What Makes This a Portfolio
Five ecosystems, eighteen communities, one operating model.
Not a Network of Independent Groups
Most community networks are collections of independently-run groups that share a brand. This is not that. Each community in the portfolio belongs to one ecosystem deliberately, runs to shared standards, and benefits from shared infrastructure, speakers, sponsors, operations, and discovery all flow across the network without the audiences blurring.
Meaningful for Everyone in It
Practitioners see consistently curated content. Speakers get repeat opportunities across themed stages. Sponsors engage with coherent audiences rather than scattered events. And the communities themselves get the operational backbone that lets them grow without breaking.
The Network Effect
Eighteen communities. One audience graph.
Ecosystem Sponsors
Event Partners
Previous Speakers From
Community Attendees From
Ecosystem Portfolio
Five ecosystems. One unified network.
Each ecosystem is a coherent portfolio of communities and conferences. Every community belongs to one ecosystem to preserve clarity of audience, purpose, and value.
Cloud
Cloud platforms, architecture, operations, and modernisation across AWS, Azure, and emerging GCP capability.
Communities
Coming Soon
Databricks UG
Conferences
Azure AI Global Conference
Virtual — Sep 15
AWS AI Community Global Conference
Virtual — Sep 22
Cloud & Platform Security Global Conference
Virtual — Sep 29
Cloud Native & Open Source
Kubernetes, CNCF tooling, OSS maintainers, and cloud native engineering culture.
Communities
Conferences
Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference
London — June 11
Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference
Virtual — Oct 13
Startups, Ventures & Operators
Where founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem builders collaborate across growth, resilience, and strategic execution.
Communities
Coming Soon
Startup perks · Venture/operator roundtables · Global founder network expansion
Conferences
Tech Venture & Operators Global Conference
Virtual — Dec 8
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
Who Attends
Practitioner-led communities attract senior professionals who ship.
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 to March 2026.
Why the Audience Looks Like This
Curated, not scaled.
Theme-Aligned
Communities are practitioner-led rather than vendor-driven, attracting people who build for a living.
Curated Selection
Speaker selection is curated, not pay-to-play. Content is reviewed for technical depth before it reaches a stage.
Quality Over Quantity
We grow more slowly than communities optimised for headcount. The benefit is that the room is consistently full of people who ship.
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 Ecosystem Partnership Actually Means
Beyond logo placement.
Sponsorship at Community Stack is structured around access to communities, not visibility at events. Partners join curated dinners with senior practitioners, get speaker pipeline introductions, participate in roundtables shaping the year's content themes, and gain reporting on engagement across the portfolio rather than attendance at one event.
We work with a deliberately small number of partners per ecosystem so each relationship has the room to do real work. Most partners stay with us across multiple years and multiple ecosystems. That continuity is the point.
Global Ecosystem Partners
Visibility across the entire portfolio
Category Partners
Aligned to one ecosystem
Conference Partners
Headline, gold, or silver tiers
Community Partners
Deep engagement with specific communities
What This Is Built to Become
Practitioner infrastructure, at the scale the industry now needs.
Eighteen communities is the start, not the destination. Over the next three years the portfolio will expand into more domains, more regions, and more conference formats, but always under the same operating model: practitioner-led, theme-aligned, curated rather than scaled, reinvested rather than extracted.
We are building this because the next decade of technology will run on the trust networks communities create. The question is whether those networks are built as infrastructure, or left to chance.