CloudFest 2025:
the human edge
Finding Your Place in an AI World: March 17-20
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Upcoming Event
2024 is going to be busy! You’ll hardly have time to do some laundry, with all the business travel you’ll be doing—and all the new connections you’ll be making.
Oct. 9-10 in PortAventura, Spain
The top event for managed service providers (MSPs)
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You can watch a selection of main-stage sessions on YouTube, as well as explore some of the best photos from CloudFest 2024.
March 17 – 20, 2025
Europa-Park, Germany
8,700+ Participants
250+ Speakers
150+ Partners
80+ Countries
We take over an amusement park in the Black Forest—
and yes, the park is open just for us!
Welcome to CloudFest
CloudFest is the #1 internet infrastructure event in the world, connecting the global cloud computing industry: you’ll form the partnerships that help you reach your business goals, and have a great time doing it. CloudFest returns to deliver an even bigger, more engaging live event experience that will surprise longtime attendees and first-timers alike.
This is CloudFest
The world’s largest cloud industry event is ready to once again take over a spectacular European amusement park to facilitate new partnerships, deep knowledge sharing, and the best parties the industry has ever seen. We do this because we love technology, we love people, and we’re excited for the possibilities that emerge when brilliant human beings connect.
Learn More About CloudFest
The CloudFest Agenda is now live!
2024 Speaker Lineup:
Internet Heroes and Trend-Setting Ideas
The key decision-makers and game-changers for the modern internet took the stage at CloudFest for keynotes, fireside chats, and panel discussions. These are the ideas that will change the course of your business.
Steve Crocker
President and CEO
Edgemoor Research Institute
Peter Groth
Vice President & CTO of Service Provider Segment Development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Nii Narku Quaynor
Father of the African Internet
Fred-Mario Silberbach
Head of Subdivision Cybercrime – Strategy and Service
BKA
Paul Mockapetris
Inventor DNS & Chief Scientist
Threatstop
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Director, KAUST AI Initiative; Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA;
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE
Eliot Higgins
Founder
Bellingcat
Katee Van Horn
Chief People Officer
WebPros
Stephan Gillich
Head of EMEA AI Center of Excellence
Intel
Dr. Auma Obama
Founder
Sauti Kuu Foundation
Dr. Burt Kaliski
Senior Vice President and CTO
Verisign
Kevin Ohashi
Founder / CEO
Review Signal
Torsten Hauschildt
Head of M&A
Team.blue
Chris Rough
Hyperscale Next BDM EMEA
Dell Technologies
Joe Alagna
Director of Sales
it.com Domains Ltd
Bernhard Schimpl
Manager Strategic Accounts
NVIDIA
Jason Haworth
Chief Product Officer
BotGuard
Lesya Dymyd
OCP EMEA Liaison
Open Compute Project Foundation
Jalal El-Youssef
VP Partner and Sales Management
QMware AG
Uwe Kemmer
Director EMEA Field Engineering
Western Digital
Dr. Markus Leberecht
Member of the EMEA Chief Technology Office
Intel
Anuj Gupta
Sr. Director – Partnerships
Titan
Bart Beekman
CEO
Hypernode
Sujay Pawar
CEO
Brainstorm Force
Amos Ankrah
Solutions Specialist
Boston Limited
Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
STORDIS
Jens Hermann
Presales Consultant
Console Connect
Meet our Top-Tier Partners from 2024
These industry-leading companies helped us deliver an incredible experience for our 20th Anniversary festival. It would normally be impossible to meet with even a few of these decision-makers within a year. At CloudFest, you can meet them all within four days!
Diamond+ Partner
Diamond Partners
Platinum Partners
Want to Exhibit at CloudFest?
There’s no substitute for being at the world’s top cloud conference! Face-to-face is by far the best way to engage with customers, partners, and peers: with over 8,700 professionals eager to do business with you, it’s no surprise so many technology companies use CloudFest as the launchpad for their latest solutions. Becoming a CloudFest exhibition partner is not only easy—it also makes perfect business sense.
Your Quick Guide to CloudFest
CloudFest 2024: Bird’s-Eye View
WEEKEND
Mar 16-17
HACKATHON
(for Partners)
(reg. hackers only)
MONDAY
March 18
WP DAY
TUESDAY
March 19
EVENT DAY
powered by AMD
(VIPs only)
WEDNESDAY
March 20
EVENT DAY
powered by InterNetX
THURSDAY
March 21
EVENT DAY
CloudFest Eye Candy
