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
For Speakers
Share practical lessons with senior technical audiences
Across AI, cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, open source, and leadership communities.
Speaking Guide
Everything you need to submit and deliver a great talk
How our CFP works, what we look for in a proposal, how to structure your talk, and what to expect on the day.
Ecosystem Portfolio
Five domains. One unified network.
Communities, conferences, and leadership networks organised into coherent technical ecosystems.
Cloud
Cloud platforms, architecture, operations, and modernisation across AWS, Azure, and emerging GCP capability.
Coming soon: Databricks UG
2026/27 Conference Programme
Nine conferences. Five ecosystems. One connected community.
Practitioner-led conferences spanning DevOps, Cloud Native, Data, AI, and Startups - in-person and virtual, across the UK and globally. CFPs are open for all events.
Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference
June 11th, 2026
A multi-track in-person conference exploring cloud native infrastructure and open source AI.
Cloud Native & Open Source AI Global Conference
October 13th, 2026
A global virtual conference for cloud native engineers and open source AI practitioners.
Platform Security Global Conference
October 27th, 2026
A global virtual conference for cloud and platform security practitioners.
DevOps & Platform Leaders Conference
October 29th, 2026
An in-person conference for DevOps and Platform Engineering leaders.
Data & AI Leaders Conference
November 19th, 2026
A curated in-person conference for senior data and AI leaders.
AWS AI Global Conference
November 24th, 2026
A global virtual conference connecting AWS AI practitioners across regions.
Azure AI Global Conference
November 30th, 2026
A global virtual conference for Azure AI practitioners and leaders.
Tech Venture & Operators Global Conference
December 8th, 2026
A global virtual conference for founders, operators, and investors building technology companies.
Call for Speakers
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.
8 conferences with open CFPs
Not sure if your talk is a fit? Email hello@communitystack.io
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
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.
Watch the Talks
Real talks from real practitioners.
Technical depth, practical lessons, and leadership insights from our communities and conferences.
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
Community in Action
Moments from our events.
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.