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.

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Julie Nolke
Actor

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Gabriele Fronzé
CEO
Elemento Cloud


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


Simon Schaber
Principal Solutions Architect
NVIDIA GmbH


Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

Vincent Oostlander
Director EMEA Solution Sales
Seagate Technology


Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

Miona Aleksic
Product Manager
Canonical


Markus Oeller
CEO
1SP Agency

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


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros


Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Esther Spanjer
Director, Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron Technology


Peter Roybal
Director of Product Management
Sectigo


benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


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


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Li-Fan Bartsch
Manager SSD Product Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


Juergen Domnik
CEO and Founder
JuDoCon

Milisav Radmanić
Head of Software Development
Hetzner


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


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


Aron Meystedt
Owner
Symbolics.com

Robin Daunter
Sales Director
Mitac


Jakob Trost
CTO
Greyd GmbH


Raúl Álvarez
European Market Development Manager
Open Compute Project

Markus Fensterer
Managing Director
x-cellent technologies GmbH

Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux


Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Dominik Graef
Senior Partner Manager
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Carlos Rego
VP Product Management
WebPros


Danny Quinn
Managing Director
DataVita

Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & VP, Business Development
Ampere Computing


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Narendar Shankar
CCO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Brad Parks
Morpheus Product and GTM Leader
HPE Hybrid Cloud Business Unit


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


Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Peter Groth
VP & GM – OEM & Service Providers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise


Jason Maselino
General Manager
Circle B


Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Clément Béasse
CEO
Data Forge

Geoffrey Petit
Technical Resources Group EMEA Team Leader
Kingston Technology


Frank Stiff
Managing Director
Cheval M&A, Inc

Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Davide Vicini
CEO and Co-Founder
Freename


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Andy Simpson
Vice President Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Verisign


Beau Lebens
Artistic Director
Woo

Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


Luisa Sofie Faßbender
Senior Success Manager
TYPO3 GmbH


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


Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Julius Bühre
Account Manager
Nutanix


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Alexandra Tilch
IT-Security Consultant
DGC AG


Hans Hendrikx
Director Business Development
Uniserver

Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Gernot Hofstetter
Co-CEO
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG


Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Mary Hubbard
Executive Director, WordPress
Automattic, Inc.


Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

Azfar Aslam
CTO for Network Infrastructure Business, Europe
NOKIA


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Thomas Jorgensen
Sr. Director, Technology Enablement
Supermicro


Markus Leberecht
Principal Engineer & Member of the EMEA Chief Technology Office
Intel


Elena Simon
General Manager
G-Core Labs GmbH

Sandra Kurze
COO / CMO
Greyd GmbH


Sara Rego
VP Commercial
Team Internet


James LePage
AI Lead
Automattic


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor
