CloudFest USA’s 2025 Speakers
The speakers at CloudFest USA will help you raise your game in the cloud computing business. Besides meeting leaders of the industry, you’ll also find yourself face to face with industry legends.
New names added weekly; check back to see who else will be on stage!

Sachin Puri
CEO
Bluehost

Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress
Elementor

Jessica Frick
General Manager
Rocket.net

Jeffrey Paul
VP of Open Source
Fueled + 10up

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Aaron Campbell
Vice President of Product
Monarx

Vito Peleg
Founder & CEO
Atarim

TJ Danklefs
Director of Product
WebPros

Tim Timrawi
Founder & CEO
Sharktech

Taylor Henry
VP of Sales
Limestone Networks

Syona Sarma
Senior Director, Head of Hardware Infrastructure
Cloudflare

Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist
Ampere

Sameer Gulati
President & CPO
ZenBusiness

Ruban Kanapathippillai
SVP of AI Systems and Solutions, Edge and DC AI/ML/Gen-AI
ASA Computers

Robert Seger
Chief Technology Officer
Monarx

Robert Jacobi
Chief Experience Officer
Blackwall

Robbie Adair
CEO
OS Training and Media A-Team

Rebecca Sausner
Chief Executive Officer
CloudFest USA

Radia Perlman
Fellow
Dell Technologies

Preston Gosdin
Chief Executive Officer
Limestone Networks

Phil Crumm
SVP of Technology
Fueled

Pawel Rzeszucinki
Senior Director, Data & AI
WebPros

Pat Ramsey
Director of Technology
Crowd Favorite

Panos Kesisis
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer
hosting.com

Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack

Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress
Elementor

Mike Hansen
VP of WordPress Product
Bluehost

Mike Anderson
Global Channel Manager
EasyDMARC

Matt Medeiros
Publisher
WP Minute

Marieke van de Rakt
Investor and Co-founder
Emilia Capital and Progress Planner

Kevin Cochrane
Chief Marketing Officer
Vultr

Karim Marucchi
CEO
Crowd Favorite

Judd Lindvall
Cloud Hardware – Team Lead
Core 4 Solutions

Joseph Glover
Director, Field CTO
Akamai Cloud

Jonathan Wold
Co-Founder
Guildenberg, Inc.

John Robison
Director of Product
DreamHost

Joe Styler
Senior Marketing Manager
GoDaddy

Jeffrey Paul
VP of Open Source
Fueled + 10up

James Webb
COO
BigScoots

James Lee
Product Leader
WebPros

Igor Seletskiy
CEO
CloudLinux

Harikrishna Reddy
VP, Technology
Meta

Emily Litwin
Sr Director, Biz Dev
Squarespace

Dhanush Paul
VP, Business Development
rankingCoach

David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

David Linthicum
Enterprise Technology Futurist, and Independent Analyst and Best Selling Author of
An Insider’s Guide to Cloud Computing.

Cristian Lopez
Managing Editor
HostingAdvice.com

Christian Taylor
Founder
Craylor Media

Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest

Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition

Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify

Carole Olinger
Head of Hackathon
CloudFest USA

Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
name.com

Carl Alexander
Founder
Ymir

Bronson Broer
Enterprise IT Hardware
Core 4 Solutions

Brian Sathianathan
Co-Founder and Chief Technology/Digital Officer
Iterate.ai

benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors
AlmaLinux

Arto Minasyan
CEO & Co-Founder
10Web

Andrew Mahyari
Founder & CEO
AI Vault Inc.

Amber Caramella
Chief Revenue Officer
Netrality Data Centers

Alex Liu
Senior Vice President of Product & Business
FuriosaAI
Alain Schlesser
Principal Architect
Yoast

Aimee Scheppke
Product Manager
WebPros

Adam Weeks
Co-Founder
Cirrus Influence
