Ad-Supported Sites Without the Slowdown + Telescope Test Agent

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 and 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, and data pipelines—cutting infrastructure costs, improving revenue efficiency, and 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, and why you should start using it. Wrapping up with a live demo of what it can do now and what its future holds.

Mike Kozicki leads the Cloudflare Observatory team. He is focused on making RUM and synthetic data accessible and 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 and product engineering at Catchpoint.

We will have food and drinks and 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 and Stuff" geekaways
8:00PM - Open Discussion, Networking

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