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With Mike Kozicki (Lead, Cloudflare Observatory), Kathryn Lovell (Ad Tech Enggr).
Cloudflare HQ, 1WTC, 88th Fl
Feb 12 (Thu) , 2026 @ 06:00 PM
FREE
 
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Talk 1: Ad-Supported Sites Without the Slowdown
How to keep your site performant when running ads. Using next.js with the ads stack, fetch & refresh timing, wrangling third-party trackers.

Kathryn Lovell is a senior ad tech engineer specializing in high-performance web advertising systems. She has led large-scale optimizations across bidding, pacing, & data pipelines-cutting infrastructure costs, improving revenue efficiency, & delivering billions of fast, reliable impressions.

Talk 2: Telescope Test Agent
Join Mike for a look at Telescope, a new cross-browser test agent built by Cloudflare. He'll discuss why it exists, the problems it tackles, & why you should start using it. Wrapping up with a live demo of what it can do now & what its future holds.

Mike Kozicki leads the Cloudflare Observatory team. He is focused on making RUM & synthetic data accessible & useful. Based in NYC, Mike currently spends some of his free time contributing to Telescope in the hope that he can help developers make the web faster. Previously, he led development of WebPageTest & product engineering at Catchpoint.

We will have food & drinks & as always, we are going to have geekaways with geeky prizes provided by our sponsors.

Agenda:
6:00PM - Arrive at the venue, meet other members
6:15PM - Event starts
6:30PM - Ad-Supported Sites Without the Slowdown (Kathryn Lovell)
7:00PM - Telescope Test Agent (Mike Kozicki)
7:30PM - Q&A
7:45PM - "Books & Stuff" geekaways
8:00PM - Open Discussion, Networking

Make sure to fill out your legal name & bring your ID to show at security desk.

Please make sure to allow for additional time to go through security downstairs & be prepared to put all your electronics through security screening.

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