Meet our Speakers from 2024
CloudFest 2024 brought together the top minds in the technology world—and beyond. Here you’ll find the speakers who rocked our main stages at Europa-Park. From emerging innovators to living legends, they’re all pushing the Cloud forward.
Steve Crocker
President and CEO
Edgemoor Research Institute
Fred-Mario Silberbach
Head of Subdivision Cybercrime – Strategy and Service
BKA
Dr. Auma Obama
Founder
Sauti Kuu Foundation
Eliot Higgins
Founder
Bellingcat
Peter Groth
Vice President & CTO of Service Provider Segment Development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Director, KAUST AI Initiative; Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA;
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE
Dr. Burt Kaliski
Senior Vice President and CTO
Verisign
Kevin Ohashi
Founder / CEO
Review Signal
Stephan Gillich
Head of EMEA AI Center of Excellence
Intel
Paul Mockapetris
Inventor DNS & Chief Scientist
Threatstop
Katee Van Horn
Chief People Officer
WebPros
Nii Narku Quaynor
Father of the African Internet
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Till Stimberg
Director Data Services & Storage Business Unit, Central Europe
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Richard Alderson
EMEA Sales and Marketing Manager
Fujifilm Recording Media GmbH
Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
STORDIS
Frank Keller
Field Sales Representative
Canonical
Jonas Vermeulen
BusDev Datacenter Fabric
Nokia
Marco Pfuhl
Director Cloud Provider Business CEMEA
VMware by Broadcom
Michael Osterloh
CEO
Host Africa (Pty) Ltd
Geoffrey Petit
Senior Field Application Engineer
Kingston Technology
Torsten Hauschildt
Head of M&A
Team.blue
Francesco Cetraro
Global Head of Strategic Alliances
Freename
Vito Peleg
Co-Founder & CEO
Atarim
Dominic Schweida
Enterprise Account Executive
Okta
Dr. Kunbin Hong
Director of Solutions
Supermicro
Joe Alagna
Director of Sales
it.com Domains Ltd
Patrick Sander
Senior Technical Consultant
firstcolo GmbH
Jan Urbík
CSO
IceWarp
Efe von Thenen
CMO
ePages
Hidenori Ishikawa
Manager / Product Development Engineer
Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.
Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock, part of LA Micro Group UK
Stephan Derksen
Chairman of Board
Kimbrer Computer
Frederik Haak
Senior Manager SSD Product-Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH
Pawel Rzeszucinski
Head of Data and AI
Team Internet Group PLC
Changwoo Sun
Senior Director & Head of Storage New Biz Group
Samsung Semiconductor
Vendula Králová
CSO/CMO
WEDOS
Gary Kan
Business Development Manager
GIGABYTE – GIGA COMPUTING
Zied Ouled Ali
Founder
SAFOZI – ADCD
Chieko Aihara
Vice President / Product Manager
Prime Strategy Co., Ltd.
Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux
David Leung
Sr. Manager Product Management
KAYTUS SYSTEMS
Dom Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO
World Host Group
Mike “Demo” Demopoulos
Head of Partners
Codeable.io
Toluwani Adejuyigbe
Chief Executive Officer
GO54
Pierre Carlo Motzo
IT Security Manager/Landscape Architect Infrastructure
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof GmbH
Benjamin Strauß
Head of Customer Solution Center
Diehl Metering
Ash Lomberg
Vice President GTM – EMEA
Chargebee
Judd Lindvall
Cloud Hardware – Team Lead
Core 4 Solutions
Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch
Andy Simpson
Senior Director of Strategy and Analytics
Verisign
Tristan Theroux
IT Infrastructure & Security Director
SHED
Ahmed Joudad
CEO & Founder
Beewant
Raphaël Rebeyrotte
Corporate Product Marketing Specialist
OVHcloud
Vicente Neto
CEO
EVEO
Robby McCullough
Co-founder
Beaver Builder
Cornel Schnietz
Founder & CTO
CM4all GmbH
Bernhard Schimpl
Manager Strategic Accounts
NVIDIA
Andrei Kugaevskii
Product Manager
WebPros
Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic
Dimi Baitanciuc
Co-Founder & CEO
Brizy
Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & Vice President Business Development
Ampere Computing
Rainer Sträter
SVP Technology Office
IONOS SE
William Bell
Executive Vice President of Products
phoenixNAP
Werner Paulus
Europe SVP Sales & Marketing
xFusion
Matthias Reinholz
Product Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Patrick Ghys
CEO
aixpedIT GmbH
Simon McCalla
CEO Online
Team Internet Group PLC
Jonas Trüstedt
Principal IT Consultant & Senior orcharhino Architect
ATIX AG
Anuj Gupta
Sr. Director – Partnerships
Titan
Adrienne Jan
Chief Product Officer
Scaleway
Wilfried Beeck
CEO
ePages
Quintin Russ
Co-founder & Technical Director
Webslice
Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies
Kevin Walker
SVP, Marketing
Bluehost
Piotr Modrzyk
Principal Architect
Leil Storage
Roslyn Lavery
Partner Program Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Tobias Leinweber
Sales Director
Wasabi
Yusuf Nurrachman
CEO
Rumahweb Indonesia
Daniel Arabié
Country Manager Central Europe
Wasabi Technologies
Peter Höhn
Head of CSP Business, Germany
VMware by Broadcom
Abhishek Majithia
Mind Reader
Mental fitness seminars
Rob Seger
CTO
Monarx Inc
Hendrik Koehler
Director of Product Management of Sitejet
WebPros
Bart Beekman
CEO
Hypernode
Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solution Architect
Qualys
Toluwani Adejuyigbe
Chief Executive Officer
GO54
Roman Dodin
Product Manager
Nokia
Rainer Kaese
Senior Manager
Toshiba Electronics Europe
Sander Cruiming
Co-founder
CloudPress
Kai Ganter
Sales Manager DACH
WEKA
Carole Olinger
Head of CF Hackathon & Partner manager at Yoast
CloudFest & Yoast
Paul Alexander
Sales Director
Nokia
Ferdinand Zilcher
Solution Architect
SUSE
Mark Markovic
Key Account Executive
AnyDesk Software GmbH
Kenneth Tan
Executive Director
Sardina Systems
Lisa Box
SVP, Strategic Alliances and Business Development
Identity Digital
Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital
Pratik Chaskar
CTO
Brainstorm Force
Dennis Kittrell
VP of Product, Hosting
CloudLinux
Josef Grill
CEO
WEDOS
Roman Ackermann
Solutions Engineer
Okta
B.J. Park
Founding Partner
neoteq ventures
Erik Nordlund
CTO
Truid AB
Cristiano Guerrieri
Solution Engineer
ThreatLocker
Jens Hermann
Presales Consultant
Console Connect
Jesse Asklund
Chief Experience Officer
WebPros
Jason Haworth
Chief Product Officer
BotGuard
Dr. Valerio Rizzo
EMEA AI Business Lead
Lenovo
Maurice Kemmann
General Manager
Cosanta GmbH
Simon Kuenzer
CTO & Co-Founder
Unikraft GmbH
Sascha Uhl
Strategic Alliances EMEA
Cloudian Inc.