Cloudflare Connect 2026

Sessions

Explore keynotes, breakouts, and hands-on sessions curated for every kind of innovator.

Agenda
Showing 215 sessions out of 215

Demo derby by Cloudflare for Startups

Demo

This is my workflow: Building with AI (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions

Dillon Mulroy

Cloudflare

This is my workflow: Building with AI (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions

Dillon Mulroy

Cloudflare

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

AppSec: Build and tune effective security rules

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

Kyler Swilley

Cloudflare

AppSec: Configure managed rules for maximum protection

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

Tofarati Akeredolu

Cloudflare

Cloudflare One: Making your private applications accessible

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

Tamires Takehara

Cloudflare

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

AppSec: Bot and abuse management

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

Kyler Swilley

Cloudflare

AppSec: Design rate limiting strategies for complex applications

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

AJ Shah

Cloudflare

Cloudflare One: Securing application access with identity-based policies

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

Tamires Takehara

Cloudflare

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 192:30–4:30 PM PDT

AppSec: Secure your origin against direct attacks

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 192:30–4:30 PM PDT

Tofarati Akeredolu

Cloudflare

AppSec: Stop attacks in real time

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 192:30–4:30 PM PDT

Mark Bowling

Cloudflare

Cloudflare One: Deploy and manage the Cloudflare One Client

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 192:30–4:30 PM PDT

Tim Seiffert

Cloudflare

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 192:30–4:30 PM PDT

The Cold Start: Cloudflare’s live startup pitch competition

Activity
Mon, Oct 194–5 PM PDT

Welcome Reception, sponsored by Accenture

Activity
Mon, Oct 195–7 PM PDT

The agentic Internet: Building and securing what comes next

General Session
Tue, Oct 208:30–10:15 AM PDT

Matthew Prince, Raj Subramaniyan

Cloudflare · Oracle

+13

Speaker Connection Lounge, sponsored by Rippling

Activity
Tue, Oct 2010:15 AM–3:55 PM PDT

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Tue, Oct 2010:30 AM–12:30 PM PDT

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Tue, Oct 2010:30 AM–12:30 PM PDT

Build It — Build durable AI agents with Flue on Cloudflare

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2010:45–11:45 AM PDT

Omkar Khair, Stephane Nouvellon

Cloudflare

Build It — Deploy your own AI workspace with Cloudflare OS

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2010:45–11:45 AM PDT

Adrian Hall, Patrick Gryczka

Cloudflare

Build It — Worker previews: Isolated environments for every change your agent makes

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2010:45–11:45 AM PDT

Thomas Desmond, Yomna Shousha

Cloudflare

The defender’s clock has collapsed: Securing applications at machine speed

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 2011–11:20 AM PDT

Justin Tibbs

Presidio

12 mistakes we made building an agent platform for 100,000 employees

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Kevin Ng, Justin Watts

TELUS

+1

After human: How to think about fraud & abuse when anyone could be anything

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Bryan Becker

Cloudflare

Breaking the Internet (and putting it back together)

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Alex Krivit, Brandon Harris

Cloudflare

+2

Building durable agents with Durable Objects

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Justin Schroeder

Standard Agents

Building modern state and local government security without starting over

Industries Showcase
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

John McCaffrey, Doga Ozturk

Suffolk County, New York · NYC Dept of Buildings

+1

Canary to cloud: Building a flexible traffic strategy

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Yunfei Ma, Oscar Moreno Garza

Uber

+1

Co-engineering the future: How Uber & Cloudflare engineer a global platform

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Steve Goldsmith, Mattie Toia

Cloudflare · Uber

From 76% to 100% cache hits: Rebuilding docs caching on Cloudflare

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Hahnbee Lee

Mintlify

Q-Day is coming: Here’s how to prepare for the threat of a quantum computer

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Sharon Goldberg, Wesley Evans

Cloudflare

Rethinking insider risk for a workforce of people and agents

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Craig Strubhart, Ryan LaSalle

Cloudflare · Nisos

+1

System Sketch — Automating everything with Flue

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Fred Schott, Jilles Soeters

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Building advanced real-time applications using WebSockets

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Timo Wilhelm

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Sandbox egress: Give agents access without giving away the keys

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

James Quick

Cloudflare

Technology industry panel: Innovation in the age of instant software

Industries Showcase
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Allan Leinwand, Trey Guinn

