Frank Karlitschek

Frank Karlitschek is a long time open source contributor and former board member of the KDE e.V. He founded Nextcloud in 2016 to create a fully open source and decentralized alternative to big centralized cloud companies. Frank was an invited expert at the W3C to help to create the ActivityPub standard. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN, Harvard and ETH and keynoted many conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH. He is also a fellow of Open Forum Europe and a board member of the MariaDB foundation. Frank won the European SFS Free Software Award 2023 and the Acteurs du Libre European Award 2024 as well as the European Open Source Award in 2026.