Cloudflare Connect 2026

Sessions

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

Agenda
Showing 75 sessions out of 75

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

Agent Cloud

Kevin Ng, Justin Watts

TELUS

5 questions every CTO must answer about AI agents

Secure AI

Miguel Nunes

Cloudflare

6 architecture patterns that repeat across enterprise customers

Network & Infrastructure

Damiete King-Harry

Cloudflare

Advertising prefixes for fun and profit: How to anycast

Network & Infrastructure

Tom Strickx, Ash Pallarito

Cloudflare

Agentic platform engineering at the edge

Agent Cloud

Tim Millwood

Pfizer

Application Security Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University

Anne Altman

Cloudflare

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

Network & Infrastructure

Matthew Alonso

Cloudflare

AppSec: Bot and abuse management

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

AppSec: Build and tune effective security rules

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

AppSec: Cloudflare setup from start to best practice

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

AppSec: Configure managed rules for maximum protection

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

AppSec: Design rate limiting strategies for complex applications

Cloudflare University

AppSec: Prove security value with analytics and reporting

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

AppSec: Secure your origin against direct attacks

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

AppSec: Stop attacks in real time

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud

Dillon Mulroy

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI

Chris Adam

Cloudflare

Beyond IP addresses: Cryptographic primitives for honest bots

Agent Cloud

Thibault Meunier

Cloudflare

Breaking the Internet (and putting it back together)

Network & Infrastructure

Brandon Harris, Alex Krivit

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

Henry Montagu

Cloudflare

Building durable agents with Durable Objects

Agent Cloud

Justin Schroeder

Standard Agents

Building multi-cloud resilience: It starts with DNS

Network & Infrastructure

Christian Elmerot

Cloudflare

Can we have both data sovereignty and a global Internet?

Security & Compliance

Alissa Starzak, Wesley Evans

Cloudflare

+1

Closing the loop: Agentic threat intelligence and threat response

Security & Compliance

Blake Darche, Javier Castro

Cloudflare

Cloudflare One: Deploying secure endpoint connectivity

Cloudflare University

Cloudflare One: Making your private applications accessible

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

Cloudflare One: Securing application access with identity-based policies

Cloudflare University

Luke Sares

Cloudflare

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

Network & Infrastructure

Marwan Fayed

Cloudflare

Cloudflare Workers monorepo

Network & Infrastructure

Laura Poss

Block Inc

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

Web Performance & Frameworks

Leo Arsenin

Cloudflare

Define once, connect everywhere

Network & Infrastructure

Matthew Alonso

Cloudflare

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

Web Performance & Frameworks

Phil Hawksworth

Cloudflare

EmDash: The secure WordPress successor for humans and agents

Web Performance & Frameworks

Matt Kane

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

Dan Jones

Cloudflare

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

Web Performance & Frameworks

Nicholas Khami

Mintlify

From chaos to control: Building a harness for personal agents

Web Performance & Frameworks

Harshil Agrawal

Cloudflare

Getting ready for agentic shoppers: MCP server on Agents SDK

Agent Cloud

Matthew Conroy

Cloudflare

Hacking AI and why you should run Guardrails on the edge

Security & Compliance

Chema Alonso

Cloudflare

Hono: Web application primitives for the AI era

Agent Cloud

Yusuke Wada

Cloudflare

How AI platform teams are reshaping enterprise architecture decisions

Web Performance & Frameworks

Damiete King-Harry

Cloudflare

How NVIDIA and Cloudflare are using AI to rethink CDN resiliency

Web Performance & Frameworks

Alex Kuck

Cloudflare

How to get started on your FedRAMP journey with Cloudflare

Security & Compliance

Ling Wu, Tom Lianza

Cloudflare

How to manage Cloudflare at scale without overwhelm

Security & Compliance

Justin Hutchings

Cloudflare

How we built Cloudflare’s global network

Network & Infrastructure

Tanner Ryan, Emily Music

Cloudflare

+1

Inside Mastercard Virtual C-Suite: Building production AI agents on Workers

Agent Cloud

Andrei Migia

Cloudflare

Inside the global effort to disrupt advanced phishing operations

Security & Compliance

Brian Carter, Caroline Canna

Cloudflare · Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

Internal DNS: The end of the appliance era

Web Performance & Frameworks

Enrique Somoza

Cloudflare

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

Web Performance & Frameworks

Joe Dixon

Laravel

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

Secure AI

Joe Fulgieri, Raphaël Beamonte

Ramp

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

Agent Cloud

Alejandro Salinas

Block, Inc.

Less AI makes better agents

Agent Cloud

Ryan Skidmore

Cloudflare

Manage your Cloudflare spending with tags

Security & Compliance

Jonathan Dickson

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud

Ayush Thakur, Kenny Johnson

Cloudflare

Modern customer security engineering

Secure AI

Cristian Cortez, Patrick Walker

eBay

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

Agent Cloud

Ram Nadella

Rippling

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

Security & Compliance

Blake Darche, Juliette Cash

Cloudflare

Protecting AI agents with Cloudflare One

Secure AI

Ayush Kumar

Cloudflare

Protecting origins in the agentic era

Web Performance & Frameworks

Chad Nachiappan

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

Sharon Goldberg

Cloudflare

Rearchitecting the Cloudflare network for the AI revolution

Network & Infrastructure

Tom Strickx

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

Derek Pitts, Ryan Pesek

Cloudflare

Rethinking insider risk for a workforce of people and agents

Security & Compliance

Rohit Chenna Reddy, Sourov Zaman

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

Sourov Zaman, Shelbe Adrade

Cloudflare

Scaling Discord’s voice on Cloudflare’s edge

Web Performance & Frameworks

Jonas Bengtson

Discord

SocialKit: AI social toolset built on Cloudflare

Web Performance & Frameworks

Matan Lachmish

monday.com

Stop blocking shadow AI on campus. Start attracting it.

Agent Cloud

Michael Kowal, Michael Hacker

Cloudflare · Montclair State University

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

Security & Compliance

Dan Jones, Martin Schwarzl

Cloudflare

+1

The agentic network: Secure private connectivity for agents

Secure AI

Nikita Cano

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud

Anthony Maggio

Runway

The rogue agent problem: When AI adoption outpaces your security

Security & Compliance

Sourov Zaman, Milo Gilad

Cloudflare

Turning data questions into data infra with the Cloudflare Data Platform

Agent Cloud

Micah Wylde

Cloudflare

Vulnerabilities: Gaining visibility, driving response in the AI era

Security & Compliance

Christopher O'Rourke, Rusty Clark

Cloudflare · JP Morgan Chase

Whiteboarding an enterprise Cloudflare architecture from a customer brief

Network & Infrastructure

Damiete King-Harry

Cloudflare

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University

Anne Altman

Cloudflare

Zero trust in railway OT: What worked, what broke

Network & Infrastructure

Tõnu Tammer

Estonian Railways

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
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
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 · 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/sponsors                event sponsors
/connect/cloudflare-university   full-day technical training
/connect/partner-summit          global partner summit
/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.