Azure Cloud & AI Summit
A practitioner-led summit covering Azure cloud platforms, AI infrastructure, data platforms, MLOps and modern infrastructure operations, hosted in Chester.
Date
November 26th, 2026
Location
Chester
Format
In-Person
CFP
Open now
About this conference
Azure Cloud & AI Summit
The Azure Cloud & AI Summit Chester brings together cloud architects, data engineers, ML engineers, platform teams and infrastructure leaders to explore building and operating AI and cloud infrastructure on Azure. The summit covers Azure AI services, data platform design, MLOps, observability, FinOps and the operational realities of running production systems at scale. Held in Chester, it serves the Northern tech community and practitioners from across the UK.
Who attends
Programme
What we cover
Sessions are practitioner-led. Every topic comes from things people are actually working on.
Call for Speakers
We want practitioners on stage, not just presenters.
If you have shipped something, learned something hard, built a platform, led a migration, adopted AI, or made a decision that mattered, that is a talk worth giving. We prioritise specific, honest content over polished pitches.
What we look for
- Real production experience, not theoretical frameworks
- Specific decisions made, not general advice
- What went wrong as well as what worked
- Talks that practitioners can act on
- Speakers from operator and practitioner backgrounds
Ecosystem
Part of the AI & Data ecosystem
This conference is part of the AI & Data ecosystem on Community Stack. The ecosystem runs year-round communities, meetups and events for practitioners in this space.
Communities
From the community
Talks from previous events
Implementing an Azure Onboarding Pipeline (not just sub-vending)
Matt Garner
Senior Consultant, Valorem Reply
Architect secure, AI-ready frontends on AWS with Cognito-powered auth
Viola Lykova
Software Engineer, Invest & Fund
Optimise your apps and AI workloads using in-memory databases and Valkey on AWS
Paul Ross
Senior Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Laying the Groundwork: Deploying Azure Landing Zones with Terraform
Baz Rashed
Cloud Architect, IT Experts UK
Sponsorship
Reach a focused practitioner audience.
The Azure Cloud & AI Summit Chester connects sponsors with cloud architects, data engineers, ML practitioners and infrastructure leaders building on Azure and across cloud environments. It is part of the AI & Data ecosystem, offering focused reach across the UK and beyond.
Audience type
Practitioners
Format
In-Person
Location
Chester
CFP
Open now
Communities
7 in ecosystem
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