Building an open agentic Internet: Discoverable, callable, and payable
Matthew Conroy
Cloudflare
Video models have crossed a threshold. What was a novelty one year ago is now reliable enough to sit inside real production workflows — a shift that looks a lot like the moment code generation went from autocomplete to a Claude Code session. In this talk, Runway Chief Product Officer Anthony Maggio traces how video and world models evolved to this point, why generative media is having its own step-change moment, and what that has meant for building the Runway Agent and Runway Dev. Leave with a clearer picture of where generative media is heading and what it takes to turn a fast-moving model capability into a product people actually use.
Matthew Conroy
Cloudflare
Micah Wylde
Cloudflare
Raphaël Beamonte
Ramp
Be the first to know when registration opens and the agenda goes live.
---
title: "Generative media’s breakthrough moment: Insights from Runway"
url: "https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/2026/session/generative-medias-breakthrough-moment-insights-from-runway"
year: 2026
---
# Generative media’s breakthrough moment: Insights from Runway
[Watch session](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/2026/session/generative-medias-breakthrough-moment-insights-from-runway?play=1)
Player: https://iframe.cloudflarestream.com/c6b8afabb640d0d7529e3bf529daadc7
## Session details
- **Track:** Agent Cloud
- **Topics:** Agentic AI & MCP, Agentic ROI, AI transformation
- **Solution areas:** Developer Platform
## About this session
Video models have crossed a threshold. What was a novelty one year ago is now reliable enough to sit inside real production workflows — a shift that looks a lot like the moment code generation went from autocomplete to a Claude Code session. In this talk, Runway Chief Product Officer Anthony Maggio traces how video and world models evolved to this point, why generative media is having its own step-change moment, and what that has meant for building the Runway Agent and Runway Dev. Leave with a clearer picture of where generative media is heading and what it takes to turn a fast-moving model capability into a product people actually use.
## Speakers
- [Anthony Maggio](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/speakers/2629560) — Chief Product Officer, Runway
- [Mark Dembo](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/speakers/2463114) — Head of Solutions, Developer Platform, Cloudflare
## Related sessions
- [Building an open agentic Internet: Discoverable, callable, and payable](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/2026/session/building-an-open-agentic-internet-discoverable-callable-and-payable)
- [Turning data questions into data infra with Cloudflare Basin](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/2026/session/turning-data-questions-into-data-infra-with-the-cloudflare-data-platform)
- [Ferrisway: Ramp’s global routing layer on Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/2026/session/isolating-ai-how-ramp-runs-agent-code-for-customers-on-containers)
## More from Connect
- [All sessions](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect/)
- [Get notified for Connect 2027](https://www.cloudflare.com/connect#2027)