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.

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Julie Nolke
Actor

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


Christopher Luft
Partner Account Manager
Hornetsecurity GmbH


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer
Contabo

Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Thomas Jorgensen
Sr. Director, Technology Enablement
Supermicro


Rainer W. Kaese
Senior Manager Business Development Storage Products Division
Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Jeroen Burks
EMEA Co-Lead @ OCP
Business development @ ScaleUp

Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


Robert Jacobi
Chief Experience Officer
Blackwall


Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros


Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend


Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Sandra Kurze
COO / CMO
Greyd GmbH


Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


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


Christian Berendt
Founder & CEO
OSISM GmbH

Simon Schaber
Principal Solutions Architect
NVIDIA GmbH


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


Jim Freeman
Technical Product Manager
OpenNebula


Markus Oeller
CEO
1SP Agency

Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition

Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


Markus Fensterer
Managing Director
x-cellent technologies GmbH

Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock


Dr. Ibrahim Edin
General Manager – Europe @ ICT Cloud Computing Services GmbH
ICT Cloud Computing Services

Jordan Yerman
Senior Copywriter
CloudFest

Elias Schneider
CEO & Founder
codesphere


Sascha Uhl
Strategic Alliances EMEA
Cloudian Inc


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Jonathan Wold
Co-founder
Guildenberg, Inc

Peter Roybal
Director of Product Management
Sectigo


Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Guido Dolci
CEO
Upback Cloud Inc


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Carlos Rego
VP Product Management
WebPros


Luke Rottmann
Manager Business Group Cloud
Arrow ECS GmbH


Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux


Li-Fan Bartsch
Manager SSD Product Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Todd Han
Founder/CEO
Dynadot


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


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


Milisav Radmanić
Head of Software Development
Hetzner


Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


John Donovan
Executive Director & GM of CSP
Lenovo


Ed Hogan
Head of Datacenter Sales, Samsung Semiconductor Europe
Samsung Semiconductor Europe GmbH


Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Xavier Poisson
Global Vice President, Service Providers, Colocation Providers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise


Pierre Hoffer
EMEA Sr Director Tech Sales HPC & AI
Hewlett Packard Enterprise


Nikolay Nedev
Director of Customer Success
Blackwall


James Webb
COO
BigScoots

Vineet Chaku
President Rektr.ai
Reaktr


Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management, GPU
Supermicro


Ola Tørudbakken
Sr. Director of AI Systems
Meta

Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies


benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


Clément Béasse
CEO
Data Forge

Hans Hallitzky
Senior Sales Director Server&Storage
ZTE Deutschland GmbH


Dave Henry
Product Marketing Manager
StorPool Storage


Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


Danny Quinn
Managing Director
DataVita

Peter Badge
CEO
Science.now GmbH

Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


Andrew Palmer
Customer Success Manager
Atarim


David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Bernhard Schimpl
Alliance Director
NVIDIA GmbH


Andrei Kvapil
CEO
Ænix


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


Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital


Mary Hubbard
Executive Director, WordPress
Automattic, Inc.
