Cloudfest 2021 | CloudFest | 23 March 2021 | Virtual Event

CloudFest returns on an all-digital platform amid a global pandemic as we take stock of the strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities that are revealed by a globe-spanning threat like COVID-19. The internet has delivered when it was needed most, just as its architects predicted—now let’s take it to the next level. You, the cloud professional, have an important role to play in the future of technology—so join us at CloudFest 2021 and let’s build something great together.

2021 Speakers

Aaron Draplin
Graphic Designer, Draplin Design

James Gosling
Inventor of, Java

Sir Tim Berners-lee
Inventor of, World Wide Web

Cassie De Pecol
First Woman to Travel Every Country in the World, www.cassiedepecol.com

Sir Alex Younger
Former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6

Oleg Stavitsky
CEO and Co-Founder, Endel

Michel Paulin
CEO, OVHcloud

Heidi Zak
Co-Founder & CEO, ThirdLove

Günter Eggers
Head of Public Sector, NTT Global Data Centers EMEA

Mohan Ram
Go-to-Market Lead, APAC, DigitalOcean

Vatsal Shah
Business Coach, Mentor and Speaker, Pragmatic Consultancy

Christian Jaeger
CEO, CloudFest

Arun Bansal
CEO, ServerGuy & Breeze.io

Jeremy Warren
CEO, Monarx

Mallory Knodel
CTO, Center for Democracy & Technology

Elliot Noss
CEO, Tucows

Matt Pugh
CEO, WHMCS

Florian Bettges
Category Manger GreenLake Cloud Services DACH, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Patrick Pulvermüller
President of the Partners Business, Godaddy

Jay Paudyal
Founder, Urban Skill

Patrick Pulvermüller
President of the Partners Business, Godaddy

Jay Paudyal
Founder, Urban Skill

Shridhar Luthria
Founder & CEO, Logotron.tech

Arpit Agarwal
Co-Founder, Cloudmojo.io

Tarun Dua
CEO, E2E Networks Limited

Nikhil Pahwa
Founder and Editor, MediaNama

Vipin Khetarpal
Founder/CEO, Datameter Technologies Pvt Ltd

Hriday Biyani
CEO, Diadem Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Sabarinathan Sampath
SVP & COO, ZNet Technologies Private Limited

Burt Kaliski Jr.
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Verisign

Sameer Thakar
Senior Director, Product Management, Verisign

Andy Simpson
Principal Data Scientist, Senior Director Corporate Strategy and Analytics, Verisign

Liam Eagle
Research Director, 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence

Brent Hollingsworth
Senior Manager, AMD

Radost Dacheva
VP Strategic Partnerships, SiteGround

Werner Steinbeck
Global Alliances Presales, Dell Technologies

Volker Ludwig
CEO, Mainova WebHouse GmbH & Co. KG

Fábio Vaz
EMEA Data Protection Solutions Senior Presales Architect, Dell Technologies

Esra Yetkin
EMEA Data Protection Solutions Presales Leader, Dell Technologies

Deepa Gautam-Nigge
Global Lead SAP Next-Gen Ecosystem, SAP SE

Marcus Busch
Managing Director, Leaseweb

Philippa Oates
Principal Architect, Dell Technologies

Joao Esteves
EMEA Lead Architect, Dell Technologies

Jens Meggers
CEO, WebPros

George Egri
Founder and CEO, BitNinja Security

Sebastian Hufnagel
EMEA Government Affairs Manager, Dell Technologies

Andy King
Advisory Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies

Juergen Domnik
Director Cloud Service Provider Program EMEA, Dell Technologies

Sim Upadhyayula
General Manager, Solutions Enablement, Supermicro

Martin Bichler
Cloud Sales Specialist, Check Point Software Technologies

Arnaud Coustillère
Cyber & Digital Senior Advisor, Vice Admiral (2S), Cyber Pole of Excellence, Str@t-Algo Conseil

Philipe Bécane
VP, CEO, Head of Managed Services

Julien Levrard
CISO, OVHcloud

Anthony Scaglione
EVP, Global Sales, Wix

Douglas Lieberman
Global Solutions Director, Dell Technologies

Bogdan Moldovan
CEO, Axigen

Martin Spreer
Reseller Operations Manager, Reseller Division, CentralNic Group Plc

