Oct 13-16 · Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas

Session Catalog

See what's in store at Connect 2025

Keynotes, breakouts, and hands-on sessions — curated for every kind of innovator.

Training
Oct 139:00 AM - 10:30 AM

AppSec 1 — Cloudflare setup: From start to best practices

Dariya Pilyanska

Dariya Pilyanska

Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Training
Oct 139:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Cloudflare’s network: How it emerges, why it’s unique, and where it’s going

Marwan Fayed

Marwan Fayed

Principal Scientist and Research LeadCloudflare

Training
Oct 139:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Workers 101: Getting started with the Cloudflare developer platform

Kristian Freeman

Kristian Freeman

Engineering ManagerCloudflare

Training
Oct 1310:45 AM - 12:15 PM

AppSec 2 — Build and tune effective security rules

Suraj Sathyanarayana

Suraj Sathyanarayana

Customer Success ManagerCloudflare

Training
Oct 1310:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Workers 201: Using APIs and databases with Cloudflare Workers

Kristian Freeman

Kristian Freeman

Engineering ManagerCloudflare

Global Partner Summit
Oct 131:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Global Partner Summit welcome

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

President of RevenueCloudflare

Global Partner Summit
Oct 131:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Partner-first in action: Strategy, growth, and what’s next

Tom Evans

Tom Evans

Chief Partner OfficerCloudflare

Training
Oct 131:15 PM - 2:45 PM

AI workshop 1: Build your own remote MCP servers with Cloudflare

Craig Dennis

Craig Dennis

Developer Educator, AICloudflare

Training
Oct 131:15 PM - 2:45 PM

AppSec 3 — Bot and abuse mitigation

Tamires Takehara

Tamires Takehara

Senior Customer Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Certification
Oct 131:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Certification exam: Application Security – Associate

Training
Oct 131:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Cloudflare’s network: How it emerges, why it’s unique, and where it’s going

Marwan Fayed

Marwan Fayed

Principal Scientist and Research LeadCloudflare

Global Partner Summit
Oct 131:30 PM - 2:20 PM

PowerUP your success: Best practices for partnering with Cloudflare

Suchanda Mandal

Suchanda Mandal

VP,APAC PartnershipsCloudflare

Christine McElduff

Christine McElduff

VP, Americas PartnerCloudflare

Tom Evans

Tom Evans

Chief Partner OfficerCloudflare

Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins

VP, Partnerships, EMEACloudflare

Yuki Kanda

Yuki Kanda

Sr Director, Partner Sales JapanCloudflare

Global Partner Summit
Oct 132:40 PM - 3:10 PM

The future of SASE and workspace security: Profitable use cases

Sebastian Scherl

Sebastian Scherl

Principal Product Specialist SASECloudflare

Barry Fisher

Barry Fisher

Senior Director, Product MarketingCloudflare

Training
Oct 133:00 PM - 4:30 PM

AI workshop 2: Build agents with Cloudflare

Craig Dennis

Craig Dennis

Developer Educator, AICloudflare

Training
Oct 133:00 PM - 4:30 PM

AppSec 4 — Stop attacks in real time

Nico van Niekerk

Nico van Niekerk

Senior Technical Enablement ArchitectCloudflare

Certification
Oct 133:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Certification exam: Application Security – Associate

Global Partner Summit
Oct 133:10 PM - 3:40 PM

Modernization made simple: Conversations that lead to larger commitments

Saikrishna Chavali

Saikrishna Chavali

Product MarketingCloudflare

Brian Tokuyoshi

Brian Tokuyoshi

Product Marketing DirectorCloudflare

Global Partner Summit
Oct 133:40 PM - 4:05 PM

Winning with services: How partners drive growth with Cloudflare

Muna Khurshid

Muna Khurshid

Vice President, Partner Solutions and ServicesCloudflare

Greg O'Connor

Greg O'Connor

VP of Strategic AlliancesAdapture

Dror Arie

Dror Arie

Head of EngineeringGlobalDots

Chris Whitehall

Chris Whitehall

Head of Sales and MarketingCDS

Global Partner Summit
Oct 134:05 PM - 4:50 PM

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

Annika Garbers

Annika Garbers

Senior Director, Product ManagementCloudflare

Global Partner Summit
Oct 134:50 PM - 5:00 PM

Global Partner Summit closing session

Tom Evans

Tom Evans

Chief Partner OfficerCloudflare

Activity
Oct 135:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Welcome Reception - sponsored by Accenture

