The community decides
Topics come from the people who attend, not from whoever paid the most. Sponsors get visibility and our thanks. They do not get the agenda.
About
We were doing this before we had a name for it.
Community events organised on the side for years, and then given a home of their own.
The beginning
For years we organised community events on the side: meetups in borrowed rooms, workshops on weekends, a community day that kept getting bigger. It worked, but it had no structure behind it, and the bigger it got the more that mattered.
So in 2025 we registered The Cloud House as a non-profit association, and gave what we were already doing a structure that can grow with it.
The point of it
We build events where people who work with cloud technology every day compare notes on how the work actually went. Practitioners over pitches, real architectures over reference architectures, and enough unstructured time that the conversations continue in the corridor.
Being in the room should be open to everyone who wants to learn, whatever they do and whoever they work for.
The years ahead
More cities, more first-time speakers, and events people plan their year around.
Our way of working
Four rules we do not bend.
Show the real thing
We would rather hear about the migration that went sideways than the one that went perfectly. Slides with a postmortem in them are the ones people remember.
Low barrier, on purpose
Free where we can manage it, at cost where we cannot. Recordings published afterwards, so missing the room does not mean missing the talk.
New voices get the stage
Every event keeps room for someone who has never presented before, and we work on the talk with them beforehand. That is how most of us got here.
Want in?
Speaking, sponsoring, volunteering, or just an idea worth trying.