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.
Kevin Ohashi
Founder / CEO
Review Signal
Peter Groth
Vice President & CTO of Service Provider Segment Development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Steve Crocker
President and CEO
Edgemoor Research Institute
Eliot Higgins
Founder
Bellingcat
Paul Mockapetris
Inventor DNS & Chief Scientist
Threatstop
Katee Van Horn
Chief People Officer
WebPros
Dr. Burt Kaliski
Senior Vice President and CTO
Verisign
Nii Narku Quaynor
Father of the African Internet
Stephan Gillich
Head of EMEA AI Center of Excellence
Intel
Dr. Auma Obama
Founder
Sauti Kuu Foundation
Fred-Mario Silberbach
Head of Subdivision Cybercrime – Strategy and Service
BKA
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Director, KAUST AI Initiative; Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA;
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE
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Esther Nansubuga
Program Manager
Groundbreaker
Torsten Hauschildt
Head of M&A
Team.blue
Changwoo Sun
Senior Director & Head of Storage New Biz Group
Samsung Semiconductor
Simon Hoveling
Solution Engineer
AvePoint
Pulkit Gupta
Director
Electron Technologies FZC
Jens Hermann
Presales Consultant
Console Connect
Fred Zou
Domain Reseller Program Manager
Dynadot
Peter Weiss
Senior Solution Architect
DataCore Software
Raúl Álvarez
EMEA Regional Community Lead
Open Compute Project
Kenneth Tan
Executive Director
Sardina Systems
Christoph Streit
CEO
ScaleUp Technologies
Adam Wien
Product Manager
WebPros
Frederik Haak
Senior Manager SSD Product-Marketing
KIOXIA Europe GmbH
Stephan Derksen
Chairman of Board
Kimbrer Computer
Sebastian Noelting
CEO
RNT Rausch
Bernd Meyer
Head of Shared Webhosting Development
Strato AG
Tytus Kurek
Product Manager
Canonical
Rainer Sträter
SVP Technology Office
IONOS SE
Chris Rough
Hyperscale Next BDM EMEA
Dell Technologies
Sean Varley
Chief Evangelist & Vice President Business Development
Ampere Computing
Patrick Sander
Senior Technical Consultant
firstcolo GmbH
Tammie Lister
Cofounder
Guildenberg
benny Vasquez
Chair, Board of Directors
AlmaLinux OS Foundation
Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner
Open Eye
Jean-Marie Verdun
Distinguished Technologist Open Platform at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Mark Williams
Head of Sales
Bytestock, part of LA Micro Group UK
Dr. Kunbin Hong
Director of Solutions
Supermicro
Rainer Kaese
Senior Manager
Toshiba Electronics Europe
Dom Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO
World Host Group
Simon McCalla
CEO Online
Team Internet Group PLC
Kim Barnes-Dallas
EMEA Server Channel Sales Manager & ODM EMEA Manager
AMD
Alex Iribarren
Leader of Cloud IaaS and Linux Platform Engineering teams
CERN
Dustin Feld
CEO & Head of Technology Innovation
adiutaByte & MEDIFOX DAN
Levente Bokor
CEO
Kevlarr
Paul Alexander
Sales Director
Nokia
Pratik Chaskar
CTO
Brainstorm Force
Jalal El-Youssef
VP Partner and Sales Management
QMware AG
Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder
CloudLinux
Esther Spanjer
Director of Enterprise Business Development EMEA
Micron
Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud
Automattic
Werner Paulus
Europe SVP Sales & Marketing
xFusion
Judd Lindvall
Cloud Hardware – Team Lead
Core 4 Solutions
Keith Drazek
Vice President, Public Policy & Government Relations
Verisign
Pierre Carlo Motzo
IT Security Manager/Landscape Architect Infrastructure
Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof GmbH
Sander Cruiming
Co-founder
CloudPress
Vendula Králová
CSO/CMO
WEDOS
Robert Jacobi
Director, Global Alliances
BotGuard
Efe von Thenen
CMO
ePages
Samuel Farag
Sales Engineer
Frends Germany GmbH
Joe Alagna
Director of Sales
it.com Domains Ltd
Geoffrey Petit
Senior Field Application Engineer
Kingston Technology
Ralph de Wargny
Founder & Director
Intel Liftoff
Jan Urbík
CSO
IceWarp
Anuj Gupta
Sr. Director – Partnerships
Titan
Dominic Schweida
Enterprise Account Executive
Okta
Roman Ackermann
Solutions Engineer
Okta
Ferdinand Zilcher
Solution Architect
SUSE
Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer
Ampere
Gary Kan
Business Development Manager
GIGABYTE – GIGA COMPUTING
Steen Dalgas
Senior Sales Specialist
Nutanix
Michael Osterloh
CEO
Host Africa (Pty) Ltd
Jonas Vermeulen
BusDev Datacenter Fabric
Nokia
Benjamin Strauß
Head of Customer Solution Center
Diehl Metering
Brian Lonergan
VP of Product Strategy
Identity Digital
Quintin Russ
Co-founder & Technical Director
Webslice
Abhishek Majithia
Mind Reader
Mental fitness seminars
Kristian Vättö
SSD Product Marketing Manager
Samsung Semiconductor
Tytus Kurek
Product Manager
Canonical – Ubuntu
Roman Dodin
Product Manager
Nokia
Alexander Troshin
Product Marketing Manager – EMEA, Enterprise and HPC Server Business Unit
AMD
Pawel Rzeszucinski
Head of Data and AI
Team Internet Group PLC
Erik Nordlund
CTO
Truid AB
Stefan Schaefer
Head of international Product Marketing
OVHcloud
Nithin Das
Senior Technical Consultant-Presales
Site24x7 (Zoho Corp)
Cristiano Guerrieri
Solution Engineer
ThreatLocker
Lesya Dymyd
OCP EMEA Liaison
Open Compute Project Foundation
Thorsten Schäfer
Senior Business Development Manager Storage & Backup DACH
Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH
Amos Ankrah
Solutions Specialist
Boston Limited
Cornel Schnietz
Founder & CTO
CM4all GmbH
Walter Freyn
Manager
d-fine AG
Peter Gerhardt
Channel Account Manager
Pax8 Deutschland GmbH
Marc O’Regan
CTO EMEA
Dell Technologies
Ole Petter Johnsen
Sales Engineer
ZaveIT AS
Raphaël Rebeyrotte
Corporate Product Marketing Specialist
OVHcloud
Sujay Pawar
CEO
Brainstorm Force
Ricardo Mendes
CEO
VAWLT
Jerome Evans
CEO
firstcolo GmbH
Chris Mondini
Managing Director, Europe
ICANN
Birgit Olzem
WordPress Professional, Coach & Consultant
CoachBirgit Media
Till Stimberg
Director Data Services & Storage Business Unit, Central Europe
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Roslyn Lavery
Partner Program Director at WooCommerce
Automattic
Uwe Kemmer
Director EMEA Field Engineering
Western Digital
Jonas Trüstedt
Principal IT Consultant & Senior orcharhino Architect
ATIX AG
Patrick Ghys
CEO
aixpedIT GmbH
Bernhard Schimpl
Manager Strategic Accounts
NVIDIA
Enrico Signoretti
VP Product & Partnerships
Cubbit
Robby McCullough
Co-founder
Beaver Builder
Arthur Wang
Solution Director
xFusion
Tristan Theroux
IT Infrastructure & Security Director
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