The amount of female talent and expertise in the cloud computing industry is immeasurable. Representation matters, though—traditional tech conferences are male-dominated: not just onstage, but in the networking sphere as well. At CloudFest we’re sick of that tradition (our own team is 50% female), so year on year we strive to bring more female participation […]
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CloudFest’s rock-star speaker list includes actual rock stars, as well as the people who literallly invented the web as we know it. On any day at CloudFest, you might hear from a CEO, an astronaut, and an elite athlete. Our list of keynote speakers and panelists run the gamut from hardcore technology and governance to world-renowned musicians and activists.
‘Sapiens’ Author Yuval Noah Harari Speaking at CloudFest 2022
We are pleased to announce bestselling author, historian, and professor Yuval Noah Harari, as a keynote speaker for CloudFest 2022. Harari has written Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Having sold over 35 million copies in 65 languages, he is considered […]
The Ecosia Cloud
Ecosia at CloudFest 2022: 100% Renewable Energy is Boring To build a sustainable Cloud, you have to think bigger – learn from the search engine that plants trees – learn from “The Ecosia Cloud” by it’s COO Wolfang Oels. A full day of CloudFest 2022 is devoted to The Sustainable Cloud: key leaders in the […]
CloudFest Advisory Board 2022
Expertise in the Cloud from every angle to deliver the best CloudFest possible. As a vendor-independent event, CloudFest is committed to creating a space for the best ideas to rise to the surface, and for industry-changing partnerships to form. The passion, imagination, and energy of each and every member of the CloudFest community is the […]
Hiren Parekh: How OVH Builds an End-to-End Cloud Experience
By 2025, data will be ten times what it has been since 2016. said Hiren Parekh, Senior Director of Cloud Services, EMEA at OVH, in his CloudFest keynote If your core business is consulting and managed services, and that data growth will influence tomorrow’s business decisions. You probably don’t want to spend time handling the […]
Marie Douglas: New Model for Your Competitive Advantage in the Cloud
The Cognitive Enterprise is the next logical step in the digital transformation, said Marie Douglas, Vice President, Global Technology Service Providers (CSPs, MSPs) at IBM, in her CloudFest keynote. Customers are aware that now is the time to develop new applications and start moving traditional mission-critical enterprise applications into an open hybrid-cloud environment, and foster […]
Yuval Dvir: To Understand AI, We Must Understand Human Intelligence
“May you live in interesting times”: it’s a famous back-handed blessing. And yet… here we are, living in interesting times. Technology is changing the way we live, work and play. Time to insight and frequency of innovation are being fueled by the ease of data sharing, collaboration and productivity. The convergence of infotech and biotech […]
Brian Behlendorf Video: Building an Open Source Community for Enterprise Blockchain Technology
Brian Behlendorf is most famous for developing the Apache HTTP server, and he served as CTO of the World Economic Forum, but did you know he was also one of the original technologists for the Burning Man festival? Empowering everyday people has always been a priority for him – he’s a longtime subverter of corporate […]
Will Pemble: Death by Winning
Entrepreneur and executive coach Will Pemble has been founding and growing businesses of all shapes and sizes for over 25 years. Video Will Pemble Death By Winning He said that web.com was growing consistently already, but then their customer acquisition shot through the roof – around 2,000 new customers per day. Just like how Factory […]
Tatiana Tropina Video: Should Cloud Companies Become Internet Cops?
Tatiana Tropina does not mince words! Biggie once said “Mo’ money, mo’ problems”, but in this case that can apply to hyperscale platforms whose clients push out billions of content nodes. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) described the passage of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive as “abandon[ing] common-sense and the advice of […]