Timetable

Simon has been driving the Dutch presence at CloudFest since 2014 and is the organiser of the Dutch Night@CloudFest. He is director of the Dutch Cloud Community, the industry group uniting the Hosting and Cloud industry in the Netherlands. He is a frequent blogger, podcaster and speaker at industry events.

The CEO and Co-Founder of Endel, Oleg Stavitsky innovates at the intersection of technology, art, and wellness. In 2018 he founded Endel to make AI-powered mindfulness accessible to all. The company’s core technology Endel Pacific creates personalized, adaptive soundscapes to reduce stress, improve sleep, and boost productivity — all backed by neuroscience and the science of the circadian rhythm. Endel is the Apple Watch App of the Year 2020. Prior to Endel, in 2013 Stavitsky co-founded BUBL, a brand that applies digital art methods to kids apps, BUBL was featured by Apple and acquired by Fox&Sheep, one of top-three biggest kids apps publishers. Along with an elite design and coding team, Stavitsky has built seven BUBL apps, all of which have received an App Store Editor's Choice award, and many of which were selected to Best of App Store lists. Before BUBL, Stavitsky was a Features Editor at Igromania, Russia's biggest gaming magazine, and a producer at KranX Production, a videogame producing center founded by the creators of cult-classic PC titles like Vangers and Perimeter. Oleg also founded the award-winning V3 Agency, which he grew to 40 people and sold in 2016 to Berlin-based fintech company Aureum. V3 built apps for some of the biggest Berlin startups, including Kitchen Stories (acquired by Bosch) and Memorado, and also won numerous awards, including the Google Design Award, iF Design Award, and German Design Award. Leveraging his diverse experiences in the confluence of gaming, digital and mobile technology, art, design, science, and consumer trends, Stavitsky continues to create unique businesses that impact millions of people and open the doors to meaningful experiences and further innovation.

Rebecca leads the team that drives nearly every aspect of our hyperscale platform execution across strategic planning, hardware and software enabling, marketing and sales. Together they shape the development, production, and engagement strategy of Intel’s hyperscale solutions to ensure we are delivering the best value for our customers with enthusiasm and urgency. She drives strategic collaborations with key partners including OxMs, ISVs & OSVs to ensure ecosystem readiness that meets our customer needs. In her "spare" time, she’s the lead singer of a funk & soul band, Sinister Dexter, was professionally trained in dance (tap, modern, and jazz), and is an experienced choreographer. She loves investing and mentoring diverse technical talent to help build our pipeline. She has two amazing little boys, and loves to run (after them, and on her own). Rebecca graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Hannes Schwaderer has been the Country Manager of Intel Germany GmbH since October 2018 and is responsible for all Sales and Marketing related operations. Prior he led the development and execution of solutions for all vertical end-customer segments in Germany as the Head of Enterprise Sales. In 2011, Hannes served as the Director Energy Sectors of the EMEA region and was responsible for the design and implementation of industry-specific solutions within the electricity, oil and gas sector. In addition to his role as Managing Director at Intel GmbH, he has been responsible for the company’s business activities in Central Europe from August 2004 until July 2015. He began his career at Intel in 1994 as Retail Marketing Manager. In 1998, he continued to work as EMEA Market Development Manager and took on the position as Marketing Manager for Central Europe in the following year. From August 2002 to August 2011, he was responsible for all marketing and sales activities as Country Manager for Germany and Austria. Furthermore, Hannes Schwaderer acts as the President of Initiative D21, Europe's biggest partnership and serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Munich.

With a dedication to fight inequality, Leoni has worked in the humanitarian aid sector for the last few years. She has gained wide-ranging field experience in various crisis contexts in South Africa, Madagascar, Lebanon, and Jordan. Leoni mainly worked in refugee camps with a special focus on Child Protection programming. After finishing her MBA in CSR & NGO Management, she started to work with Entrepreneurs for Knowledge and helped develop the Foundation as a Service concept. With this service, she and her team make a simple donation a really great experience for everyone involved: impactful school projects for underprivileged children are supported by companies or individuals who are motivated to do something meaningful. A Win-Win-Situation for everyone.

Heidi Zak is the Co-Founder and CEO of ThirdLove, the third largest online bra and underwear company in America. Zak left her job at Google with the dream of offering a better option, a “ThirdLove” where women don’t have to choose between comfort and beauty. ThirdLove is the only brand to offer half-cup bras and more than 80 bra sizes, and the Company is proud to have donated over $40 million worth of products to women in need. Zak has been recognized as Fortune's 40 Under 40, EY Entrepreneur of the Year, National Retail Federation's Disruptors, Fast Company’s Most Creative People and Goldman Sachs' 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. In addition to contributing a weekly column to Inc.com, Zak is committed to advancing more women in tech and is an active angel investor in female-founded companies. She graduated from Duke University and holds an MBA from MIT Sloan. Prior to launching ThirdLove, Zak held a variety of roles at Google, Aeropostale, McKinsey and Bank of America. In her spare time you can find her working out, or chasing after her two kids.

