Cloudflare Connect · Moscone West, San Francisco
Eight sessions across three days — roughly five hours of programming out of about twenty-four available. Everything else is deliberately open for the city and the people in it.
One item on the whole day, and it's at five.
Monday's entire daytime program is Cloudflare University certification tracks and the Global Partner Summit, and neither is yours. Land whenever suits you, put the day toward people you actually want to see, and treat the conference as starting Tuesday at nine.
Three sessions that matter, clustered 1:10–2:50 PM.
Opening keynote. Product announcements land here, and everything you'd want to ask people about for the next two days gets framed in this room. Worth the early start.
Nothing in the 11 AM or 12:30 PM blocks is worth the seat. Use it for the Hub, the Knowledge Bar, or lunch off-site with someone.
If you want one thingBuilding durable agents with Durable Objects (11–11:45, Justin Schroeder / Standard Agents) — relevant if FastBot's state and session model is the part you're still unsure about.
A full-stack TypeScript CMS on Astro and Cloudflare Workers, built by Cloudflare, with agents as first-class citizens. That is your Sitebuilder V1 stack with a different CMS in the Tina slot — and it's coming from the platform vendor.
Twenty minutes here tells you whether the productized site builder should adopt it, position against it, or ignore it. Nothing else at the conference answers that question.
FastBot already routes through AI Gateway. This covers the visibility, policy, and cost-control side — which matters twice for you: once for keeping your own bill sane on the Workers Paid plan, and again as the compliance story you can put in front of regulated clients.
Pricing rules for agent and crawler traffic, demoed live. This is the commercial other half of the AEO conversation — you'll be able to tell a publisher client not just how often assistants cite them, but how to charge for the crawl. It's a service line, not just a talk.
Costs youConnecting the pieces: Using Bindings (2:40–3:25 hands-on). Skip it — you already build with bindings daily.
The 4:00–5:00 PM general session, "Building the future of AI," is the only thing left. It's optional: worth staying for if you want the product news firsthand, entirely skippable if a 5 PM dinner is the better use of the evening. Wednesday's closing session is the stronger of the two.
The AEO session at 2:30 is the single most valuable slot of the week.
The innovation keynote — where the developer platform roadmap gets shown. Higher signal for you than Tuesday's closing session.
Last full day in the city. Take the long lunch, walk somewhere, see whoever you didn't catch Monday night.
The one real tradeBuilding a software factory: Driving Astro's Issues to zero (1:10–3:30, coding session) — the Astro team's AI triage pipeline running subagents inside GitHub Actions. Genuinely good, and genuinely applicable to how you'd run agent work at the agency. But it runs two hours and twenty minutes and swallows both Code Mode and the AEO talk. Only take it if you'd rather leave with one deep thing than three sharp ones.
An open-source technique that collapses any number of MCP tools into two functions and about a thousand tokens. FastBot is a multi-agent system on a $5/month plan — tool-call token economics is exactly the constraint you're building against.
Cloudflare measuring how often assistants recommend you versus competitors, against realistic customer prompts — including where you're named but not cited. You have been selling AEO strategy to clients without that measurement layer. This is the session that changes what Fast + Light can put on an invoice.
Costs youThree other talks in the same twenty minutes: Evan You on developer tooling, Phil Hawksworth on discovering primitives, and NVIDIA on CDN resiliency — plus Red-teaming an AI chatbot at 2:35. Take AEO. Nothing else is close.
Hono: Web application primitives for the AI era (3:50–4:10, Yusuke Wada) is the only thing worth a seat, and only if Hono is in or near your Workers stack. Otherwise this is buffer before the close.
Zatlyn with Adam Grant. Not technical, low effort, and the best raw material of the week for content — it's a closing keynote conversation, which is the kind of thing your voice does well with.
Listed in the catalog with no time assigned yet. If it lands outside your blocks, it's worth moving something.
Industries Showcase panel with Arielle Weiss and Lara Cohen. Selective crawler access, citation-rate tracking across AI models via AEO, and pay-per-use micropayments — the three things you'd need to build a real AEO retainer, in one room. Highest-value unscheduled item on the entire program for you.
The program runs 166 sessions. Here's the reasoning behind the ones that didn't make it, so you can overrule me on any of them.