Welcome to Data & AI Leaders — great to have you with us.

You’ve joined a practitioner-led leadership community for people responsible for shaping, scaling and governing data, analytics and AI capabilities inside real organisations.

Our community brings together:

• Heads of Data, AI & Analytics
• Directors, Principal & Staff Engineers
• ML, Platform & Data Leadership
• Senior ICs influencing strategy and direction

We run:

• Bi-monthly in-person leadership roundtables and meetups in London
• Occasional online sessions for our wider leadership community
• Collaboration with related groups across the Community Stack ecosystem

Our conversations explore:

• strategy, investment and business value
• organisational design, operating models and adoption
• data platforms, MLOps / LLMOps and real-world delivery
• governance, risk, ethics and Responsible AI
• leadership lessons — including the hard-won ones

As a member, you’ll automatically receive our weekly community newsletter with upcoming events, speaking opportunities, reflections from the network and ecosystem updates.

You can also explore and join other communities across the Community Stack Ecosystem — spanning Cloud, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Data & AI, Open Source and Leadership.

If you’d like to:

• speak or share a leadership case study
• host a roundtable or meetup
• sponsor or collaborate with us

Just drop a message via Meetup — or contact Ethan Sumner on LinkedIn. We’d love to hear from you.

This community follows the Community Stack Code of Conduct, helping us maintain a respectful, thoughtful and inclusive space where leaders can speak openly and learn from peers.

Welcome — and we look forward to seeing you at a future session.

Data and AI Leaders Community

Events

April 2026