Community Stack Conferences
Global Conferences by Community Stack
Connecting practitioners, leaders, and communities across AI, Cloud, and Platform Engineering. Flagship events built on a foundation of 26 communities and 25,000+ members.
2026/27 Conference Programme
Twelve conferences. Six ecosystems. One connected community.
Practitioner-led conferences spanning DevOps, Cloud Native, Data, AI, Finance Technology, and Startups. In-person and virtual, across the UK and globally. CFPs are open for all 2026 events.
Developer Experience Summit Manchester
March 18th, 2027
Cloud, Data & AI Infrastructure Summit London
April 29th, 2027
Northern DevOps & Platform Engineering Summit
May 18th, 2027
Get Involved
Speak at or sponsor our conferences
We are looking for practitioners to speak and partners to sponsor across the 2026/27 programme.
Speaker Guide
Interested in speaking at one of our conferences?
We want practitioners on stage, not just presenters. If you have shipped something, learned something hard, or made a decision that mattered, that is a talk worth giving. Read our speaker guide to understand what we look for and how to submit.
Ecosystem Portfolio
Six practitioner-led ecosystems. Find the community that fits your work.
Each ecosystem brings together communities, leadership forums and conferences around a focused technical audience. Select an ecosystem to explore or join a community below.
AI Operators
3 communitiesFor practitioners, leaders and teams building, adopting and operating AI inside real organisations. Covering applied AI, Claude, AI leadership, governance, agents and enterprise adoption.
Cloud & Data Infrastructure
9 communitiesFor cloud, data and AI infrastructure practitioners building production platforms across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks and modern data infrastructure.
DevOps & Platform Engineering
5 communitiesFor platform teams, DevOps practitioners, engineering leaders, SREs and developer experience teams building modern software delivery and internal platform capability.
Cloud Native & Open Source
4 communitiesFor engineers, maintainers, founders and platform teams working across Kubernetes, cloud native engineering, open source AI, developer tooling and open source infrastructure.
Finance Technology
2 communitiesFor engineers, architects, leaders and operators building technology across banking, fintech, payments, capital markets, trading, insurance and financial infrastructure.
Startup Operators
2 communitiesFor technical founders, startup operators, CTOs, venture builders, consultancy leaders and developer-first companies.
Recent Conference Spotlight
Northern DevOps & Platform Conference
Hosted at CGI Leeds. 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 Conference Spotlight
Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference
Hosted at BrainStation London on June 11th, 2026. 216 registered attendees exploring cloud native infrastructure, Kubernetes, open source AI, and production AI systems.
Featured Speakers
Andrew Randall
Principal PM, Office of the CPO, Microsoft
Pal Lakatos-Toth
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Peter Bhabra
Member of Technical Staff, Doubleword
Viola Lykova
Senior Software Engineer, nuclecode
Hannah Foxwell
Co-Founder, Bimp
Sean M Tracey
Founding Technologist, Mitchell Technologies
Craig Whiting & Jon Freedman
RLS Search & Quant Fin
Amir Tayabali & Salman Iqbal
Tech Leads, Appvia
Maebh Booth
Senior Engineering Leader, Former M&S
Watch the talks
From HFT to Enterprise Banking: The Talent War for Cloud Native and AI Engineers
Craig Whiting and Jon Freedman, RLS Search and Quant Fin
Evolving the Kubernetes User Experience: More Intuitive, More Extensible, More Agentic
Andrew Randall and Pal Lakatos-Toth, Microsoft
Sponsors
BrainStation
Headline
Overmind
Platinum
Appvia
Platinum
Harvey Nash
Platinum
Axiologik
Platinum
Colibri Digital
Platinum
T5 Digital
Platinum
Nearform
AI Native
Dash0
Community
RLS Search
Community
Doubleword
Community
Postman
Community
X4 Group
Community
Engaging Data
Community
BIMP
Community
Aiven
Community
Our Network
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Ecosystem Sponsors
Event Partners
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Recent Event Spotlight
Data & AI Leaders, Agentic AI
Hosted with Lloyds Banking Group in London. 120+ in-person 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
Why Our Conferences
Infrastructure for knowledge sharing.
Community Stack runs flagship conferences aligned to its ecosystem pillars. Each event is community-led, practitioner-first, and designed to surface real knowledge rather than marketing. We operate conferences the same way we operate communities: with long-term stewardship, genuine curation, and measurable value.
Community-led, practitioner-first
Our conferences are shaped by the communities they serve. Speakers are practitioners. Sessions are real-world, not theoretical.
Global and regional reach
From Leeds to London to a global virtual stage, we meet communities where they are, connecting local knowledge to a global network.
Aligned to ecosystem pillars
Every conference maps to a core ecosystem: AI, Cloud, DevOps, or Cloud Native. This ensures relevance, depth, and continuity across events.
Who attends our events
Practitioner-led communities attract senior, experienced professionals who ship real products.
Attendee Seniority
Industry Breakdown
Job Titles Across Our Audience
A snapshot of the roles represented across our communities and events.
Based on registration data from events between November 2025 and March 2026.