Building the next generation of social infrastructure
We operate ecosystems as infrastructure.
Community Stack builds and operates a growing portfolio of practitioner communities and civic participation networks, connecting ecosystems and shared platforms through stewardship, governance, and long-term responsible growth.
Six pillars. One coherent system.
Community Stack operates shared infrastructure designed to support legitimacy, resilience, discovery, and long-term ecosystem growth.
Ecosystem
Own, operate, and scale community assets as long-term infrastructure.
Engine
Governance, standards, and trust infrastructure that enables legitimacy.
Switchboard
Global discovery layer connecting people to trusted ecosystems.
Intelligence
Community-native insight without direction or control.
Enterprise
Social infrastructure products for organisations and enterprises.
Labs
Research, experimentation, and future infrastructure development.
Trusted by our ecosystem partners
Current Ecosystem Sponsors
Event Hosts
Previous Speakers FROM
Attendees joining us from
A stewardship-led portfolio operator for community infrastructure.
We don't just host events. We operate long-term ecosystems, building shared foundations that enable communities to scale with integrity, purpose, and measurable outcomes.
Stewardship before scale
Ecosystem health over growth metrics.
Trust by design
Legitimacy and transparency in everything.
Infrastructure-first delivery
Building systems that endure.
Five domains. One unified network.
We operate globally connected technical ecosystems, combining local communities, flagship conferences, and leadership networks into a coherent layer of social infrastructure.
Community Engine
Governance and trust infrastructure that enables legitimacy.
Engine is the governance layer underpinning the portfolio, helping communities operate as credible, trusted, and resilient infrastructure over time.
Engine provides:
- Verification and trust signals
- Community standards and operating frameworks
- Governance and safeguarding guidance
- Transparent sponsorship models
Community Switchboard
Discovery and participation for communities and the third sector.
Switchboard helps people, organisations, and institutions find trusted communities and services, with accessibility-first design and local relevance at scale.
Key characteristics:
- Web, chat, voice, and SMS access
- Accessibility-first by design
- Local relevance with global reach
National Campaign
No community left offline.
We are leading a national campaign on rural digital inclusion, ensuring communities can access support, participate meaningfully, and benefit from discoverable, accessible infrastructure regardless of location or connectivity.
Accessibility as baseline infrastructure
Rural and regional participation by design
Trust-first discovery for services and communities
Voices from the ecosystem
Engineering in the AI Era
Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS
AI Agents in 2025
Stephen Toriola, Software & AI Engineer, Compare the Market
Architect Secure, AI-Ready Frontends on AWS
Viola Lykova, Software Engineer at Invest & Fund
My First Year as an AI Engineer at incident.io
Rory Malcolm, Product Engineer at incident.io
Trusted partnerships, delivered with integrity
"We've loved partnering with Yorkshire Azure User Group and Yorkshire DevOps in Leeds, consistently high-quality, practitioner-led events."
Edward Richardson-Lee
Accenture
"We're proud to have hosted GenAI UK through the GenAI Loft programme for the second year running."
Matheus Guimaraes
AWS
"Sponsoring Community Stack lets us support practitioner-led communities focused on real delivery, reducing operational risk, cutting review toil, and improving reliability at scale."
Dylan Ratcliffe
Overmind
Why now
Communities already shape critical social and technical infrastructure, but remain fragmented, hard to discover, and under-supported.
The next decade requires trusted networks built for participation, safety, learning, and long-term resilience.
Community Stack exists to steward that infrastructure responsibly and build systems designed to endure.
Stewardship-led, governance-first.
We build continuity, accountability, and resilience into the systems communities rely on, prioritising long-term ecosystem health over short-term optimisation.
Ethan Sumner
Co-Founder & CEO
Community organiser and technologist from Barnsley. Previously at Microsoft, Mastercard, and global consultancies.
Mercedes Moxon Greenfield
Co-Founder & CTO
UK Robotics Champion, accessibility advocate, and passionate volunteer from Sheffield.
Ready to build with us?
Whether you lead a community, represent a platform, or support the third sector, we'd love to connect.