical mechanism to provide verified information about the calling party as well as the origin of the call — what is known as “attestation” — for the first time in the network. Giving service providers the tools needed to sign and verify calling numbers makes it possible for businesses and consumers to know, before answering, that the calls they receive are from legitimate parties.
BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT 2026 and SIPNOC 2026 attendees will include telecommunications providers, major backbone operators, interconnect and wholesale solution providers, ISPs, ITSPs (Internet Telephony Service Providers), cable operators, hosted and managed services providers, wireless network operators, International PTTs, and large enterprises, as well as key industry stakeholders in the Robocall/Robotext and Caller ID Spoofing elimination/mitigation ecosystem, including governmental regulators, enforcers and legislators; equipment manufacturers; customer care and contact center operators; application providers; data analytics firms; regulatory attorneys with State and Federal Jurisdictions; Device Integration Specialists; Service Assurance and IT/communication staff; and AI-powered solutions providers.
“The SIP Forum is excited to be once again highlighting the opportunities that Branded Calling presents to the telecommunications industry and the positive impact it offers users of communication services during BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT 2026,” said Marc Robins, SIP Forum President and Managing Director, and SIPNOC and BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT Program Chair.
“We are also excited to be meeting live and in-person again in September at SIPNOC 2026, where we will provide broad coverage of the requirements, challenges and the opportunities presented by the global effort to eliminate the scourge of telecom-based fraud and restore trust in communications,” added Robins. “SIPNOC is the premier gathering place for the Call Authentication community and the engineers and network operations professionals who deal with the real-world intricacies of providing communications services on a day-to-day basis, and with SIPNOC 2026 we will continue this vital tradition.”
For More Information and Registration Registration for the BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT 2026 will open in late-April 2026 (roughly three weeks prior to the start of the event), while details about the upcoming webinar series can be found at https://www.sipforum.org/news-events/branded-calling-summit-2026-overview/
Preliminary details about SIPNOC 2026 can be found at its conference website https://www.sipforum.org/news-events/sipnoc-2026-overview/. SIPNOC 2026 attendee registration will officially open in May 2026.
If you are a registered SIP Forum Participant Member, are an active participant in SIP Forum task groups or have attended past SIP Forum conferences, you will receive a message about open registrations.
If you are unsure of your membership status, are not currently on any SIP Forum mailing lists, and you wish to receive additional information and notification once event registrations are open, please send an email to m-director@sipforum.org or call +1-203-829-6307.
Sponsorship Information There are a number of valuable event sponsorship opportunities for both the BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT 2026 and SIPNOC 2026 conferences. For information about sponsorship benefits and costs, please contact Marc Robins at +1-203-829-6307 or email marc.robins@sipforum.org.
About the SIP Forum
The SIP Forum is a leading IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that promote and advance SIP-based technology, such as the development of industry recommendations; interoperability testing events including SIPit, and special workshops, educational activities, and general promotion of IP communications standards, services, and technology for service provider, enterprise, and governmental applications. The SIP Forum is also the producer of the annual in-person SIPNOC conferences (for SIP Network Operators Conference), virtual events such as the STIR/SHAKEN SUMMIT, KYC SUMMIT, AI SUMMIT, and BRANDED CALLING SUMMIT, and other leading industry events. Other important Forum initiatives include maintaining working groups in SIP trunking, security, IP-based Network-to-Network Interconnection (IP-NNI) and the SHAKEN Call Authentication Framework. For more information about SIP Forum initiatives, please visit: https://www.sipforum.org.
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