One Festival,
5 Topic Tracks
We will approach our 2026 festival theme of “The Sustainability of Everything” through five topic tracks that will run throughout the festival. This way you and your team can tackle your biggest challenges while also building deeper expertise throughout your entire technology and service stack.





TRACK 1
Cybersecurity & Compliance

Building Full-Stack Resilience and Trust
As AI rewrites the rules of attack and defense, both cybersecurity and compliance are leadership challenges as much as technical challenges—and the stakes have never been higher. Cloud providers must navigate both a more-complex threat landscape and a growing patchwork of global rules, build adaptable systems—and address both security and compliance as an opportunity, not an obstacle.
This track brings together ethical hackers, policy experts, service providers, and open source leaders to confront the reality of today’s cybersecurity landscape: trust is earned under fire, and resilience is now a shared responsibility across the entire stack.
#Cybersecurity #ThreatVectors #Trust #Hacking #CISO #MSSP #Compliance #NIS2 #SBOM
Speakers on this track include
Borja Cruz Ballesteros
MSP and MSSP Email Security Sales Manager
Check Point Software
Spain

Igor Seletskiy
CEO
CloudLinux
United States

Ivan Milenkovic
VP of Cyber Risk Technology
Qualys
United Kingdom

Alexander De Lion
Product Marketing Manager
Synology GmbH
Germany

Lukáš Kršek
Business development manager
WEDOS
Luxembourg

TRACK 2
AI-Powered Cloud Solutions

Creating a Viable Future for AI
AI is made possible by the Cloud—even as it helps run the Cloud. As AI becomes foundational to the stack, the community is unpacking how these evolving—and sometimes mutating—technologies are reshaping infrastructure—from performance boosts to operational ethics—and what that means for the humans who are running the show
From hyperscale relationships to independent operators and open source platforms to private models and deployments, this track is where those who build the internet get up-to-the-minute human intelligence on AI.
#AI #AgenticAI #BareMetal #PowerConsumption #Workloads #DataHandling
Speakers on this track include
Julian Chesterfield
CTO / Co-Founder
hosted·ai
United Kingdom

Nithin Das Haridas
Regional Presales Manager
ManageEngine
India

Zaki Hassan
Senior Director of Flash Marketing
Sandisk
United States

Jan Lepsky
Co-Founder & CPO
mogenius
Germany
Lauro Rizzatti
Technical MKTG
VSORA
United States

TRACK 3
Corporate IT Evolved

The Future is Always On
The enterprise development world is shifting fast. And success on both sides of the customer-provider relationship depends upon understanding the evolution of Cloud-native DevOps culture, tools, organizational structures, and soft skills—highlighting how teams build, deploy, and recover in a reshaped world.
This track is a rare meeting of the minds: it’s the main point of contact between the world of corporate IT and the world of internet infrastructure.
#DevOps #Enterprise #CorporateIT #LegacySystems #StrategicPartnership
Speakers on this track include
Rafael Biermann
CTO
Hardwareluxx Media
Germany
Andreas Schilling
Senior Editor CPU/GPU/Architecture
Hardwareluxx Media
Germany
Hein Matthee
Solutions Architect
OpenNebula Systems
Spain

Antoine Coetsier
COO and co-founder
Exoscale
Switzerland
Boyan Krosnov
CTO and Co-Founder
StorPool Storage
Bulgaria

TRACK 4
Data Sovereignty

The Cloud is Everywhere, But Location Matters
Digital borders are hardening, and achieving data sovereignty is a complex technological and political exercise, with distinct challenges and advantages depending on your location. Learn how Cloud providers, MSPs, and those responsible for MLOps are making sure that the right data is in the right place in a rapidly-changing world. The nature of borders is shifting through economic and regulatory means; so every CSP, MSP, and IT leader must start considering “Independence as a Service”.
This track is where practical and forward-thinking service providers and digital transformation specialists will build a winning strategy and start executing it.
#DataSovereignty #Compliance #NIS2 #CyberResilience #SBOM #MLOps
Speakers on this track include
Peter Groth
VP & GM, SP & OEM
HPE
United States

Sabrina Breidert
Head of Sales
Yorizon GmbH & Co KG
Germany

Patricia Hillebrand
Technical Alliances Manager
RNT Rausch GmbH
Germany

Andre Meij
CTO
Soverin
Netherlands

Ryan Horjus
VP of Deployments
Hydra Host
United States

TRACK 5
Finding the Future

Building Tomorrow’s Internet
The internet is evolving before our eyes, shaped by geopolitical upheaval, agentic AI, and new models of trust. It’s time for thought leadership that actually leads us somewhere: where strategy meets sustainability, and principles meet performance. Dig into how you’ll stay relevant and re-earn your place in a world of smart assistants, ambient interfaces, and evolving trust signals.
This track is where Cloud leaders step back from day-to-day operations and talk about what really matters: how to build systems that last, scale responsibly, and serve real human and business needs. Expect sharp thinking, long-term vision, and unapologetically opinionated perspectives on what’s next—and what’s worth building.
#Imagination #ThoughLeadership #Futurism #Scaling #Strategy #DomainNames #Search #AI #Marketing #WebHosting #Websites
Speakers on this track include
Liza Newell
Storyteller
Stories from the Well of Life
United States
Kim Barnes-Dallas
EMEA Server Channel Sales Manager
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Rod Moloney
Vice President
Lead-Wealth
Ireland

Marcus Stier
Head of Business Development
COMBACK GmbH
Germany

Arto Minasyan
President & Co-Founder
10Web
United States

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- Access to the main stages & Exhibition Hall
- Access to all Keynotes & masterclasses
- Invitation to all parties & concerts
- Catering, including lunch & coffee breaks
- Event bag with goodies
- Free shuttle from Offenburg HBF to Rust and back
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