Cloudflare Connect 2026

Sessions

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

Agenda
Showing 139 sessions out of 139

Breaking the Internet (and putting it back together)

Leading at the Edge

Tom Strickx, Alex Krivit

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud

Matthew Conroy, Jack Galilee

Cloudflare

Closing WAF coverage gaps before the next critical CVE drops

Security & Compliance

Func(tion) @ Connect

Activity

Getting your storefront agent ready for peak season

Industries Showcase

Tulin Akdogan

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI

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

AppSec: Configure managed rules for maximum protection

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

Cloudflare One: Making your private applications accessible

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 199–11 AM PDT

AppSec: Bot and abuse management

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

AppSec: Design rate limiting strategies for complex applications

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

Cloudflare One: Securing application access with identity-based policies

Cloudflare University
Mon, Oct 1912–2 PM PDT

Global Partner Summit welcome

Global Partner Summit
Mon, Oct 191–1:10 PM PDT

Jeff Hilliard

Cloudflare

Reshaping the partner ecosystem for what's next

Global Partner Summit
Mon, Oct 191:10–1:25 PM PDT

Jeff Hilliard

Cloudflare

Fireside chat with Partner Sales leadership

Global Partner Summit
Mon, Oct 191:25–1:55 PM PDT

Jeff Hilliard

Cloudflare

The SASE power play: Driving enterprise scale and partner profit

Global Partner Summit
Mon, Oct 191:55–2:30 PM PDT

AppSec: Secure your origin against direct attacks

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

AppSec: Stop attacks in real time

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

Cloudflare One: Deploying secure endpoint connectivity

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

Driving partner growth and experience through AI innovation

Global Partner Summit
Mon, Oct 193:45–3:55 PM PDT

Jeff Hilliard

Cloudflare

Shaping the future together: An inside look at Cloudflare's roadmap

Global Partner Summit
Mon, Oct 194:15–4:45 PM PDT

Jeff Hilliard

Cloudflare

Global Partner Summit closing

Global Partner Summit
Mon, Oct 194:45–5 PM PDT

Welcome Reception

Activity
Mon, Oct 195–7 PM PDT

The agentic Internet: Building and securing what comes next

General Session
Tue, Oct 209–10:15 AM PDT

Stephanie Cohen, Grant Bourzikas

Cloudflare

+1

Speaker Connection Lounge, sponsored by Rippling

Activity
Tue, Oct 2010:20–10:50 AM PDT

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

Advertising prefixes for fun and profit: How to anycast

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

Tom Strickx, Ash Pallarito

Cloudflare

Automating everything with Flue

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

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

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

Matthew Phillips

Cloudflare

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

Vincent Voci, John McCaffrey

Cloudflare · Suffolk County, New York

Financial services panel: Resilience, security, and AI

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

Kathleen Peters, Sean Dougherty

Experian · Cloudflare

+1

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

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

Nicholas Khami

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

Securing AI in practice

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

Technology industry panel: Innovation in the age of instant software

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

Trey Guinn

Cloudflare

The choice behind when to build an AI agent: Insights from Runway

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

Anthony Maggio

Runway

Vulnerabilities: Gaining visibility, driving response in the AI era

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

Blake Darche, Christopher O'Rourke

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2011–11:45 AM PDT

A runtime for developers and their agents

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

James Snell

Cloudflare

Define once, connect everywhere

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 2012:15–12:35 PM PDT

Matthew Alonso

Cloudflare

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

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

Joe Dixon

Laravel

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

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2012:15–12:35 PM PDT

Alejandro Salinas

Block, Inc.

It’s time to build, not buy

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2012:15–12:35 PM PDT

Ryan Skidmore

Cloudflare

Securing your workforce for the AI era

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2012:15–12:35 PM PDT

Ann Ming Samborski

Cloudflare

Transforming enterprise productivity with Cloudflare OS

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2012:15–12:35 PM PDT

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

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:25–1:10 PM PDT

This is my workflow: Building with AI

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 2012:25–1:10 PM PDT

6 architecture patterns that repeat across enterprise customers

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Damiete King-Harry

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Dillon Mulroy

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Henry Montagu

Cloudflare

EmDash: The secure WordPress successor for humans and agents

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Matt Kane

Cloudflare

Merkle Tree Certificates and the next phase of the WebPKI

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Christopher Patton

Cloudflare

Protecting origins in the agentic era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Chad Nachiappan

Cloudflare

Trusting the toolchain: Securing agentic MCP and package registry usage

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Why modern software engineering needs Durable Objects

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 2012:50–1:10 PM PDT

Ashley Peacock

Cloudflare

Beyond IP addresses: Cryptographic primitives for honest bots

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 201:25–1:45 PM PDT

Thibault Meunier

Cloudflare

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

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 201:25–1:45 PM PDT

Marwan Fayed

Cloudflare

Manage your Cloudflare spending with tags

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 201:25–1:45 PM PDT

The integrated Cloudflare stack for trusted AI adoption

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 201:25–1:45 PM PDT

Simon Thorpe

Cloudflare

When an agent behaves differently: Detecting risk beyond the prompt

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 201:25–1:45 PM PDT

Ayush Kumar

Cloudflare

Zero trust in railway OT: What worked, what broke

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 201:25–1:45 PM PDT

Tõnu Tammer

Estonian Railways

Building Cloudflare on Cloudflare

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 201:25–2:10 PM PDT

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

Leading at the Edge
Tue, Oct 201:25–2:10 PM PDT

This is my workflow: Building with AI

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 201:25–2:10 PM PDT

Connecting Cloudflare One data protection and secure AI

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 202–2:20 PM PDT

From chaos to control: Building a harness for personal agents

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

Harshil Agrawal

Cloudflare

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

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 202–2:20 PM PDT

Tom Paseka

Cloudflare

Monetizing AI agent traffic: Write your first Monetization Gateway rule

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 202–2:20 PM PDT

Rohin Lohe, Will Papper

Cloudflare

Rethinking insider risk for a workforce of people and agents

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 202–2:20 PM PDT

Rohit Chenna Reddy, Sourov Zaman

Cloudflare

Turning data questions into data infra with the Cloudflare Data Platform

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 202–2:20 PM PDT

Micah Wylde

Cloudflare

5 questions every CTO must answer about AI agents

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Miguel Nunes

Cloudflare

Building multi-cloud resilience: It starts with DNS

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Christian Elmerot

Cloudflare

Closing the loop: Agentic threat intelligence and threat response

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Blake Darche

Cloudflare

How NVIDIA and Cloudflare are using AI to rethink CDN resiliency

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Alex Kuck

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Ayush Thakur, Kenny Johnson

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Ram Nadella

Rippling

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

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 202:35–2:55 PM PDT

Rian van der Merwe

Cloudflare

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

Hands-On Sessions
Tue, Oct 202:35–3:20 PM PDT

How we built Cloudflare’s global network

Network & Infrastructure
Tue, Oct 203:10–3:40 PM PDT

Tanner Ryan, Emily Music

Cloudflare

+1

Scaling Discord’s voice on Cloudflare’s edge

Web Performance & Frameworks
Tue, Oct 203:10–3:40 PM PDT

Jonas Bengtson

Discord

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

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 203:10–3:40 PM PDT

Kenny Johnson

Cloudflare

The agentic network: Secure private connectivity for agents

Secure AI
Tue, Oct 203:10–3:40 PM PDT

Nikita Cano

Cloudflare

The prompt is lava

Agent Cloud
Tue, Oct 203:10–3:40 PM PDT

Greg Pstrucha

Sentry

The rogue agent problem: When AI adoption outpaces your security

Security & Compliance
Tue, Oct 203:10–3:40 PM PDT

Sourov Zaman, Milo Gilad

Cloudflare

Building the future of AI

General Session
Tue, Oct 204–5 PM PDT

Securing and scaling the future of AI and agentic platforms

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

Stephanie Cohen

Cloudflare

Building advanced real-time applications using WebSockets

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

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

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

Matthew Conroy, Jack Galilee

Cloudflare

Can we have both data sovereignty and a global Internet?

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

Alissa Starzak, Wesley Evans

Cloudflare

+1

Cloudflare Workers monorepo

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Laura Poss

Block, Inc.

