Sovereign Cloud Days Germany

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October 2026

Saturday (timezone: Europe/Berlin)

24 tracks

	Main Stage	Halle4 Coworking-Space	Workshop Stage	Mensa
9:00 AM	CheckIn
	Welcome Matthias Tinnemeier, Gesellschafter Geschäftsführer at SQUILD GmbH
	Keynote - Effective Control: Going Beyond Digital Sovereignty Thierry Carrez, General Manager at OpenInfra Foundation Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty Open Source & Community

10:00 AM	Predicting GitOps at 15,000+ Clusters: What Large-Scale Testing Taught Us Artem Lajko, Head of Platform Engineering at iits-consulting GmbH Cloud Operations Kubernetes & Cloud Native		How to Build a Central Storage Platform for Research and Administration Today? Andreas Niederländer, Geschäftsführer at IKU GmbH & Co. KG Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty Storage, Backup & Recovery


	Building a Scalable Alternative to Hyperscale Clouds Christoph Streit, CEO at ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty Cloud Operations
11:00 AM			Benchmark vs Test – OpenStack Rally in Practice Michel Raabe, Cloud Solution Architect at B1 Systems GmbH Cloud Operations OpenStack

	Automatic Eviction and Migration of VMs in OpenStack Clusters Running on k8s Stefan Hoffmann, Yaook Maintainer & DevOps Engineer at Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH Kubernetes & Cloud Native OpenStack		OpenStack backup aligned: multitenancy, data and metadata Artur Wojcik, Lead Architect and Engineering team Manager at STORWARE SP Z O O OpenStack Storage, Backup & Recovery

12:00 PM
	You Found a Bug. Now What? Jan Larwig, Senior Software Engineer at Schwarz Digits Cloud GmbH & Co. KG Open Source & Community
			Why Sovereign Infrastructure is Important for Research Robert Holling, Research Associate at Hochschule Osnabrück Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty Sovereign Cloud Stack

1:00 PM				Lunch Break


	Operators All the Way Down: Sovereign Ceph on Bare Metal with IronCore Andreas Fritzler & Daniel Gonzalez Nothnagel, Principal Software Architect & Development Expert at SAP SE Kubernetes & Cloud Native Storage, Backup & Recovery		From Model to Sovereign Endpoint: A Modelplane Walkthrough Yury Tsarev & Christopher Haar, Principal Solutions Architect at Upbound, Inc. AI Infrastructure Kubernetes & Cloud Native
2:00 PM

	Dynamic GPU Provisioning and Uncertainty-Aware LLM Inference Scheduling with OpenStack Cyborg Satej Kumar Sahu, Solution Architect at Zalando SE AI Infrastructure OpenStack

3:00 PM
	Who Controls the Failover? Sovereign Global Traffic Management with Kubernetes Yury Tsarev, Co-founder and CTO at 0ttl.ai Cloud Operations Kubernetes & Cloud Native		Sovereign AI Ops: Making Your Operations Easier and More Secure Martin Pilka, Sovereign AI Cloud Architect, CEO at dNation AI Infrastructure Cloud Operations


4:00 PM				Coffee Break
				Coffee Break
	From VMware to OpenStack – Building an Open Source Alternative Michel Raabe, Cloud Solution Architect at B1 Systems GmbH Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty OpenStack		Out of the Hyperscaler: Open IaaS APIs as an Exit Fabian Peter, CEO at Ayedo Cloud Solutions GmbH OpenStack Sovereign Cloud Stack

5:00 PM
	VMware Exit at a Medium-Sized Company - A Migration as It Really Happened Philipp Tennigkeit & Sven Thewes, Senior System Engineer & Head of DevOps Engineering at SQUILD GmbH Cloud Operations OpenStack		Metering and Billing IaaS Resources Freerk-Ole Zakfeld, Head of Cloud Operations at ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG Cloud Operations OpenStack


6:00 PM



7:00 PM		The Sound of Privacy - What Your Spotify Data Reveals About You Dennis Schulz & Thomas Hugle, Senior Consultant & Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH Security & Compliance

		Party

8:00 PM



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11:00 PM

October 2026

Sunday (timezone: Europe/Berlin)

14 tracks

	Main Stage	Workshop Stage	Mensa
9:00 AM	Welcome
	Keynote
	Keynote
	Sovereign, Resilient & Trusted AI: Any Model, Any Cloud, On Your Terms Gerd Pruessmann, VP Cloud Solutions at Cloudflight GmbH AI Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty	Does my sovereign cloud meet the SCS standards? Let’s do a reality check! IaaS, KaaS, and a look under the hood of the ScaleUp Open Cloud. Marvin Frommhold & Freerk-Ole Zakfeld, Standardization & Certification Engineer & Head of Cloud Operations at Forum SCS-Standards & ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty Sovereign Cloud Stack
10:00 AM

	The Road to Zero-Trust: Rethinking Identity for a Sovereign OpenStack Artem Goncharov, System Architect at SysEleven GmbH OpenStack Security & Compliance

11:00 AM
	No Sensitive Token Leaves the Building — A Sovereign, Model-Agnostic LLM Platform on Open Infrastructure Alexander Preis, Cloud Architect at infologistix GmbH AI Infrastructure Kubernetes & Cloud Native	Agentic AI meets Sovereign Cloud: openDesk Edu on Legacy Huawei Hardware with OpenStack SCS Tobias Weiß, Dev Ops Engineer / Lead Digital Sovereignty at Uni Marburg AI Infrastructure OpenStack


12:00 PM
	Kube3 - Federated KaaS Systems at Universities for Universities Lena Becker, Projektleitung Kube3 in NRW, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Kube3 at RWTH Aachen Kubernetes & Cloud Native Sovereign Cloud Stack	Not All Managed Kubernetes Are Created Equal: A Deep Dive into Control Plane Architectures Nick Berthold & Artem Lajko, Platform Engineer & Head of Platform Engineering at iits-consulting GmbH Cloud Operations Kubernetes & Cloud Native


1:00 PM			Lunch Break


	Sovereign Cloud and Air-Gapped Delivery with Open Component Model Jakob Möller, Engineering Manager at SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty Open Source & Community
2:00 PM

	What makes a cloud compliant? or: if you think you're compliant, you haven't looked hard enough Dr. Matthias Büchse, Projektmanager at ALASCA e.V. Security & Compliance Sovereign Cloud Stack	Empowering Resource-Limited Clinics with Sovereign Local AI Dr. med. Lars Riedemann, Specialist in Neurology at Universitätsklinik Heidelberg AI Infrastructure Security & Compliance

3:00 PM
	Wrap-up & Outlook Matthias Tinnemeier, CEO at SQUILD GmbH
	Wrap-up & Outlook Matthias Tinnemeier, CEO at SQUILD GmbH

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