Impact Week 2021

This week we kick off Cloudflare's first Impact Week. We originally conceived the idea of the week as a way to highlight some of the things we were doing as a company around our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.

Join Matthew Prince (CEO & Co-Founder, Cloudflare) and Patrick Day (Senior Policy Counsel, Cloudflare) for an Impact Week fireside chat.

Cloudflare is excited to announce Project Pangea. We’re launching a program that provides secure, performant, reliable access to the Internet for community networks that support underserved communities, and we’re doing it for free because we want to help build an Internet for everyone.

In this Cloudflare TV segment, we will discuss how community networks operate, challenges they face and how Cloudflare's project offering can help these communities to have a faster, more reliable, and secure Internet.

I’m pleased to introduce myself and Cloudflare’s newest Employee Resource Group (ERG), Flarability. The 31st anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act is an ideal time to raise the subject of accessibility at Cloudflare and around the world.

This week, Cloudflare is announcing Project Pangea, with the goal of helping reduce Internet access inequality.

Join Thomas Seifert, CFO of Cloudflare, and Jonathan Curtis, SVP/Portfolio Manager/ Research Analyst of Franklin Templeton, as they discuss how environmental and social factors impact capital allocation decisions at a leading institutional investor.

If you are well-prepared to take up the challenge, you will get to experience a moment where you are stepping forward to help build a better world. I felt exactly that when I joined Cloudflare as a Systems Engineer in Austin, Texas.

While we didn't set out to reduce the environmental impact of the Internet, Cloudflare has always had efficiency at its core. It comes from our ongoing fight with an old nemesis: the speed of light.

At Cloudflare, our goal is to bring sustainable computing to you without the need for any additional time, work, or complexity.

By 2025 Cloudflare aims to remove all greenhouse gases emitted as the result of powering our network, and we are committed to powering our network with 100% renewable energy.

In this segment, Patrick Day (Senior Policy Counsel, Cloudflare) & Michael Aylward (Edge Partner Program Manager, Cloudflare) will discuss Cloudflare's recently announced climate commitments regarding renewable energy and carbon emissions mitigation.

In this segment, Atiq Bajwa (Ampere) and Nitin Rao (Cloudflare) will discuss how CPUs can be designed to consume less energy.

Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed than we did for servers designed in 2013.

Cloudflare is proud to announce its collaboration with the Green Web Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with the mission of creating an Internet that one day will run on entirely renewable energy.

Join members of Cloudflare's Product team to learn about some new tools we've introduced to help customers measure, understand, and improve their carbon emissions, including our Carbon Impact Report and Green Compute on Cloudflare Workers.

Cloudflare announced improvements in performance per watt using Arm servers. In this CloudflareTV segment, Chris Bergey (Arm) and Nitin Rao (Cloudflare) will discuss the opportunity to help build a greener Internet.

Tune in to learn more about how we approach and embed diversity and inclusion in our hiring. Every company approaches this differently, and we would like to share what’s unique about Cloudflare and how we build a community here that is intentional about D&I.

Petra Arts, Senior European Policy Manager, and Cloudflare Board member Dr. Katrin Suder will discuss why companies should prioritise diverse representation within their Board compositions as well as the importance of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Board considerations.

As part of Cloudflare’s Impact Week, we’re excited to announce a new tool: Your Carbon Impact Report, available today for all Cloudflare accounts, will outline the carbon savings of operating your Internet properties on Cloudflare’s network.

Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins.

The World Economic Forum has been focused for years on practical solutions for brining the power of the Internet to those who still don't have sufficient access. And they want to make sure that access empowers their lives. During this session, you'll hear from Daniel Dobrygowski of WEF about opportunities for the next steps in this effort.

"Janet Van Huysse, Head of People at Cloudflare, interviews Lisa Gelobter, CEO and founder of tEQuitable. tEQuitable is an independent, confidential platform that addresses issues of bias, discrimination and harassment in the workplace.

When both Last-Modified and Etag headers are absent from the origin response, Smart Edge Revalidation will use the time the object was cached on Cloudflare as the Last-Modified header value. When Cloudflare receives a revalidation request, our edge can respond using the generated header.

The Learning & Development team empowers employees to do their best and help build an empathetic and inclusive community. Join our roundtable discussion to learn more about the tools and resources, course offerings, community engagement strategies, and diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.

Cloudflare recognizes privacy in personal data as a fundamental human right and has taken a number of steps, including certifying to international standards, to demonstrate our commitment to privacy.

Cloudflare Waiting Room helping organizations around the world to stifle COVID-19 and aid with easy rapid vaccinations.

In this segment, we will discuss the challenges political campaigns face online, ongoing efforts of DDC to provide resources to these groups and expanding these protections to state parties in the United States.

Due to the growing trend of cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure, election security is not a US-specific issue. Today, we are extending our security tools to a range of election entities around the world.

Today, we are releasing our first human rights policy. The policy sets out our commitments and the way we implement them. Cloudflare’s mission — to help build a better Internet — reflects a long-standing belief that we can help make the Internet better for everyone.

Join Jocelyn Woolbright, Program Manager at Cloudflare, as she interviews Stephen Boyce, Senior Global Advisor, Election Technology and Cybersecurity at the IFES to discuss how the organization works to develop and provide assistance and support for elections in new and emerging democracies.

Election security and the integrity of foundational democratic institutions has been a growing concern. Learn about online threats to a range of players in the election space and how Cloudflare is working with NDI, IRI and the D4D coalition to strengthen democratic institutions and increase civic participation.

Alex Krivit (Product Manager, Cloudflare), Matthew Prince (CEO & Co-Founder, Cloudflare), and Rustam Lalkaka (Director of Product, Cloudflare) will discuss a new company initiative that aims to reduce the technical and environmental costs associated with redundant website crawls.

Listen to a discussion about how the Global Cyber Alliance and Project Galileo are working to provide the tools and resources for journalists in order to be safer online.

Independent media and journalists are targeted both physically and online as a result of reporting critical events around the world. Learn how the Global Cyber Alliance and Project Galileo are working to provide the tools and resources for journalists in order to be safer online.

Today, we are announcing Radar Alerts, a new program to help our civil society partners track and document Internet shutdowns and protect democratic elections around the world from cyberattacks.