Cloudflare

Zero trust at scale: 20,000 users, 8 business units, 1 platform

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

Matthew Solly

Block, Inc

Reach the public without surrendering the data

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 2011:35–11:55 AM PDT

Eric Hackathorn

NOAA

Build It — Agent-first development on Cloudflare

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:10–1:10 PM PDT

Thomas Desmond, Zeke Sikelianos

Cloudflare

Build It — Deploy to Void: Launch vibe-coded apps instantly

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:10–1:10 PM PDT

Cameron Clark, Michael Dong

Cloudflare

Build It — Layered security for your critical web and API assets

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:10–1:10 PM PDT

Daniele Molteni, Zhiyuan Zheng

Cloudflare

Catching name collisions before a new gTLD goes live

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 2012:15–12:35 PM PDT

Hannes Gerhart

Cloudflare

50 million users. 12 people. 100x output. The next era of software.

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Alex Rich

automo.ai & ciao.dev

6 architecture patterns that repeat across enterprise customers

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Damiete King-Harry

Cloudflare

Adaptive Intelligence: Detecting sophisticated and persistent attackers

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Chris Pope

Cloudflare

A runtime for developers and their agents

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

James Snell

Cloudflare

Break the ceiling of internal productivity with a fast, global filesystem

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Jacky Koh

Relevance AI

Customer zero: How Cloudflare runs AI engineering for 5,000+ employees

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Rajesh Bhatia

Cloudflare

Define once, connect everywhere

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Matt Alonso

Cloudflare

It’s raining AI: Make Cloudflare Developer Platform your umbrella

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Alejandro Salinas

Block, Inc.

It’s time to build, not buy

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Ryan Skidmore

Cloudflare

Securing your workforce for the AI era

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Ann Ming Samborski

Cloudflare

Transforming enterprise productivity with Cloudflare OS

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2012:30–12:50 PM PDT

Sam Rhea

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Everyone can build an app now. Where does it go?

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:30–1:15 PM PDT

Josh Kahn

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Real-world infrastructure patterns for vibe coding workloads

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:30–1:15 PM PDT

Melody Huang, Timo Wilhelm

Cloudflare

System Sketch — What just happened? Building replayable event logs for your app

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:30–1:15 PM PDT

Artifacts: Git-compatible versioned storage, from zero to beta in 3 weeks

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Dillon Mulroy

Cloudflare

Beyond IP addresses: Cryptographic primitives for honest bots

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Thibault Meunier

Cloudflare

Building Argus: AI & ML threat detection at scale in Cloudflare

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Henry Montagu

Cloudflare

Cloudflare’s evolution of managing IP addresses for customers at scale

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Marwan Fayed

Cloudflare

EmDash: The secure WordPress successor for humans and agents

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Matt Kane

Cloudflare

Merkle Tree Certificates and the next phase of the WebPKI

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Christopher Patton

Cloudflare

Protecting origins in the agentic era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Chad Nachiappan

Cloudflare

TanStack Start on Workers: Server-rendering apps an AI just wrote

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Fabian Hedin

Lovable

Trusting the toolchain: Securing agentic MCP and package registry usage

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

AJ Gerstenhaber

Cloudflare

Why modern software engineering needs Durable Objects

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Ashley Peacock

Cloudflare

Zero trust in railway OT: What worked, what broke

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 201:10–1:30 PM PDT

Tõnu Tammer

Estonian Railways

When an agent behaves differently: Detecting risk beyond the prompt

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 201:25–1:45 PM PDT

Ayush Kumar

Cloudflare

Build It — Manage your Cloudflare spending with tags

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 201:25–2:25 PM PDT

Build It — Secure code execution with Cloudflare Sandboxes

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 201:25–2:25 PM PDT

Damon LaCaille, Felipe Ryan

Cloudflare

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Tue, Oct 201:30–3:30 PM PDT

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Tue, Oct 201:30–3:30 PM PDT

System Sketch — Rebuilding WordPress in 60 days: How AI workflows enabled EmDash

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 201:35–2:20 PM PDT

Matt Kane

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Take control of your AI: Governance for models and tools

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 201:35–2:20 PM PDT

Chelsee Purvis, Zach Forsyth

Cloudflare

100 billion profiles, one early bet on Cloudflare Durable Objects

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Alexander Braunreuther, Mark Dembo

