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

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Julie Nolke
Actor

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


Sara Rego
VP Commercial
Team Internet


Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Marcel Bootsman
Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets
Kinsta


Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


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


Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


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


Ravi Rabheru
Head of EMEA AI Centre of Excellence
Intel


Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & VP, Business Development
Ampere Computing


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Sandra Kurze
COO / CMO
Greyd GmbH


David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

Andy Simpson
Vice President Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Verisign


Narendar Shankar
CCO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Evaldas Mockus
VP of Growth
Omnisend


Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


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


Jim Freeman
Technical Product Manager
OpenNebula


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


Claudio Serrano
Solutions Architect
SUSE


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Mark Weisbrod
CEO
Greyd GmbH


Johnny Kim
Director, Strategy
WHMCS a WebPros Company


Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Ronnie Burt
Head of Gravatar
Automattic


Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Joost de Valk
Partner
Emilia Capital


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


Azfar Aslam
CTO for Network Infrastructure Business, Europe
NOKIA


Matthias Nehls
Vorstand
DGC AG


Luisa Sofie Faßbender
Senior Success Manager
TYPO3 GmbH


Michael Fowler
Chief Sales Officer-Americas
WebPros


Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor


benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


Carlos Rego
VP Product Management
WebPros


Bernhard Schimpl
Alliance Director
NVIDIA GmbH


Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Clément Béasse
CEO
Data Forge

Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend


Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies


Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH


David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Alexander Klein
CEO
KUA dc solutions GmbH

Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solutions Architect
Qualys GmbH


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


Gernot Hofstetter
Co-CEO
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Raúl Álvarez
European Market Development Manager
Open Compute Project

Robin Daunter
Sales Director
Mitac


Juergen Domnik
CEO and Founder
JuDoCon

Guido Dolci
CEO
Upback Cloud Inc


Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Nikolay Nedev
Director of Customer Success
Blackwall


Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Mary Hubbard
Executive Director, WordPress
Automattic, Inc.


Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Elias Schneider
CEO & Founder
codesphere


Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Javier Insausti
Technology Architect – SUSE Solutions
HPE


Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Tycho Löke
Pre-Sales Consultant
PeopleRock B.V.

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


Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Ihor Kolodyuk
Director of Cross-Platform Architecture
Virtuozzo

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

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


Luke Rottmann
Manager Business Group Cloud
Arrow ECS GmbH


Aron Meystedt
Owner
Symbolics.com