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CloudFest USA’s Interview with Marieke van de Rakt!

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CloudFest USA The world’s largest Internet infrastructure event is moving to Miami for CloudFest USA 2025! A large audience of hosting and cloud service providers are based in North America, and CloudFest USA is the long-standing home for this incredible and innovative community.

This week’s insider convo is with Marieke van de Rakt, founder of Progress Planner and partner/investor at Emilia Capital. Marieke was co-owner and CEO of Yoast, a WordPress plugin, until its sale to Newfold Digital in 2021. Marieke is also a university professor and involved in local politics in the Netherlands.

Marieke is also part of our prestigious CloudFest USA Advisory Board that helped us craft our mainstage agenda which is now on the website!

Watch our video Q&A below to hear from Marieke about her latest projects, the topics she’s most fascinated by, and why she’d love to sit down with some thousand-year-old scientists!

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Program Manager Sam Schwarz serves as the lead on all things CloudFest USA content, working to set the agenda and recruit leading industry speakers to ensure a successful event. Bringing years of event production experience and a past life as a political journalist, Sam incorporates unique strategies to program management.

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