Cloud, Platform & Open Source Ecosystem
Seven communities. Built for people who deliver.
For platform teams, DevOps practitioners, engineering leaders, SREs and developer experience teams building modern software delivery and internal platform capability.
The communities where platform engineers and delivery practitioners have been comparing notes since before it had a name. Honest conversations about what ships, what breaks, and what the roadmap never mentions.
7
Communities
75+
Events hosted
9,000+
Members
Free
All meetups, always
About this ecosystem
The community for platform teams and modern software delivery.
This ecosystem brings together the people building, operating and leading platform capability inside technology organisations. Platform engineering, DevOps practices, internal developer platforms, developer experience, SRE, software delivery, and the engineering culture and tooling that makes modern software teams effective.
Communities meet in London, across Yorkshire and online globally. No vendor demos, no keynote theatre. The agenda is driven by what practitioners actually want to talk about.
Who comes to these events
Platform Engineer
building internal developer platforms
Site Reliability Engineer
keeping things running and improving on-call
DevOps Engineer
owning delivery pipelines end-to-end
Head of Engineering
responsible for how the whole machine delivers
Principal Engineer
setting technical direction and raising the bar
Developer Experience Engineer
making other engineers faster and less frustrated
Engineering Manager
building teams that can ship reliably
DevSecOps Engineer
baking security in rather than bolting it on
Cloud Architect
designing the infrastructure teams depend on
CTO
accountable for engineering capability and culture
Our Network
Trusted by industry partners.
Sponsors, speakers, event partners and community attendees from across the sector.
Ecosystem Sponsors
Event Partners
Previous Speakers From
Community Attendees From
From our events
Real practitioners. Real venues. Real conversations.
Recent Event Spotlight
Northern DevOps & Platform Conference
Hosted at CGI Leeds on May 19th, 2026. 156 attendees, 18 speakers and 17 sponsors — the biggest platform engineering and DevOps conference to come out of 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
Conference 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
On demand
Talks from this ecosystem
Recorded sessions from communities across the Cloud, Platform & Open Source ecosystem.
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
Re-evaluating DevOps
Edward Richardson-Lee
Full Stack Engineering Specialist, Accenture
Curating a Developer Experience
Andy Burgin
Principal Platform Engineer, Flutter
Enterprise DevOps
Alexandra Moore
DevOps Strategic Advisory Consultant, CGI
Mandated Pipelines and the Architecture Glue We Pretend Exists
Andy Blagnys
Senior Architect, Axiologik
Communities
Seven communities. Find the one that fits.
London, Yorkshire and online globally. Open practitioner meetups and closed leadership forums. All free to join.
Yorkshire Azure User Group
The Azure community in Yorkshire. In-person meetups in Leeds, Sheffield and Bradford.
Join on Meetup →Yorkshire DevOps
One of the longest-running DevOps meetups in the North. No slides about slides — real practitioners, real stories.
Join on Meetup →Cloud Native & Open Source London
Kubernetes, CNCF ecosystem and open source tooling. In-person in London.
Join on Meetup →Cloud Native & Open Source Global
The online version. Same content, no commute.
Join on Luma →Cloud Platform Engineering Global
Platform teams, IDPs, developer experience. Open global online meetup.
Join on Luma →Cloud Platform Engineering Leaders
Closed forum for engineering leaders and heads of platform. Senior, off the record, honest.
Join on Meetup →Cloud Platform Engineering London
In-person in London. Practitioners building internal developer platforms and cloud delivery capability.
Join on Meetup →Conferences
Four conferences. Bigger rooms, deeper conversations.
From Leeds to Manchester to online. Single-topic summits and flagship all-day events.
What we cover
Topics across every community and event
Platform engineering and internal developer platforms
DevOps culture and practices
Developer experience and developer productivity
Site reliability engineering and reliability practices
CI/CD, deployment pipelines and release engineering
Kubernetes and cloud native operations
Infrastructure as code and platform automation
AI in software delivery and platform operations
Engineering culture, team structures and effectiveness
Platform security and DevSecOps
Observability, monitoring and incident management
Software supply chain and build systems
Speaking
Speak at a Cloud & Platform event
We want practitioners on stage, not just presenters. Shipped something recently? Led a tricky platform migration? Wrestled a 200-service monolith into shape? Submit a talk idea. Read the speaker guide first — it explains what we look for and what to expect.
Sponsorship
Partner with this ecosystem
7 communities, 4 conferences and 9,000+ practitioners across the UK and globally. Portfolio, ecosystem and event partnerships available.
Sponsors & Partners
Partners who make this ecosystem possible
Nearform
AI Native
Overmind
Global Platinum Sponsor
Ada Meher
Platinum and Recruitment Sponsor
CGI
Event Partner
Lloyds Banking Group
Event Partner
Leeds Building Society
Event Partner
Hippo
Event Partner
Accenture
Event Partner
Valorem Reply
Event Partner
Axiologik
Event Partner
AWS
Event Partner
Financial Conduct Authority
Event Partner
Zuhlke Engineering
Event Partner
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