Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

"...all the ColdFusion developers, that's one place where you get to meet the actual ColdFusion developers who develop the product and interact with them as well. And it's also one place where, and they also in fact, but, uh, it's sort of a place where you could get some ideas from each other. Uh, it's not, it's not an everyday occurrence that I could envision a developer who's developing ColdFusion that is the Adobe engineers, uh, get to interact with the developers, but the actual code developers to know how the features which they're developed are being utilized...

Show notes

What exactly is CF Summit West?

One place where all CF devs, designers, decision-makers and thought leaders come together

Meet the CF engineers in person

 Why all CFer should go?

40 sessions from top CFers

CF Specialist Certification

Showcase your CF skills

Help in CF hiring with a portal of certified CFer

Career development 

Full day CF classes with Charlie Arehart and Pete Freitag 

How many years has CF Summit West been running?

7 years

Why is it so important to the CF community?

Shows Adobe is fully backing CF

Show new features in new CF releases

65% of attendees are new to CF Summit

Seeing who is using CF and cool ways they are using

Community building

Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about

How - open call for speakers - 160 topic submissions to a topic selection committee led by Elishia

Abram Adams, Charlie Arehart, Kailash Bihani, Brian Bockhold, Rick Buongiovanni, Matthew Clemente, Mike Collins, Paul Dumas, Elishia Dvorak, Nolan Erck, Dave Ferguson, Tony Ferraro, Daniel Fredericks, Pete Freitag, Ashish Garg, Uma Ghotikar, Matt Gifford, Giancarlo Gomez, Edwin Samuel Jonathan, Brian Klaas, Josh Kutz-Flamenbaum, Andy Lambert, Luis Majano, CEO, George Murphy, Rakshith Naresh, Piyush Kumar Nayak, Uday Ogra, Eric Peterson, Gavin Pickin, Brian Sappey, Suchika Singh, Denard Springle, Greg Stanley, Mark Takata, Andrew Tarvin, David Tattersal, Intergral , Minh Vo, Carl Von Stetten, Dan Wilson, Bradley Wood, Kevin Wright, Bruno Zugay

Topics

Adobe ColdFusion Keynote - CF 2020 sneak peeks

Angular for ColdFusion Developers

Approaches to more secure ColdFusion code

Augmented Reality powered by React Native and ColdFusion - A transformation to mobile app development

Automating your tasks using ColdFusion Scheduler

Beyond "Read All": Build Fine-Grained Control of Amazon Web Services in Your ColdFusion App

Caching and Performance in ColdFusion

Closing Keynote

ColdFusion and Vue - building CFML-powered reactive applications

ColdFusion for the next decade – All about the buzzworthy ColdFusion 2020

Customer Showcase: Learn How Central San uses ColdFusion to Interconnect and Manage Enterprise Infrastructure Assets

Document workflow and management made easy with ColdFusion

From Legacy to Modern, Techniques to update your Legacy Sites

GET /cfml - A Guide to Writing API Wrappers

Getting Started With CF's Docker Images

Harness the Best of the Best: ColdFusion and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Integration

Humor That Works: The Secret to Being More Productive, Less Stressed, and Happier

Making Modules — Utilizing Reusable Code through ColdBox Modules

Meet Solr, ColdFusion's Search BFF

No more excuses - let FusionReactor instantly show you performance problems and defects in your code

Please pass the salt: Serve up passwords with a side of entropy

Practical Functional Programming in ColdFusion

Rapidly Prototyping Single-Page Applications with Coldfusion & Javascript

Real-time SMS Texting with ColdFusion & AWS

Reinforcement Learning with ColdFusion - Adding Practical Autonomy To Your Web Applications

RuleBox : The natural rule engine for CFML

SQL, I learned enough to break everything

Scaling enterprise applications with ColdFusion

Shake N'Bake: Top 10 Performance Tuning Tricks to put you in First Place

Shut the door to vulnerabilities in your code with these tools

Start `Integrated` Testing - The biggest and easiest ( testing ) bang for your buck

