Building the next generation of social infrastructure
We build the infrastructure communities rely on.
Community Stack operates a portfolio of practitioner communities, runs flagship conferences across the UK and globally, and builds the platforms charities and community organisations rely on to be found, funded, and sustained.
Why We Exist
Communities are infrastructure. The systems supporting them are not.
The Value
Technical communities and third-sector organisations move knowledge, build careers, and reach the people public services and markets miss. They generate substantial economic and social value, and they hold trust networks that institutions cannot manufacture or replace.
The Gap
Yet the systems they depend on are fragile by default. Organisers run critical communities on fragmented tooling that reprices without warning. Charities depend on volunteer capacity to remain visible at all. When a platform shifts terms or a volunteer steps back, there is no continuity layer, the community absorbs the loss, and the people who rely on it lose access.
Our Response
Community Stack exists to close that gap. We operate the communities. We build the platforms. We steward the standards that allow this layer of social infrastructure to function with the seriousness it has always deserved.
The Stack
Six pillars. One coherent system.
Each pillar operates a different layer of community infrastructure, from the communities themselves to the platforms, discovery, and standards that hold them together.
Ecosystem
We own and operate practitioner communities as long-term infrastructure, not as events.
Engine
The operating system for technical communities, events, sponsorship, memberships, and analytics in one platform.
Switchboard
The discovery layer for the third sector. Free, accessible websites and a directory that people can actually search.
Intelligence
Insight drawn from the network, used to support communities, never to direct or extract from them.
Enterprise
Internal community infrastructure for organisations, engineering guilds, communities of practice, and advocate programmes at scale.
Labs
Applied research and national campaigns on digital inclusion, accessibility, and the future of community infrastructure.
Discovery infrastructure for the third sector.
Switchboard gives every UK charity, grassroots group, and community organisation a credible, accessible online presence, and a place in a national directory built for the way people actually search for support.
Free, run to professional standards, and supported as long-term infrastructure rather than as a product release. Built because access to community support should not depend on whether an organisation can afford a developer, or whether the person looking for help happens to be on the right network.
What every organisation gets, free
Accessible WCAG-aligned microsite, live in under 10 minutes
Mobile-first design with local SEO built in
Donations and Gift Aid integration where available
Volunteer sign-ups and event booking
Listing in the national participation index, searchable by need, location, and accessibility requirement
Part of #NoCommunityLeftOffline, Community Stack's national campaign for digital inclusion.
Our Network
Trusted by industry leaders
Ecosystem Sponsors
Event Partners
Previous Speakers From
Community Attendees From
Ecosystem Portfolio
Five domains. One unified network.
Communities, conferences, and leadership networks organised into coherent technical ecosystems.
May 19th, 2026 · Leeds, England
Northern DevOps & Platform Conference
Real-world implementations. Senior engineers. DevOps professionals. The flagship conference for platform leaders and DevOps professionals across the North of England.
Backed by
Yorkshire DevOps
Yorkshire Azure User Group
Speakers Include
Matthew Skelton
Founder & CEO/CTO
Conflux
Alexandra Moore
DevOps Strategic Advisor
CGI
Holly Jukes
Head of Engineering
Lloyds Banking Group
Adam Wilbraham
Director of Technology
Flutter UK & Ireland
Vernon Richards
Senior Engineering Manager
Phrase
Andy Burgin
Principal Platform Engineer
Independent
Sponsors
Special thanks to CGI for hosting the event, Hippo for sponsoring the conference T-shirts, and T5 Digital for sponsoring the food and badges.
Recent Event Spotlight
Data & AI Leaders - Agentic AI
Hosted with Lloyds Banking Group in London. 120+ attendees exploring the cutting edge of Agentic AI in enterprise.
Speakers
Joanna Crown
Director of Data, Moonpig
Dylan Ratcliffe
Founder & CEO, Overmind
Sultan AI Awar
Solutions Architect (Digital Natives), Databricks
Joseph Reeve
Growth, ElevenLabs
Astitva Karunesh
AI Business Lead, AI CoE, Lloyds Banking Group
Lara Vomfell
Senior Data & AI Scientist, AI CoE, Lloyds Banking Group
Watch the talks
Lloyds Banking Group | Agentic AI in Practice
Astitva Karunesh & Lara Vomfell - AI CoE, Lloyds Banking Group
ElevenLabs, Moonpig, Databricks & Overmind | Agentic AI In The Enterprise
Joseph Reeve, Joanna Crown, Dylan Ratcliffe, Sultan AI Awar
What Partners Say
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
The operating system for technical communities.
Community infrastructure has been fragmented, overpriced, and underbuilt for too long. Engine is one unified platform built from the ground up for communities that want to operate at scale, not just survive.
Events, ticketing, speakers, sponsorship, memberships, analytics, and discovery — everything organisers need, in one place.
Core Capabilities
Event management, RSVP, and conference operations
Ticketing, QR check-in, and attendee tracking
CFP and end-to-end speaker management
Sponsorship engine with package builder, CRM, and ROI dashboards
Memberships and recurring monetisation
Community microsites and branded web presence
Discovery directories for communities, speakers, venues, and partners
Community Stack Labs
National campaigns
We run a portfolio of civic campaigns operating at the intersection of community infrastructure, digital inclusion, and accessibility — targeting systemic gaps in how underserved communities access support, participate in public life, and find trusted services.
#NoCommunityLeftOffline
Ensuring rural, isolated, and digitally excluded communities can access support and participate online regardless of location, connectivity, or digital confidence.
#DigitalSENDInfrastructure
Campaigning for joined-up digital infrastructure for SEND families — making it easier to find, access, and navigate support across education, health, and social care.
#CommunicationForAll
Addressing the broken communication infrastructure for non-speaking and AAC-dependent individuals, advocating for universal access to communication tools.
Community Talks
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
The Team
Built from the North, run by people who organise communities.
Ethan Sumner
Co-Founder & CEO
Community organiser and technologist from Barnsley. Previously at Microsoft, Mastercard, and global consultancies, with years running grassroots meetups across Yorkshire.
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Mercedes Moxon Greenfield
Co-Founder & CTO
UK Robotics Champion and accessibility advocate from Sheffield. Leads platform delivery with an accessibility-first, inclusion-led approach.
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