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.
Daryl Westmoreland
CEO
Lions Path
United States
Mark Ghoriafi
Premium Domains Broker
Sedo.com
United States
Soeren von Varchmin
Chairman of the Advisory Board
CloudFest & NamesCon
Sachin Puri
CEO
Newfold Digital
United States
Christian Jaeger
CEO
CloudFest
Drew Bagley
Chief Privacy & Policy Officer
CrowdStrike
United States
Nick Nelson
Sr. Director, Systems Innovation
DataBank
United States
Susan Lawrence
BD & Partnerships
D3
United States
Erin Rosenstein
Director of Channel Marketing
Identity Digital
United States
Jonathan Tenenbaum
CEO & General Counsel
MediaOptions
United States
Elliot Noss
Founder
Groundmark.org
CA
Preston Gosdin
CEO
Limestone Networks
United States
Emmit McHenry
Founder
Network Solutions, Inc.
United States
Ben Gabler
CEO
Rocket.net
United States
Miriam Schwab
Head of WordPress
Elementor
Israel
Mark Crall
Channel Strategist
Ready Fire Aim Sherpas
United States
Aman Bhutani
Chief Executive Officer
GoDaddy
United States
Rachel Sterling
Chief Marketing Officer
Identity Digital
Wade Smith
Director – Aftermarket Sales
GoDaddy
United States
Philbert Shih
Managing Director
Structure Research
Canada
Jared Sine
Chief Strategy & Legal Officer
GoDaddy
United States
Andrew Allemann
Publisher
Domain Name Wire
United States
Jelle Slenters
Commercial Director
Sims Lifecycle Services / RackRenew
Netherlands
Taylor Henry
VP of Sales
Limestone Networks Inc.
United States
William Bell
EVP of Products
phoenixNAP
United States
Michael Riedl
CEO
Team Internet Group PLC
United Kingdom
Monte Cahn
Managing Director/President
RightOfTheDot, LLC/Dot Hip Hop, LLC
United States
Nick LaRose
Accounts Director
rtCamp
United States
Christa Taylor
Principal
TLDz
Canada
Nick Rasmussen
Vice President Business Development & GTM Strategies
WebPros
United States
Kelly Hardy
Director of Compliance
Dynadot
United States
Raymond King
CEO
Porkbun
United States
Caleb Katz
Co-Founder
Digital Estates
United States
Andrew Miller
Founder/President
ATM Holdings, Inc.
Jonas Villwock
Senior Manager B2B Marketing
IONOS
Germany
TJ Danklefs
Director of Product
WebPros
United States
Matt Medeiros
Marketing/Community
Rocketgenius
United States
Matthieu Lachance
Product Manager
Openwave
Canada
Christian Dawson
Executive Director
i2Coalition
Tim Timrawi
CEO
Sharktech Inc.
US
John Berryhill
Attorney
John B. Berryhill LLC
United States
Andriy Khvetkevych
CEO
NicNames.com & NIC.UA
United States
Vito Peleg
CEO/Founder
Atarim
United Kingdom
Benoit Hochedez
CEO
Ex2.com
Canada
David Snead
Director
Secure Hosting Alliance
United States
Jesse Asklund
Chief Product Officer
WebPros
United States
Ron Jackson
Editor & Publisher
DNJournal.com
Braden Pollock
Founder
Legal Brand Domains
United States
Nadya Frost
Co-Founder
ShareShift.io
Cyprus
Ron da Silva
CEO – Founder
Network Technologies Global
United States
Nic Williams
Principal Architect
Infoblox
United States
Alan Shiflett
GM of Aftermarket & Professional Services
GoDaddy
United States
Michael Gilmour
CEO
ParkLogic
Australia
Brooke Edge
Expert
Open eye
United States
Larry Fischer
Partner
GetYourDomain.com
United States
Andrea Silas
VP of Technical Support
DreamHost
United States
Henk Mosterd
Head of Sourcing Your.Online North America
Your.Online
United States
Jeremy Chrysler
Vice President of Product Strategy, Yahoo Search
Yahoo
United States
Pete Sclafani
Director, Network Solutions
Hilco Digital
United States
Mohammed Naser
CEO
VEXXHOST
Canada
Shane Cultra
Founder
Winterline
United States
Katie Wokasch
Head of Product Engineering
Name.com
United States
Sé Reed
Co-founder and CEO
The WP Open Community Collective
United States
Anthony Pombal
Managing Director / VP Sales and Partnerships
CloudFest Americas/ NamesCon
United States
Angelika Dorvel
Public Policy Manager
United States
Etienne Gillard
Head of Ventures
Mana Tech
United States
Michele Neylon
CEO
Blacknight
Ireland
Vicente Neto
Executive Chairman
EVEO Cloud
Brazil
Neha Naik
Senior Vice President, Channel Partnerships
Radix
United Arab Emirates
Aaron Campbell
VP Product
Monarx
United States
Sara Rego
VP of Commercial
Team Internet
United Kingdom
Arnaud Franquinet
CEO
Gandi
France
Jacqueline Daly
Senior Vice President
Dynadot
Ireland
Jothan Frakes
CEO
Private Label Internet
United States
Arthur Mai
CEO at InterNetX & CMO at IONOS
InternetX – Sedo – IONOS Group
Germany
Svilena Peneva
Head of WordPress Ecosystem Marketing
CloudLinux
Bulgaria
Carol Stambaugh
Owner
RadiateU
United States
Judd Lindvall
CRO
Core 4 Solutions / Charg Cloud
United States
Simon McCalla
CEO – Online
Team Internet
United Kingdom
Jordan C. Unegbu
CEO
Swarmz Labs
Switzerland
Levi Gundert
Chief Security & Intelligence Officer
Recorded Future
US
Carrie Smaha
Senior Manager Marketing Operations
InMotion Hosting
United States
Jeff Sass
CMO
.ART Registry
United States
Ann Morton
Senior Policy Director
Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition)
United States
Jeffrey Neuman
Founder & CEO
JJN Solutions Law, PLLC
United States
Kimberly Lipari
CEO/Owner
Valet Web Services
United States
Jesse Tuttle
Ethical Threat Actor®
AP2T Labs
United States
Judd Lindvall
Head of Cloud + AI Infrastructure
Core 4 Solutions / Charg
United States
Michael Petricone
SVP Public Policy
CTA
United States
Rick Schwartz
Founder & Creator
Beanstalk Challenge
US
Konrad Keck
co-founder
webhosting.today
Poland
Narendar Shankar
Co-founder and CCO
Hosted AI
United States
Marco Hoffmann
COO / Managing Director
OpusDNS GmbH
Germany
Leonardo Saavedra
Director of Operations – Americas
Hosting.Com
Colombia
Daniel Wette
CEO
rankingCoach
Germany
Igor Seletskiy
Founder and Chairman
CloudLinux
United States
GERARDO ARISTIZABAL
Director
Registry.co
Colombia
Jeff Fischer
Partner
GetYourDomain.com
United States
Nat Cohen
President
Internet Commerce Association (ICA)
United States