Certification
Oct 147:15 AM - 8:45 AM

Certification exam: Application Security – Associate

General Session
Oct 149:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Cloudflare Connect Opening General Session

Matthew Prince

Matthew Prince

Co-founder & CEOCloudflare

Stephanie Cohen

Stephanie Cohen

Chief Strategy OfficerCloudflare

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

President of RevenueCloudflare

Carl Eschenbach

Carl Eschenbach

CEOWorkday

John-Paul (JP) Syriatowicz

John-Paul (JP) Syriatowicz

Chairman and Co-FounderSquiz

Kevin Deierling

Kevin Deierling

SVP of NetworkingNVIDIA

Geoff Campbell

Geoff Campbell

SVP of Strategy, Business DevelopmentCondé Nast

Farhan Thawar

Farhan Thawar

VP and Head of Engineering at ShopifyShopify

Jack Forestell

Jack Forestell

Chief Product and Strategy OfficerVisa

Anouk Patty

Anouk Patty

Chief of SportU.S. Ski and Snowboard

Ashley Kramer

Ashley Kramer

Chief Revenue OfficerOpenAI

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 149:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Reserved seating, Opening General Session

Theater Session
Oct 1411:00 AM - 11:30 AM

40 years of edge networking evolution and where we’re headed next

Scott Francis

Scott Francis

Global GTM Lead, Emerging Tech SecurityAccenture

Certification
Oct 1411:05 AM - 12:30 PM

Certification exam: Application Security – Associate

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1411:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Modernizing and scaling enterprise web applications with Web Fragments

Igor Minar

Igor Minar

Sr Engineering DirectorCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1411:15 AM - 11:35 AM

The new user interaction model

Kent Dodds

Kent Dodds

Software EducatorEpicAI.pro

Breakout Presentation
Oct 1411:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Creating a safer digital future for the UK (sponsored by Accenture)

J

Joe C

Service OwnerUK Gov

L

Louis Goddard-Stark

Security Consulting Senior ManagerAccenture

Breakout Presentation
Oct 1411:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Enhancing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI services globally with Cloudflare

Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer

Field Chief Security ArchitectOracle

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1411:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Media: Protection and monetization for AI crawling

Arielle Kitei

Arielle Kitei

Strategic Business Initiatives and Industry Sector LeadCloudflare

Will Allen

Will Allen

VP, Product ManagementCloudflare

l

lara cohen

VP Strategic partnerships; Media, Creators & AIcloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1411:15 AM - 12:00 PM

New features for Cloudflare network services

Alyona Purgina

Alyona Purgina

Product ManagerCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1411:15 AM - 12:00 PM

The evolution of Cloudflare’s own IP addresses for CDN customers

Marwan Fayed

Marwan Fayed

Principal Scientist and Research LeadCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1411:15 AM - 12:00 PM

The zero trust odyssey: Reddit’s journey to modernize internal access

Pratik Lotia

Pratik Lotia

Security EngineerReddit

Nathan Handler

Nathan Handler

Security EngineerReddit

Spencer Koch

Spencer Koch

Principal Security EngineerReddit

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1411:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Good agents, bad bots, and winning trust in an answer engine economy

Rachel Wolan

Rachel Wolan

CPOWebflow

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1411:40 AM - 12:00 PM

TanStack Start: A new full-stack framework for React and friends

Tanner Linsley

Tanner Linsley

OwnerTanStack

Theater Session
Oct 1412:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Building AI agent accountability with HITL interactions and governance

LOREN RUSSON

LOREN RUSSON

SVP, Product & TechnologyPing Identity

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Building an ultra-fast and resilient personalization system at Contentful

Alex Braunreuther

Alex Braunreuther

Chief ArchitectContentful

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

How Auth0 is helping solve the AI agent security problem

Damian Schenkelman

Damian Schenkelman

VP R&DOkta

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

How Maricopa County defends election integrity at the edge with Cloudflare

Jason Butryn

Jason Butryn

Information Security Officer - Election TechnologyMaricopa County

Shelby Blanton

Shelby Blanton

Elections IT Web Development ManagerMaricopa County Enterprise Technology & Innovation

Armando Barragan

Armando Barragan

Web DeveloperMaricopa County

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Incident response at Cloudflare scale: Bots, bits, baselines, and beyond

Henry Montagu

Henry Montagu

Staff Security EngineerCloudflare

Sourov Zaman

Sourov Zaman

SR ManagerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

MCP threat trap: Deception engineering for zero trust AI access

Harshad Kadam

Harshad Kadam

Senior Infrastructure Security EngineerIndeed Inc

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

SASE for AI: Access granted, mayhem denied

Sharon Goldberg

Sharon Goldberg

Director, ProductCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Securing the digital frontier: The UK PDNS migration to Cloudflare

Tim Kroeger

Tim Kroeger

Sr. Director, Government ProgramsCloudflare

J

Joe C

Service OwnerUK Gov

Solutions Workshop
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Solutions workshop 1a: Protecting data center networks with Cloudflare

Joseph Li

Joseph Li

Principal Technical Marketing EngrCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1412:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Unbreakable operations: Cloudflare’s approach to disaster resilience

Brian Marks

Brian Marks

Principal solution engineerCloudflare

Kurt Bragg

Kurt Bragg

Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 141:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Unlocking value with AI: A leadership primer

Karim Lakhani

Karim Lakhani

Theater Session
Oct 141:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Fitting SASE into the zero trust networking puzzle (sponsored by Presidio)

G

Gary Stefancyk

Security Practice LeadPresidio

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:05 PM

Deploy like Cloudflare

Emily Music

Emily Music

Product Manager, Network and TrafficCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:30 PM

7 ways to fail your zero trust journey and how to prevent them

Aleksei Sazhin

Aleksei Sazhin

Senior Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Alexey Konstantinov

Alexey Konstantinov

Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Building an autonomous AI-powered support system with Cloudflare

Ashley Peacock

Ashley Peacock

Cloudflare Dev ExpertAshley Peacock

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Cloudflare for Government: Control data, simplify compliance – fast

Wesley Evans

Wesley Evans

Senior Product ManagerCloudflare

Devin Reid

Devin Reid

Senior Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Scottie Ray

Scottie Ray

Director of Solutions Engineering, Public SectorCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Cloudflare WAF: Protecting educational platforms at scale

Juan José Torres

Juan José Torres

Security Cloud EngineerPlatzi

Breakout Presentation
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:30 PM

From edge to cloud: Building a unified security strategy (sponsored by Wiz)

Shashank Golla

Shashank Golla

Sr Product Marketing ManagerWiz

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:30 PM

North Korean operatives may be applying to your company

Solutions Workshop
Oct 141:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Solutions workshop 1b: Protecting data center networks with Cloudflare

Joseph Li

Joseph Li

Principal Technical Marketing EngrCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 142:10 PM - 2:30 PM

Beyond the pipe: Cloudflare’s vision for the AI future of connection

Avani Wildani

Avani Wildani

AI Research LeadCloudflare

Theater Session
Oct 142:30 PM - 3:00 PM

From distribution to acceleration: Empowering partners with Cloudflare

Brian Galletta

Brian Galletta

Business Development RepresentativeTD Synnex

James LeMieux

James LeMieux

FSATD Synnex

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:20 PM

What if bugs fixed themselves?

David Cramer

David Cramer

CPOSentry

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Cyber modernization of retail (sponsored by Accenture)

Deepak Mathur

Deepak Mathur

Global Managing DirectorAccenture

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Defend against the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks with Cloudflare

John Cosgrove

John Cosgrove

Senior Product ManagerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:45 PM

From 2 days to 6 minutes: Niflheim’s edge AI OCR for exams

Caio Pinna

Caio Pinna

CEOgrupoQ

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Navigating data sovereignty: Cloudflare experts on the Internet’s future

Emily Hancock

Emily Hancock

Chief Privacy OfficerCloudflare

Alissa Starzak

Alissa Starzak

Vice President, Deputy Chief Legal Officer and Global Head of Public PolicyCloudflare

Wesley Evans

Wesley Evans

Senior Product ManagerCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:45 PM

