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

Julie Nolke
Actor

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Alexander Klein
CEO
KUA dc solutions GmbH

Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Juergen Domnik
CEO and Founder
JuDoCon

benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


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

Davide Vicini
CEO and Co-Founder
Freename


Thomas Schaeffer
Enterprise Accounts
Druva


Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


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


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Carlos Rego
VP Product Management
WebPros


Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


Ihor Kolodyuk
Director of Cross-Platform Architecture
Virtuozzo

Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


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


Thomas Jorgensen
Sr. Director, Technology Enablement
Supermicro


Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Tasha Kobzarenko
Product Marketing Owner
Storware


Tycho Löke
Pre-Sales Consultant
PeopleRock B.V.

Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


John Donovan
Executive Director & GM of CSP
Lenovo


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


Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition

Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


Luke Armstrong
Technical Director
Black & White Engineering

Narendar Shankar
CCO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

Elias Schneider
CEO & Founder
codesphere


Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Nikolay Nedev
Director of Customer Success
Blackwall


Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor


Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Sascha Uhl
Strategic Alliances EMEA
Cloudian Inc


Michael Fowler
Chief Sales Officer-Americas
WebPros


Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Ravi Rabheru
Head of EMEA AI Centre of Excellence
Intel


Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux


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


Marek Bradac
Vice President of Global Alliances
Storware


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


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

Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend


Peter Roybal
Director of Product Management
Sectigo


John Sihar Simanjuntak
President
PANDI | .id Registry


David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


James LePage
AI Lead
Automattic


Milisav Radmanić
Head of Software Development
Hetzner


Geoffrey Petit
Technical Resources Group EMEA Team Leader
Kingston Technology


Todd Han
Founder/CEO
Dynadot


Hans Hallitzky
Senior Sales Director Server&Storage
ZTE Deutschland GmbH


Robin Daunter
Sales Director
Mitac


Joost de Valk
Partner
Emilia Capital


Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management, GPU
Supermicro


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Jim Freeman
Technical Product Manager
OpenNebula


Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Johnny Kim
Director, Strategy
WHMCS a WebPros Company


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Gabriele Fronzé
CEO
Elemento Cloud


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


Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Christopher Luft
Partner Account Manager
Hornetsecurity GmbH


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies


David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

Claudio Serrano
Solutions Architect
SUSE


Jakob Trost
CTO
Greyd GmbH


Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist
Arcee I

Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


Sandra Kurze
COO / CMO
Greyd GmbH


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


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