Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What exactly is CF Summit East?

Started in second year of CF Summit in Las Vegas

For people who can’t travel to West coast

Expecting 200 people, 160 registrations already two month out

How many years has CF Summit been running?

3rd year

Why is it so important to the CF Community?

Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff

Why all CFer should go?

To learn about Adobe’s commitment to CF

New features in CF

Direction of CF

Roadmap through 2025

Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about

10 speakers

Rakshith Naresh - new features of CF 2018 (second half of 2018 release date)

Elishia Dvorak - CF API manager

Tridib Roy Chowdhury - Keynote State of CF with customers, Adobe’s plans, customer experiences with CF

Charlie Arehart - new in CF 10, 11, 2016 that you may have missed

Pete Freitag - Securing mature CFML codebases

Masha Edelen - Power of Simplicity in FW/1 Framework

Eric Cobb - Building Better SQL Server Databases

Kevin Schmidt - PDF

Trip Ward - Angular.js and CF

Mike Collins - Distributed caching

Dave Watts and Theonic Way - Upgrading legacy CF servers

Date

Wednesday April 25th 2018, 8am - 5pm

Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks

Cost

Free

Location

Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel

999 Ninth Street NW

Washington, DC 20001

Close to last’s year’s location at Marriott

Near to the metro

Other things you can do in DC?

National Mall

Museums

White House

What is new this year?

Last year 110 attendees - CF govt focused

Recording session is planned

CF growing over last year

Dollar sales

Number customer

Why are you proud to use CF?

Started as Java dev → QA → CF dev → marketing manager

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

CF community paritation

Spread the CF Alive message

For every 1 public site there are 4 private/intranets

30% of CF installed base is government

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East?

Mentioned in this episode

Conference event

Roadmap episode

Educational free

Community Portal blog about CF Summit

Listen to the Audio

Bio

Kishore Balakrishnan

Kishore Balakrishnan is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager before becoming the Product Marketing Manager. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization, liaise with sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicate the why, what and when to the marketplace for CF. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and kid. Kishore loves his long runs and cooking.

Interview transcript

Michaela:          Welcome back to the show. Today, we're looking to talk about the Adobe C.F. Summit East. And I'm here with Kishore Balakrishnan. And we're gonna learn all about this band it's in its fourth year as a lot of exciting changes. So if you haven't heard of the CF Summit East, we're gonna learn what that is, and why all ColdFusion developers on the East Coast see if they can get there. And we also will reveal who the speakers and topics are this year, and the location, and also what is new with the event. And we'll also talk about Kishore’s background. You may not know this; he's the senior marketing manager for ColdFusion Adobe. But he also programs in ColdFusion. So we'll talk about his background later in the show. So welcome Kishore.

Kishore:           Thanks Michael for having me on the show, have a lot of good things.

Michael:          So… oh great! Yeah I mean we did over 50 episodes last year, and planning to do a similar number this year.