Cloudflare, one of my favorite companies on the Internet, is hosting their first big conference called Connect 2025.
- What: Connect 2025
- When: Oct 13-16, 2025
- Where: Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas
They have a huge list of sessions here.
I read through all of them on August 25th and ranked my favorites below.
If you’re attending Connect 2025 and want to meet up, email me! I might host a little meetup. If new sessions are added, you should please let me know so I can re-review and update this list. Follow me on X here.
Top Most Interesting Sessions
The most interesting sessions at Cloudflare Connect 2025 judged by me, Nick Gray, a random non-technical person on the Internet who just likes Cloudflare!
Moving .gov: What it takes to transition a critical TLD on the Internet
Christian Elmerot, Engineering Manager • Cloudflare
Kaitlin Abbitt, .gov Product Manager • CISA
This talk explores the complex migration of the .gov top-level domain infrastructure, detailing the technical and strategic considerations involved in transitioning a critical internet domain.
Nick’s notes: That looks cool!! Pretty neat to do a whole TLD infra.
“The new developer stack” – Cloudflare + Agents
Sunil Pai, Principal Systems Engineer • Cloudflare
This presentation explores Cloudflare’s unified agent platform that enables developers to build autonomous business agents with integrated AI, state management, and automatic scaling capabilities.
Nick’s notes: The speaker is the GOAT of Durable Objects, I bet it will be a fun talk. Everyone should follow Sunil Pai on X.
A framework for better technical decisions
Kent C. Dodds, Software Engineer and Educator • Kent C. Dodds Tech LLC
Kent shares decision-making principles for evaluating technical tools and approaches, helping developers make more confident and systematic choices when building or refactoring software.
Nick’s notes: Hosted by Kent Dodds, who sounds smart and has a big audience.
Building an autonomous AI-powered support system with Cloudflare
Ashley Peacock
A presentation exploring how to create an AI-driven support agent using Cloudflare technologies that can autonomously handle user cases with minimal human intervention.
Nick’s notes: I like this guy– Ashley Peacock is the author of a Cloudflare book, very active on X
Deploy like Cloudflare
Emily Music, Network and Traffic PM • Cloudflare
The talk provides insights into network resource deployment strategies, focusing on infrastructure expansion and optimization for network operators.
Nick’s notes: Sounds cool!! If they talk about their peering etc. I wish there were more talks at Cloudflare Connect on things like the Gen 12 Servers, or Cloudflare for Offices.
Fireside chat with Swyx and James Allworth
James Allworth, Head of Innovation • Cloudflare
Swyx (Shawn Wang), Editor • Latent.Space
An insightful discussion exploring the intersection of developer tools and AI, featuring perspectives from a Cloudflare innovation leader and a prominent AI engineering voice.
Nick’s notes: I don’t know who Swyx is but I think he’s famous and prob v smart!
How Cloudflare Workers was designed for sandboxing
Kenton Varda, Principal Systems Engineer • Cloudflare
Kenton Varda will discuss how Cloudflare Workers provides a robust sandboxing approach to safely deploy AI agents and applications by isolating them in secure, controlled environments.
Nick’s notes: Kenton invented Workers! Neat talk idea. I liked his HN post about using AI to write code recently, too. Plus he has that famous LAN house.
Lisan al gAIb: Small Teams Riding on AI Power
Jesse Taylor, VP of Product and Engineering • Orbis Operations
Luis Romero-Sevilla, VP of AI • Orbis Operations
The talk explores how small teams can leverage generative AI to streamline product development, automate knowledge work, and create more agile and adaptive technological solutions.
Nick’s notes: I just included this because it has the best session title!! I loved the Dune movies. And the first Dune book.
Scaling without breaking: Migrating 1,600+ WordPress sites using Cloudflare
Harpreet Singh, Principal Developer • EInc
A case study on successfully migrating over 1,600 automotive websites to Cloudflare with zero downtime, improved performance, and enhanced security.
