Head in the Cloud 2026

Last Friday I got to open the Head in the Cloud summit by mittwald in Espelkamp. And honestly, I’m still wondering a little how that happened. ;) Photo by Thorsten Jonas It started out completely normal: I applied through the call for papers, just like everyone else. The planned talk then turned into an opening keynote over the course of a conversation. And that keynote was about exactly this: the value of independent community events. About what happens when people meet away from their monitors. And about the fact that you can’t build or order a community. The most you can do is create the space in which one is allowed to form. Well, and then exactly that happened and where mittwald seem to have done a good job over the last two years for their event already. The weather played along as if someone had booked it. I mean, it was a little too hot maybe, but we had bright sunshine over the mittwald campus, the stages out in the open air, cold drinks, good food and people getting into…