Contentful · Cloudflare

5 questions every CTO must answer about AI agents

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Miguel Nunes

Cloudflare

Cloudflare OS: Automating work with agents connected to your systems

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Dan Carter, Phillip Jones

Cloudflare

Deploying a WAF vs. running a WAF program: The missing manual

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Billy Hoffman, Justin Tibbs

IONIX · Presidio

From chaos to control: Building a harness for personal agents

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Harshil Agrawal

Cloudflare

How the Internet really works: Into the depths of Internet infrastructure

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Tom Paseka

Cloudflare

Move fast, stay reliable: Cloudflare’s multilayer resilience strategy

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Nayla Raad

Cloudflare

Prevent cloud misconfigurations and data leakage before they happen

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Neil Brown, Vernon Jefferson

Cloudflare

SocialKit: AI social toolset built on Cloudflare

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Matan Lachmish

monday.com

Your AI agent is a distributed system

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 201:50–2:10 PM PDT

Sunil Pai

Cloudflare

Rebuilding legacy software for the AI era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 202–2:20 PM PDT

Steve Faulkner

Cloudflare

Auto model routing saves money, makes users happy, and is inherently flawed

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Andreas Jansson

Cloudflare

Building multi-cloud resilience: It starts with DNS

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Christian Elmerot

Cloudflare

Closing the loop: Agentic threat intelligence and threat response

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Blake Darche, Javier Castro

Cloudflare

Connecting Cloudflare One data protection and secure AI

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Abe Carryl, Rob Danz

Cloudflare

How NVIDIA and Cloudflare are using AI to rethink CDN resiliency

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Alex Kuck

Cloudflare

MCP made it easy, and that’s the problem

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Julie Brettle

Squiz

Monetizing AI agent traffic: Write your first Monetization Gateway rule

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Rohin Lohe, Will Papper

Cloudflare

The Cloudflare network — Why our competitive advantage isn’t replicable

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Damian Matacz, Shozo Takaya

Cloudflare

Turning data questions into data infra with the Cloudflare Data Platform

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Micah Wylde

Cloudflare

Unifying network observability: Logs, traces, and the agents you run

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 202:30–2:50 PM PDT

Rian van der Merwe

Cloudflare

Shrinking the scope of impact: Controls for AI-era cyber resilience

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Andrei Migia

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Agents that talk: Building a voice agent on Cloudflare

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 202:40–3:25 PM PDT

Jilles Soeters, Korinne Alpers

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Connecting the pieces: Using Bindings to build an application on Cloudflare

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 202:40–3:25 PM PDT

Patrick Gryczka, Zeke Sikelianos

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Securing AI in practice

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 202:40–3:25 PM PDT

Adrian Hall, Josh Kahn

Cloudflare

Build It — Build durable AI agents with Flue on Cloudflare (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 202:40–3:40 PM PDT

Omkar Khair, Stephane Nouvellon

Cloudflare

Build It — Deploy AI safely with Cloudflare

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 202:40–3:40 PM PDT

Simon Thorpe

Cloudflare

Trust in the agent era: Why a year of ordinary behavior beats verification

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 203:10–3:30 PM PDT

Nicole Justus

Cloudflare

Cloudflare Workers monorepo

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Laura Poss

Block, Inc.

Giving an agent 10,000 tools with Code Mode

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Rhys Sullivan

Executor

How we built Cloudflare’s global network

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Emily Music, Tanner Ryan

Cloudflare

MCP is the door, and the control plane is the house

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Ayush Thakur, Kenny Johnson

Cloudflare

People, devices, and agents: How Rippling’s edge architecture evolved

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Ram Nadella

Rippling

Prevent, don’t detect: Introducing Cloud Workload Security

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Neil Brown

Cloudflare

Ready for shopping season: Verifying and authorizing buying agents

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Tim Simeonov

Experian

TanStack Start, and the rest of the TanStack ecosystem

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Tanner Linsley

TanStack

The rogue agent problem: When AI adoption outpaces your security

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Milo Gilad

Cloudflare

When anyone can ship software, trust becomes the platform’s job

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 203:15–3:35 PM PDT

Fabian Hedin

Lovable

Building the future of AI

General Session
Tue, Oct 204–5 PM PDT

Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Bill Gross

Stanford University · IdeaLab

Last Call: Happy Hour

Activity
Tue, Oct 205–6 PM PDT

Cloudflare run club

Activity
Wed, Oct 217–8 AM PDT

Securing and scaling the future of AI and agentic platforms

General Session
Wed, Oct 219–10:15 AM PDT

Michelle Zatlyn, Peter Steinberger

Cloudflare · OpenClaw/OpenAI

+3

Speaker Connection Lounge, sponsored by Rippling

Activity
Wed, Oct 2110:15 AM–4:25 PM PDT

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Wed, Oct 2110:30 AM–12:30 PM PDT

