CloudFest 2023 | CloudFest | 20 March 2023 | Europa-Park, Europa-Park-Straße 2, 77977 Rust, Germany

The world’s largest cloud industry event is ready to once again take over a spectacular European amusement park to facilitate new partnerships, deep knowledge sharing, and the best parties the industry has ever seen. We do this because we love technology, we love people, and we’re excited for the possibilities that emerge when brilliant humans connect.

CloudFest is the #1 internet infrastructure event in the world, connecting the global cloud computing industry: you’ll form the partnerships that help you reach your business goals, and have a great time doing it. CloudFest returns to deliver an even bigger, more engaging live event experience that will surprise longtime attendees and first-timers alike.

2023 Speakers

Josepha Haden Chomphosy
WordPress Executive Director, Automattic

Kristian Ørmen
VP, Registry Services, Internetstiftelsen

Andrew Cotton
Professional big wave surfer, Andrew cotton events pt

Michael Widenius
CTO, MariaDB Foundation

Yuliana Shemetovets
Spokesperson, Belarusian Cyber Partisans

Paul Vixie
Director, SIE Europe U.G.

Neil Harbisson
Cyborg Artist

Sandra Wachter
Professor of Technology and Regulation, University of Oxford

Andreas Gauger
CEO, Open-Xchange

Tim Callan
Chief Experience Officer, Sectigo

Geoffrey Petit
Field Application Engineer – EMEA, Kingston Technology

Gabriele Fronzé
CEO & Co-Founder, Elemento Cloud

Dr. Markus Sedlatschek
Product Owner Cloud, German Edge Cloud

Sean Varley
Vice President Product Marketing, Ampere Computing LLC

Lotte Bendstrup
Managing Director Nordic Division, team.blue

Tony Liu
Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Bechtle Clouds

Sascha Tezak
Cloud Partner Development Manager Central Europe, Check Point

Rainer Kaese
Senior Manager Business Development Storage Products, Toshiba

Pawel Rzeszucinski
Global Head of Data and AI, CentralNic Group PLC

Bastian Hofmann
Field Engineer, SUSE

Juergen Domnik
EMEA Sales Director, Cloud Service Provider​ Dell Technologies

Sameer Thakar
Vice President, Product Management, Verisign

Michael Riedl
CEO, CentralNic Group PLC

Alexander Jenewein
EMEA Hyperscale Sales Leader, Lenovo

Vincentas Grinius
CEO, IPXO

Paul Bootsma
Senior Consultant, Cloud Solutions​, Dell Technologies

Mattias Fridström
CTO, Arelion

Jesse Friedman
Head of WP Cloud and VP of Innovation and Partnership Success for Jetpack, Automattic

Konstantin Rygol
Lead Engineer for AI and HPC, Boston, BostonIT

Maik Broemme
Senior Product Manager, Virtuozzo

Philipp Kurus
Senior Sales Executive, Boston Server & Storage Solutions GmbH

Christian Grusemann
Business Manager Security, Bechtle Clouds

Billy Thompson
Manager, Solutions Engineer, Akamai

Daniel Thorpe
Head of Deliverability, Flowmailer

Carlos Rego
VP Strategic Development, Virtuozzo

Peter Groth
VP, CTO & General Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jean-Marie Verdun
Distinguished Technologist, HPE

Ray Sardo
VP, Global Cloud Sales, Solidigm

Paul Baird
Chief Technology Security Officer, Qualys

Can Kirca
Senior Accessibility Specialist, Hepsiburada (Nasdaq: Heps)

Gaurang Sinha
Vice President, Revenue & GTM, Titan

Mattias Fridström
Vice President and Chief Evangelist, Arelion

Matt Cromwell
co-Founder of GiveWP, StellarWP

Vito Peleg
Co-Founder & CEO, Atarim.io

Christian Jaeger
CEO, CloudFest

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Alan Chang
Vice President of Technical Operations at Inspur Systems, Inspur Systems Inc

Stefan Schäfer
Director Product Marketing Central Europe, OVHcloud

Hannes Migga-Vierke
VP of Global Marketing Operations, Acronis

Joseph Gonnachon
Marketing Manager AI & HPC Solutions, 2CRSi

Frederik Haak
Senior Manager SSD Marketing & Engineering, KIOXIA

Adrian Stanek
CTO, webbar

Adrian Riedo
CEO, RNX

Darren Soothill
Sales Engineer, croIT

Larry Alston
Vice President of Cloud, Akamai

Oliver Sild
CEO, Patchstack

Dr. Markus Leberecht
Member of the EMEA Chief Technology Office, Intel

Thorsten Schuberth
Cloud Security Technology Sales, Check Point Software Technologies

Esther Spanjer
Director of Enterprise Business Development EMEA, Micron

Theodoros Filippidis
Strategic Product Manager, Virtuozzo

Nami Matsumoto
Manager EMEA Business Strategy / EMEA Sales & Marketing, Fujifilm Recording Media GmbH

Akash TK
Senior Presales Consultant, Site24x7

Jeremy Warren
CEO, Monarx

Ariane Segelitz-Karsten
Business Development Manager, Cloud&Heat

Alain Wilmouth
CEO & Founder, 2CRSi

Ben Jackman
EMEA APEX Cloud Sales Director, Dell Technologies

Paul Rowan
Vice President SSD Marketing & Engineering, KIOXIA Europe GmbH

Jan Löffler
CTO, Plesk

B.J. Park
Founding Partner, neoteq ventures

Joost De Valk
Head of WordPress Strategy, Newfold Digital

Soeren Von Varchmin
Chairman of the Advisory Board, CloudFest

Jan Moll
CEO, dtm

Dennis Kittrell
VP Product - Hosting, CloudLinux

Lukas Hertig
SVP Business Development, Plesk/WebPros

Daniel Marco Besser
Key Account Manager Banking and Finance and Mid Germany, Arista Networks