On Radar: Connection resets, timeouts, and third-party tampering

Marwan Fayed

Marwan Fayed

Principal Scientist and Research LeadCloudflare

Solutions Workshop
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Solutions workshop 2a: Reimagine your enterprise security with SASE

C

Chris Lopez

Technical Marketing EngineerCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 143:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Zero trust at the speed of trust: Modernizing legacy networks

Cisse Nakeyar

Cisse Nakeyar

Manager Cyber SecurityOttawa Police Service

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 143:25 PM - 3:45 PM

ECH and the end of network snooping

Ehren Kret

Ehren Kret

CTOSignal

Theater Session
Oct 143:45 PM - 4:15 PM

The power of serverless Postgres for devs and AI agents (sponsored by Neon)

Andy Hattemer

Andy Hattemer

Member of Product StaffNeon

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Discover and protect your public-facing GenAI applications

Humair Ahmed

Humair Ahmed

Principal Technical Marketing ManagerCloudflare

Liam Reese

Liam Reese

PM, Firewall for AICloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

How to troubleshoot your employees’ network performance issues with AI

Chris Draper

Chris Draper

Product ManagerCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Internal DNS: Unifying your DNS infrastructure in the cloud

Christian Elmerot

Christian Elmerot

Engineering ManagerCloudflare

Hannes Gerhart

Hannes Gerhart

Senior Product ManagerCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Legacy to zero trust: Scalable, secure connectivity with Cloudflare Tunnel

Juan José Torres

Juan José Torres

Security Cloud EngineerPlatzi

Barry Fisher

Barry Fisher

Senior Director, Product MarketingCloudflare

Tomer Klein

Tomer Klein

IoT domain leadMSD Animal Health Techmology Labs

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Script happens: Surviving PCI 4.0 with Cloudflare Page Shield

Devin Ingersoll

Devin Ingersoll

Security AnalystPayIt

Solutions Workshop
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Solutions workshop 2b: Reimagine your enterprise security with SASE

Simon Thorpe

Simon Thorpe

Technical MarketingCloudflare

C

Chris Lopez

Technical Marketing EngineerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

The Babel fix: Unifying APIs with Cloudflare Workers and AI

Nathan Disidore

Nathan Disidore

Principal EngineerTerminal Industries

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Why your next SaaS tool will be prompted, not bought

Micha Hernandez van Leuffen

Micha Hernandez van Leuffen

Founder and CEOFiberplane

Brett Beutell

Brett Beutell

Lead EngineerFiberplane

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 144:15 PM - 5:00 PM

X’s big move: Boosting performance and reliability with Cloudflare

Alex Krivit

Alex Krivit

PMCloudflare

Sachin Fernandes

Sachin Fernandes

Engineering ManagerCloudflare

D

David Tuber

Director, Product ManagementCloudflare

Theater Session
Oct 145:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Building multilingual agents with ElevenLabs (sponsored by ElevenLabs)

Thor Schaeff

Thor Schaeff

Developer Experience LeadElevenLabs

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 145:30 PM - 5:50 PM

Building applications using AI on the Cloudflare Developer Platform

Eric Hayth

Eric Hayth

Sr. Strategic Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 145:30 PM - 6:15 PM

AI is the mind filler: Finding the path to adoption

Luis Romero-Sevilla

Luis Romero-Sevilla

VP of AIOrbis

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 145:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Bringing HTTP/3 to gRPC at Cloudflare scale

Alex Krivit

Alex Krivit

PMCloudflare

Ashok Varma

Ashok Varma

Staff Software EngineerUber

N

Noah Goldman

Staff Software EngineerUber Technologies

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 145:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Create and secure an AI agent wrapper using AI Gateway and Zero Trust

Miguel Caetano Dias

Miguel Caetano Dias

Senior Solutions Engineer, MajorsCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 145:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Routing without borders: Ramp’s shift to a cellular architecture

Raphaël Beamonte

Raphaël Beamonte

Director of EngineeringRamp

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 145:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Seamless at scale: Integrating Cloudflare into an active AWS architecture

venkat mohan krishna kunnerla

venkat mohan krishna kunnerla

Principal DevOps EngineerAutodesk

Vriksha Shetty

Vriksha Shetty

Senior Devops EngineerAutodesk

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 145:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Shifting left at enterprise scale: DevOps lessons from Cloudflare

