HostingSeekers Partners with CloudFest 2026 as Official Media Partner

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.

• Get a free Standard Pass for CloudFest 2026, exclusively for the HostingSeekers audience.
• Be a part of the future of cloud innovation and collaboration at CloudFest 2026 – Join Us!

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  (Former Chief Cloud Officer & Private Investor)
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.