Cloud Industry
Updated on :
February 11, 2026
We are proud to announce that HostingSeekers is an official media partner of CloudFest 2026, the #1 internet infrastructure event. This continued partnership highlights the strong partnership between CloudFest and HostingSeekers.
CloudFest is among the leading cloud and hosting industry events that brings 10,000+ professionals, 250+ speakers, and 150+ partners from across 80 countries to shape the future of the internet ecosystem.
About CloudFest 2026
CloudFest 2026 is the world’s leading conference on cloud, hosting, and internet infrastructure, bringing together global technology leaders, innovators, and decision-makers to shape the future of the digital economy.
- Dates: March 23–26, 2026.
- Venue: Europa Park, Rust, Germany
Each year, CloudFest transforms the theme park into a global hub for cloud computing, AI, cybersecurity, data centers, and digital infrastructure. This year’s festival theme is “The Sustainability of Everything.”
HostingSeekers: A Strategic Media Partner
HostingSeekers is proud to be a strategic media partner of CloudFest 2026, supporting the global cloud and hosting community by connecting technology providers with the right audiences worldwide.
As a trusted web hosting discovery and comparison platform, HostingSeekers helps businesses find the best web hosting, cloud, data center, and infrastructure solutions. With thousands of verified providers and millions of annual visitors, HostingSeekers plays a key role in promoting innovation, transparency, and growth in the digital ecosystem.
What’s new at CloudFest 2026
1. CloudFest Lab
A brand new 800 sqm space combining an interactive cafe, stage, and exhibition area designed for collaboration, creativity, and immersive learning experiences.
2. Street Food Festival
Fuel your conversations and networking with a variety of food trucks and global cuisine, all included in the event pass.
3. Expanded Event Spaces
CloudFest has optimized its floor plan with new zones and venues that offer unique experiences, such as the Server Throwing Arena, making exploration and engagement easier and more exciting than ever.
4. WP (Business & Agency) Summit
A first-of-its-kind program day dedicated to web agencies, hosting providers, cloud services providers, and digital businesses. This summit focuses on strategy, growth, and ROI and is included free with CloudFest registration.
5. Capture the Flag (CTF) Tournament
The ultimate ethical hacking competition returns, bringing developers, cybersecurity pros, and tech leaders together in a friendly skills challenge.
6. Five Topic Tracks
CloudFest 2026 introduces five focused content tracks, allowing attendees to follow a structured learning path. It approaches the festival theme of “The Sustainability of Everything” through five topic tracks like cybersecurity & compliance, AI-powered cloud solutions, Corporate IT evolved, Data sovereignty, and finding the future.
7. Podcast Studio
A creative space for influencers and thought leaders to record and broadcast live from the event, a powerful platform for voices shaping the cloud conversation.
CloudFest 2026: Agenda
23 March
| Time ( CET) | Location | Session |
| 10:00 AM-10:10 AM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | Welcome to WP Business and Agency Summit |
| 10:10 AM-10:30 AM | Hotel Colosseo | WP by the Numbers, an Umbrella View of the WP Ecosystem |
| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | Enterprise-Scale Design Systems for WordPress: Creating Reusable UX Patterns for the Block Editor |
| 11:00 AM-11:30 AM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | Case Study: From Freelancer to 25-Person Agency – What Actually Scales |
| 11:30 AM-12:00 PM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | Hiring, Training & Retaining a Modern WP Agency Team |
| 12:00 PM-12:30 PM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | DevOps for WordPress – Real Pipelines, Real Deployments |
| 12:30 PM-1:00 PM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | The Future of WordPress in the Enterprise Cloud (Performance, Security, Extensibility) |
| 2:30 PM-3:00 PM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | How to Build High-Margin Agency Services in 2026 |
| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | How to Build a WordPress Product Inside an Agency (SaaS or Plugin) |
