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.

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Julie Nolke
Actor

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

Claudio Serrano
Solutions Architect
SUSE


Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Matthias Nehls
Vorstand
DGC AG


Aleksandr Redikultsev
Product Manager
WebPros International GmbH


Andrei Kvapil
CEO
Ænix


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


Andrew Palmer
Customer Success Manager
Atarim


Johnny Kim
Director, Strategy
WHMCS a WebPros Company


Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


Ihor Kolodyuk
Director of Cross-Platform Architecture
Virtuozzo

Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Javier Insausti
Technology Architect – SUSE Solutions
HPE


Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux


Luke Armstrong
Technical Director
Black & White Engineering

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


Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer
Contabo

Ravi Rabheru
Head of EMEA AI Centre of Excellence
Intel


James LePage
AI Lead
Automattic


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


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


Christian Berendt
Founder & CEO
OSISM GmbH

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


Davide Vicini
CEO and Co-Founder
Freename


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Nikolay Nedev
Director of Customer Success
Blackwall


Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


Hans Hallitzky
Senior Sales Director Server&Storage
ZTE Deutschland GmbH


Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Markus Fensterer
Managing Director
x-cellent technologies GmbH

Thomas Schaeffer
Enterprise Accounts
Druva


Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock


William Bell
EVP of Products
phoenixNAP Global IT Services


Azfar Aslam
CTO for Network Infrastructure Business, Europe
NOKIA


Sascha Uhl
Strategic Alliances EMEA
Cloudian Inc


Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

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


Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & VP, Business Development
Ampere Computing


Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


Marcel Bootsman
Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets
Kinsta


Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist
Arcee I

Elena Simon
General Manager
G-Core Labs GmbH

Vineet Chaku
President Rektr.ai
Reaktr


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Tycho Löke
Pre-Sales Consultant
PeopleRock B.V.

Jason Maselino
General Manager
Circle B


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


Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies


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


Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


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


Ola Tørudbakken
Sr. Director of AI Systems
Meta

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

Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor


Jordan Yerman
Senior Copywriter
CloudFest

Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


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


Danny Quinn
Managing Director
DataVita

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

Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Stefan Schäfer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud


Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solutions Architect
Qualys GmbH


Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management, GPU
Supermicro


Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros


Carlos Rego
VP Product Management
WebPros


Gernot Hofstetter
Co-CEO
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG


Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Bernhard Schimpl
Alliance Director
NVIDIA GmbH


Julius Bühre
Account Manager
Nutanix


Tasha Kobzarenko
Product Marketing Owner
Storware


Miona Aleksic
Product Manager
Canonical


Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


Frank Stiff
Managing Director
Cheval M&A, Inc

Jakob Trost
CTO
Greyd GmbH