Ryan Pesek

Ryan Pesek

Principal Security EngineerCloudflare

Derek Pitts

Derek Pitts

Director of Security EngineeringCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 145:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Zero trust in less than 30 minutes: See it, build it, and secure it

Sebastian Scherl

Sebastian Scherl

Principal Product Specialist SASECloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 145:55 PM - 6:15 PM

Build a programmable cloud with Workers and Containers

Gabi Villalonga Simon

Gabi Villalonga Simon

Systems EngineerCloudflare

General Session
Oct 159:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Product & Innovation General Session

CJ Desai

CJ Desai

President of Product and EngineeringCloudflare

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

President of RevenueCloudflare

rita kozlov

rita kozlov

vp product, developers & aicloudflare

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 159:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Reserved seating, Product & Innovation General Session

Theater Session
Oct 1510:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Automation isn’t enough: Why the edge still needs humans

Freddie Heygate

Freddie Heygate

CEO North AmericaJust After Midnight

J

James Elliott

Global Managing DirectorJust After Midnight

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1511:15 AM - 11:35 AM

Powering the fastest sites, blogs, and more with Astro and Cloudflare

Fred Schott

Fred Schott

Project StewardAstro

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1511:15 AM - 11:35 AM

The future of software development

Jeff Wang

Jeff Wang

CEOWindsurf

rita kozlov

rita kozlov

vp product, developers & aicloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Actionable patterns for automating Cloudflare at scale

Andrei Migia

Andrei Migia

Principal Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Eric White

Eric White

Principle Network EngineerWorkday, Inc

Solomon Rajkumar

Solomon Rajkumar

Senior Manager, Network and Security EngineeringWorkday

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:00 PM

From deployment to defense: Securing AI with Cloudflare

Thomas Desmond

Thomas Desmond

Senior Demo EngineerCloudflare

Humair Ahmed

Humair Ahmed

Principal Technical Marketing ManagerCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Inside the adversary's mind: Cloudflare's Red Team

Dan Jones

Dan Jones

Senior Security EngineerCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Scaling without breaking: Migrating 1,600+ WordPress sites using Cloudflare

Harpreet Singh

Harpreet Singh

Principal DeveloperEInc

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Securing the digital core with Cloudflare (sponsored by Accenture)

A

Albert Guinn

Field CTOCloudflare

Scott Wilkie

Scott Wilkie

Managing Director, SecurityAccenture

Laura Gross

Laura Gross

Global Accenture / Cloudflare Alliance LeadAccenture

Solutions Workshop
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Solutions workshop 1a: Protecting data center networks with Cloudflare

Joseph Li

Joseph Li

Principal Technical Marketing EngrCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:00 PM

When your data lives on the edge: Scaling fast without losing consistency

Marc Hess

Marc Hess

Manager of Developer AdvocacyPrisma

Industry Meetup
Oct 1511:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Retail & ecommerce meetup

Farooq Sheikh

Farooq Sheikh

VP, Global Head of IndustriesCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1511:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Command code: Developing taste in coding agents beyond agents.md

Ahmad Awais

Ahmad Awais

Founder & CEOLangbase.com

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1511:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Fireside chat with swyx and James Allworth

James Allworth

James Allworth

Head of InnovationCloudflare

Shawn Wang

Shawn Wang

Editorlatent.space

Theater Session
Oct 1512:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Inside a Fortune 500 rollout: Blocking phish and spoofing in minutes

Ayush Kumar

Ayush Kumar

Product ManagerCloudflare

Betty Tapia

Betty Tapia

Sr. Alliance ManagerValimail

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1512:30 PM - 12:50 PM

The next generation of builders

Zach Latta

Zach Latta

Executive DirectorHack Club

Craig Dennis

Craig Dennis

Developer Educator, AICloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Extending your SASE deployment with privileged access to infrastructure

Athanasios Filippidis

Athanasios Filippidis

Systems EngineerCloudflare

Ann Ming Samborski

Ann Ming Samborski

Senior Product ManagerCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

From mountains to coast: Protecting North Carolina’s digital front door

Travis Penny

Travis Penny

Cloud Solutions EngineerNC Department of Information Technology

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Future-proof your tech stack: Reduce cost, complexity, and attack surface

