Impact Week 2021

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Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We believe a better Internet can be not only a force for good, but an engine of global sustainability.

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Welcome to Cloudflare Impact Week

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.

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Cloudflare TV: Welcome to Impact Week

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

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Monday, 2021-07-26

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Announcing Project Pangea: Helping Underserved Communities Expand Access to the Internet For Free

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.

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Project Pangea: Helping underserved communities expand access to the Internet for free

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.

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Introducing Flarability, Cloudflare’s Accessibility Employee Resource Group

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.

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Understanding Where the Internet Isn’t Good Enough Yet

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

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Sustainable Investing with Franklin Templeton

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.

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Why I joined Cloudflare and Why I'm excited about Project Pangea

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.

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Tuesday, 2021-07-27

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Helping build a green Internet

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.

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Announcing Green Compute on Cloudflare Workers

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

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Cloudflare: 100% Renewable & Zeroing Out Emissions Back to Day 1

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.

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Cloudflare's Climate Commitments

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.

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Designing Cloud Servers for Energy Efficient Performance

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

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Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt

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.

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Green Hosting with Cloudflare Pages

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.

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Helping our Customers Meet their Sustainability Goals

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.

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Impact Week Fireside Chat: Chris Bergey, SVP/GM of Infrastructure at Arm and Nitin Rao, SVP of Global Infrastructure at Cloudflare

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.

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Recruiting Corner: Diversity & Inclusion Hiring

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.

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The Impact of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Fireside Chat

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.

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Understand and reduce your carbon impact with Cloudflare

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.

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Wednesday, 2021-07-28

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Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches

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.

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Global Internet Access and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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.

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Impact Week: A conversation with Janet Van Huysse and Lisa Gelobter, CEO & Founder of tEQuitable

"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.

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Introducing Smart Edge Revalidation

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.

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L&D Roundtable: Development Opportunities at Cloudflare

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.

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Thursday, 2021-07-29

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Certifying our Commitment to Your Right to Information Privacy

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.

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Cloudflare and COVID-19: Project Fair Shot Update

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

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Cloudflare Partnership with Defending Digital Campaigns

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.

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Cloudflare's Athenian Project Expands Internationally

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.

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Cloudflare's Human Rights Commitments

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.

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Expanding Cloudflare’s Protection of Elections Globally: Partnership with The International Foundation for Electoral Systems

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.

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Helping Secure Elections Around the World with IRI, NDI and the D4D coalition

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.

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Impact Week: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches

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.

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Project Galileo and the Global Cyber Alliance

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.

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Project Galileo and The Global Cyber Alliance Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists

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.

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Working with those who protect human rights around the world

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.

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Friday, 2021-07-29

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Introducing Greencloud

Greencloud is a coalition of Cloudflare employees who are passionate about the environment. Initially founded in 2019, we’re a cross-functional, global team with a few areas of focus: Awareness, Support, and Advocacy.

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The Future of Work

Join Matthew Prince (CEO & Co-Founder, Cloudflare) and Janet Van Huysse (Head of People, Cloudflare) for this special Impact Week fireside chat.

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How Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) can change an organization

Employee resource groups (ERGs) foster community and a sense of belonging, help drive organizational change, and improve the overall quality of an organization’s culture. Most importantly, they help organizations become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

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Cloudflare is joining Pledge 1%

We're excited to announce that Cloudflare is joining Pledge 1%. We're joining the more than 12,000 companies in 100 countries that are committed to making a tangible, positive impact in their communities.

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Building a sustainable workforce, through communities

At Cloudflare, we place a lot of value on the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion lead to better outcomes through improved decision-making, more innovative teams, stronger financial returns and simply a better place to work for everyone.

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Introducing Greencloud

Greencloud is a coalition of Cloudflare employees who are passionate about the environment. Join us for this session to learn about Greencloud's history, mission, and progress so far.

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Why I Joined Cloudflare & Why I'm Excited About Project Pangea

Cloudflare is a clear destination for leading technologists in the Industry. Tune in to learn more about Roderick Fanou's journey to Cloudflare and his excitement about Project Pangea, which helps improve security and connectivity for community networks at no cost.

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