AI Real Talk: How publishers can survive the AI age, a chat with Cloudflare VP of Product Will Allen

​Some tech companies have decided to push the boundaries of the law to get content train their AI models, scraping the web to suck up the data they need and settling lawsuits later. Others see this as an existential threat to the open web if publishers can no longer make a living online.Cloudflare has been aggressive in helping users of its internet security products to block bots, and called out companies trying to circumvent the guardrails. The company also has launched a new beta product, Pay Per Crawl, to create a marketplace for publishers to get paid when their sites are scraped by bots.
Join us for a conversation with Cloudflare's VP of Product Will Allen, who will talk about what the company is doing and how they are thinking about helping publishers survive in the AI age.

​Will is a VP of Product at Cloudflare, where his focus is on rethinking the business model for content creators in the age of AI. He previously was a vice president at Adobe, overseeing Behance, Adobe Portfolio, 99U, Adobe Live and the Content Authenticity Initiative. He was Behance’s COO prior to its acquisition by Adobe in 2012. He graduated with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in political science and philosophy.