Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light

"This situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one of the biggest conferences for CF this year..."

Show notes

What exactly is CF Summit?

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

Meet the CF engineers in person

How many years has CF Summit been running?

8 years

This year goes online

CF Summit virtual event stats and interesting facts

No cost. It is FREE 

No visa needed

No hotel room booking 

Other advantages as well

Dev Week for CF Summit East 

10x bigger than physical event last year 

This year will be the biggest CF Summit event

Anyone in the world can attend 

Most of the sessions in the US time zone

Some will be in European and Asian time zones

Expecting 5000 attendees 

There will be a way to get a copy of the code

Up to speakers to share or not

Should be available immediately after the session is finished

OK to raise hands and ask questions

Anything could happen

Home office new rules apply 

How can I attend it?

The new platform for attending an online webinar (to be announced)

No waiting for recordings to come out

Will be available immediately 

Best practices for attending online events

Watch in your time zone

No back to back talks scheduled

Enough time to move at your own pace

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

35 speakers already selected

Once they confirm it will be announced on website

Some names are already on the list

Charlie Arehart

Matthew Clemente

Elishia Dworak

Dave Ferguson

Pete Freitag

Brian Claas

George Murphy

Rakshith Naresh

Brian Sappey

Dan Skaggs

Mark Takata

Dan Wilson

Topics

CF 2020

CF Lambda 

Modernizing CF Apps 

API manager

PDF functionalities 

Security of CF Apps 

SQL

CommandBox

And many more...

Dates

November 17-19, 2020.

Week before Thanksgiving

Usually in October

Had to push to November because of the priorities in Adobe crew on CF 2020 release

Two days, but prolongs to three because of the different time zones 

Cost

Free! 

It is online!

Location

Usually in Las Vegas, but online this year

What is new this year?

ColdFusion 2020 should be launched and widely discussed 

Other CF Summits

TBA

Why should CFers go to CF Summit?

Learn about a lot of changes in ColdFusion in recent years

Especially now 

CF goes to cloud 

Talk to CF experts and developers

Also with Adobe CF crew 

Drop by Adobe booth anytime during the conference

Contribute to the future of ColdFusion (2022)

Raffles during the event

When is ColdFusion 2020 going to be released?

In 2020 :)

3 more months in 2020 left, so not long 

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode

ColdFusion 2020 - ColdFusion 2020 release date poll 

ColdFusion 2022

Fixinator

CF Lambda

MAX 

Adobe products 

API manager

PDF functionalities 

Security of CF Apps 

SQL

CommandBox

CF Summit website 

Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap with Ashish Garg

State of the CF Union 2020 Survey Final Results

CF Summit 2019

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Bio

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,