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.
Stephan Gillich
Head of EMEA AI Center of Excellence
Intel
Kevin Ohashi
Founder / CEO
Review Signal
Steve Crocker
President and CEO
Edgemoor Research Institute
Dr. Burt Kaliski
Senior Vice President and CTO
Verisign
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Director, KAUST AI Initiative; Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA;
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE
Katee Van Horn
Chief People Officer
WebPros
Paul Mockapetris
Inventor DNS & Chief Scientist
Threatstop
Dr. Auma Obama
Founder
Sauti Kuu Foundation
Nii Narku Quaynor
Father of the African Internet
Peter Groth
Vice President & CTO of Service Provider Segment Development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Fred-Mario Silberbach
Head of Subdivision Cybercrime – Strategy and Service
BKA
Eliot Higgins
Founder
Bellingcat
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Amos Ankrah
Solutions Specialist
Boston Limited
Jan Löffler
CTO
WebPros
Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch
Dominic Schweida
Enterprise Account Executive
Okta
Frederik Haak
Senior Manager SSD Product-Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH
Efe von Thenen
CMO
ePages
Arthur Wang
Solution Director
xFusion
Jalal El-Youssef
VP Partner and Sales Management
QMware AG
Lisa Box
SVP, Strategic Alliances and Business Development
Identity Digital
Roman Dodin
Product Manager
Nokia
Soeren von Varchmin
Chairman of the Advisory Board
CloudFest
Chris Mondini
Managing Director, Europe
ICANN
Mark Markovic
Key Account Executive
AnyDesk Software GmbH
Deniz Alboyaci
Manager of Sales, Distribution
Arcserve Germany GmbH
Bernhard Schimpl
Manager Strategic Accounts
NVIDIA
Roland Kunz
EMEA Principal System Engineer
Dell Technologies
Rainer Kaese
Senior Manager
Toshiba Electronics Europe
Quintin Russ
Co-founder & Technical Director
Webslice
Matthias Reinholz
Product Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Chieko Aihara
Vice President / Product Manager
Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.
Carole Olinger
Head of CF Hackathon & Partner manager at Yoast
CloudFest & Yoast
Kim Barnes-Dallas
EMEA Server Channel Sales Manager & ODM EMEA Manager
AMD
Dustin Feld
CEO & Head of Technology Innovation
adiutaByte & MEDIFOX DAN
Roslyn Lavery
Partner Program Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Sander Cruiming
Co-founder
CloudPress
Cornel Schnietz
Founder & CTO
CM4all GmbH
Jesse Asklund
Chief Experience Officer
WebPros
Vendula Králová
CSO/CMO
WEDOS
Alexander Troshin
Product Marketing Manager – EMEA, Enterprise and HPC Server Business Unit
AMD
Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management for GPU systems
Supermicro
Gary Kan
Business Development Manager
GIGABYTE – GIGA COMPUTING
Daniele Buttafava
Server Sales Director, Western Europe
ASUS
Jan Urbík
CSO
IceWarp
Marco Pfuhl
Director Cloud Provider Business CEMEA
VMware by Broadcom
Stefan Schaefer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud
Toluwani Adejuyigbe
Chief Executive Officer
GO54
Guillaume Boutry
Software Engineer
Canonical
Simon Hoveling
Solution Engineer
AvePoint
Dr. Markus Leberecht
Member of the EMEA Chief Technology Office
Intel
Dom Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO
World Host Group
Samuel Farag
Sales Engineer
Frends Germany GmbH
Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest
Peter Höhn
Head of CSP Business, Germany
VMware by Broadcom
Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere
David Leung
Sr. Manager Product Management
KAYTUS SYSTEMS
Benjamin Strauß
Head of Customer Solution Center
Diehl Metering
Tristan Theroux
IT Infrastructure & Security Director
SHED
Dennis Kittrell
VP of Product, Hosting
CloudLinux
Mike “Demo” Demopoulos
Head of Partners
Codeable.io
Ash Lomberg
Vice President GTM – EMEA
Chargebee
Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros
Patrick Ghys
CEO
aixpedIT GmbH
Enrico Signoretti
VP Product & Partnerships
Cubbit
Francesco Cetraro
Global Head of Strategic Alliances
Freename
Patrick Sander
Senior Technical Consultant
firstcolo GmbH
Nithin Das
Senior Technical Consultant-Presales
Site24x7 (Zoho Corp)
Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign
Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
STORDIS
Jamie Opalchuk
Founder & CEO
Hostpapa
Kai Ganter
Sales Manager DACH
WEKA
Douwe Zijlstra
Application Engineer
CloudPress
Neal McPherson
Head of Product Management Domains, DNS & SSL
IONOS
Teodora Moraru
CGO
Admin Tools
Mikael Storbjörk
Partner Manager
UpCloud
Tytus Kurek
Product Manager
Canonical
Jens Hermann
Presales Consultant
Console Connect
Cristiano Guerrieri
Solution Engineer
ThreatLocker
Ricardo Mendes
CEO
VAWLT
Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH
Alex Iribarren
Leader of Cloud IaaS and Linux Platform Engineering teams
CERN
John Mariani
EMEA APEX & Multicloud Business Development Director
Dell Technologies
Dvir Benaroya
Co-Founder and CEO
spike
Changwoo Sun
Senior Director & Head of Storage New Biz Group
Samsung Semiconductor
Sebastian Noelting
CEO
RNT Rausch
Romain Cholat
Vice President of Account Management
Verisign
Keith Drazek
Vice President, Public Policy & Government Relations
Verisign
Peter Gerhardt
Channel Account Manager
Pax8 Deutschland GmbH
Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock, part of LA Micro Group UK
Jan Moll
CEO
dtm group
Stephan Derksen
Chairman of Board
Kimbrer Computer
Birgit Olzem
WordPress Professional, Coach & Consultant
CoachBirgit Media
Claudio Serrano
Solution Architect
SUSE Switzerland
Toluwani Adejuyigbe
Chief Executive Officer
GO54
Andreas Gauger
CEO
Open-Xchange
Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solution Architect
Qualys
Tobias Leinweber
Sales Director
Wasabi
Sujay Pawar
CEO
Brainstorm Force
Steen Dalgas
Senior Sales Specialist
Nutanix
Esther Spanjer
Director of Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron
Lesya Dymyd
OCP EMEA Liaison
Open Compute Project Foundation
Sonel Popatlal
EMEA Lead – DC & AI
Intel
Kristian Vättö
SSD Product Marketing Manager
Samsung Semiconductor
Simon McCalla
CEO Online
Team Internet Group PLC
Maurice Kemmann
General Manager
Cosanta GmbH
Raúl Álvarez
EMEA Regional Community Lead
Open Compute Project
Zied Ouled Ali
Founder
SAFOZI – ADCD
Sebastian Straube
Lead Customer Advisor – Cloud Solutions
Palo Alto Networks
Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & Vice President Business Development
Ampere Computing
Uwe Kemmer
Director EMEA Field Engineering
Western Digital