Three days at Moscone West
Cloudflare Connect 2026 runs October 19 to 21 at Moscone West, 800 Howard St. The organiser counts 5,000 or more developers and security leaders, 40 or more ecosystem partners, and 100 or more sessions and workshops across the run. The Moscone Center publishes no on-site parking, and its directions page names Powell station on BART or Muni for Moscone West.
Day one carries Cloudflare University and the Global Partner Summit. Days two and three carry the main conference programme.
The published clock
Registration opens at a different hour on each day. Monday, October 19 runs 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 20 runs 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 21 runs 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Breakfast runs 7 to 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Expo Hall is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both main days. The Cloudflare University breakfast on Monday runs 7:30 to 9 a.m.
The earliest registration start in the published grid is 7 a.m., on Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday starts an hour later. One attendee window sits ahead of the programme on both main days: 7 to 8:30 a.m.
Where the quiet hours sit
Tuesday runs an 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. opening general session, breakout sessions from 11 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., Built It Labs from 10:45 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., live podcasts, and the NextNet Speaker Series from 4 to 5 p.m.
Wednesday runs a 9 to 10:15 a.m. general session, breakouts to 3:55 p.m., Built It Labs to 3:40 p.m., the NextNet Speaker Series from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., and func(tion) at Oracle Park from 7 p.m.
Cloudflare names the Expert Zones in the Expo Hall for architectural questions, where attendees whiteboard a problem with a Cloudflare engineer. The FAQ publishes no coat check, no luggage storage, no shower and no guest wi-fi listing for attendees. A day room answers the gap between the 7 a.m. registration window and the 8:30 a.m. start.
The pass ladder
A Conference Pass costs $595. Groups of five to nine buy passes at $495 each, groups of ten or more take 50 percent off ticket prices, and a .gov, .mil, .org or .edu email address takes $100 off at registration. Cloudflare University is a $495 add-on, and the organiser lists University passes as sold out for 2026.
What a day room costs
hotelSlots.org sells four six-hour slots: Morning 6 a.m. to 12 p.m., Afternoon 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., Evening 6 p.m. to 12 a.m., and Overnight 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. The platform lists 103,857 or more hotels across 46 states, publishes a band of 30 to 75 percent below nightly rates on its FAQ, and charges no booking fees.
Dayuse's San Francisco page carried 20 day-room cards on the October 14, 2026 read, and nine of them sat inside the city. The city cards ran $85 to $159 against a published city average of $119.61 for a day room. No card published a two-hour block, and the shortest window ran six hours.
Hotel Bijou at 111 Mason Street priced $85 against a $275 nightly rate, in two windows. The Mosser Hotel at 54 4th Street priced $91 against $299, a 70 percent reduction. Axiom Hotel at 28 Cyril Magnin Street priced $122 against $299. Hotel Zelos at 12 4th Street priced $144 against $399, and Hotel Zetta at 55 5th Street priced $152 against $399. Taj Campton Place priced $159 against $340, Hotel Zeppelin at 545 Post Street $138 against $399, the Hilton San Francisco Financial District at 750 Kearny Street $116 against $299, and Hotel Caza at 1300 Columbus Avenue $107 against $350. The platform lists pool access as included at Hotel Caza.
The eleven remaining cards sat outside the city, among them Millbrae, San Bruno, Oyster Point, Emeryville, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda.
The city inventory behind the rates
hotelSlots.org's San Francisco directory lists 562 hotels and shows 240 of them across ten pages. Fourteen of those carry the 94103 ZIP that holds Moscone West, among them the Hampton Inn San Francisco Downtown/Convention Center at 942 Mission Street, Canopy by Hilton San Francisco SoMa at 250 4th Street, the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown SOMA at 50 3rd Street, and the San Francisco Marriott Marquis at 780 Mission Street.
Two checks before booking. Day rates move between reads, so price the room on the day of booking. California is not among the four states the platform lists as restricted for seller-of-travel registration: Florida, Hawaii, Iowa and Washington.
