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

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

Julie Nolke
Actor

Stefan Schäfer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud


Hans Hendrikx
Director Business Development
Uniserver

Tasha Kobzarenko
Product Marketing Owner
Storware


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Luisa Sofie Faßbender
Senior Success Manager
TYPO3 GmbH


Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

Ditlev Bredahl
CEO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


Christian Berendt
Founder & CEO
OSISM GmbH

Sascha Uhl
Strategic Alliances EMEA
Cloudian Inc


Boris Mayer
Head of Marketing
firstcolo GmbH


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic


Thomas Schaeffer
Enterprise Accounts
Druva


Evaldas Mockus
VP of Growth
Omnisend


Matthias Nehls
Vorstand
DGC AG


Jakob Trost
CTO
Greyd GmbH


Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend


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


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign


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


Nikolay Nedev
Director of Customer Success
Blackwall


Aurelio Volle
CEO & Co-founder
WP Umbrella

Juergen Domnik
CEO and Founder
JuDoCon

Miona Aleksic
Product Manager
Canonical


Jonathan Wold
Co-founder
Guildenberg, Inc

Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg


Mark Weisbrod
CEO
Greyd GmbH


Ronny Marx
Commercial Director
Syde GmbH


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

Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


Andrew Palmer
Customer Success Manager
Atarim


Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

John Donovan
Executive Director & GM of CSP
Lenovo


Robert Jacobi
Chief Experience Officer
Blackwall


Andrei Kvapil
CEO
Ænix


Li-Fan Bartsch
Manager SSD Product Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


James Webb
COO
BigScoots

David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Elias Schneider
CEO & Founder
codesphere


Aleksandr Redikultsev
Product Manager
WebPros International GmbH


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


Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Julius Bühre
Account Manager
Nutanix


Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Azfar Aslam
CTO for Network Infrastructure Business, Europe
NOKIA


Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist
Arcee I

Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Milisav Radmanić
Head of Software Development
Hetzner


Peter Badge
CEO
Science.now GmbH

Vineet Chaku
President Rektr.ai
Reaktr


Narendar Shankar
CCO / Co-Founder
HostedAI


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


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


Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & VP, Business Development
Ampere Computing


Luke Rottmann
Manager Business Group Cloud
Arrow ECS GmbH


Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

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


Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Esther Spanjer
Director, Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron Technology


Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical


Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros


John Sihar Simanjuntak
President
PANDI | .id Registry


Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor


Geoffrey Petit
Technical Resources Group EMEA Team Leader
Kingston Technology


Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer
Contabo

Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

Hans Hallitzky
Senior Sales Director Server&Storage
ZTE Deutschland GmbH


Elena Simon
General Manager
G-Core Labs GmbH

Ash Lomberg
VP GTM EMEA
Chargebee


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


Marcel Bootsman
Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets
Kinsta


Javier Insausti
Technology Architect – SUSE Solutions
HPE


Ihor Kolodyuk
Director of Cross-Platform Architecture
Virtuozzo

Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Tim Switzer
VP, Business Affairs
Public Interest Registry (PIR)


Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux


Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing
