Agenda

Wednesday October 14, 2026

We look forward to hosting you for an immersive day of learning, networking, and what’s driving the future of the web.

Agenda may be subject to change.

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Breakfast & Registration

A platform for the always-on economy: The Weather Company on Fastly

Kip Compton, CEO | Fastly 

Adam McDaniel, VP of Engineering | The Weather Company

In this session, Kip will highlight how our platform helps companies meet the demands of an always-on economy—from accelerating and securing digital experiences to powering AI-driven applications. He'll be joined by Adam McDaniel of The Weather Company, whose mission-critical API services support aviation, energy, insurance, and government. Adam will share how Fastly's platform gave them the confidence to migrate 100% of their API traffic from a former provider, along with the significant performance and reliability gains that resulted.

Building a foundation for the AI era

Artur Bergman, Founder and CTO | Fastly

AI-generated traffic is decoupling internet usage from human time constraints, forcing a rethink of caching, security, and performance at scale. With decades running database-driven websites, Artur will show why AI is just another type of data for Fastly to manage. He'll share insights into the AI traffic we are seeing across our network, why sub-second latency matters for real-time interaction models and why GPUs at the edge simply don't add up.

Evolving our platform for what’s next

Kelly Shortridge, Chief Product Officer | Fastly  

Fastly’s platform powers always-on digital businesses, delivering resilience, reliability, and agility at global scale. In this roadmap session, Chief Product Officer Kelly Shortridge will share how we’re evolving our platform to help customers adapt to a rapidly changing technological and global market landscape. Kelly will cover key roadmap updates while illustrating how we partner with customers to co-innovate and anticipate emerging needs. She’ll also highlight how we help customers translate Fastly technical outcomes into clear business impact.

Networking Break

Dedicated time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations, connect with peers, and engage with Fastly

When the world is watching: Supporting high-stakes live events

Angela Mitchell, Principal Product Manager | Fastly

High-stakes live events like the World Cup, Super Bowl, the Olympics, and election night demand flawless delivery under intense pressure. In this session, Angela will be joined by a leading global streaming platform to discuss how Fastly's scalability, origin protection, and real-time observability helped turn potential infrastructure strain into a seamless viewer experience. Angela will also share upcoming enhancements designed to improve performance and visibility while protecting premium content from bad actors.

Lunch

During lunch attendees can also enjoy “Birds of a Feather” discussion tables and time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations

How Wayfair unlocks developer velocity at the edge

Jesse von Doom, Director of Product Management | Fastly

Dan Rowe, Principal Infrastructure Engineer | Wayfair

In this session, Dan from Wayfair joins Jesse to unpack how Fastly Compute powers a full modern development lifecycle at the edge. Dan will share how reliability, availability, and velocity drive Wayfair's approach to Compute, while walking through some of their top use cases, from geo/origin routing logic to Next-Gen WAF integration. He'll also reveal how a well-tested, well-integrated Compute build lets Wayfair hand feature requests to AI agents for building, testing, and verifying, further increasing developer velocity.

How Life Time uses AI to build and run on Fastly

Austin Spires, Sr. Director, Portfolio Intelligence | Fastly

Marc Gillitzer, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect | Life Time

Building resilient applications with layered security

Daniel Corbett, Principal Product Technology Mgr.  | Fastly

Threat actors don't rely on a single attack vector: they probe APIs, deploy bots, and flood servers with malicious traffic, and no single tool can stop them all. In this session, Daniel will be joined by a customer speaker who will share how their team brings together multiple layers of security on Fastly, creating a smarter, more resilient defense. Daniel will close with a look at an exciting new addition to our security roadmap.

Networking Break

Dedicated time to visit “Ask an Expert” stations, connect with peers, and engage with Fastly

When agents meet infrastructure: Security, sovereignty, and resilience

Hossein Lotfi, SVP, Engineering | Fastly

Join Hossein Lotfi, our SVP of Engineering, as he explores how Fastly builds for resilience and security at scale. He’ll share how we learn from outages while accelerating responses to rare infrastructure failures, and how we leverage AI to supercharge software analysis and assess AI-developed code before deployment. Finally, in a growing regulatory environment, he’ll cover how we use regionalization to support jurisdictional mandates and ongoing efforts to partition infrastructure to better meet compliance requirements.

Securing the modern attack surface in the age of AI

Samir Sherif, Global Field CISO | Fastly 

Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, Ph.D, CISO | Kraken Technologies

Larry Zelvin, Head of Security Advisory | BMO Financial Group

AI is reshaping what security professionals worry about, and how they prove resilience to their boards. Samir Sherif will open this session with key findings from Fastly's Threat Insights Report, then chair a discussion with the security leaders of BMO Financial Group and the energy technology platform, Kraken Technologies. The conversation will explore how organizations are managing bot and API risk in the AI era, rethinking board-level metrics as attacks outpace patch cycles, and how to effectively evaluate security vendors.

Wrap Up & Survey

Networking Reception

Sip, savor, and connect with your peers and Fastly to end the day

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