CloudFest Masterclasses and Barcamps
Get ready for the return of our hands-on, interactive masterclass and barcamp series: no sales pitches here—just the latest tools and techniques you’ll need if you want to thrive in the year ahead, taught by subject-matter experts.
Tuesday 24th | 10:30am-6:00pm
Wednesday 25th | 10:30am-5:30pm
Rock Café & Petit Paris
CloudFest 2026 Will Feature These Masterclasses and Barcamp Sessions
Masterclasses are led by recognized subject-matter experts in a more structured format (grab a seat), while barcamps are all about the conversation with your peers (grab the microphone). No doubt you’ll find both the topic and learning style that best fits your needs.
So far, these sessions have been confirmed—from hardware to AI, SaaS to cybersecurity. We recommend that you keep an eye on this page for last-minute additions.
Rock Café
Tue, March 24
Day 1
Navigating the Storm – Cloud, Security & Resilience
Jens Fröhner
CIO/CDO
BWIHK
Michael Bartsch
CEO
Deutor Cyber Security Solutions Gmbh
Private Cloud Infrastructure – Bringing Hyperscaler Tech into Your Own Basement
Daniel Menzel
Managing Director
Menzel IT GmbH
Deploy an AI Agent on HPE’s Private Cloud AI Leveraging an NVIDIA Blueprint
Simon Schaber
Principal Solutions Architect
NVIDIA GmbH
Isabelle Steinhauser
Senior AI and Machine Learning Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Domain Name Search in the Age of AI Agents
Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign
The State of Web Hosting in 2026: Insights from the WebPros & CloudLinux Industry Report
Sruthi Yalaka
VP, Marketing
WebPros
Ákos Vajda
Product Marketing Manager
CloudLinux
Owning Your Stack: How to Architect a Sovereign AI Platform End to End
Johann Strauss
Field CTO in the global AI Solutions Organization
Dell Technologies
Liquid Cooling for AI Infrastructure: Market Forces, Technology Frontiers, and Europe’s Turning Point
Kevin MA
BEEHE Business Development Director (EU)
Beehe Electric
CloudFest Hackathon 2026: Shaping the Future of the Open Web
Carole Olinger
Head of CloudFest Hackathon / WP [Business & Agency] Summit
CloudFest
Wed, March 25
Day 2
Scaling LLM Inference: Reducing TCO and Memory Footprints with KIOXIA AiSAQ™
Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH
Domain Name Search in the Age of AI Agents
Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign
HPE OpsRamp Software – Master Hybrid Cloud Operations
Stephan Koch
HPE OpsRamp Solution Architect
HPE
Stefan Brunosson
Solution architect
HPE
Sovereign with the Cloud: From Risk to Resilience – A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting SaaS Data
Alexander De Lion
Product Marketing Manager
Synology GmbH
AI-as-a-Service Without Compromise: Deliver Sovereign AI Your Customers Can Trust
Levent Akyil
CEO & CTO
co-mind.ai
Green AI Beyond the Buzzwords – From Hype to Cloud Reality
Soner Emec
Head of AI Strategy & Ecosystem Development
Yorizon
Sabrina Breidert
Head of Sales
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG
Markus Leberecht
Principal Engineer
Intel
How to Build an AI Cloud in About 30 Minutes
Julian Chesterfield
CTO / Co-Founder
hosted·ai
Petit Paris
Tue, March 24
Day 1
Live Hacking: How Digital Attackers Are Intruding Into Your Systems
Sebastian Schreiber
Managing Director
SySS GmbH
Quality and Stability Don’t Have to be Promises. Certify Your Hardware on Linux and Windows!
Adrien Mercier
Founder
OCCT / OCBASE
Capitalize on the AI Shift: Grow ARPU with Whitelabel & WHMCS AI Search Visibility Analytics
Patrick Dewald
CEO
GeoGen
Unified Observability: Scaling Metrics and Logs on VictoriaMetrics Cloud
Dmytro Kozlov
Software engineer
VictoriaMetrics
How AI & Automation Are Reshaping Go-to-Market Across the Hosting & Domain Ecosystem
Jaume Freixa
Founder & CEO
Jaumatic
Cloud Security is a Catastrophe – PETs offer Surprisingly Easy Solutions
Sebastian Overhage
Managing Director | Co-Founder
utilacy GmbH
The Day Software Starts Working For You
Sönke Strahmann
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
Talentship GmbH
AI-Generated Brands: How Hosting Providers Turn Brand Creation Into Recurring Revenue
Michiel Grotenhuis
CEO
Brandforge.com
Stopping Agent Sprawl: Visibility, Ownership & Governance for AI Agents
Christoph Wüst
Team Lead – Channel Solution Engineering
AvePoint
Dominik Graef
Team Lead – Channel
AvePoint
Build Your Distributed Cloud in Minutes: A Multi-Provider Virtualization Cluster with Kubernetes on Top
Gabriele Fronzé
CEO
Elemento Cloud
Three Critical Mistakes Vendors Make When Entering the MSP/MSSP Channel
Mark Crall
GTM MSP/MSSP Channel Strategist
AP2T Labs
Wed, March 25
Day 2
Infra As Prompt – The Future of Network Infra
Kamal Bhatt
Head of Value Driven Software Delivery
STORDIS GmbH
This Website Should Be Down — But It Isn’t
Paul Sultana
Technical Specialist for Sales Department
WEDOS
Stop Counting, Start Measuring: How to Calculate the Metrics that Matter to the Board
Ivan Milenkovic
VP of Cyber Risk Technology
Qualys
Mastering the AI Datasphere: Performance, Density, Durability and Digital Sovereignty
Hugo Bergmann
Senior Product Marketing Manager for Cloud
Seagate Technology
Andreas-Joachim Peters
EOS Storage Project Lead – CERN
CERN
How to Add Agentic Website Builder to Your Offerings in One Day
Narek Torosyan
CEO
10Web.io
Key Ingredients to Implementing Fast, Efficient AI Computing on Ampere's Arm-Based Compute
Christian Helmholz
Business Developmet & Product Marketing
Ampere Computing
Jerzy Baranowski
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Ampere Computing
Marcel Wilnicki
Software Engineer
Ampere Computing
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Only for CloudFest’s core audience of CSPs, hosters, MSPs, enterprise IT, web agencies, and WordPress developers.
Access to the entire CloudFest venue at Europa-Park
Invitation to all of the main parties networking events
Event bag with CloudFest documentation
Participation in Keynote, Breakout, and Masterclass tracks, and Exhibition Hall
Catering, including lunch and coffee breaks
Free shuttle from Offenburg HBF to Rust and back
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999
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All benefits from the Standard Pass
Chauffeured luxury car service between venues and EP hotels
Exclusive high-level networking events
Hotel VIP treatment and concierge service (Book your hotel separately)
Access to VIP Lounge
Special lunch restaurant with gourmet catering
Vendor Pass
999
€
excl. VAT
This pass is for professionals who sell to CloudFest’s core channel.
Access to the entire CloudFest venue at Europa-Park
Invitation to all of the main parties networking events
Event bag with CloudFest documentation
Participation in Keynote, Breakout, and Masterclass tracks, and Exhibition Hall
Catering, including lunch and coffee breaks
Free shuttle from Offenburg HBF to Rust and back
The ability to book 1on1 Meeting Tables
Badge scanning to create downloadable lead lists with your smartphone
Inclusion in a dedicated Vendor Register so attendees can find and connect with the vendors they want to meet
Vendor VIP Pass
1,999
€
excl. VAT
This pass is for professionals who sell to CloudFest’s core channel.
All benefits from the Vendor Pass
Chauffeured luxury car service between venues and EP hotels
Exclusive high-level networking events
Hotel VIP treatment and concierge service (Book your hotel separately)
Access to VIP Lounge
Special lunch restaurant with gourmet catering
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