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Wed, Oct 2110:30 AM–12:30 PM PDT

Build It — Deploy your own AI workspace with Cloudflare OS (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2110:45–11:45 AM PDT

Adrian Hall, Patrick Gryczka

Cloudflare

Build It — Secure code execution with Cloudflare Sandboxes (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2110:45–11:45 AM PDT

Damon LaCaille, Felipe Ryan

Cloudflare

Beyond “Are you human?” Advanced strategies for managing agentic traffic

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 2111–11:20 AM PDT

Marina Elmore

Cloudflare

Building an open agentic Internet: Discoverable, callable, and payable

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Matthew Conroy

Cloudflare

Cloudflare’s Red Team: A story of weaponizing your “won’t fix” backlog

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Albert Pederson, Dan Jones

Cloudflare

Cyber frontier models: How AI is transforming Cloudflare’s security team

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Grant Bourzikas

Cloudflare

Financial services panel: Resilience, security, and AI

Industries Showcase
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Kathleen Peters, Jordan Hager

Experian · Q2 Software

+2

Getting your storefront agent ready for peak season

Industries Showcase
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Kristina Pototska, Justis Blasco

Commerce · Popmenu

+3

How publishers can thrive and monetize in the age of AI agents

Industries Showcase
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Arielle Weiss

Cloudflare

How to get started on your FedRAMP journey with Cloudflare

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Jake Schaeufele, Tom Lianza

Cloudflare

+1

Inside healthcare: Securing and scaling enterprise networks with AI

Industries Showcase
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Aaron McAllister, Emery Coxe

Cloudflare · Inspira Financial

+2

Isolating AI: How Ramp runs agent code for customers on Containers

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Raphaël Beamonte, Dylan Garcia

Ramp

Scaling Discord’s voice on Cloudflare’s edge

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Jonas Bengtson

Discord

System Sketch — Building Cloudflare on Cloudflare

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Eric Clemmons

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Understanding and architecting Cloudflare on-ramps and off-ramps

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Nikita Cano

Cloudflare

Optiv and Cloudflare: Better together

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2111:35–11:55 AM PDT

Victor Arango

Optiv Security

Build It — Protect your internal or external AI- or LLM-powered apps now

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2112:10–1:10 PM PDT

Zhiyuan Zheng

Cloudflare

Build It — Worker previews: Isolated environments for every change your agent makes (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2112:10–1:10 PM PDT

Thomas Desmond, Yomna Shousha

Cloudflare

Better visibility and control: Shining a light on shadow AI

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Abe Carryl

Cloudflare

Bring your own logic with a fully programmable, secure web gateway

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

AJ Gerstenhaber

Cloudflare

Generative media’s breakthrough moment: Insights from Runway

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Anthony Maggio, Mark Dembo

Runway · Cloudflare

Internal DNS: The end of the appliance era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Enrique Somoza

Cloudflare

Poisoning the well: The rise of indirect prompt injection in the agentic age

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Blake Darche, Juliette Cash

Cloudflare

Protecting AI agents with Cloudflare One

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Ayush Kumar, Todd Murray

Cloudflare

Rearchitecting the Cloudflare network for the AI revolution

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Tom Strickx

Cloudflare

Replacing a third-party IdP with Cloudflare Access, authentik, and OPA

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Derek Pitts, Ryan Pesek

Cloudflare

Securing Internet traffic for the quantum computing era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Alex Krivit, Syed Suleman Ahmad

Cloudflare

The prompt is lava

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 2112:30–12:50 PM PDT

Greg Pstrucha

Sentry

System Sketch — Building agentic apps on Workers: A case study with Cloudflare OS

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2112:30–1:15 PM PDT

Kenton Varda, Dan Carter

Cloudflare

+1

System Sketch — Protecting the inside user: AI governance, prompt inspection, and leakage

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2112:30–1:15 PM PDT

Bob Perciaccante, Rob Danz

Cloudflare

Building a software factory: Driving Astro's Issues to zero

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 2112:50–1:10 PM PDT

Matthew Phillips

Cloudflare

Application services for private origins: Today’s patterns and what’s next

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Enrique Somoza

Cloudflare

Behind the scenes: Challenges of running AI models at scale

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Michelle Chen

Cloudflare

Code Mode: Fit 2,500 API endpoints into 1,000 tokens

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Léo Arsenin

Cloudflare

Delivering security: How Just Eat Takeaway is adapting to the agentic era

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Christian Reilly

Cloudflare

Don't block shadow AI on campus. Out-design it.

