Cloudflare Connect 2026

Sessions

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

Agenda

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

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

Network & Infrastructure

Matthew Alonso

Cloudflare

AppSec: Bot and abuse management

Cloudflare University

AppSec: Build and tune effective security rules

Cloudflare University

AppSec: Configure managed rules for maximum protection

Cloudflare University

AppSec: Design rate limiting strategies for complex applications

Cloudflare University

AppSec: Secure your origin against direct attacks

Cloudflare University

AppSec: Stop attacks in real time

Cloudflare University

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

Agent Cloud

Dillon Mulroy

Cloudflare

A runtime for developers and their agents

Web Performance & Frameworks

James Snell

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI

Chris Adam

Cloudflare

Automating everything with Flue

Agent Cloud

Beyond IP addresses: Cryptographic primitives for honest bots

Security & Compliance

Thibault Meunier

Cloudflare

Breaking the Internet (and putting it back together)

Network & Infrastructure

Building advanced real-time applications using WebSockets

Agent Cloud

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

Agent Cloud

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

Agent Cloud

Matthew Conroy

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

Henry Montagu

Cloudflare

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

Web Performance & Frameworks

Matthew Phillips

Cloudflare

Building Cloudflare on Cloudflare

Agent Cloud

Building durable agents with Durable Objects

Agent Cloud

Justin Schroeder

Standard Agents

Building modern state and local government security without starting over

Industries Showcase

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

Closing the loop: Agentic threat intelligence and threat response

Security & Compliance

Blake Darche

Cloudflare

Closing WAF coverage gaps before the next critical CVE drops

Security & Compliance

Cloudflare One: Deploying secure endpoint connectivity

Cloudflare University

Cloudflare One: Making your private applications accessible

Cloudflare University

Cloudflare One: Securing application access with identity-based policies

Cloudflare University

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

Network & Infrastructure

Marwan Fayed

Cloudflare

Cloudflare Workers monorepo

Network & Infrastructure

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

Web Performance & Frameworks

Leo Arsenin

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud

Define once, connect everywhere

Network & Infrastructure

Matthew Alonso

Cloudflare

Developer tooling in the agentic era

Web Performance & Frameworks

Evan You

Cloudflare

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

Web Performance & Frameworks

Phil Hawksworth

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI

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

Secure AI

Michael Kowal, Michael Hacker

Cloudflare · Montclair State University

EmDash: The secure WordPress successor for humans and agents

Web Performance & Frameworks

Matt Kane

Cloudflare

Ensuring resiliency during network maintenance

Network & Infrastructure

Kevin Deems

Cloudflare

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

Agent Cloud

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

Security & Compliance

Dan Jones

Cloudflare

Financial services meetup: Resilience, security, and AI

Industries Showcase

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

From ranking to recommended: Answer engine optimization (AEO)

Web Performance & Frameworks

Func(tion) @ Connect

Activity

Getting your storefront agent ready for peak season

Industries Showcase

Hacking AI and why you should run Guardrails on the edge

Security & Compliance

Chema Alonso

Cloudflare

Hono: Web application primitives for the AI era

Web Performance & Frameworks

Yusuke Wada

Cloudflare

How AI platform teams are reshaping enterprise architecture decisions

Web Performance & Frameworks

How NVIDIA and Cloudflare are using AI to rethink CDN resiliency

Web Performance & Frameworks

Alex Kuck

Cloudflare

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

Network & Infrastructure

How to get started on your FedRAMP journey with Cloudflare

Security & Compliance

Ling Wu, Wesley Evans

Cloudflare

How to manage Cloudflare at scale without overwhelm

Security & Compliance

Justin Hutchings

Cloudflare

How to measure real-world network quality for end users

Network & Infrastructure

Doug Suttles, Lai Yi Ohlsen

Orb · Cloudflare

How we built Cloudflare’s global network

Network & Infrastructure

Tanner Ryan, Emily Music

Cloudflare

I built your personal software ecosystem

Agent Cloud

Kent C. Dodds

HeyKody.dev

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

Agent Cloud

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

Wesley Evans

Cloudflare

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

Secure AI

Ayush Thakur, Kenny Johnson

Cloudflare

Merkle Tree Certificates and the next phase of the WebPKI

Secure AI

Modern customer security engineering

Secure AI

Cristian Cortez, Patrick Walker

eBay

Monetizing AI agent traffic: Write your first Monetization Gateway rule

Secure AI

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

Programmable wallets for the agentic Internet

Agent Cloud

Protecting AI agents with Cloudflare One

Secure AI

Ayush Kumar, Todd Murray

Cloudflare

Protecting origins in the agentic era

Web Performance & Frameworks

Chad Nachiappan

Cloudflare

Protecting web and API applications from AI-powered attacks

Security & Compliance

Daniele Molteni

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

Sharon Goldberg, Wesley Evans

Cloudflare

Rearchitecting the Cloudflare network for the AI revolution

Network & Infrastructure

Tom Strickx

Cloudflare

Reducing payloads with shared compression dictionaries

Web Performance & Frameworks

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 Andrade

Cloudflare

Sandbox egress: Give agents access without giving away the keys

Agent Cloud

Scaling Discord’s voice on Cloudflare’s edge

Web Performance & Frameworks

Jonas Bengtson

Discord

Securing AI in practice

Agent Cloud

Securing Internet traffic for the quantum computing era

Web Performance & Frameworks

SocialKit: AI social toolset built on Cloudflare

Agent Cloud

Matan Lachmish

monday.com

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

Security & Compliance

Dan Jones

Cloudflare

Technology industry panel: Innovation in the age of instant software

Industries Showcase

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

This is my workflow: Building with AI

Agent Cloud

Transforming enterprise productivity with Cloudflare OS

Secure AI

Turning data questions into data infra with the Cloudflare Data Platform

Agent Cloud

Micah Wylde

Cloudflare

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

Security & Compliance

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

Secure AI

Vulnerabilities: Gaining visibility, driving response in the AI era

Security & Compliance

Blake Darche, Christopher O'Rourke

Cloudflare

Whiteboarding an enterprise Cloudflare architecture from a customer brief

Network & Infrastructure

Why modern software engineering needs Durable Objects

Agent Cloud

Ashley Peacock

Cloudflare

Zero Trust Associate certification exam

Cloudflare University

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

Security & Compliance

Zero trust in railway OT: What worked, what broke

Network & Infrastructure

Tõnu Tammer

Estonian Railways

Global Partner Summit welcome

Global Partner Summit

Mon, Oct 191–1:10 PM PDT

Reshaping the partner ecosystem for what's next

Global Partner Summit

Mon, Oct 191:10–1:25 PM PDT

Fireside chat with Partner Sales leadership

Global Partner Summit

Mon, Oct 191:25–1:55 PM PDT

The SASE power play: Driving enterprise scale and partner profit

Global Partner Summit

Mon, Oct 191:55–2:30 PM PDT

Driving partner growth and experience through AI innovation

Global Partner Summit

Mon, Oct 193:45–3:55 PM PDT

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

Global Partner Summit

Mon, Oct 194:15–4:45 PM PDT

Global Partner Summit closing

Global Partner Summit

Mon, Oct 194:45–5 PM PDT