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.

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Julie Nolke
Actor

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Danny Quinn
Managing Director
DataVita

Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


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


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Hans Hendrikx
Director Business Development
Uniserver

Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Peter Badge
CEO
Science.now GmbH

Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


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


Luke Armstrong
Technical Director
Black & White Engineering

William Bell
EVP of Products
phoenixNAP Global IT Services


Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock


Elena Simon
General Manager
G-Core Labs GmbH

Frank Stiff
Managing Director
Cheval M&A, Inc

Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

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


Bernhard Schimpl
Alliance Director
NVIDIA GmbH


Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Tasha Kobzarenko
Product Marketing Owner
Storware


David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Dave Henry
Product Marketing Manager
StorPool Storage


Ronnie Burt
Head of Gravatar
Automattic


Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Todd Han
Founder/CEO
Dynadot


Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Luke Rottmann
Manager Business Group Cloud
Arrow ECS GmbH


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Davide Vicini
CEO and Co-Founder
Freename


Peter Roybal
Director of Product Management
Sectigo


Evaldas Mockus
VP of Growth
Omnisend


Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


James Webb
COO
BigScoots

Pawel Rzeszucinski
Senior Director Data&AI
WebPros


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

Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


Raúl Álvarez
European Market Development Manager
Open Compute Project

Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Thomas Schaeffer
Enterprise Accounts
Druva


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Mary Hubbard
Executive Director, WordPress
Automattic, Inc.


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Johann Strauss
Field CTO in the global AI Solutions Organization
Dell Technologies


John Sihar Simanjuntak
President
PANDI | .id Registry


Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


Thomas Jorgensen
Sr. Director, Technology Enablement
Supermicro


Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies


Marcel Bootsman
Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets
Kinsta


Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign


Markus Fensterer
Managing Director
x-cellent technologies GmbH

Andrei Kvapil
CEO
Ænix


Jim Freeman
Technical Product Manager
OpenNebula


Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


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

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


Beau Lebens
Artistic Director
Woo

Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


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


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH


Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


Matthias Nehls
Vorstand
DGC AG


Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


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


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Ola Tørudbakken
Sr. Director of AI Systems
Meta

Elias Schneider
CEO & Founder
codesphere


Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Joost de Valk
Partner
Emilia Capital


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition

Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Jordan Yerman
Senior Copywriter
CloudFest

Marek Bradac
Vice President of Global Alliances
Storware


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Mark Weisbrod
CEO
Greyd GmbH


Luisa Sofie Faßbender
Senior Success Manager
TYPO3 GmbH


Miona Aleksic
Product Manager
Canonical


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

Gernot Hofstetter
Co-CEO
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG


Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


Julius Bühre
Account Manager
Nutanix


Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend
