Meet our Speakers from 2025
CloudFest 2025 brought together the top minds in the technology world—and beyond. These are the speakers who rocked our main stages at Europa-Park. From emerging innovators to living legends and internet Hall-of-Famers, they’re all pushing the Cloud forward.

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Julie Nolke
Actor

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Claudio Serrano
Solutions Architect
SUSE


Joost de Valk
Partner
Emilia Capital


Peter Roybal
Director of Product Management
Sectigo


Ravi Rabheru
Head of EMEA AI Centre of Excellence
Intel


Clément Béasse
CEO
Data Forge

Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition

Elena Simon
General Manager
G-Core Labs GmbH

Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Johann Strauss
Field CTO in the global AI Solutions Organization
Dell Technologies


Azfar Aslam
CTO for Network Infrastructure Business, Europe
NOKIA


Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer
Contabo

Andrew Palmer
Customer Success Manager
Atarim


Michael Fowler
Chief Sales Officer-Americas
WebPros


Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


Thomas Jorgensen
Sr. Director, Technology Enablement
Supermicro


Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Markus Oeller
CEO
1SP Agency

Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Simon Schaber
Principal Solutions Architect
NVIDIA GmbH


Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


Luke Rottmann
Manager Business Group Cloud
Arrow ECS GmbH


Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign


Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies


Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Jonathan Wold
Co-founder
Guildenberg, Inc

Christian Berendt
Founder & CEO
OSISM GmbH

Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

James LePage
AI Lead
Automattic


Mary Hubbard
Executive Director, WordPress
Automattic, Inc.


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Pawel Rzeszucinski
Senior Director Data&AI
WebPros


Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros


Aaditya Challani
Director, Product Solution Group | Enterprise Solutions Architect | AI & HPC
Supermicro


Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist
Arcee I

Guido Dolci
CEO
Upback Cloud Inc


Lukas Hertig
Business Development
IceWarp


Sara Rego
VP Commercial
Team Internet


Bernhard Schimpl
Alliance Director
NVIDIA GmbH


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


Peter Badge
CEO
Science.now GmbH

Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


Hans Hallitzky
Senior Sales Director Server&Storage
ZTE Deutschland GmbH


Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Robert Jacobi
Chief Experience Officer
Blackwall


Marcel Bootsman
Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets
Kinsta


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Alexander Klein
CEO
KUA dc solutions GmbH

Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


Gabriele Fronzé
CEO
Elemento Cloud


Brad Parks
Morpheus Product and GTM Leader
HPE Hybrid Cloud Business Unit


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock


Simon Bijdevier
Technical Manager HPC, AI & Storage Solutions
ClusterVision (Part of Taurus Group)


Esther Spanjer
Director, Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron Technology


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH


Miona Aleksic
Product Manager
Canonical


Peter Groth
VP & GM – OEM & Service Providers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise


Frank Stiff
Managing Director
Cheval M&A, Inc

Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Tycho Löke
Pre-Sales Consultant
PeopleRock B.V.

Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solutions Architect
Qualys GmbH


Tim Switzer
VP, Business Affairs
Public Interest Registry (PIR)


Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Jordan Yerman
Senior Copywriter
CloudFest

Robby Lin
Senior Director
Giga Computing Tech Co


David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Alexandra Tilch
IT-Security Consultant
DGC AG


Ebrahim Keshavarz
Senior Vice President, Marketing, Product, and Channel Management
Verisign


Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


Beau Lebens
Artistic Director
Woo

Juergen Domnik
CEO and Founder
JuDoCon

Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

Hans Hendrikx
Director Business Development
Uniserver