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.

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Julie Nolke
Actor

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


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


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


John Donovan
Executive Director & GM of CSP
Lenovo


Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Frank Stiff
Managing Director
Cheval M&A, Inc

John Sihar Simanjuntak
President
PANDI | .id Registry


Alexander Klein
CEO
KUA dc solutions GmbH

Sara Rego
VP Commercial
Team Internet


Guido Dolci
CEO
Upback Cloud Inc


Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & VP, Business Development
Ampere Computing


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Hans Hallitzky
Senior Sales Director Server&Storage
ZTE Deutschland GmbH


Lukas Hertig
Business Development
IceWarp


Jason Maselino
General Manager
Circle B


Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Todd Han
Founder/CEO
Dynadot


Jim Freeman
Technical Product Manager
OpenNebula


Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solutions Architect
Qualys GmbH


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Ravi Rabheru
Head of EMEA AI Centre of Excellence
Intel


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Jordan Yerman
Senior Copywriter
CloudFest

Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


Johnny Kim
Director, Strategy
WHMCS a WebPros Company


Jonathan Wold
Co-founder
Guildenberg, Inc

Joost de Valk
Partner
Emilia Capital


Elena Simon
General Manager
G-Core Labs GmbH

Dave Henry
Product Marketing Manager
StorPool Storage


Tycho Löke
Pre-Sales Consultant
PeopleRock B.V.

Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

Evaldas Mockus
VP of Growth
Omnisend


Stefan Schäfer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud


Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


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

Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


Esther Spanjer
Director, Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron Technology


Christopher Luft
Partner Account Manager
Hornetsecurity GmbH


Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition

Andrei Kvapil
CEO
Ænix


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

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


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Robin Daunter
Sales Director
Mitac


Gernot Hofstetter
Co-CEO
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Li-Fan Bartsch
Manager SSD Product Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


Simon Schaber
Principal Solutions Architect
NVIDIA GmbH


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Andy Simpson
Vice President Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Verisign


Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


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

Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Ihor Kolodyuk
Director of Cross-Platform Architecture
Virtuozzo

Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


Peter Badge
CEO
Science.now GmbH

Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend


Aleksandr Redikultsev
Product Manager
WebPros International GmbH


Mary Hubbard
Executive Director, WordPress
Automattic, Inc.


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Marek Bradac
Vice President of Global Alliances
Storware


Davide Vicini
CEO and Co-Founder
Freename


Ronnie Burt
Head of Gravatar
Automattic


Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


Christian Berendt
Founder & CEO
OSISM GmbH

Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Marcel Bootsman
Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets
Kinsta


Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains Ltd


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor
