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 Speaking at CloudFest USA

Sachin Puri

CEO

Bluehost

Miriam Schwab

Head of WordPress

Elementor

Jessica Frick, Head of Product, Pressable and CloudFest USA Speaker

Jessica Frick

General Manager

Rocket.net

Jeffrey Paul

VP of Open Source

Fueled + 10up

Cory Doctorow, Author/Journalist/Activist at Electronic Frontier Foundation and CloudFest USA Speaker

Cory Doctorow

Author/Journalist/Activist

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Aaron Campbell CloudFest USA Advisory Board

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, CloudFest USA Speaker

Taylor Henry

VP of Sales

Limestone Networks

Syona Sarma, CloudFest USA Speaker

Syona Sarma

Senior Director, Head of Hardware Infrastructure

Cloudflare

Sean Varley - CloudFest USA Advisory Board

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 at Monarx and CloudFest USA Speaker

Robert Seger

Chief Technology Officer

Monarx

Robert Jacobi

Chief Experience Officer

Blackwall

CF USA 2023 Robbie Adair

Robbie Adair

CEO

OS Training and Media A-Team

Rebecca Sausner

Chief Executive Officer

CloudFest USA

Radia Perlman, Fellow at Dell Technologies and CloudFest USA Speaker

Radia Perlman

Fellow

Dell Technologies

Preston Gosdin, Chief Executive Officer at Limestone Networks and CloudFest USA Speaker

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 at Newfold Digital and CloudFest USA speaker

Mike Hansen

VP of WordPress Product

Bluehost

Mike Anderson

Global Channel Manager

EasyDMARC

Matt Medeiros

Publisher

WP Minute

Marieke van de Rakt, CloudFest USA Advisory Board

Marieke van de Rakt

Investor and Co-founder

Emilia Capital and Progress Planner

Kevin Cochrane, CMO at Vultr and speaking at CloudFest USA

Kevin Cochrane

Chief Marketing Officer

Vultr

Karim Marucchi

CEO

Crowd Favorite

Judd Lindval, Cloud Hardware - Team Lead at Core 4 Solutions - CloudFest USA Speaker

Judd Lindvall

Cloud Hardware – Team Lead

Core 4 Solutions

Joseph Glover

Director, Field CTO

Akamai Cloud

Jonathan Wold

Co-Founder

Guildenberg, Inc.

John Robison is the Director of Product at DreamHost and CloudFest USA Speaker

John Robison

Director of Product

DreamHost

Joe Styler

Senior Marketing Manager

GoDaddy

Jeffrey Paul

VP of Open Source

Fueled + 10up

James Webb, CloudFest USA Speaker

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 CloudFest USA Speaker

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 - CloudFest USA Advisory Board

Christian Dawson

Executive Director

i2Coalition

Chris Lubkert

Co-Founder

Extendify

Carole Olinger

Carole Olinger

Head of Hackathon

CloudFest USA

Carlos Armada

Director, Head of Product

name.com

Carl Alexander

Founder

Ymir

Bronson Broer, Enterprise IT Hardware at Core 4 Solutions and CloudFest USA Speaker

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 - Project Mentor for CloudFest USA Principal Architect at Yoast

Alain Schlesser

Principal Architect

Yoast

Aimee Scheppke

Product Manager

WebPros

Adam Weeks

Co-Founder

Cirrus Influence

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