Aaron McAllister

Aaron McAllister

Principal Solutions ArchitectCloudflare

Nikola Novoselec

Nikola Novoselec

Senior Enterprise Cybersecurity ArchitectDie Schweizerische Post AG

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Kaizen Gaming/Betano: Real-time optimization at the edge with Workers

Yiannis Karayiannidis

Yiannis Karayiannidis

Senior Head of Technology, Site ReliabilityKaizengaming

Mark Dembo

Mark Dembo

Head of Solutions, Developer PlatformCloudflare

Kostas Stefanopoulos

Kostas Stefanopoulos

Principal Engineer IKaizen Gaming

Ilias Tsakiridis

Ilias Tsakiridis

Site Reliability Engineering Team LeadKaizen Gaming

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Keyless SSL at scale with Cloudflare, CloudHSM, and Kubernetes

Omri Ceisler

Omri Ceisler

Platform Team LeadKaltura

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Proactive exposure hunting: Using WAF insights for threat detection

Tomer Admon

Tomer Admon

Head Of SolutionsZafran

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Resilience theater: Why your crisis plans won’t survive the crisis

Khalid Kark

Khalid Kark

Field CIOCloudflare

Solutions Workshop
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Solutions workshop 1b: Protecting data center networks with Cloudflare

Joseph Li

Joseph Li

Principal Technical Marketing EngrCloudflare

Industry Meetup
Oct 1512:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Technology meetup

A

Albert Guinn

Field CTOCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1512:55 PM - 1:15 PM

Driving AI adoption and creativity at a global scale with VSCO

Chris Haire

Chris Haire

CTOVSCO

Theater Session
Oct 151:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Operationalizing Cloudflare: How to get the most out of your investment

Brian Kirsch

Brian Kirsch

PresidentAdapture

K

Ken Collins

Sr. Director, Information SecuritySunbelt Rentals

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:10 PM

Invisible adversaries: Security resilience in the age of autonomous systems

Grant Bourzikas

Grant Bourzikas

Senior Vice President, Chief Security OfficerCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Disrupting threat actors: Insights from Cloudflare’s threat intel team

Juliette Cash

Juliette Cash

Senior Manager, Cloudforce One PREDICTCloudflare

B

Blake Darché

Head of Cloudforce OneCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Governing AI and data risk across multicloud: A practitioner’s framework

Ankit Gupta

Ankit Gupta

Senior Security EngineerExeter Finance LLC

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

How Platzi moved from Algolia to edge‑first semantic search

Javier Guignard

Javier Guignard

Software Engineer ManagerPlatzi

Juan José Torres

Juan José Torres

Security Cloud EngineerPlatzi

Edwar Baron

Edwar Baron

Software EngineerPlatzi

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Outsmarting modern, AI-driven bots: A guide for apps and API

Saikrishna Chavali

Saikrishna Chavali

Product MarketingCloudflare

Jin-Hee Lee

Jin-Hee Lee

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Resilience by design: Ensuring operational continuity in the cloud era

Daniele Molteni

Daniele Molteni

Director, Product ManagementCloudflare

A

Albert Guinn

Field CTOCloudflare

Brent Busby

Brent Busby

Director, Global Network ServicesPayPal

B

Brandon Smith

VP Mgr - Cyber SecurityMoody's Corporation

A

Aris Petridis

Director of Technology, EngineeringKaizen Gaming (Betano)

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Secure your secrets, simplify your workflow: Dive deep into Secrets Store

Mia Malden

Mia Malden

Product ManagerCloudflare

Humair Ahmed

Humair Ahmed

Principal Technical Marketing ManagerCloudflare

Solutions Workshop
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Solutions workshop 2a: Reimagine your enterprise security with SASE

Simon Thorpe

Simon Thorpe

Technical MarketingCloudflare

C

Chris Lopez

Technical Marketing EngineerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

The fastest way to load... anything

Kevin Gervais

Kevin Gervais

CEOTouchless

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 151:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Why databases break serverless and how to fix it (sponsored by Prisma)