Nick’s notes: Not enough people talking about WordPress and Cloudflare!! I like stuff like this. Need more respect for WordPress and everyone attend so Cloudflare won’t stop supporting APO.
X’s big move: Boosting performance and reliability with Cloudflare
Alex Krivit, Product • Cloudflare
This panel discussion explores X’s migration to Cloudflare, highlighting how the platform enabled the company to improve infrastructure scalability, performance, and reliability under challenging conditions.
Nick’s notes: Wow YES I want to hear this!! Really really interesting BTS of X stuff. I love X.
No managed device, no problem: Browser isolation to the rescue
Ben Stewart, Engineering Manager, Corporate Security • Lyft
Nitish Balachandran, Senior Security Engineer • Lyft
The session explores how Lyft uses browser isolation to securely enable access for contractors with unmanaged devices by enforcing security policies through a remote browser.
Nick’s notes: Run by team from Lyft, sounds neat to learn how they manage their driver stuff with Cloudflare.
Other Interesting Sessions
Here are other sessions that looked neat.
Accelerating AI adoption with edge computing and AI inference
Amit Chaudhry, Sr Director, Product Marketing • Cloudflare
This session explores how edge computing and AI inference can accelerate enterprise AI adoption through improved performance and reduced latency.
Nick’s notes: Has the potential to be boring or interesting, TBD!
Building an ultra-fast and resilient personalization system at Contentful
Alex Braunreuther, Chief Architect • Contentful
Contentful will discuss how they built a high-performance personalization engine using Cloudflare’s developer platform, leveraging edge computing technologies to deliver personalized content with sub-100 ms response times.
Nick’s notes: Seems neat, big company using tons of Cloudflare stuff.
From 2 days to 6 minutes: Niflheim’s edge AI OCR for exams
Caio Moretti, CEO • Quest Edu
Niflheim is an AI-powered OCR system that dramatically reduces exam PDF transcription time from two days to six minutes by using Cloudflare services and AI technologies, achieving near-perfect accuracy with a human review mechanism.
Nick’s notes: Related to my interests. I am working on an OCR project right now that I’m hosting on Cloudflare.
Inside the adversary’s mind: Cloudflare’s Red Team
Dan Jones, Senior Security Engineer • Cloudflare
Cloudflare’s Red Team simulates advanced cyber attacks against their infrastructure to proactively identify and address security vulnerabilities, helping protect the 20% of the internet that relies on their services.
Nick’s notes: Like the movie Hackers!! Could be neat! But I can’t imagine they would ACTUALLY share a lot of what they do, to not give others an advantage.
Navigating data sovereignty: Cloudflare experts on the Internet’s future
Emily Hancock, Chief Privacy Officer • Cloudflare
Alissa Starzack, Deputy Chief Legal Officer, Global Head of Public Policy • Cloudflare
Zaid Zaid, Head of US Public Policy • Cloudflare
Wesley Evans, Product Leader • Cloudflare
A panel discussion exploring how organizations can navigate the complex landscape of data sovereignty and global internet regulations while maintaining an interconnected digital environment.
Nick’s notes: Cloudflare is smart on this stuff; these seem like heavy-hitters on the panel.
The fastest way to load… anything
Kevin Gervais, CEO • Touchless
Kevin Gervais will discuss how using Cloudflare Workers to stream scripts and UI in real-time can dramatically improve website performance, potentially transforming how web content loads.
Nick’s notes: Title and description seem like clickbait but I wonder what they’re doing.
The future of software development
Jeff Wang, CEO • WindSurf
A discussion on how AI will transform software development, including predictions about AI-generated code and the evolving roles of software engineers.
Nick’s notes: Hosted by the CEO of WindSurf??
Conclusion
I picked these simply as a layperson who likes learning new things.
If you’re hosting a session at Cloudflare Connect and want to be considered to be added to this list, email me here please.
If you’re thinking about attending Cloudflare Connect 2025, you should go! I’ll try to go. Email me if you want to say Hi and maybe I can host a little unofficial meetup for random fun folks.