Marcus Singer is a Senior Field Application Engineer for Server & Storage Solutions in Datacenter, covering the top LOEM & ODM accounts in Germany. With more than 30 years being in several different Technical and Sales oriented roles in the IT Industry, e.g., working for Storage companies, his focus is clearly on high performant Server and Storage solutions. Prior joining Intel in 2015, Marcus deployed the first Network Attached Storage solutions in EMEA back in the 90’s and was also the first to setup Hybrid NAS/SAN solutions in mission critical environments.

Sebastian has been a doer for 25 years: He founded his first company directly after finishing school. After holding several leading positions, among others at 1&1 Internet AG, his career as interim manager led him to RNT Rausch GmbH, former Rausch Netzwerktechnik GmbH, whose management he took over in 2008. His daily ambition: to optimize IT or create completely new server and storage solutions that solve problems such as performance, storage space, high availability or data throughput in data centers or big data environments. His specialties: Software-defined storage, cloud computing, virtualization. Since 1998, RNT considers itself as reliable partner, solution provider and developer, enabling technology innovations. Organizations as well as data centers around the globe trust in the standard and individual solutions to advance their business. Based on self-developed hardware or solutions of long-time partners, RNT choses the fitting software for the operation of server or storage cluster and builds tailor-made solutions – delivery, launch and support are included as well!

Tim Owens worked in higher education for over 9 years before going full-time with Reclaim Hosting in 2015. In 2012 he launched Hippie Hosting, which empowered over 150 people across the globe to build a space of their own on the web. He worked at the University of Mary Washington for 3 years as a part of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies helping build the Domain of One’s Own project that provides domains and hosting to UMW students, faculty, and staff. Today Reclaim Hosting provides educators and institutions with an easy way to offer over 20,000 students domains and web hosting that they own and control. Our goal is to make the process of offering a flexible web space and domain name to your students as easy as possible and giving you the support you need to make it all happen.

Rainer Kaese has been with Toshiba for over 25 years. He initially specialized in application specific ICs, managing the ASIC Design Center, and later the Business Development Team for ASIC- and Foundry Products. He is currently responsible for the introduction of Toshiba’s Enterprise HDD products into Datacenters, Cloud Computing and Enterprise applications.

Dr. Oliver Mauss is CEO of the PlusServer Group since July 2018. In addition to the management of the operational business, he drives forward plusserver’s transformation to a Managed Cloud Service Provider as well as the development of new business areas. He looks back on more than 20 years of experience in the hosting and telecommunications industry. Initially as Managing Director of 1&1 Internet AG, he managed one of the largest hosting providers in Europe. Before joining 1&1, he held various positions within the Vodafone Group, including head of business customer segment. Oliver Mauss studied in Aachen, Germany, where he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Stephan Teinert has more than 6 years of experience in the Cloud Services Provider Business in the DACH region, particularly in Germany. Stephan is the current Head of Cloud Sales at Wortmann AG, one of the most successful independent Cloud distributor and service provider in Germany. Stephan started working as a Sales Manager at Wortmann AG in June 2013 and moved into a new position as Head of Cloud Sales in July 2015. Based on his experience at Wortmann AG. Besides having expertise in cloud services, Stephan is very familiar with the relationship between VADs and German mid-sized companies. The focus is to enable different partners for cloud services. In the past 6 years the terra cloud enables over 4000 partners for cloud- or managed services Stephan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Economics from Bielefeld University.

CEO and co-founder of Jelastic PaaS, a company that delivers a turnkey multi-cloud platform for ISVs, MSPs, and cloud hosting providers. Java Champion and two-times Duke’s Choice Award winner. Expert in large-scale distributed applications and enterprise platforms. Designed the core technology of the Platform-as-a-Service that runs millions of containers across a decentralized network of independent data center providers worldwide. Designed and created solutions for National Data Center (NDC) and National Antarctic Scientific Centre (NASC) of Ukraine. Was one of the key engineering leads at the National Space Agency of Ukraine. Focusing on development of cutting edge cloud solutions and business relations around it.

 

Customer centric commercially focused tech entrepreneur, musician and world citizen. Proud member of the hosting and cloud industry since 2007, recent vegetarian (for the planet) and now honoured CEO and Co-Founder of csquare.ai on a mission to democratize green AI.

Dr. Kai Martius is CTO and member of the Management Board of secunet AG. He is responsible for technology, development, product management and certification. From 2007 to 2015, he headed the business unit High Security/Public Sector. Kai Martius has been with secunet since 1999, the year of his doctorate in electrical engineering at the TU Dresden. Dr. Martius is one of the key architects of SINA and has extensive experience in the design, implementation and deployment of cyber security products in the public sector.

George Chaltas is the Director for Strategic Customer & Visual Cloud Software Performance in Intel’s Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group. He leads a worldwide team of software engineers who partner with Cloud Service Providers and their customers to increase the performance and efficiency of their workloads. George has more than 30 years of experience in software development and performance. Prior to joining Intel in 1998, he was a software engineer and engineering manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds Masters Degrees in both Computer Science and Music Theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In his spare time he builds model trains and composes music.

Markus Leberecht has spent his career at Intel holding a variety of individual and managerial roles in technical sales since joining the company in June 2006. He currently holds the position of a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect and is specializing in cloud service provider infrastructure. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Technology, Munich, Germany, and furthermore is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect.