Meet our Speakers for 2025
CloudFest 2025 brings together the top minds in the technology world—and beyond. Here you’ll find the speakers who will rock our main stages at Europa-Park. From emerging innovators to living legends and internet Hall-of-Famers, they’re all pushing the Cloud forward.

Cory Doctorow
Author/Journalist/Activist
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Karlheinz Brandenburg
MP3 Creator

Roger Dingledine
Original Developer
Tor Project

Gina Louise Phillips
Actor

Dave Crocker
Principal
Brandenburg InternetWorking

George Sadowsky
Internet Hall of Fame

Julie Nolke
Actor

Albert Einstein
Physicist/Lecturer/Ghost

Raúl Álvarez
European Market Development Manager
Open Compute Project

Alona Borzhemska
Product Manager
WebPros


Sandra Kurze
COO / CMO
Greyd GmbH


Dominik Graef
Senior Partner Manager
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Geoffrey Petit
Technical Resources Group EMEA Team Leader
Kingston Technology


Nicolay Wirges
Senior Business Development Manager Cloud
Huawei Technologies GmbH


Markus Leberecht
Principal Engineer & Member of the EMEA Chief Technology Office
Intel


Vytautas Dilba
Lead of Tech Partnerships
Omnisend


Marek Bradac
Vice President of Global Alliances
Storware


Soeren von Varchmin
Chief Evangelist
CloudFest


benny Vasquez
Chair, board of directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation


Tim Switzer
VP, Business Affairs
Public Interest Registry (PIR)


Piotr Poberezny
Senior Security Solutions Architect
Qualys GmbH


Jim Freeman
Technical Product Manager
OpenNebula


Jordan Yerman
Senior Copywriter
CloudFest

Clément Béasse
CEO
Data Forge

Adrian Boguszewski
AI Software Evangelist
Intel


Tobias Hinterthür
Head of Portfolio Management
COGITANDA INSURANCE GmbH

Frederik Haak
Head of SSD Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance

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


Christopher Luft
Partner Account Manager
Hornetsecurity GmbH


Sven Sellen
Account Executive EMEA
TuxCare


Ravi Rabheru
Head of EMEA AI Centre of Excellence
Intel


Di Wang
Chief Scientist
KAYTUS Europe


Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye

Javier Insausti
Technology Architect – SUSE Solutions
HPE


Richard Lau
Domain Investor
Face.com

Julia Carpenter
CEO
Apheros


Pete Urmson
CEO
Spotzer

Andy Simpson
Vice President Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Verisign


Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH


Aleksandr Redikultsev
Product Manager
WebPros International GmbH


Robert Jacobi
Chief Experience Officer
Blackwall


Daniel Prejza
Business Development Manager GCC
TD Synnex


Tasha Kobzarenko
Product Marketing Owner
Storware


Lukas Krsek
Country Manager
WEDOS


Aaron Campbell
Director of Product
A2 Hosting


Carlos Armada
Director, Head of Product
Name.com


Chris Lubkert
Co-Founder
Extendify


Roger Williams
Community Manager
Kinsta


Artur Grabowski
Co-Founder
Extendify


Aleksandar Relic
Chief Engineer
KIOXIA Europe GmbH


Aleksander Kuczek
Chief Revenue Officer
Contabo

Stefan Schäfer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud


Thomas Dubus
Head of Sales
OxygenIT


Ovi Negrean
VP of Product Marketing
WebPros


Luke Brickman
CEO
Textla

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


Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO
BuildMyLogo.co

Benedykt Marciniak
Commercial Account Executive
Wasabi Technologies


Claudio Serrano
Solutions Architect
SUSE


Abdel Regragui
EMEA CTO Cyber/Multi Cloud
Dell Technologies


Andrei Kvapil
CEO
Ænix


Lino Brenner
Security Expert / Developer
byteinspect / Freelancer

Oliver Sild
CEO
Patchstack


Lukasz Lukowski
Chief Commerce and Communication (CSMO)
STORDIS


Dave Henry
Product Marketing Manager
StorPool Storage


Stijn Polfliet
Chief Product Officer
group.one

Sara Rego
VP Commercial
Team Internet


Sascha Uhl
Strategic Alliances EMEA
Cloudian Inc


Joost de Valk
Partner
Emilia Capital


Isao Yamamoto
Chief Specialist, SSD Division
KIOXIA Corporation


Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius


Vineet Chaku
President Rektr.ai
Reaktr


Jakob Trost
CTO
Greyd GmbH


Milisav Radmanić
Head of Software Development
Hetzner


Jason Maselino
General Manager
Circle B


Brad Parks
Morpheus Product and GTM Leader
HPE Hybrid Cloud Business Unit


Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital


Robby Lin
Senior Director
Giga Computing Tech Co


Gernot Hofstetter
Co-CEO
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG


Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest


Vincent Oostlander
Director EMEA Solution Sales
Seagate Technology


Vito Peleg
CEO & Co-founder
Atarim


Svilena Peneva
Head of Partnerships
WP Engine


Thomas Rochner
Tech. Channel Manager
Wasabi


Marco Moschettini
Co-founder & CTO
Cubbit

Simon Schaber
Principal Solutions Architect
NVIDIA GmbH


Sam Renkema
Former CEO SpamExperts
Private Investor

Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH


Olaf Kaiser
MSP Coach
Olaf Kaiser Consulting GmbH

Thomas Schaeffer
Enterprise Accounts
Druva


David Caswell
Business Manager
TD Synnex


Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere Computing


Mary Hubbard
Executive Director, WordPress
Automattic, Inc.


Milos Krasojevic
Manager of Product Management, GPU
Supermicro


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

Olivier Dobberkau
President
TYPO3 Association


Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management
Verisign


Luke Armstrong
Technical Director
Black & White Engineering

Robin Daunter
Sales Director
Mitac


Juha-Pekka Jarvenpaa
Lead Product Manager
UpCloud


Hillary Stiff
President
Cheval M&A, Inc.

Jonathan Wold
Co-founder
Guildenberg, Inc

Yuri Slukhai
EMEA Focus Group Leader & BDM Servers
ASBIS


Elena Simon
General Manager
G-Core Labs GmbH

Christine Eckle
Senior Solution Engineer
AvePoint Deutschland GmbH


Andreas Gauger
CEO
OpenXchange
