The Speaker Lineup That Delivers
There are many interconnected elements that make up the Cloud—and these are the expert speakers that will guide you through them.
Highlight Speakers
These legends come to CloudFest to help you think outside the box and bring fresh insights to your business strategy. When you need to change the game, it’s best to learn from proven game-changers like these.
David Cattler
Founder and Principal
Ironhelm Works
United States
Jesse Tuttle
Hacker
AP2T Labs
United States
Ralph Echemendia
Founder
The Ethical Hacker
Spain
Reese Tuttle
Threat Researcher
AP2T Labs
United States
Brewster Kahle
Founder and Digital Librarian
Internet Archive
United States
Rebecca Hinds
Author
Your Best Meeting Ever
United States
Radia Perlman
Fellow
Dell Technologies
United States
Roger Rohatgi
Chief AI Officer
Chai
United States
Ram Mohan
Chief Strategy Officer
Identity Digital
United States
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Expert Speakers: The Leading Voices in the Cloud
Set yourself up to profit from the insights of these recognized industry leaders—and learn from them directly in focused masterclasses. CloudFest brings you meaningful conversations, daring ideas, and insights that matter.
Karim Marucchi
CEO
Crowd Favorite
United States
Maarten Guijt
Vice President Europe
Seagate Technology
Netherlands

Stef Wright
CEO
Leafcloud
Netherlands
Paul Sultana
Technical Specialist for Sales Department
WEDOS

Dmytro Kozlov
Software engineer
VictoriaMetrics
Poland

Aaron Campbell
VP of Product
Monarx
United States

Peter Groth
VP & GM, SP & OEM
HPE
United States

Sascha Nemeth
COO
HEJUBA GmbH
Germany
Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Team Leader & BDM Servers
ASBISc Enterprises Plc
Cyprus

Alain Schlesser
Technologist & Agentic Engineer
alainschlesser.com
Germany
Tom Webb
VP Product Innovation
Team Internet
United Kingdom

Patricia Hillebrand
Technical Alliances Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH
Germany

Martin Helmich
Head of Developer Relations
mittwald
Germany
Jelle Slenters
Director
sims lifecycle services (RACKRENEW LABEL)
Netherlands
Tony Tang
CTO, Chief architect and Senior Director
Huawei Global Storage Solution
United States
Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign

Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management for GPU Systems
Supermicro
Netherlands

Isabelle Steinhauser
Senior AI and Machine Learning Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Germany

Ryan Horjus
VP of Deployments
Hydra Host
United States

Prasad Alluri
Vice president and general manager for EMEA and APAC in the Core Data Center Business Unit
Micron Technology Inc.
United States

Adrien Mercier
Founder
OCCT / OCBASE
France
Bardia Khalilifar
CEO
MultiPortal
Australia

Nikolai Graf-Rüssel
Partner Manager, DACH
Elementor
Germany

Robert Windisch
CIO
Syde GmbH
Germany

Simon Büscher
Chief of Staff
firstcolo
Germany

Giedrius Zakaitis
Chief Product Officer
Hostinger
Lithuania
Raúl Álvarez
European Market Development Manager
Open Compute Project Foundation
Spain
Michael Wu
GM & President
Phison Technology Inc
United States

Milisav Radmanić
Director Software Development
Hetzner
Germany

Marc Nilius
CEO
WP-Wartung24 / Webwisser GmbH
Germany
Roman Agabekov
CEO
Releem, Inc.
Armenia
Jaume Freixa
Founder & CEO
Jaumatic
Spain
Iskren Chernev
Software Engineer
Deep Infra Inc
United States

Jordan Yerman
Senior Copywriter and Content Lead
CloudFest
Canada

Ilya Zyuzyukin
Global Partnership Officer
Ispmanager

Rafael Biermann
CTO
Hardwareluxx Media
Germany
Stephan Koch
HPE OpsRamp Solution Architect
HPE
Germany