| 3:30 PM-4:00 PM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | How Agencies & Hosting Providers Can Collaborate More Effectively |
| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | La Scala Hotel Colosseo | WebPros Product Roadmap |
| 7:00 PM-11:00 PM | Main Entrance Europa Park | Come2Gather in the Streets |
24 March
| Time (CET) | Location | Sessions | Speakers |
| 9:00 AM-9:10 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Welcome to CloudFest 2026: The Sustainability of Everything | Cristan Jaegar ( CEO at CloudFest)Soeren von Varchmin (Chief Evangelist at CloudFest) |
| 9:10 AM-9:30 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Building Sovereign, Trusted Cloud: A Full-Stack Blueprint for Service Providers | Peter Groth ( VP & GM, SP & OEM at HPE) |
| 9:55 AM-10:25 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Sustainability is Everything Everywhere All at Once: A Cloud Operator’s Guide to Not Losing Their Mind | Christain Dawson (Executive Director at i2Coalition)Oliver Sild (CEO at Patchstack ) Matt Russell |
| 11:05 AM-11:25 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Infrastructure-Native Security: Re-Architecting Traffic Control for Margin and Mitigation | Robert Jacobi (CEO at Blackwall) |
| 11:25 AM-11:45 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Ampere & Arm: Game-Changing AI Innovation for Europe | |
| 11:45 AM-12:05 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Can AI Ever Be Green? How We Build the AI Factory Sustainably – From the GPU to the Power Meter | Christian Winterfeldt |
| 12:10 PM-12:20 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Right-Sized AI Infrastructure: An OCP Playbook for CSPs & MSPs | Ivan Mudrry |
| 12:20 PM-12:40 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Sustainable Cloud at Scale: Transparency and Efficiency with CloudAssess and Liquid Cooling | Alexander Jenewein |
| 2:30 PM-3:00 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Trust Is Now Infrastructure: Governing Cloud and AI Under Pressure | David Cattler ( Founder and Principal at Ironhelm works) |
| 3:00 PM-3:10 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Driving MSSP Growth with Next-Gen CHECK POINT Email Security for M365: Maximum Protection, Minimal Effort | Borja Cruz Ballesteros (MSP and MSSP Email Security Sales Manager) Sascha Tezak (Partner Sales Manager, MSP/MSSP Email) |
| 3:20 PM-3:30 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | More Revenue, Same Servers: What’s Next from CloudLinux & Imunify | Igor Selettskiy (CEO at CloudLinux) |
| 3:30 PM-3:40 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Beyond Components: Why Liquid Cooling Must Be Treated as a System in AI-Driven Data Centers | Fang Wang (Account Manager at Beehe Electric) |
| 3:40 PM-3:50 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Optimizing Data Center Performance with Emerging Flash and SSD Technologies for AI | Frederik Haak (General Manager SSD BU) |
| 3:50 PM-4:05 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Seagate Keynote | Maarten Guijt (Vice President Europe at Seagate Technology) |
| 4:05 PM-4:15 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | The Sovereign AI Rush: Launch High-Margin’ Chat-with-Your-Data’ Services in Days | Sascha UhI (Senior Solution Architect Alliances) |
| 4:35 PM-4:45 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Optimize AI Data Storage Costs with Confidence | Benedykt Marciniak (Commercial Account Executive, DAC) |
| 4:45 PM-4:55 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Break the Reactive Cycle: How MSPs Help the Mid-Market Go Proactive | Suvi Silvanto
( Director, Product Marketing ) |
| 4:55 PM-5:05 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | AI Will Disrupt Your Recurring Revenue Business: Make Sure Your Pricing Can Evolve | Jessica Looney (Account Executive
Chargebee) |
| 5:05 PM-5:25 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | First-Colo Keynote | Firstcolo |
| 5:25 PM-6:00 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Scale vs. Stewardship: Rethinking Growth in the Cloud Economy | Brittany Kaiser President (Own Your Data) |
| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM | Server Throwing Arena at Europa Park | World Server Throwing Championship – Men’s Preliminaries | Outside Main Entrance Parking Lot |
