Building the next generation of social infrastructure
We build the infrastructure communities rely on.
Community Stack builds the tools, operating models and shared infrastructure that make communities more discoverable, resilient, accessible and sustainable. We prove it in the communities we run ourselves, then make what works available to everyone else, across technology, the third sector and beyond.
Why We Exist
Communities are infrastructure.
What holds them up should be too.
The value
Communities share knowledge, create opportunity, connect people and provide support that institutions alone cannot.
The problem
Too many run on fragmented tools, volunteer goodwill, short funding cycles and knowledge that walks out of the door when people move on.
Our response
We turn the tools, knowledge and operating models behind strong communities into infrastructure anyone can build on.
How It Works
Build it. Prove it. Share it.
One foundation, developed in real communities and adapted for the people and organisations that need it.
Engine
Technology, standards and operating knowledge covering events, memberships, ticketing, sponsorship, speakers, websites, directories, payments and day to day community operations. The shared foundation everything else is built on.
Ecosystem
Three ecosystems, seventeen communities and twelve conferences where we test what we build, sharpen the model and find out what actually works.
Junction
Engine configured for technical communities, meetups, user groups and conferences. Built around the way practitioner communities really operate, and the point where they meet each other.
Switchboard
The same foundation adapted for charities, grassroots organisations and community groups. Accessible digital infrastructure designed for organisations that have too often been expected to make do with less.
Across Community Stack
More than software.
Four layers that run across every product and community — making the network more discoverable, better informed and structurally stronger.
Engine
PlatformThe open source platform underneath everything. Events, ticketing, sponsorship, memberships, analytics and four public directories.
Index
DiscoveryOpen directories of communities, speakers, venues, partners, organisations and services across all three ecosystems.
Signal
InsightThe Standup newsletter, Ecosystem at the Edge, and research and insight from across the network.
Labs
ResearchResearch, pilots and national campaigns focused on accessibility, digital inclusion and participation.
Our Network
Trusted by our Industry Partners
Ecosystem Sponsors
Event Partners
Previous Speakers From
Community Attendees From
Ecosystem Portfolio
Three practitioner-led ecosystems. Find the community that fits your work.
Each ecosystem brings together communities, leadership forums and conferences around a focused technical audience.
AI & Data
7 communitiesFor practitioners, leaders and teams building, adopting and operating AI and data systems inside real organisations. Covering applied AI, Claude, AI leadership, AWS AI, Azure AI, GCP AI, governance, agents and enterprise adoption.
Cloud, Platform & Open Source
7 communitiesFor platform teams, DevOps practitioners, cloud native engineers, SREs and developer experience teams building modern software delivery, internal platform capability and open source infrastructure.
Finance Technology & Startups
3 communitiesFor engineers, architects, leaders, founders and operators building technology across banking, fintech, payments, capital markets, insurance, and high-growth technology companies.
2026/27 Conference Programme
Twelve conferences across three ecosystems. In-person and online.
Every conference sits inside a wider community portfolio, connecting attendees, speakers and sponsors with a focused practitioner audience.
Cloud, Platform & Open Source
Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit
October 13th, 2026
Cloud, Platform & Open Source
Northern DevOps & Platform Leaders Summit
October 20th, 2026
Recent Event Spotlight
Northern DevOps & Platform Conference
Hosted at CGI Leeds on May 19th, 2026. 156 attendees exploring platform engineering, DevOps culture, and engineering excellence across the North of England.
Featured Speakers
Matthew Skelton
CEO/CTO, Conflux - Team Topologies
Holly Jukes
Head of Engineering, Lloyds Banking Group
Alexandra Moore
DevOps Strategic Advisor, CGI
Adam Wilbraham
Director of Technology, Flutter UK & Ireland
Brian Walker
Infrastructure Specialist, HSBC
Andy Burgin
Principal Platform Engineer
Watch the talks
Team Topologies as the Infrastructure for Agency with AI
Matthew Skelton - CEO/CTO, Conflux
Stop Building. Start Deciding.
Holly Jukes - Head of Engineering, Lloyds Banking Group
Sponsors
CGI
Headline
Conflux
Platinum
Ada Meher
Platinum
Overmind
Platinum
Accenture
Platinum
T5 Digital
Platinum
Hippo
Platinum
Axiologik
Platinum
Nearform
AI Native
Barnsley College
Education
Burendo
Community
Perforce
Community
Dash0
Community
Digital Endeavours
Community
Doza Consulting
Community
Nimble Approach
Community
Searchability
Community
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 Platform
One platform. Two deployments.
Engine is the open source platform we build everything on. Junction and Switchboard are Engine deployed for two very different worlds.
Engine
The open source platform for community operations
One platform with an Apache 2.0 core and an enterprise edition on top. Events, ticketing, CFP, sponsorship, memberships, microsites, analytics and four public directories — without stitching together a dozen tools.
WCAG 2.2 AA across all surfaces
Offline-first QR check-in
Stripe Connect, no platform take rate
Full data export, self-service, no fee
REST API, webhooks, TypeScript & Python SDKs
Migrators for Meetup, Eventbrite, Bevy & Luma
Junction
The network for technical communities
Engine for meetups, user groups and conferences, with a network layer on top. One place to find every community and event, and one practitioner identity across all of them.
Cross-community discovery and unified event feed
One profile and talk history across the network
Four rate tiers with self-select Community rate
Team memberships with transferable seats
Talk archive linked to recording and speaker
Free to 500 members, then £39 a month
Switchboard
LiveDiscovery infrastructure for the third sector
A credible digital presence and a place in a national participation index, built for the way people search for support. Free to start, with a full operations layer on paid seats.
Accessible microsite live in under ten minutes
Charity Commission & OSCR verification badge
Donations, Gift Aid and HMRC claim files
Volunteer rotas, DBS tracking and timesheets
Claude Pro on every paid seat
National participation index with accessibility filters
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