Step-by-Step: Migrating Existing ColdFusion Workloads to the AWS Cloud

Testing - How Vital and How Easy to use

The What, When and How of Eerie Real-Time Personalization

The business case for upgrading ColdFusion in 5 easy steps

Try This At Home: Building Your Own ColdFusion Swarm

Unleash the Power of the Adobe API Manager

Using ColdFusion to produce Dynamic Financial Letters

Vice President and CIO, Coalesce Holdings

WebSockets 101 : An Introduction to WebSockets on ColdFusion

WebSockets 201 : Beyond the introduction

[Angularjs + Reactjs + Vuejs] + CF - Integrating modern day JS frameworks with ColdFusion

Preconference classes

Adobe ColdFusion Certificate Program

Going from Zero to 60 with Docker and ColdFusion images

Hands-on ColdFusion Security Workshop

Postconference classes from Ortus

ColdBox From Zero to Hero

ColdBox From Hero to Superhero: API Edition

The Special Event this year

Reception at The Still  

Dates

Monday, Sept 30th - pre-conference classes

Tuesday, Oct 1st and Wed Oct 2nd - the main event

Cost

$99

Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks

Location

The Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas

On the Strip

Only a few miles from the airport 

Easy to get low priced plane tickets to Las Vegas including Southwest

Other things you can do in Las Vegas?

Stay over the weekend after the event for fun

Bring your spouse and kids

Casinos

Tiger zoo

Mir

Big Shows - 

Big shows, musicals, magic, celebrities and more

Absinthe

Blanc De Blanc

Blue Man Group

Celestia

Criss Angel MINDFREAK at Planet Hollywood

Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in Concert

FRIENDS! The Musical Parody

Jabbawockeez

KÀ by Cirque du Soleil

Le Rêve - The Dream

Menopause The Musical

Michael Jackson ONE

Mystère by Cirque du Soleil

O by Cirque du Soleil

Opium

The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil

Tournament of Kings Dinner & Show

V - The Ultimate Variety Show

VEGAS! THE SHOW

WOW - The Vegas Spectacular

Zumanity by Cirque du Soleil

Amazing locations

The Mirage volcano

Paris

Venetian gondolas

Bellagio fountains

Great restaurants and bars from simple to swanky

What is new this year?

Other CF Summits

India Dec 7th, 2019

Washington DC April 26th, 2020

New Europe event

Why are you proud to use CF?

Gets the job done more efficiently than other platforms

Doesn’t get in your way

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

More community participation

Help to start and run a CFUG

CF 2020 release

Products and tool build on CF

Showcase of CF solutions on Adobe site

Adobe forums

Spread the word

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode

CF Summit website 

Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification episode

Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap with Ashish Garg

State of the CF Union 2019 Survey Final Results

CF Camp

Ortus Post-conference classes 

Las Vegas show

Listen to the Audio

Bio

Kishore Balakrishnan

Kishore Balakrishnan is a Principal 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, liaises with the sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicates 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.

Links

Twitter https://twitter.com/kishore31 

FB https://www.facebook.com/kishoreb 

Email kishore (at) adobe.com

adobecoldfusion (at) adobe.com

Interview transcript

Speaker 1:                           00:00                     Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Kishore Barry Krishna and we're going to be talking about CF summit west 2019. All it's new and there's a lot new in this. So a new location in Las Vegas, uh, some new speakers and topics sneak peaks about ColdFusion 2020 and um, also some exciting pre-conference classes that we'll get into being selling like hotcakes. So very cool stuff. So welcome. Kishore

Speaker 2:                           00:32                     thanks Mikayla. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1:                           00:35                     You're welcome. And just in case you don't know, he is now the principal product marketing manager at w got a promotion cause he's been doing such great work marketing confusion and not yes or no, only that he's still coats and cold fusion on occasion when he's not, you know, figuring out how to market the product and putting together amazing events like CF summit with the other team members there. Um, and he does a lot of listening to customers to help understand what's going on and also explaining to people why cold fusion is the best language to use these days. So, um, and he's, Eh, lives in India where he's calling us from. So welcome.

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