Donald Badoux
CEO, Main DC Offenbach GmbH

Marie Lanyon
Head of Marketing, Reseller Division, CentralNic Group Plc

Joe Oesterling
CTO, Liquid Web

Matt Russell
Chief Cloud Officer, Namecheap

Martin Schröter
Channel Manager, Check Point Software Technologies

Logan Kipp
Director of Sales Engineering, SiteLock

Jens Struckmeier
CTO & Founder, Cloud&Heat Technologies

Thomas Vollrath
Adviser, Basekit, diva-e, 1-grid, Contabo, AgriCircle

Robert Christiansen
VP, Strategy, Office of the CTO, HPE

Kristian Vättö
SSD Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor

Alex Peña
Senior Manager, Partner Product Marketing, Sectigo

Jens-Peter Feidner
Managing Director Germany, Equinix

Aaron Phillps
Web Hosting Analyst, Sectigo

Alexander Rabe
Managing Director, eco - Association of the the Internet Industry

Jamie Opalchuk
Founder & CEO, Hostpapa

Michele Neylon
CEO and Co-Founder, Blacknight

Simon Hinterholzer
Researcher, Borderstep Institute

Jochen Haller
Head of TechOps Information Security, IONOS

Patrick Schaudel
Head of Product Unit Online Applications SMB, IONOS

Neha Naik
Director, Channel Partnerships, Radix

Rob Kypriotakis
Server & Cloud Solution Architect, AMD

Kelvin Murray
Senior Threat Researcher, Carbonite + Webroot, OpenText Companies

Octavia De Weerdt
Managing Director, NBIP NaWas

Michael Detwiler
Senior Manager, Server Business Unit, AMD

Nayan Naik
VP Marketing and Cloud Evangelist, NTT Ltd

Jorge Gonzalez
Consultant for Service Providers, Dell Technologies

Alban Schmutz
Vice-President, Strategic Development & Public Affairs, OVHcloud

Yaniv Fdida
Head of Bare-Metal & Storage – SVP Infrastructure Group, OVHcloud

Maximilian Ahrens
CTO, T-Systems

Christian Thor
New Business D/A/CH, CloudHealth by VMware

Luc Esprit
Vice President Sales EMEA Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies

Santhi Pabbaraju
Solutions Architect Consultant, Dell Technologies

Matt Baker
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Planning, Dell Technologies

Felicity March
Resilience & Security Director, IBM

Maik Broemme
Senior Product Manager, Virtuozzo

Tim Rab
Product Owner & Co-Founder, Exivity

Jan-jaap Jager
CRO, Acronis

Dr. Kai Martius
Member of the Board & CTO, secunet AG

Simon Besteman
CEO, Dutch Cloud Community

Tim Owens
Co-Founder, Reclaim Hosting

Ruslan Synytsky
CEO, Jelastic

Stephan Teinert
Head of Cloud Sales, Wortmann AG

Stephan Teinertmarcus Singer
Field Applications Engineer Datacenter Solutions, Intel

Rebecca Weekly
Vice President, Intel

Hannes Schwaderer
Country Manager, Intel

Leoni Rossberg
Program Manager, Entrepreneurs for Knowledge

George Chaltas
Director, Strategic Customer & Visual Cloud Engineering, Intel

Diarmuid Daltún
CEO, csquare.ai

Sebastian Noelting
CEO, RNT Rausch

Rainer Sträter
Head of Global Platform Hosting, IONOS

Andreas Weiss
Head of Digital Business Models, Eco

Oliver Mauss
CEO, PlusServer Group

Rainer Kaese
Senior Manager, Toshiba

Dr. Markus Leberecht
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Intel

Ken Power
VP of Product Development, cPanel

Dr. Christian Böing
Advisor, Investor, former CEO of STRATO and deputy CEO of IONOS

Alex Fine
CEO, Virtuozzo

Christian Dawson
Executive Director, I2Coalition

Alexander Best
Regional Technologist Central Europe & EMEA Alliances, DataCore Software

Till Stimberg
Director Infrastructure Solutions Category, Presales and Sales Enablement, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Luca Dell’oca
Principal EMEA Cloud Architect, Veeam Software

Jan Löffler
CTO / CPO, Plesk

Manfred Berger
Senior Manager Business Development Platforms EMEA, Western Digital

Dr. Thomas Fischer
Head of Technologies & Engineering, Noris Network

Laurent Allard
Field Commerce Executive EMEA, VMware

Graham Crich
Vice President Cloud EMEA, Veeam

Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder, CloudLinux

Soeren Von Varchmin
Chairman of the Advisory Board, CloudFest

2021 Partners

• Dell Technologies
• Entrepreneurs for Knowledge
• Link11
• We are CloudLinux
• BitNinja Server Security
• Kingston
• Monarx
• Veeam
• CloudHealth
• DarkTrace
• Virtuozzo
• GoDaddy
• Ionos
• SuperMicro
• Carbonite
• Samsung
• cPanel
• Duda
• Acronis
• StorPool
• Seagate
• OVHcloud
• CentralNic
• Solarwinds
• Plesk
• Axigen
• Kioxia
• AMD
• C-Square
• Noris Network
• Chenbro
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Sectigo
• Check Point
• Intel
• Toshiba
• VHMOS
• RNT Raush
• Western Digital
• OX
• Halon
• Online
• Data Core
• .com