Marc Hess

Marc Hess

Manager of Developer AdvocacyPrisma

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 152:10 PM - 2:35 PM

When HI met AI: Rethinking security

Ramy Houssaini

Ramy Houssaini

Chief Cyber Solutions OfficerCloudflare

Theater Session
Oct 152:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Human expertise and AI: The perfect partnership in application security

D

Danny Rivera

AVP Federal EngineeringGuidePoint Security

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 152:35 PM - 3:15 PM

Industry perspectives on resilience and cybersecurity in the age of AI

Farooq Sheikh

Farooq Sheikh

VP, Global Head of IndustriesCloudflare

John-Paul (JP) Syriatowicz

John-Paul (JP) Syriatowicz

Chairman and Co-FounderSquiz

Kevin Deierling

Kevin Deierling

SVP of NetworkingNVIDIA

Geoff Campbell

Geoff Campbell

SVP of Strategy, Business DevelopmentCondé Nast

Nikola Novoselec

Nikola Novoselec

Senior Enterprise Cybersecurity ArchitectDie Schweizerische Post AG

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Candid conversations about cybersecurity with Cloudforce One

Christopher O'Rourke

Christopher O'Rourke

SR MGR Cloudforce One - REACTCloudflare

Juliette Cash

Juliette Cash

Senior Manager, Cloudforce One PREDICTCloudflare

B

Blake Darché

Head of Cloudforce OneCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Cloudy: Transforming application security with AI agents

Harsh Saxena

Harsh Saxena

Product ManagerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Conserving developer effort: The RedwoodSDK approach to full-stack

Peter Pistorius

Peter Pistorius

Co-creator & CEORedwoodJS

Breakout Presentation
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Empowering analysts to focus on security (sponsored by SentinelOne)

Rich Friedeman

Rich Friedeman

Sr. Director, Solutions EngineeringSentinelOne

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Extending protection to Microsoft apps with Cloudflare

Ayush Kumar

Ayush Kumar

Product ManagerCloudflare

Todd Murray

Todd Murray

Solutions Engineering ManagerCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Human enough to pass? Probing computer vision automation against Turnstile

Rodrigo Silva Ferreira

Rodrigo Silva Ferreira

QA EngineerPosit PBC

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Moving .gov: What it takes to transition a critical TLD on the Internet

Christian Elmerot

Christian Elmerot

Engineering ManagerCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Preparing for quantum-enabled threats: What edge security must do today

Shilpi Mittal

Shilpi Mittal

Lead Security EngineerTyson Foods Inc.

Ankit Gupta

Ankit Gupta

Senior Security EngineerExeter Finance LLC

Solutions Workshop
Oct 153:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Solutions workshop 2b: Reimagine your enterprise security with SASE

Simon Thorpe

Simon Thorpe

Technical MarketingCloudflare

C

Chris Lopez

Technical Marketing EngineerCloudflare

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 154:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Reserved seating, Wednesday Closing General Session

General Session
Oct 154:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday Closing General Session

Stephanie Cohen

Stephanie Cohen

Chief Strategy OfficerCloudflare

Common

Common

Activity
Oct 157:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Cloudflare After Dark @Connect

General Session
Oct 169:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Closing General Session

Michelle Zatlyn

Michelle Zatlyn

Co-founder & PresidentCloudflare

Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington

Executive Exchange — Invite Only
Oct 169:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Reserved seating, Closing General Session

Theater Session
Oct 1610:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Building Fiberplane Codegen: Architecture, challenges, and lessons learned

Brett Beutell

Brett Beutell

Lead EngineerFiberplane

Laurynas Keturakis

Laurynas Keturakis

Product engineerFiberplane

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1610:30 AM - 10:50 AM

From service mesh chaos to edge AI: How Lilly is transforming patient care

Josh Bloxsome

Josh Bloxsome

AI/Platform Eng LeaderLilly

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Application access without compromise (sponsored by SentinelOne)

Rich Friedeman

Rich Friedeman

Sr. Director, Solutions EngineeringSentinelOne

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Accelerate insights and incident resolution with Cloudflare Log Explorer

Bashyam Anant

Bashyam Anant

Senior Director, Product ManagementCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Advanced fraud detection through intelligent edge computing

