Next week, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle will take the main stage at CloudFest 2026, the world’s largest cloud industry conference, held at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany.
Event Details
📅 Date: Thursday, 26 March 2026
⏰ Time: 4:20 PM CET
📍 Location: Main Stage, Europa-Park, Rust, Germany
🎟 Registration: cloudfest.com
In 2025, the Internet Archive preserved its one trillionth webpage, one of the most significant milestones in the history of public digital infrastructure. Kahle’s fireside chat, moderated by Christian Dawson of the i2Coalition, will celebrate that achievement while looking squarely at what comes next.
The conversation will cover the unexpected challenges of archiving the internet at scale, the legal and regulatory pressures reshaping how information flows online, and what the rise of AI means for the future of public knowledge. At the heart of it all is a question that matters to everyone working in the open web: will the next era of the internet remain a public resource, or will it become something far more closed?
These are not abstract concerns. The Internet Archive has spent nearly three decades demonstrating that preservation is a political act, not just a technical one. In an era when centralisation is accelerating and legal battles over digital memory are intensifying, the case for open, public infrastructure has never been more urgent.
For the internet infrastructure community gathered at CloudFest, this is a session that speaks directly to the stakes of the work they do every day.
