Registration is open for Cloudflare Connect San Francisco, a four-day industry event bringing together 2,500+ technology and security leaders to address the infrastructure demands of the autonomous web.
Dates: October 19–22, 2026
Venue: Moscone West, San Francisco
Registration: Live now
Theme: The Agentic Era
The event is framed around a single premise: AI is no longer reactive. Agents that plan, execute, and coordinate across systems are redefining what networks must do — in terms of security architecture, latency tolerance, identity verification, and compute placement.
Cloudflare’s positioning is direct. Its global network sits at the edge of where agentic workloads run: between the model and the tool, between the API call and the data source, between the enterprise perimeter and the public internet. Connect 2026 is effectively Cloudflare’s argument that edge infrastructure is the control plane for autonomous systems.
Agenda Focus Areas
Sessions are expected to span:
- Zero Trust for agentic workflows — authenticating and authorizing AI agents at the network layer, not just the application layer
- AI Gateway and Workers AI — Cloudflare’s emerging AI traffic management and edge inference stack
- Security at autonomous scale — DDoS, bot management, and API abuse in environments where most traffic is machine-generated
- Networking for AI workloads — latency, throughput, and routing as inference moves closer to the edge
Why It Matters
The shift to agentic AI creates a class of network problems that traditional security models weren’t designed for. Agents make high-frequency API calls, chain services, handle sensitive credentials, and operate without human-in-the-loop checkpoints. The attack surface is fundamentally different.
Cloudflare Connect positions the company not just as a CDN or DDoS vendor, but as core infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native application architectures. For security architects, network engineers, and platform teams evaluating their 2027 stack, this event is squarely on the calendar.
Cloudflare Connect San Francisco runs October 19–22 at Moscone West. Capacity is 2,500 attendees.
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