Ecosystem Portfolio
Three ecosystems. Seventeen communities. Twelve conferences.
Community Stack operates practitioner-led communities across AI and data, cloud, platform and open source, and finance technology and startups. Each ecosystem runs meetups, leadership forums and flagship conferences built around a clear technical audience. Meetups are free, always.
What Makes This a Portfolio
Three ecosystems, seventeen communities, twelve conferences, one operating model.
Not a Collection of Isolated Groups
Community Stack is organised around ecosystems rather than disconnected user groups. Each community belongs to a clear technical domain, shares common standards, and benefits from shared operations, speakers, sponsors, content, discovery and governance.
Built Around Practitioner Audiences
Each ecosystem is designed around the people actually building, operating and leading technology in the field. Practitioners get relevant events and useful conversations. Speakers get access to the right audiences. Sponsors engage with coherent communities rather than scattered one-off events.
Fewer, Better, More Focused Events
The new model reduces overlap across the portfolio and focuses on higher-value community events, stronger leadership forums and more impactful conferences. The aim is not simply to run more events, but to build better rooms with clearer purpose.
How It Works
How the Ecosystem Model Works
Each ecosystem combines several types of activity, from regular community meetups to flagship conferences. This allows Community Stack to keep the community feel of local groups while creating a clearer, more scalable model for speakers, sponsors and partners.
Communities
Practitioner-led groups for people working in specific areas of technology, including AI, cloud, data, platform engineering, open source, finance technology and startup operations.
Global Chapters
Online ecosystem communities that connect practitioners across regions and bring related sub-communities together under one shared programme.
Conferences and Forums
Flagship summits, senior forums and specialist conferences designed to create deeper content, stronger sponsorship value and more focused technical conversations.
Partners and Sponsors
Ecosystem-level opportunities for partners to support relevant communities, contribute speakers, host events and build long-term relationships with technical audiences.
Trusted by Industry Partners
17 communities. One connected practitioner network.
Sponsors, event partners, speakers and community members from across the industry.
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.
For Sponsors
Reach 25,000 practitioners. Become part of the ecosystem.
We work with a deliberately small number of partners per ecosystem so each relationship has room to do real work. Most partners stay across multiple years and multiple ecosystems. That continuity is the point.
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 & Data
7 communitiesFor practitioners, leaders and teams building, adopting and operating AI inside real organisations. Covering applied AI, Claude, AWS, Azure and GCP AI services, AI leadership, governance and enterprise adoption.
Cloud, Platform & Open Source
7 communitiesFor platform teams, DevOps practitioners, cloud engineers, SREs and open source practitioners building modern software delivery, internal platforms and cloud native infrastructure.
Finance Technology & Startups
3 communitiesFor engineers, architects, leaders and operators building technology across banking, fintech, payments, capital markets and financial infrastructure, alongside technical founders and startup operators.
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
Northern DevOps & Platform Leaders Summit
October 20th, 2026
Cloud, Platform & Open Source
Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit
October 13th, 2026
Call for Speakers
Practitioners on stage, not just presenters.
If you have shipped something, learned something hard, built a platform, led a migration, adopted AI, improved developer experience, contributed to open source, or made a decision that mattered, that is a talk worth giving.
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.
Twenty-six 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.