Reid Tatoris

Reid Tatoris

Senior Director, Product ManagementCloudflare

Justyna Kucharczak

Justyna Kucharczak

Senior Solutions Marketing ManagerCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Real-time data defense: Remediate gaps and stop exfiltration

Warnessa Weaver

Warnessa Weaver

Senior Product ManagerCloudflare

Michael Koyfman

Michael Koyfman

Senior Director, Specialized Solution EngineeringCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Setting sail to China: A story of tech modernization and business growth

Björn Klatt

Björn Klatt

Director Web&MobileHapag-Lloyd AG

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Surviving cloud migrations without breaking your network

Chris Adam

Chris Adam

Senior Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:15 AM

The velocity gap: Why security can’t keep up and what to do about it

Khalid Kark

Khalid Kark

Field CIOCloudflare

Industry Meetup
Oct 1610:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Media & entertainment meetup

Arielle Kitei

Arielle Kitei

Strategic Business Initiatives and Industry Sector LeadCloudflare

l

lara cohen

VP Strategic partnerships; Media, Creators & AIcloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1610:55 AM - 11:15 AM

Making full stack fast: PlanetScale + Cloudflare Workers

Sam Lambert

Sam Lambert

CEOPlanetScale

Theater Session
Oct 1611:15 AM - 11:45 AM

How Cloudflare turns siloed tools into a unified, modern SOC

J

Jonathan Stephan

Director, Cloud ServicesTekStream

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1611:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Build a new corporate network on Cloudflare: Securing apps, users, and data

Simon Thorpe

Simon Thorpe

Technical MarketingCloudflare

J

Jignesh Joshi

Product Lead, Office of CISOGenentech Inc.

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 1611:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Elevating web app security with AI and predictive posture management

Catherine Newcomb

Catherine Newcomb

Product Marketing ManagerCloudflare

Zhiyuan Zheng

Zhiyuan Zheng

Product ManagerCloudflare

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 1611:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Scaling security from startup to enterprise: Cloudflare’s journey

Rohit Chenna Reddy

Rohit Chenna Reddy

Security Strategy & Chief of Staff to CSOCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 1611:45 AM - 12:30 PM

The new developer stack: Cloudflare and agents

Sunil Pai

Sunil Pai

Principal Systems EngineerCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1611:45 AM - 12:30 PM

The trust trap: When insiders go rogue

Christopher O'Rourke

Christopher O'Rourke

SR MGR Cloudforce One - REACTCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 1611:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Zero trust for AI: Securing Model Context Protocol communications

VB Malik

VB Malik

Sr. Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Alexander Kuck

Alexander Kuck

Principal Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Theater Session
Oct 1612:30 PM - 1:00 PM

SASE: A driver for continuous threat exposure management (sponsored by CDW)

Charles Cartwright

Charles Cartwright

Executive Technology StrategistCDW

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 161:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Edge personalization at scale: A sub-50 ms custom experience

Julie Brettle

Julie Brettle

CPOSquiz

Platform & Governance — Connectivity Cloud
Oct 161:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Everything breaks eventually: Designing for resiliency beyond SASE

Suzanne Aldrich

Suzanne Aldrich

Senior Solutions EngineerCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 161:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Fixing broken API authentication & authorization with Cloudflare API Shield

John Cosgrove

John Cosgrove

Senior Product ManagerCloudflare

Developer & AI — Build Smarter
Oct 161:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Let's put the AI in lots of little boxes

Kenton Varda

Kenton Varda

Lead Engineer, Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare

Application — Connect & Protect
Oct 161:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Security in an agentic world: Securing AI workflows and agents

A

Andrew Li

Sr. Director of EngineeringCloudflare

Networking & Security — Beyond SASE
Oct 161:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Unify application and network protection with Cloudflare

Joseph Li

Joseph Li

Principal Technical Marketing EngrCloudflare

Jeff Sani

Jeff Sani

Solutions ArchitectCloudflare

Industry Meetup
Oct 161:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Financial services meetup

Farooq Sheikh

Farooq Sheikh

VP, Global Head of IndustriesCloudflare

Justyna Kucharczak

Justyna Kucharczak

Senior Solutions Marketing ManagerCloudflare