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Michael Hacker, Michael Kowal

Montclair State University · Cloudflare

How to manage Cloudflare at scale without overwhelm

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Justin Hutchings

Cloudflare

How we built Command Code, the most used open-model harness, at 250T tokens

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Ahmad Ahmad

Command Code

Into the tunnel: Secure, metadata-driven routing at scale

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Joe Dixon

Laravel

Protecting web and API applications from AI-powered attacks

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:10–1:30 PM PDT

Jarryd Trokis, Daniele Molteni

VodafoneThree · Cloudflare

Accelerate governance, security, and cost control with AI Gateway

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Chelsee Purvis, Ming Lu

Cloudflare

Durable AI workflows with Effect: Maintaining open source at scale

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Maxwell Brown

Effectful Technologies, Inc

Build It — Agent-first development on Cloudflare (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 211:25–2:25 PM PDT

Thomas Desmond, Zeke Sikelianos

Cloudflare

Build It — Build durable AI agents with Flue on Cloudflare (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 211:25–2:25 PM PDT

Omkar Khair, Stephane Nouvellon

Cloudflare

System Sketch — This is my workflow: Building with AI

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 211:35–2:20 PM PDT

Dillon Mulroy

Cloudflare

An agent that onboards a photography studio — on Workers AI

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Chris Haire

VSCO

Automating app development the secure way: Velocity meets defense in depth

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Chris Adam

Cloudflare

Disrupting scam and fraud networks with armies of AI agents on Cloudflare

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Peter Eckermann

Apate.ai

Ensuring resiliency during network maintenance

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Kevin Deems

Cloudflare

How AI platform teams are reshaping enterprise architecture decisions

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Inside the global effort to disrupt advanced phishing operations

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Caroline Canna, Brian Carter

Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit · Cloudflare

It could happen to you: A Magic Transit Under Attack story

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Alyona Purgina, Andres De Luca

Cloudflare

Reducing payloads with shared compression dictionaries

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Alex Krivit

Cloudflare

Rise of the agents: How Cloudflare detects, defends & responds at AI speed

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Shelbe Andrade

Cloudflare

The agentic network: Secure private connectivity for agents

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:50–2:10 PM PDT

Nikita Cano

Cloudflare

Attacker-perspective findings from real-world WAF deployments

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 212–2:20 PM PDT

Billy Hoffman

IONIX

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Wed, Oct 212:15–4:15 PM PDT

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Wed, Oct 212:15–4:15 PM PDT

Building secure, composable agents with Flue

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Fred Schott

Cloudflare

Cloudflare One’s vision for data sovereignty: Cryptography over geography

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Sharon Goldberg

Cloudflare

Cloudflare OS is an architecture of distrust

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Kenton Varda

Cloudflare

Developer tooling in the agentic era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Evan You

Cloudflare

Discovering primitives: Tools you or your agents can use to build the web

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Phil Hawksworth

Cloudflare

From ranking to recommended: Answer engine optimization (AEO)

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Ashish Vinodkumar, Will Rowe

Cloudflare

Hacking AI and why you should run Guardrails on the edge

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Jose Maria Alonso Cebrian

Cloudflare

I built your personal software ecosystem

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Kent C. Dodds

kody.codes

Modern customer security engineering

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Cristian Cortez, Patrick Walker

eBay

Red-teaming and defending an AI chatbot live with AI Gateway

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Zach Forsyth

Cloudflare

Secure AI at scale: Cloudflare’s vision for trusted AI adoption

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212:30–2:50 PM PDT

Kenny Johnson

Cloudflare

Validating trust in the AI-accelerated SDLC with Wiz & Cloudflare

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212:35–2:55 PM PDT

Jiong Liu

Wiz

System Sketch — Creating an infinite extensibility layer to your Secure Web Gateway

