Looking back on last week, three words come to mind: aligned, connected, trusted. After a day of reflection and sharing insights with executives from our customer advisory council, we kicked off Cloudflare Connect Sydney 2026, our biggest ever event in Australia. Stephanie Cohen (Chief Strategy Officer) and Grant Bourzikas (Chief Security Officer) shared how to globally deploy, secure, and govern scalable Agentic AI capabilities on our Cloudflare platform. Grant shared how his team built 200 security agents that significantly changed the needle in our compliance, threat, and vulnerability management performance. Speed and agility is key in the AI era. I learned a lot from our global infrastructure and developer platform leaders and realized that AI agents shouldn't live in cluttered landing zones but in optimized, high-performance isolates hosted on a purpose-built platform that allows developers to move fast, securely, and cost-effectively. Amongst many other influential leaders, we were lucky to have Sharon Goldberg ("Chief PQC Guru"). She helps regulators, governments, and critical infrastructure companies globally prepare for post-quantum cryptography and authentication. I feel fortunate to support her on this mission in our region. We need to start planning for PQC now! Many thanks to our customers from across the region and our team for a truly special event. #unstoppable #CloudflareConnect #AgenticAI #AI #CyberSecurity #Cloudflare Goran Risticevic Brian Parks Mark Dembo Marina Elmore Oliver Roup Amy Sarah Elliott Amy Perry Ben Munroe Christopher O'Rourke James Allworth Gloria Manzano Jenna Zak Kenneth Lai Pat Breen Michael Tremante Rohit C. Tremante Rohit C. Michelle Zatlyn Karen SchumanGeorge Koulos Jade Porter Rajesh Dhiman Willem Bos XAVIER XUHUI CAI Jeffrey Samuels Prayna Prasad Steve Molloy Ed Malone Luanne Da Costa Rachel Lee Annika Garbers Elton Chew Cloudflare
So lucky to have your expertise on stage breaking down what’s possible with agents. It’s a topic that can feel scary and out of control but you brought it into perspective with control and visibility!
Sorry I missed your session Volker Rath - and the many gold nuggets you always deliver! Could they have made your head any bigger on the screen!?
Volker, the insight that matters most is your point about agents needing optimized isolates rather than cluttered landing zones. Coordination becomes the real differentiator once teams deploy hundreds of autonomous units. The system has to choreograph speed, security and authority in one flow or the agents create more noise than value. The enterprise whitepaper at MyAIRole.com/enterprise_solutions.html#whitepaper covers how fast ownership breaks under agent pressure. It makes me wonder which part of the deployment chain will become the next bottleneck as PQC and agentic AI start converging.