Meet the NamesCon 2026 Lineup
Meet the domain name and digital asset professionals who will present at CloudFest Americas and NamesCon Global 2026 to help attendees take advantage of the emerging landscape—from technology and law to investment trends and deal-making. The digital economy is changing fast, and our speakers’ hard-won experience helps domainers make the smartest possible choices for the year ahead.
Here are the first 2026 featured speakers… more updates every week.
Rick Schwartz
Founder & Creator
Beanstalk Challenge
US
Tim Switzer
Vice President, Business Affairs
Public Interest Registry
United States
Robert Jacobi
Chief Experience Officer
Blackwall
United States
Aaron Campbell
VP Product
Monarx
United States
Marco Hoffmann
COO / Managing Director
OpusDNS GmbH
Germany
Michael Feeley
COO
Trillion.com
United States
Katie Wokasch
Head of Product Engineering
Name.com
United States
Jeffrey Neuman
Founder & CEO
JJN Solutions Law, PLLC
United States
Leonardo Saavedra
Director of Operations – Americas
Hosting.Com
Colombia
Susan Lawrence
BD & Partnerships
D3
United States
Konrad Keck
co-founder
webhosting.today
Poland
Charly Esnal
CEO
MANA TECH
United States
Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition
James Lee
Principal Product Manager
WebPros
Malaysia
Ben Gabler
CEO
Rocket.net
United States
Benoit Hochedez
CEO
Ex2.com
Canada
Judd Lindvall
Head of Cloud + AI Infrastructure
Core 4 Solutions / Charg
United States
Naela Sarras
Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement in North America
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
United States
Neha Naik
Senior Vice President, Channel Partnerships
Radix
United Arab Emirates
Kelly Hardy
Director of Compliance
Dynadot
United States
Emmit McHenry
Founder
Network Solutions, Inc.
United States
Todd Ryan
CEO
American Business Capital Corp
US
Preston Gosdin
CEO
Limestone Networks
United States
Vito Peleg
CEO/Founder
Atarim
United Kingdom
Michael Gilmour
CEO
ParkLogic
Australia
Anand Vora
VP, Head of Domains
Namecheap Inc
United States
Philbert Shih
Managing Director
Structure Research
Canada
Raquel Manriquez
Founder/Owner
WonderlandCurious
United States
Jason Weathersby
Director, Software Engineering
Identity Digital
United States
Caleb Katz
Co-Founder
Digital Estates
United States
Arthur Mai
CEO
InternetX – Sedo – IONOS Group
Germany
Levi Gundert
Chief Security & Intelligence Officer
Recorded Future
US
Monte Cahn
President
RightOfTheDot
Estanis Gines
Vicepresident Customer Support and Operations
openwave
United Kingdom
Jason Schaeffer
Counsel
ESQwire.com P.C.
United States
David Cattler
Founder and Managing Principal
Ironhelm Works
United States
Simon McCalla
CEO – Online
Team Internet
United Kingdom
Ron da Silva
CEO – Founder
Network Technologies Global
United States
Bret Miller
Partner
ATM Holdings
United States
Soeren von Varchmin
Chairman of the Advisory Board
CloudFest & NamesCon
Raymond King
CEO
Porkbun
United States
Braden Pollock
Founder
Legal Brand Domains
United States
Mohammed Naser
CEO
VEXXHOST
Canada
Darpan Munjal
Founder and CEO
Atom.com
United States
Jeff Sass
CMO
.ART Registry
United States
Andrea Silas
VP of Technical Support
DreamHost
United States
Ammar Kubba
CEO
afterTHOUGHT, Inc.
United States
Michael Riedl
CEO
Team Internet Group PLC
United Kingdom
Elisabeth Klughardt
Owner
Finding Betty LLC
United States
Sara Rego
VP of Commercial
Team Internet
United Kingdom
Rachel Sterling
Chief Marketing Officer
Identity Digital
Vicente Neto
Executive Chairman
EVEO Cloud
Brazil
Jonathan Tenenbaum
CEO & General Counsel
MediaOptions
United States
Joe Alagna
Chief Strategy Officer
it.com Domains
United States
Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest
Henk Mosterd
Head of Sourcing Your.Online North America
Your.Online
United States
Michele Neylon
CEO
Blacknight
Ireland
Anthony Pombal
Managing Director / VP Sales and Partnerships
CloudFest Americas/ NamesCon
United States
David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance
United States
Igor Seletskiy
Founder and Chairman
CloudLinux
United States
Lillian Fosteris
Principal
Fosteris Consulting LLC
United States
Nadya Frost
Co-Founder
ShareShift.io
Cyprus
Nic Williams
Principal Architect
Infoblox
United States
Jordan C. Unegbu
CEO
Swarmz Labs
Switzerland
Nick LaRose
Accounts Director
rtCamp
United States
Ron Jackson
Editor & Publisher
DNJournal.com
Nick Nelson
Sr. Director, Systems Innovation
DataBank
United States
Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress
Elementor
Israel
TJ Danklefs
Director of Product
WebPros
United States
Arnaud Franquinet
CEO
Gandi
France
Jeremy Chrysler
Vice President of Product Strategy, Yahoo Search
Yahoo
United States
Wade Smith
Director – Aftermarket Sales
GoDaddy
United States
Jesse Tuttle
Ethical Threat Actor®
AP2T Labs
United States
Mark Ghoriafi
Premium Domains Broker
Sedo.com
United States
Sé Reed
Co-founder and CEO
The WP Open Community Collective
United States
Jothan Frakes
CEO
Private Label Internet
United States
Shane Cultra
Founder
Winterline
United States
GERARDO ARISTIZABAL
Director
Registry.co
Colombia
Andriy Khvetkevych
CEO
NicNames.com & NIC.UA
United States
Elliot Noss
Founder
Groundmark.org
CA