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 212:40–3:25 PM PDT

Giriraj Jayaraman, Leela Kanakala

Cloudflare

System Sketch — Programmable wallets for the agentic Internet

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 212:40–3:25 PM PDT

Rohin Lohe

Cloudflare

Build It — Deploy data sovereignty controls with Cloudflare Data Localization Suite

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 212:40–3:40 PM PDT

Colin Bendell

Cloudflare

Build It — Deploy your own AI workspace with Cloudflare OS (repeat)

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 212:40–3:40 PM PDT

Adrian Hall, Patrick Gryczka

Cloudflare

Credentials without secrets: Unforgeable access for Workers

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 213:10–3:30 PM PDT

Jesse Li

Cloudflare

Advertising prefixes for fun and profit: How to anycast

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Ash Pallarito, Tom Strickx

Cloudflare

Agentic platform engineering at the edge

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Tim Millwood

Pfizer

Build your infrastructure the Cloudflare way

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Can we have both data sovereignty and a global Internet?

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Alissa Starzak, Emily Hancock

Cloudflare

+2

Cloudflare’s Red Team: Building AI harnesses that actually work

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Dan Jones

Cloudflare

Enabling creators worldwide: Scaling Canva on Cloudflare

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Adam Lazur, Steve Goldsmith

Canva · Cloudflare

+1

From YOLO mode to zero trust: Building an agentic engineering control plane

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Nikola Novoselec

Swiss Post

How to measure real-world network quality for end users

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Doug Suttles, Lai Yi Ohlsen

Orb · Cloudflare

Securing agentic harnesses: Control, visibility, and safe tool use

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Gérard Zapf

Cloudflare

State under siege: How Estonia stopped Russia’s DDoS campaigns

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Brian Carter, Jaagup Toome

Cloudflare · Estonian Information System Authority

+2

The integrated Cloudflare stack for trusted AI adoption

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Simon Thorpe

Cloudflare

What security leaders really want from AI governance

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 213:25–4:10 PM PDT

Joshua Pasqualetto, Peter Huynh

Gusto · Gilead Sciences

+3

Hono: Web application primitives for the AI era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 213:50–4:10 PM PDT

Yusuke Wada

Cloudflare

Leading with curiosity in the era of AI

General Session
Wed, Oct 214:30–5:30 PM PDT

Michelle Zatlyn, Adam Grant

Cloudflare

func(tion) @ Connect

Activity
Wed, Oct 217 PM PDT

cloudflare-connect-2026

# event
name      Cloudflare Connect 2026
dates     2026-10-19 — 2026-10-21
venue     Moscone West, San Francisco, CA, USA
duration  3 days
register  https://events.www.cloudflare.com/connect2026/begin
agenda-builder  https://events.www.cloudflare.com/connect2026/sign-in?rId=11538273
contact   connect@cloudflare.com

# current-page
path        /connect/sessions/
title       Sessions - Cloudflare Connect 2026
description Cloudflare Connect 2026 Sessions - Discover cutting-edge insights from industry leaders


# pricing (USD)
conference-pass  $595
university       $495    add-on, full-day technical training
team-5-9         $495    per pass
team-10-plus     50% off ticket prices
gov/mil/edu      -$100   requires .gov / .mil / .edu email
includes         meals, exclusive event swag, evening party

# tracks
- Application — Connect & Protect
- Developer & AI — Build Smarter
- Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
- Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud

# agenda
mon 2026-10-19   Cloudflare University · Global Partner Summit · The Cold Start · Welcome Reception
tue 2026-10-20   Opening General Session · Breakouts · Hub · Knowledge Bar · Innovations Theatre
wed 2026-10-21   Innovation General Session · Breakouts · Cloudflare After Dark
wed 2026-10-21   Innovation General Session · Breakouts · func(tion)

# pages
/connect/sessions                all published sessions
/connect/sponsors                event sponsors
/connect/cloudflare-university   full-day technical training
/connect/partner-summit          global partner summit
/connect/cold-start              live startup pitch competition
/connect/faq                     frequently asked questions
/connect/convince-your-boss      justification template

# data route
/connect/api/sponsors            curated event sponsors JSON

# for agents
- Register humans at the URL in event.register.
- Use the public pages listed above for event discovery.
- Direct unanswered questions to connect@cloudflare.com.
- Do not invent prices, dates, or speakers — use the data above.