Meet our Speakers from 2024
CloudFest 2024 brought together the top minds in the technology world—and beyond. Here you’ll find the speakers who rocked our main stages at Europa-Park. From emerging innovators to living legends, they’re all pushing the Cloud forward.
Kevin Ohashi
Founder / CEO
Review Signal
Dr. Burt Kaliski
Senior Vice President and CTO
Verisign
Fred-Mario Silberbach
Head of Subdivision Cybercrime – Strategy and Service
BKA
Katee Van Horn
Chief People Officer
WebPros
Steve Crocker
President and CEO
Edgemoor Research Institute
Eliot Higgins
Founder
Bellingcat
Dr. Auma Obama
Founder
Sauti Kuu Foundation
Stephan Gillich
Head of EMEA AI Center of Excellence
Intel
Paul Mockapetris
Inventor DNS & Chief Scientist
Threatstop
Peter Groth
Vice President & CTO of Service Provider Segment Development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Nii Narku Quaynor
Father of the African Internet
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Director, KAUST AI Initiative; Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA;
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE
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Praveen Viraraghavan
Technologist
Seagate Technology
Soeren von Varchmin
Chairman of the Advisory Board
CloudFest
Bart Beekman
CEO
Hypernode
Dom Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO
World Host Group
Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg
Hendrik Koehler
Director of Product Management of Sitejet
WebPros
Matthias Reinholz
Product Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux
Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & Vice President Business Development
Ampere Computing
Kevin Walker
SVP, Marketing
Bluehost
Richard Alderson
EMEA Sales and Marketing Manager
Fujifilm Recording Media GmbH
Roman Dodin
Product Manager
Nokia
Zied Ouled Ali
Founder
SAFOZI – ADCD
Uwe Kemmer
Director EMEA Field Engineering
Western Digital
Geoffrey Petit
Senior Field Application Engineer
Kingston Technology
Toluwani Adejuyigbe
Chief Executive Officer
GO54
Jalal El-Youssef
VP Partner and Sales Management
QMware AG
Peter Gerhardt
Channel Account Manager
Pax8 Deutschland GmbH
Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify
Simon McCalla
CEO Online
Team Internet Group PLC
Arthur Wang
Solution Director
xFusion
Alex Iribarren
Leader of Cloud IaaS and Linux Platform Engineering teams
CERN
Sebastian Noelting
CEO
RNT Rausch
Marc O’Regan
CTO EMEA
Dell Technologies
Raúl Álvarez
EMEA Regional Community Lead
Open Compute Project
Patrick Sander
Senior Technical Consultant
firstcolo GmbH
Kai Ganter
Sales Manager DACH
WEKA
Changwoo Sun
Senior Director & Head of Storage New Biz Group
Samsung Semiconductor
Romain Cholat
Vice President of Account Management
Verisign
Pierre Carlo Motzo
IT Security Manager/Landscape Architect Infrastructure
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof GmbH
Abhishek Majithia
Mind Reader
Mental fitness seminars
Roman Ackermann
Solutions Engineer
Okta
Tobias Leinweber
Sales Director
Wasabi
Steen Dalgas
Senior Sales Specialist
Nutanix
Daniel Wette
CEO & Founder
rankingCoach
Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch
Ash Lomberg
Vice President GTM – EMEA
Chargebee
Sander Cruiming
Co-founder
CloudPress
Michael Osterloh
CEO
Host Africa (Pty) Ltd
Thorsten Schäfer
Senior Business Development Manager Storage & Backup DACH
Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH
Dvir Benaroya
Co-Founder and CEO
spike
Paul Alexander
Sales Director
Nokia
Mikael Storbjörk
Partner Manager
UpCloud
Jan Urbík
CSO
IceWarp
Neal McPherson
Head of Product Management Domains, DNS & SSL
IONOS
Josef Grill
CEO
WEDOS
Ahmed Joudad
CEO & Founder
Beewant
Patrick Ghys
CEO
aixpedIT GmbH
Daniel Arabié
Country Manager Central Europe
Wasabi Technologies
Adam Wien
Product Manager
WebPros
Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock, part of LA Micro Group UK
Robert Jacobi
Director, Global Alliances
BotGuard
benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Toluwani Adejuyigbe
Chief Executive Officer
GO54
Frederik Haak
Senior Manager SSD Product-Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH
Lucian Gavris
Senior Partner Business Manager
NVIDIA
Ronald Gijsel
Partnership Manager
Automattic
Dr. Markus Leberecht
Member of the EMEA Chief Technology Office
Intel
Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies
Deniz Alboyaci
Manager of Sales, Distribution
Arcserve Germany GmbH
Joe Alagna
Director of Sales
it.com Domains Ltd
Lisa Box
SVP, Strategic Alliances and Business Development
Identity Digital
Peter Höhn
Head of CSP Business, Germany
VMware by Broadcom
Maurice Kemmann
General Manager
Cosanta GmbH
Chris Mondini
Managing Director, Europe
ICANN
Dustin Feld
CEO & Head of Technology Innovation
adiutaByte & MEDIFOX DAN
Vicente Neto
CEO
EVEO
Sonel Popatlal
EMEA Lead – DC & AI
Intel
Torsten Hauschildt
Head of M&A
Team.blue
Kristian Vättö
SSD Product Marketing Manager
Samsung Semiconductor
Dr. Valerio Rizzo
EMEA AI Business Lead
Lenovo
Jonas Trüstedt
Principal IT Consultant & Senior orcharhino Architect
ATIX AG
Chieko Aihara
Vice President / Product Manager
Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.
Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign
Samuel Farag
Sales Engineer
Frends Germany GmbH
Enrico Signoretti
VP Product & Partnerships
Cubbit
Stefan Schaefer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud
Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management for GPU systems
Supermicro
Alexander Troshin
Product Marketing Manager – EMEA, Enterprise and HPC Server Business Unit
AMD
Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye
Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius GmbH
Douwe Zijlstra
Application Engineer
CloudPress
Robby McCullough
Co-founder
Beaver Builder
Tytus Kurek
Product Manager
Canonical – Ubuntu
Keith Drazek
Vice President, Public Policy & Government Relations
Verisign
Birgit Olzem
WordPress Professional, Coach & Consultant
CoachBirgit Media
Dimi Baitanciuc
Co-Founder & CEO
Brizy
William Bell
Executive Vice President of Products
phoenixNAP
Ricardo Mendes
CEO
VAWLT
Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere
Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solution Architect
Qualys
Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBIS
Marco Pfuhl
Director Cloud Provider Business CEMEA
VMware by Broadcom
Peter Weiss
Senior Solution Architect
DataCore Software
Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital
Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic
Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH
Jens Hermann
Presales Consultant
Console Connect
Jamie Opalchuk
Founder & CEO
Hostpapa