How to measure real-world network quality for end users

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 2111–11:45 AM PDT

Doug Suttles, Lai Yi Ohlsen

Orb · Cloudflare

Isolating AI: How Ramp runs agent code for customers on Cloudflare Sandbox SDK

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

Joe Fulgieri, Raphaël Beamonte

Ramp

Sandbox egress: Give agents access without giving away the keys

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

Better visibility and control: Shining a light on shadow AI

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 2112:15–12:35 PM PDT

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

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 2112:15–12:35 PM PDT

AJ Gerstenhaber

Cloudflare

Internal DNS: The end of the appliance era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 2112:15–12:35 PM PDT

Enrique Somoza

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2112:15–12:35 PM PDT

Blake Darche, Juliette Cash

Cloudflare

Rearchitecting the Cloudflare network for the AI revolution

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 2112:15–12:35 PM PDT

Tom Strickx

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2112:15–12:35 PM PDT

Derek Pitts, Ryan Pesek

Cloudflare

Building agentic apps on Workers: A case study with Cloudflare Gadgets

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 2112:25–1:10 PM PDT

Ensuring resiliency during network maintenance

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 2112:50–1:10 PM PDT

Kevin Deems

Cloudflare

How to manage Cloudflare at scale without overwhelm

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2112:50–1:10 PM PDT

Justin Hutchings

Cloudflare

Protecting web and API applications from AI-powered attacks

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 2112:50–1:10 PM PDT

Daniele Molteni, Jarryd Trokis

Cloudflare · VodafoneThree

Reducing payloads with shared compression dictionaries

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

Securing Internet traffic for the quantum computing era

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

SocialKit: AI social toolset built on Cloudflare

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 2112:50–1:10 PM PDT

Matan Lachmish

monday.com

Stop chatting, start hacking: Building AI harnesses that actually work

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 2112:50–1:10 PM PDT

Dan Jones

Cloudflare

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

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Matthew Alonso

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Christopher O'Rourke

Cloudflare

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

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

Leo Arsenin

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Peter Eckermann

Apate.ai

How AI platform teams are reshaping enterprise architecture decisions

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

Inside a virtual C-suite: Building production AI agents on Workers

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Andrei Migia

Cloudflare

Inside the global effort to disrupt advanced phishing operations

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Brian Carter, Caroline Canna

Cloudflare · Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

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

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 211:25–1:45 PM PDT

Sourov Zaman, Shelbe Andrade

Cloudflare

This is my workflow: Building with AI

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 211:25–2:10 PM PDT

Developer tooling in the agentic era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 212–2:20 PM PDT

Evan You

Cloudflare

From ranking to recommended: Answer engine optimization (AEO)

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 212–2:20 PM PDT

Ashish Vinodkumar

Cloudflare

Hacking AI and why you should run Guardrails on the edge

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

Chema Alonso

Cloudflare

I built your personal software ecosystem

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 212–2:20 PM PDT

Kent C. Dodds

kody.codes

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

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 212–2:20 PM PDT

Andres De Luca, Alyona Purgina

Cloudflare

Modern customer security engineering

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212–2:20 PM PDT

Cristian Cortez, Patrick Walker

eBay

Protecting AI agents with Cloudflare One

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212–2:20 PM PDT

Ayush Kumar, Todd Murray

Cloudflare

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

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 212:35–2:55 PM PDT

Phil Hawksworth

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212:35–2:55 PM PDT

Michael Kowal, Michael Hacker

Cloudflare · Montclair State University

Exploit alchemy: Weaponizing your “won’t fix” backlog

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 212:35–2:55 PM PDT

Dan Jones

Cloudflare

Hono: Web application primitives for the AI era

Web Performance & Frameworks
Wed, Oct 212:35–2:55 PM PDT

Yusuke Wada

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 212:35–2:55 PM PDT

Programmable wallets for the agentic Internet

Hands-On Sessions
Wed, Oct 212:35–3:20 PM PDT

Agentic platform engineering at the edge

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 213:10–3:55 PM PDT

Tim Millwood

Pfizer

Build your infrastructure the Cloudflare way

Network & Infrastructure
Wed, Oct 213:10–3:55 PM PDT

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

Agent Cloud
Wed, Oct 213:10–3:55 PM PDT

Nikola Novoselec

Swiss Post

How to get started on your FedRAMP journey with Cloudflare

Security & Compliance
Wed, Oct 213:10–3:55 PM PDT

Tom Lianza, Jake Schaeufele

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 213:10–3:55 PM PDT

Gérard Zapf

Cloudflare

What security leaders really want from AI governance

Secure AI
Wed, Oct 213:10–3:55 PM PDT

Scottie Ray

Cloudflare

Leading with curiosity in the era of AI

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

Michelle Zatlyn

Cloudflare

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
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title       Sessions - Cloudflare Connect 2026
description Cloudflare Connect 2026 Sessions - Discover cutting-edge insights from industry leaders


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# 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 · 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)

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