Venue & Event Partnerships
Put your space at the centre of the community.
Community Stack runs practitioner-led technology communities, meetups and conferences across the UK, New York and online. We are looking for companies, engineering teams, innovation spaces and venues that want to host our communities and become part of the ecosystem around them.
You provide the space. We bring the community, programme, speakers, registrations, promotion and event operation. As an event partner, your organisation also gets a speaking slot as part of the programme, visibility across the event, and the opportunity for your team to build genuine relationships with the practitioners in the room.
Previous event partners include
Hosting is deliberately different from traditional sponsorship. Your organisation is not simply putting its logo on an event. You are opening your doors to the community, putting your people into the room and helping create somewhere practitioners want to return to.
Bring the community into your organisation.
Most technology organisations are trying to build stronger relationships with engineers, technology leaders and the wider ecosystem around them. Hosting gives you a practical way to do that. Rather than pulling people into another corporate webinar, you become part of an existing practitioner community.
Put your organisation in the room
Bring engineers, architects, platform teams, data professionals, AI practitioners, product leaders and technology decision makers into your space. People experience your organisation directly rather than through an advert or campaign.
Give your team a voice
Every event partner receives a speaking slot as part of the event programme. The session can be delivered by someone from your engineering, technology, product, cloud, platform, data, AI or leadership teams. We work with the speaker to make sure the session is useful, relevant and appropriate for the community.
Strengthen your employer brand
Attendees see your workplace, meet your people and hear directly from someone inside your organisation. That creates far more context than simply putting a recruitment logo on an event.
Support the local technology ecosystem
Community events need spaces to exist. By hosting, your organisation directly enables practitioners to meet, learn and build relationships locally.
Meet practitioners without forcing a sales conversation
Your team can attend the event, join the networking and speak directly with people across the community. There is no need to turn the event into a recruitment fair or product pitch. The relationship works because the community remains useful first.
Become a long-term community home
The best venue partnerships do not need to be one off. Where there is a strong fit, we can establish your organisation as a regular home for one of our communities, hosting monthly, quarterly or several times throughout the year.
You bring the room. We bring everything else.
What Community Stack Brings
What Your Organisation Receives
A good space and a team willing to welcome the community.
You do not need to operate a professional conference venue. Many of the best Community Stack events happen inside normal offices and engineering spaces. We normally need the following.
Practitioner communities bring practitioners.
Community Stack's network includes people working across the following areas, spanning individual contributors through to senior technology leaders. Every event is run by one of our 18 communities across three ecosystems.
AI & Data
Cloud, Platform & Open Source
Finance Technology & Startups
Attendees have come from organisations including
The community remains practitioner-led regardless of who provides the venue.
Data & AI Leaders, hosted with Lloyds Banking Group.
Lloyds Banking Group opened their London office for a Data & AI Leaders event exploring Agentic AI in the enterprise. This is what a venue partnership looks like in practice.
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
Different communities. Different rooms. One ecosystem.
AI & Data
8 communitiesCommunities for engineers, operators and leaders working with AI, data platforms, cloud AI, agents and emerging technologies.
Communities
Cloud, Platform & Open Source
7 communitiesCommunities for platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, cloud engineers, architects and open source teams.
Communities
Some venue partners choose to host one specific community. Others host different communities throughout the year.
Six cities. Long-term community homes.
Manchester
Leeds
Sheffield
London
Edinburgh
New York
Regular Hosting Is Especially Valuable
One event is useful. A community home is better.
We are happy to work with organisations hosting a single event. But we are particularly interested in partners that can provide space regularly.
Monthly
A regular home for a named Community Stack community.
Quarterly
Hosting several larger events throughout the year.
Multiple communities
Different Community Stack communities using the same venue.
Multiple locations
Organisations with offices in several of our target cities, supporting the network across multiple regions.
Regular venues help communities build consistency. Attendees know the location. Organisers understand the space. Your organisation becomes genuinely associated with supporting the community rather than appearing once.
Straightforward from venue submission to event night.
Submit your venue
Complete our Venue Input Details Form. Tell us about your organisation, capacity, facilities, accessibility, catering and event logistics.
We review the space
Our team looks at the venue and considers which Community Stack communities and event formats would be appropriate.
We match a community
We identify the communities, cities and events where the venue makes sense.
Agree a date
We work with your team to identify a suitable event date.
Confirm your speaker
As the event partner, you receive a speaking slot. We work with you on the speaker and topic so it fits naturally within the wider programme.
We build the event
We create the event, source the other speakers, open registrations and promote it to the community.
Final logistics
We confirm attendee numbers, catering, security, building access, branding and event timings.
Open the doors
Your team welcomes the community. Community Stack runs the event.
Continue the relationship
If the event works well, we look at future dates and opportunities to make your organisation a regular community home.
Frequently asked questions.
Already Have a Venue?
Tell us about it once.
Our Venue Input Details Form captures everything our team needs to understand your space. Once we have the information, we can start matching your space with relevant Community Stack events.
Put your organisation at the centre of the community.
The best community spaces are not always conference centres. They are engineering offices, technology companies, startup hubs, financial institutions and innovation spaces, workplaces where interesting things are already being built. If you have a space in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, London, Edinburgh or New York, we would like to hear from you. Provide the venue. We will bring the community.