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

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Julie Nolke
Actor

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Luisa Sofie Faßbender
Senior Success Manager
TYPO3 GmbH


Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Jonathan Wold
Co-founder
Guildenberg, Inc

Vineet Chaku
President Rektr.ai
Reaktr


Andy Simpson
Vice President Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Verisign


Ravi Rabheru
Head of EMEA AI Centre of Excellence
Intel


Frank Stiff
Managing Director
Cheval M&A, Inc

Milisav Radmanić
Head of Software Development
Hetzner


Markus Oeller
CEO
1SP Agency

Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


John Sihar Simanjuntak
President
PANDI | .id Registry


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Hans Hallitzky
Senior Sales Director Server&Storage
ZTE Deutschland GmbH


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


Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Vincent Oostlander
Director EMEA Solution Sales
Seagate Technology


Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


Robby Lin
Senior Director
Giga Computing Tech Co


Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH


Stefan Schäfer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud


Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


Hans Hendrikx
Director Business Development
Uniserver

Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Tycho Löke
Pre-Sales Consultant
PeopleRock B.V.

Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Andrei Kvapil
CEO
Ænix


Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer
Contabo

Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & VP, Business Development
Ampere Computing


Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Jason Maselino
General Manager
Circle B


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


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Ronnie Burt
Head of Gravatar
Automattic


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor


Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management, GPU
Supermicro


Sandra Kurze
COO / CMO
Greyd GmbH


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


Peter Badge
CEO
Science.now GmbH

Alexandra Tilch
IT-Security Consultant
DGC AG


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


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

Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Guido Dolci
CEO
Upback Cloud Inc


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

James Webb
COO
BigScoots

Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Pawel Rzeszucinski
Senior Director Data&AI
WebPros


John Donovan
Executive Director & GM of CSP
Lenovo


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Li-Fan Bartsch
Manager SSD Product Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Carlos Rego
VP Product Management
WebPros


Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Markus Fensterer
Managing Director
x-cellent technologies GmbH

Michael Fowler
Chief Sales Officer-Americas
WebPros


Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Joost de Valk
Partner
Emilia Capital


Andrew Palmer
Customer Success Manager
Atarim


Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

Mark Weisbrod
CEO
Greyd GmbH


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


Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Aleksandr Redikultsev
Product Manager
WebPros International GmbH


Christopher Luft
Partner Account Manager
Hornetsecurity GmbH


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


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


Bernhard Schimpl
Alliance Director
NVIDIA GmbH


Marek Bradac
Vice President of Global Alliances
Storware


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

James LePage
AI Lead
Automattic


Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel
