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.

Julie Nolke
Actor

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Vincent Oostlander
Director EMEA Solution Sales
Seagate Technology


Michael Fowler
Chief Sales Officer-Americas
WebPros


Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


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


Christopher Luft
Partner Account Manager
Hornetsecurity GmbH


Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


Carlos Rego
VP Product Management
WebPros


Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

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


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Nikolay Nedev
Director of Customer Success
Blackwall


Gernot Hofstetter
Co-CEO
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Aleksandr Redikultsev
Product Manager
WebPros International GmbH


Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Andy Simpson
Vice President Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Verisign


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Davide Vicini
CEO and Co-Founder
Freename


Andrew Palmer
Customer Success Manager
Atarim


Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist
Arcee I

Claudio Serrano
Solutions Architect
SUSE


Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management, GPU
Supermicro


Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign


Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


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


Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer
Contabo

Peter Badge
CEO
Science.now GmbH

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

Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition

Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Markus Fensterer
Managing Director
x-cellent technologies GmbH

Guido Dolci
CEO
Upback Cloud Inc


Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


Jason Maselino
General Manager
Circle B


Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


Markus Oeller
CEO
1SP Agency

Alexander Klein
CEO
KUA dc solutions GmbH

Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

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


Robin Daunter
Sales Director
Mitac


Raúl Álvarez
European Market Development Manager
Open Compute Project

Ola Tørudbakken
Sr. Director of AI Systems
Meta

Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


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


Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux


Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


Ihor Kolodyuk
Director of Cross-Platform Architecture
Virtuozzo

Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


Javier Insausti
Technology Architect – SUSE Solutions
HPE


Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solutions Architect
Qualys GmbH


Christian Berendt
Founder & CEO
OSISM GmbH

Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Ronnie Burt
Head of Gravatar
Automattic


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Elias Schneider
CEO & Founder
codesphere


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


Geoffrey Petit
Technical Resources Group EMEA Team Leader
Kingston Technology


Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Jakob Trost
CTO
Greyd GmbH


Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Frank Stiff
Managing Director
Cheval M&A, Inc

Aron Meystedt
Owner
Symbolics.com

Sandra Kurze
COO / CMO
Greyd GmbH


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


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


Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Evaldas Mockus
VP of Growth
Omnisend


Dave Henry
Product Marketing Manager
StorPool Storage


Thomas Jorgensen
Sr. Director, Technology Enablement
Supermicro


Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Clément Béasse
CEO
Data Forge

Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


Milisav Radmanić
Head of Software Development
Hetzner
