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
Private Cloud Infrastructure – Bringing Hyperscaler Tech into Your Own Basement
Daniel Menzel
Managing Director
Deploy an AI Agent on HPE’s Private Cloud AI Leveraging an NVIDIA Blueprint
Simon Schaber
Principal Solutions Architect
Isabelle Steinhauser
Senior AI and Machine Learning Engineer
Domain Name Search in the Age of AI Agents
Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
The State of Web Hosting in 2026: Insights from the WebPros & CloudLinux Industry Report
Sruthi Yalaka
VP, Marketing
Ákos Vajda
Product Marketing Manager
Owning Your Stack: How to Architect a Sovereign AI Platform End to End
Johann Strauss
Field CTO in the global AI Solutions Organization
Liquid Cooling for AI Infrastructure: Market Forces, Technology Frontiers, and Europe’s Turning Point
Kevin MA
BEEHE Business Development Director (EU)
CloudFest Hackathon 2026: Shaping the Future of the Open Web
Carole Olinger
Head of CloudFest Hackathon / WP [Business & Agency] Summit
Wed, March 25
Day 2
Scaling LLM Inference: Reducing TCO and Memory Footprints with KIOXIA AiSAQ™
Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
Domain Name Search in the Age of AI Agents
Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
HPE OpsRamp Software – Master Hybrid Cloud Operations
Stephan Koch
HPE OpsRamp Solution Architect
Stefan Brunosson
Solution architect
Sovereign with the Cloud: From Risk to Resilience – A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting SaaS Data
Alexander De Lion
Product Marketing Manager
AI-as-a-Service Without Compromise: Deliver Sovereign AI Your Customers Can Trust
Levent Akyil
CEO & CTO
Green AI Beyond the Buzzwords – From Hype to Cloud Reality
Soner Emec
Head of AI Strategy & Ecosystem Development
Sabrina Breidert
Head of Sales
Markus Leberecht
Principal Engineer
Petit Paris
Tue, March 24
Day 1
Live Hacking: How Digital Attackers Are Intruding Into Your Systems
Sebastian Schreiber
Managing Director
Unified Observability: Scaling Metrics and Logs on VictoriaMetrics Cloud
Dmytro Kozlov
Software engineer
How AI & Automation Are Reshaping Go-to-Market Across the Hosting & Domain Ecosystem
Jaume Freixa
Founder & CEO
Cloud Security is a Catastrophe – PETs offer Surprisingly Easy Solutions
Sebastian Overhage
Managing Director | Co-Founder
AI-Generated Brands: How Hosting Providers Turn Brand Creation Into Recurring Revenue
Michiel Grotenhuis
CEO
Stopping Agent Sprawl: Visibility, Ownership & Governance for AI Agents
Christoph Wüst
Team Lead – Channel Solution Engineering
Dominik Graef
Team Lead – Channel
Build Your Distributed Cloud in Minutes: A Multi-Provider Virtualization Cluster with Kubernetes on Top
Gabriele Fronzé
CEO
Three Critical Mistakes Vendors Make When Entering the MSP/MSSP Channel
Mark Crall
GTM MSP/MSSP Channel Strategist
Wed, March 25
Day 2
Infra As Prompt – The Future of Network Infra
Kamal Bhatt
Head of Value Driven Software Delivery
This Website Should Be Down — But It Isn’t
Paul Sultana
Technical Specialist for Sales Department
Stop Counting, Start Measuring: How to Calculate the Metrics that Matter to the Board
Ivan Milenkovic
VP of Cyber Risk Technology
Mastering the AI Datasphere: Performance, Density, Durability and Digital Sovereignty
Hugo Bergmann
Senior Product Marketing Manager for Cloud
Andreas-Joachim Peters
EOS Storage Project Lead – CERN
Key Ingredients to Implementing Fast, Efficient AI Computing on Ampere's Arm-Based Compute
Christian Helmholz
Business Developmet & Product Marketing
Jerzy Baranowski
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Marcel Wilnicki
Software Engineer