Ben Gabler
CEO & Founder, Rocket.net

Tilo Unger
Field Sales Manager, PrimeLine

Ryan Taylor
Senior Director EMEA, WEKA

Zane Ball
Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Platform Engineering & Architecture, Intel

Hansjürgen Binner
Technical Sales Manager, Swissbit

Oliver Arafat
Head of Cloud Solution Architects DACH, Benelux, CEE, Alibaba Cloud

Till Krüss
CEO, CacheWerk

Simon Dreyer
Channel Account Manager MSP, ESET

Kristian Vättö
SSD Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor

David Huang
Business develompent managment, Gigacomputing

Patrick Eikenaar
Director Data Center Sales​, Dell Technologies

Daniel Wette
CEO, rankingCoach

Joe Morgan
VP of Cloud, Virtuozzo

John Mariani
EMEA XaaS Business Development Manager, Dell Technologies

Jonathan Wold
CEO, Guildenberg, Inc

David Huberman
Regional Engagement Manager, Office of the CTO, ICANN

Arthur Mai
Chief Marketing Officer, IONOS SE

David Dornieden
CSP Account Executive DACH, Lenovo

Claudia Frese
CEO, STRATO AG

Stephan Ilaender
General Manager, STACKIT Service & Support

Andreas Wieland
Product Owner Edge, German Edge Cloud

Luca Dell’Oca
Principal EMEA Cloud Architect, Veeam Software

Igor Seletskiy
CEO and Founder, CloudLinux

Cornel Schnietz
Founder & CTO, CM4all GmbH

Florian Hartmann
Sr. Sales Engineer, Crowdstrike

Joe Alagna
Advisor, IT.com

Brooke Edge
Consumer & Brand Research Partner, Open Eye

Rob Seger
CTO, Monarx Inc

Markus Bauer
Senior Technology Evangelist EMEA, Acronis

Mohamad El-Batal
OCTO Technologist, Seagate Technology

Sebastian Straube
Lead Cloud Solution Architect DACH, Palo Alto Netowoks

Sim Upadhyayula
General Manager, Solutions, Supermicro

Jeff Wittich
Chief Product Officer, Ampere

George Egri
CEO, BitNinja Security

Alex Anastasiadis
Head of Talent Management, HR Unit

Sabine Dedering
DFS Channel Lead Germany & CE, Dell Technologies

Supriyo Bhattacharya
Director Sales Cloud & Edge, German Edge Cloud

Leoni Rossberg
Managing Director, Groundbreaker

Michael Slusarz
Product Manager Dovecot, Open-Xchange GmbH

Carole Olinger
Head of Hackathon, CloudFest

Logan Kipp
Director of Sales Engineering, SiteLock

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AI Chatbot, OpenAl

Maria Bouligaraki
Head of Planning & Standards Unit, eu-LISA

Mostapha Ahaduch
Cloud Solution Architect, Bechtle Clouds

Till Stimberg
Director Data Services & Storage Business Unit, Central Europe, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jesse Asklund
CXO, WebPros

Patricia Hillebrand
International Channel Manager, RNT Rausch

Petter Lund
Chief Technology Officer, Miss Group

Neil Cook
Head of Product, PowerDNS

Heiko Binder
Head of Partner Programs & Applications, IONOS SE

2023 Partners

DIAMOND+:
• Intel
• Verisign
• Webpros

DIAMOND:
• 2CRSI
• Acronis
• Akamai
• Ampere
• Bechtle
• Dell Technologies
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Kioxia
• RNT
• Sectigo

PLATINUM:
• CentralNic
• Checkpoint
• CloudLinux
• Compal
• Eulisa
• German Edge Cloud
• Gigabyte
• GleSys
• 1E1
• Kingston
• Lenovo
• Memory Solution
• Monarx
• OX
• OVH Cloud
• Paloalto
• Samsung
• Solidigm
• SuperMicro
• Titan
• Toshiba
• Virtuozzo
• Wedos

GOLD:
• Advanced Installer
• AIC
• Alasca
• Alibaba Cloud
• Alinto
• Almalinux
• Alphacool
• Anexia
• Apachecloudstack
• Arelion
• Arista
• Asbis
• Asrock
• Asus
• Avisi Cloud
• Axigen
• B1 Systems
• Bitninja Security
• BotGuard
• Broadcom
• ByteStock
• Celestica
• Certum
• Chargenee
• Chenbro
• Cloud
• Cm4all
• Connect Reseller
• Console Connect
• Crowdstrike
• Denic
• Diso
• Dmarc Advisor
• Dtm
• Edgewatch
• Elemento
• Enhance
• Epages
• Eset
• EU
• FastSpring
• Firstcolo
• Flexoptix
• flowmailer
• Fujifilm
• Graid
• Micron
• MSI
• NTT
• Open E
• Opentalk
• Point
• Qualys
• Ranking Coach
• Realtime Register
• RNX
• Sardina
• Seagate
• Stack iT
• Storpool
• Suse
• Swissbit
• Tucows/domain
• Tyan
• Upmind
• Vates

START-UPS PARTNERS:
• Atarim
• Bloola
• Cloudification
• Cloudologix
• Code Intelligence
• Dissco
• Leilo Storage
• Mergify
• Mitigant
• Rierino
• StudioWP
• Unikraft
• Warren
• ZaveIT

HACKATHON PARTNERS:
• Automattic
• Codeable
• Google
• Inpsyde
• Intel
• Ionos
• Post Status
• Webpros
• XWP
• Yoast