Developer Experience Summit Manchester
A specialist summit focused on developer experience, internal developer platforms, engineering productivity and modern software delivery.
Date
March 18th, 2027
Location
Manchester
Format
In-Person
CFP
Open now
About this conference
Developer Experience Summit Manchester
The Developer Experience Summit Manchester is a dedicated summit for the people responsible for how developers work. It brings together platform engineers, developer experience leads, engineering managers and platform product owners to share real lessons on building internal developer platforms, improving engineering productivity, reducing toil, and creating the environments where engineers do their best work. The summit is held in Manchester and is designed for the Northern tech community as well as practitioners travelling 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 Cloud, Platform & Open Source ecosystem
This conference is part of the Cloud, Platform & Open Source ecosystem on Community Stack. The ecosystem runs year-round communities, meetups and events for practitioners in this space.
Communities
Yorkshire Azure User Group
Yorkshire, UK
Yorkshire DevOps
Yorkshire, UK
Cloud Native & Open Source London
London, UK
Cloud Native & Open Source Global
Online
Cloud Platform Engineering Global
Online
Cloud Platform Engineering Leaders
Online
Cloud Platform Engineering London
London, UK
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From the community
Talks from previous events
Types of Indexes in Databases
Brian Walker
Technical Specialist, HSBC
AI Ops in regulated industries
John-Paul Drawneek
Lead Site Reliability Engineer, OptumUK
I've built a Cloud Platform, and You Can Too!
Sean M. Tracey
Founding Technologist, Mitchell Technologies
Azure VMware Solution
Shane Porteous
Private Cloud Engineering Lead, Lloyds Banking Group
Sponsorship
Reach a focused practitioner audience.
The Developer Experience Summit Manchester connects you with the teams responsible for how developers work across UK organisations. As part of the DevOps & Platform Engineering ecosystem, sponsors can engage with platform engineers, developer experience leads and engineering leaders focused on productivity and tooling.
Audience type
Practitioners
Format
In-Person
Location
Manchester
CFP
Open now
Communities
7 in ecosystem
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