Rod Evans
EMEA VP – Supercomputing, AI Factories and NCP
United Kingdom
Christian Winterfeldt
Head of Datacenter DACH
Dell Technologies
Germany

Taco Verdonschot
Chief Community Officer
Progress Planner
Netherlands
Daniel Menzel
Managing Director
Menzel IT GmbH
Germany
Sandy Edwards
Senior Marketing Manager
Bluehost
United States


Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest
Germany

Salvador Aguilar
Threat Research Manager
Monarx.com
Mexico

Phillip Seigenfeld
Global Director, MSP and Cloud Distribution
Keepit
United States

Sruthi Yalaka
VP, Marketing
WebPros

Pedro Conde
AI Scientist
Ethiack
Portugal
Lukas Hertig
Business Development
IceWarp
Switzerland

Ylona LI
Senior Presales Engineer
KAYTUS SYSTEMS PTE. LTD
France

Alexander De Lion
Product Marketing Manager
Synology GmbH
Germany

Marco Hoffmann
COO / Managing Director
OpusDNS GmbH
Germany

Lukáš Kršek
Business development manager
WEDOS
Luxembourg

André Baptista
Co-founder & CTO
Ethaick
Portugal
Sönke Strahmann
Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
Talentship GmbH
Germany
Carole Olinger
Head of CloudFest Hackathon / WP [Business & Agency] Summit
CloudFest
Germany

Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer Digital
Netherlands
Darren Chan
Senior Solutions Architect
Digital Realty
United Kingdom

Jerzy Baranowski
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Ampere Computing
Poland

Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH
Germany

Ben Gabler
Chief Product Officer
hosting.com
United States
Rene Oldenbeuving
SVP Sales Group.one & COO Benelux
Group.one
Netherlands

Raquel Manriquez
Founder/Owner
WonderlandCurious
United States
Kim Barnes-Dallas
EMEA Server Channel Sales Manager
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Bernhard Schimpl
Alliance Director
NVIDIA
Austria
Sara Rego
VP Commercial
Team Internet
United Kingdom

Remkus de Vries
WordPress Consultant & Performance Specialist
Truer than North
Netherlands
Ivan Milenkovic
VP of Cyber Risk Technology
Qualys
United Kingdom

Nicolaj Kamensek
COO
firstcolo
Germany

Sascha Uhl
Senior Solution Architect Alliances
Cloudian
Germany

Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius
Germany

Janus Boye
Founder & Managing Director
Boye & Co
Denmark
David Dornieden
Senior EMEA CSP Account Executive
Lenovo
Germany

Daniel Fau
CEO
TYPO3 GmbH
Germany
Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer / Freelancer
byteinspect
Germany
Luke Rottmann
Manager Business Group Cloud
Arrow ECS GmbH
Germany

Darius James
Technology Advisor
MYCLOUDSME
India
Narek Torosyan
CEO
10Web.io
United States

Arto Minasyan
Co-Founder & President
10Web.io
United States

Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies
Germany
Stefan Brunosson
Solution architect
HPE
Sweden

Todd Han
Founder & President
Dynadot
United States

Thierry Muller
VP of Products, AI
WP Engine
Switzerland
Ulrich Seibold
Vice President, WW HPE Service Providers and ISV’s
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Germany
Lauro Rizzatti
Technical MKTG
VSORA
United States

Robert Jacobi
CXO
Blackwall
United States

Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest
Spain

Mark Weisbrod
CEO
Greyd GmbH
Germany

Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association
Switzerland

Igor Seletskiy
CEO
CloudLinux
United States

Linus Banse
CEO
JUNG&BANSE GmbH
Germany
Patrick Dewald
CEO
GeoGen
Belgium
Martin Wielomski
VP of Product
phoenixNAP
Netherlands
Boyan Krosnov
CTO and Co-Founder
StorPool Storage
Bulgaria

Sebastian Overhage
Managing Director | Co-Founder
utilacy GmbH
Germany
Arend Kik
Commercial Manager
partners.one
Netherlands
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