
Frank Karlitschek
Founder and Managing Director Nextcloud
Frank Karlitschek is the founder and Managing Director of Nextcloud GmbH. The IT specialist from Berlin developed open source software for over 25 years and was active on the KDE board. He founded initiatives such as the “User Data Manifesto” (2015), which called for data protection in the cloud at an early stage. In 2016, he founded Nextcloud, a European open source alternative to US and Chinese cloud services. He has spoken as a keynote speaker at MIT and advises the UN on open source.