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.

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Julie Nolke
Actor

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Marcel Bootsman
Business Development Manager Dutch & DACH Markets
Kinsta


Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

Luke Rottmann
Manager Business Group Cloud
Arrow ECS GmbH


Miona Aleksic
Product Manager
Canonical


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Andy Simpson
Vice President Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Verisign


Guido Dolci
CEO
Upback Cloud Inc


Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


Alexander Jenewein
EMEA NextWave CSP Director
Lenovo


Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


Davide Vicini
CEO and Co-Founder
Freename


Li-Fan Bartsch
Manager SSD Product Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

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

Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


Danny Quinn
Managing Director
DataVita

Javier Insausti
Technology Architect – SUSE Solutions
HPE


Ihor Kolodyuk
Director of Cross-Platform Architecture
Virtuozzo

Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


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


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Julius Bühre
Account Manager
Nutanix


Tycho Löke
Pre-Sales Consultant
PeopleRock B.V.

Niall Macleod
Director – Platforms Applications Engineering
Western Digital


Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros


Vincent Oostlander
Director EMEA Solution Sales
Seagate Technology


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


Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic


Thomas Schaeffer
Enterprise Accounts
Druva


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


Peter Roybal
Director of Product Management
Sectigo


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


Aleksandr Redikultsev
Product Manager
WebPros International GmbH


Radu Dinu
Business Development Manager AMD Servers
ASBISc Enterprises PLC


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Christopher Luft
Partner Account Manager
Hornetsecurity GmbH


Esther Spanjer
Director, Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron Technology


Gabriele Fronzé
CEO
Elemento Cloud


Matt Russell
Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor
Namecheap

Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Stephen Nyhan
Director of Sales Engineering
Sectigo


Markus Oeller
CEO
1SP Agency

Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Elias Schneider
CEO & Founder
codesphere


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


James Webb
COO
BigScoots

Hans Hendrikx
Director Business Development
Uniserver

Robert Jacobi
Chief Experience Officer
Blackwall


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Beau Lebens
Artistic Director
Woo

Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Alexander Klein
CEO
KUA dc solutions GmbH

Matthias Nehls
Vorstand
DGC AG


Robby Lin
Senior Director
Giga Computing Tech Co


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH

Lukáš Přibyl
Head of Pre-sales
IceWarp


Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign


Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


Stefan Schäfer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud


Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


David Liu
Server Global Marketing Director
ZTE Corporation


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

Andrew Palmer
Customer Success Manager
Atarim


Nikolay Nedev
Director of Customer Success
Blackwall


Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Tasha Kobzarenko
Product Marketing Owner
Storware


Dave Henry
Product Marketing Manager
StorPool Storage


Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


Markus Fensterer
Managing Director
x-cellent technologies GmbH

Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress Relations
Elementor


Johnny Kim
Director, Strategy
WHMCS a WebPros Company


Seb de Lemos
CEO
World Host Group

John Sihar Simanjuntak
President
PANDI | .id Registry


Todd Han
Founder/CEO
Dynadot


Fedor Bogomolov
CEO
Ispmanager


Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Clément Béasse
CEO
Data Forge

Abiodun Sowemimo
President
Cyberpedia Internet Governance

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


Marek Bradac
Vice President of Global Alliances
Storware


Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Luisa Sofie Faßbender
Senior Success Manager
TYPO3 GmbH


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

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