Building the next generation of social infrastructure
We build the infrastructure communities rely on.
Community Stack operates a portfolio of practitioner communities, runs flagship conferences across the UK and globally, and builds the platforms, services, and insight communities rely on to be found, funded, understood, and sustained.
Why We Exist
Communities are infrastructure. The systems supporting them are not.
The Value
Communities create trust, opportunity, participation, and access where institutions and traditional systems often cannot.
The Gap
But they are too often run on fragile tools, volunteer labour, inconsistent funding, poor discoverability, and disconnected insight.
Our Response
Community Stack builds, operates, connects, and stewards the infrastructure that makes communities easier to find, run, sustain, understand, and protect.
The Stack
Six pillars. One coherent system.
Each pillar operates a different layer of community infrastructure, from the communities themselves to the platforms, discovery, and standards that hold them together.
Ecosystem
We own and operate practitioner communities, conferences, leadership networks, and ecosystem brands as long-term infrastructure, not one-off events.
Link
We help independent communities, vendors, sponsors, enterprises, and investors work with community-led markets through representation, advisory, activation, and portfolio support.
Engine
The operating system for communities, bringing events, sponsorship, memberships, CFPs, microsites, analytics, and operations into one platform.
Switchboard
The full-service digital platform for the third sector, helping charities and grassroots organisations become visible, accessible, and easier to engage with.
Intelligence
Responsible insight from communities, events, platforms, and participation networks, designed to support better decisions without extracting from communities.
Labs
Applied research, campaigns, pilots, and innovation focused on digital inclusion, accessibility, offline participation, and the future of community infrastructure.
Our Network
Trusted by industry leaders
Ecosystem Sponsors
Event Partners
Previous Speakers From
Community Attendees From
Ecosystem Portfolio
Five domains. One unified network.
Communities, conferences, and leadership networks organised into coherent technical ecosystems.
2026/27 Conference Programme
Flagship conferences
Practitioner-led conferences spanning DevOps, Cloud Native, and AI — in-person and virtual, across the UK and globally.
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
Link
The commercial engine for community-led markets
Community Stack Link helps organisations grow through the communities, events, ecosystems, and trusted relationships that shape modern markets. We connect companies, sponsors, investors, founders, marketers, and DevRel teams with the people who influence adoption, reputation, partnerships, talent, funding, and revenue.
We work across representation, advisory, activation, and portfolio support.
Link serves
Vendors and sponsors seeking authentic ecosystem engagement
Investors building community infrastructure for portfolios
Independent communities needing commercial representation
Enterprises running internal communities of practice
Launching September 2026
Event management and conference operations
Ticketing and attendee tracking
Speaker management and CFP
Sponsorship engine and CRM
Memberships and monetisation
Microsites and web presence
Analytics and discovery
Engine
The operating system for technical communities
Community infrastructure has been fragmented, overpriced, and underbuilt for too long. Engine is one unified platform built from the ground up for communities that want to operate at scale.
Events, ticketing, speakers, sponsorship, memberships, microsites, analytics, and discovery in one place. Everything a community organiser needs to run a serious operation without stitching together a dozen tools.
Switchboard
Discovery infrastructure for the third sector
Switchboard gives every UK charity, grassroots group, and community organisation a credible, accessible online presence and a place in a national directory built for the way people actually search for support.
Free, run to professional standards, and supported as long-term infrastructure. Part of the national campaign for digital inclusion and civic participation.
Built for accessibility
WCAG-aligned microsites live in under ten minutes
Mobile-first design with local SEO built in
Donations and Gift Aid integration
Volunteer sign-ups and event booking
Searchable national participation index
Powered by long-term civic infrastructure commitment
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
The Team
Built from the North, run by people who organise communities.
Ethan Sumner
Co-Founder & CEO
Community organiser and technologist from Barnsley. Previously at Microsoft, Mastercard, and global consultancies, with years running grassroots meetups across Yorkshire.
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Mercedes Moxon Greenfield
Co-Founder & CTO
UK Robotics Champion and accessibility advocate from Sheffield. Leads platform delivery with an accessibility-first, inclusion-led approach.
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