| 7:00 PM-11:00 PM | Hotel Colosseo | Loud in the Cloud | Powered By MICR, NVIDIA |
25 March
| Time (CET) | Location | Session | Speakers |
| 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Welcome to Day 2: Shift into High Gear | Christian Jaeger (CEO, CloudFest) Soeren von Varchmin (Chief Evangelist, CloudFest) |
| 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | NVIDIA Updates From GTC | — |
| 11:15 AM – 11:35 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Sovereign AI at Scale | Prasad Alluri (VP & GM, Micron Technology) |
| 11:35 AM – 11:55 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | AI Cloud 12 Months Later: What Went Right, What Went Wrong, and What We Learned | Ditlev Bredahl (CEO & Co-Founder, hosted·ai) |
| 12:05 PM – 12:15 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Paving the Way for Sustainable Data Center Operations | Isao Yamamoto (Chief Specialist, KIOXIA) |
| 12:40 PM – 1:00 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | The Sustainability of Hard Disk Drives | Rainer Kaese (Senior Manager, Toshiba) |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Your Best Meeting Ever: 5 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done | Rebecca Hinds (Author) |
| 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Unlocking Data Centre Versatility and Performance with Intel® Xeon® 6 | Georgios Kardaras (Intel) Yuri Slukhai (ASBISc Enterprises) |
| 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Build a High-Performance Cloud with Hyperconverged Infrastructure | Boyan Krosnov (CTO, StorPool) |
| 4:05 PM – 4:25 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | The Great European Anycast Quest | Lukáš Kršek (WEDOS) Merle Kukys (WEDOS) |
| 4:25 PM – 4:35 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Racing Against the Clock on Digital Trust | Peter Roybal (Sectigo) |
| 4:35 PM – 4:45 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Lead-Wealth, the Global Provider of Data Center Solutions |
26 March
| Time (CET) | Location | Session | Speakers |
| 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Rock the Final Day of CloudFest 2026 (General Session) | Christian Jaeger (CEO, CloudFest) Soeren von Varchmin (Chief Evangelist, CloudFest) |
| 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | The Cloud Above Clouds (Keynote – Tomorrow’s Internet) | Gabriele Fronzé (CEO, Elemento Cloud) |
| 11:25 AM – 11:35 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Digital Sovereignty the Green Way: Empowering Businesses with Private AI (Keynote – Data Sovereignty) | Sabrina Breidert (Head of Sales, Yorizon) |
| 11:35 AM – 11:45 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Powering Europe’s Digital Sovereignty with Memory (Keynote – Security & Compliance) | Monika Wilk (VP, Wilk Elektronik / Goodram) |
| 11:45 AM – 11:55 AM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Cloud Ops Suite Software Story (Alternative to VMware) (Keynote) | — |
| 11:55 AM – 12:05 PM | Studio Stage, Das Studio | Innovation for 800G-Ready POD Design in Container DC (Breakout – AI) | Andie Yen (Giga Computing) |
| 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Multiple Venues (Arena Stage, Lab Stage, Masterclasses, etc.) | Lunch Break & Barcamp Sessions | — |
Summing Up
The partnership between HostingSeekers and CloudFest 2026 marks an exciting step forward in strengthening the global cloud and hosting ecosystem. As a media partner, HostingSeekers will amplify the voices of industry leaders, highlight cutting-edge innovations, and deliver valuable insights to businesses worldwide. This collaboration is more than just event coverage; it’s about building connections, sharing knowledge, and driving the future of digital infrastructure. Together, HostingSeekers and CloudFest 2026 will help shape the next generation of cloud, hosting, AI, and data center technologies, empowering organizations to make smarter technology decisions.
manvinder Singh
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Manvinder Singh is the Founder and CEO of HostingSeekers, an award-winning go-to-directory for all things hosting. Our team conducts extensive research to filter the top solution providers, enabling visitors to effortlessly pick the one that perfectly suits their needs. We are one of the fastest growing web directories, with 500+ global companies currently listed on our platform.
