Meet our Speakers from 2024
CloudFest 2024 brought together the top minds in the technology world—and beyond. Here you’ll find the speakers who rocked our main stages at Europa-Park. From emerging innovators to living legends, they’re all pushing the Cloud forward.
Nii Narku Quaynor
Father of the African Internet
Katee Van Horn
Chief People Officer
WebPros
Dr. Auma Obama
Founder
Sauti Kuu Foundation
Fred-Mario Silberbach
Head of Subdivision Cybercrime – Strategy and Service
BKA
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Director, KAUST AI Initiative; Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA;
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE
Steve Crocker
President and CEO
Edgemoor Research Institute
Kevin Ohashi
Founder / CEO
Review Signal
Paul Mockapetris
Inventor DNS & Chief Scientist
Threatstop
Dr. Burt Kaliski
Senior Vice President and CTO
Verisign
Peter Groth
Vice President & CTO of Service Provider Segment Development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Stephan Gillich
Head of EMEA AI Center of Excellence
Intel
Eliot Higgins
Founder
Bellingcat
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Rob Seger
CTO
Monarx Inc
Jens Hermann
Presales Consultant
Console Connect
Jan Löffler
CTO
WebPros
Rainer Sträter
SVP Technology Office
IONOS SE
Andy Simpson
Senior Director of Strategy and Analytics
Verisign
Joe Alagna
Director of Sales
it.com Domains Ltd
Nithin Das
Senior Technical Consultant-Presales
Site24x7 (Zoho Corp)
Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBIS
Mike “Demo” Demopoulos
Head of Partners
Codeable.io
Raphaël Rebeyrotte
Corporate Product Marketing Specialist
OVHcloud
Raúl Álvarez
EMEA Regional Community Lead
Open Compute Project
Dimi Baitanciuc
Co-Founder & CEO
Brizy
Kevin Walker
SVP, Marketing
Bluehost
Matthias Reinholz
Product Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Francesco Cetraro
Global Head of Strategic Alliances
Freename
Ahmed Joudad
CEO & Founder
Beewant
Quintin Russ
Co-founder & Technical Director
Webslice
Till Stimberg
Director Data Services & Storage Business Unit, Central Europe
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Yefry Figueroa
CEO & Founder
ZeroVPN
Michael Osterloh
CEO
Host Africa (Pty) Ltd
Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros
Wilfried Beeck
CEO
ePages
Uwe Kemmer
Director EMEA Field Engineering
Western Digital
Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management for GPU systems
Supermicro
Vito Peleg
Co-Founder & CEO
Atarim
Peter Weiss
Senior Solution Architect
DataCore Software
Dennis Kittrell
VP of Product, Hosting
CloudLinux
Jamie Opalchuk
Founder & CEO
Hostpapa
Erik Nordlund
CTO
Truid AB
Esther Spanjer
Director of Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron
Josef Grill
CEO
WEDOS
Alex Iribarren
Leader of Cloud IaaS and Linux Platform Engineering teams
CERN
Levente Bokor
CEO
Kevlarr
Daniel Arabié
Country Manager Central Europe
Wasabi Technologies
Cristiano Guerrieri
Solution Engineer
ThreatLocker
Ronald Gijsel
Partnership Manager
Automattic
Chieko Aihara
Vice President / Product Manager
Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.
Torsten Hauschildt
Head of M&A
Team.blue
Enrico Signoretti
VP Product & Partnerships
Cubbit
Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux
Kai Ganter
Sales Manager DACH
WEKA
Sebastian Straube
Lead Customer Advisor – Cloud Solutions
Palo Alto Networks
Samuel Farag
Sales Engineer
Frends Germany GmbH
Praveen Viraraghavan
Technologist
Seagate Technology
Alexander Troshin
Product Marketing Manager – EMEA, Enterprise and HPC Server Business Unit
AMD
Jalal El-Youssef
VP Partner and Sales Management
QMware AG
Roman Dodin
Product Manager
Nokia
Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies
Tristan Theroux
IT Infrastructure & Security Director
SHED
Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor
Roland Kunz
EMEA Principal System Engineer
Dell Technologies
Lesya Dymyd
OCP EMEA Liaison
Open Compute Project Foundation
Daniel Wette
CEO & Founder
rankingCoach
Marc O’Regan
CTO EMEA
Dell Technologies
Jan Urbík
CSO
IceWarp
Thomas Jorgensen
Sr Director, Technology Enablement
SuperMicro Inc
Efe von Thenen
CMO
ePages
Bernd Meyer
Head of Shared Webhosting Development
Strato AG
Arthur Wang
Solution Director
xFusion
Werner Paulus
Europe SVP Sales & Marketing
xFusion
Roslyn Lavery
Partner Program Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Tytus Kurek
Product Manager
Canonical – Ubuntu
Changwoo Sun
Senior Director & Head of Storage New Biz Group
Samsung Semiconductor
Simon Hoveling
Solution Engineer
AvePoint
Pratik Chaskar
CTO
Brainstorm Force
Sascha Uhl
Strategic Alliances EMEA
Cloudian Inc.
Thorsten Schäfer
Senior Business Development Manager Storage & Backup DACH
Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH
Tobias Leinweber
Sales Director
Wasabi
Guillaume Boutry
Software Engineer
Canonical
Maurice Kemmann
General Manager
Cosanta GmbH
Amos Ankrah
Solutions Specialist
Boston Limited
Keith Drazek
Vice President, Public Policy & Government Relations
Verisign
Ole Petter Johnsen
Sales Engineer
ZaveIT AS
Ash Lomberg
Vice President GTM – EMEA
Chargebee
Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH
Jean-Marie Verdun
Distinguished Technologist Open Platform at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify
David Leung
Sr. Manager Product Management
KAYTUS SYSTEMS
Zied Ouled Ali
Founder
SAFOZI – ADCD
Gary Kan
Business Development Manager
GIGABYTE – GIGA COMPUTING
Kim Barnes-Dallas
EMEA Server Channel Sales Manager & ODM EMEA Manager
AMD
Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest
Judd Lindvall
Cloud Hardware – Team Lead
Core 4 Solutions
Simon Kuenzer
CTO & Co-Founder
Unikraft GmbH
Toluwani Adejuyigbe
Chief Executive Officer
GO54
Dustin Feld
CEO & Head of Technology Innovation
adiutaByte & MEDIFOX DAN
Deniz Alboyaci
Manager of Sales, Distribution
Arcserve Germany GmbH
Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical
Ferdinand Zilcher
Solution Architect
SUSE
Claudio Serrano
Solution Architect
SUSE Switzerland
Benjamin Strauß
Head of Customer Solution Center
Diehl Metering
Patrick Ghys
CEO
aixpedIT GmbH
Walter Freyn
Manager
d-fine AG
Birgit Olzem
WordPress Professional, Coach & Consultant
CoachBirgit Media
B.J. Park
Founding Partner
neoteq ventures
Dom Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO
World Host Group
Teodora Moraru
CGO
Admin Tools
William Bell
Executive Vice President of Products
phoenixNAP
Andrew Lukoshko
AlmaLinux OS Engineer
CloudLinux