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
Listen to the Audio
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, 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
Michaela Light 0:01
Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Kishore Balakrishna, from Adobe all the way from India. And we're gonna be talking about CF summit 2020. And there's lots of new things happening this year. So very excited about that. But before we go on if you don't know who he is, he is the principal Product Marketing Manager at Adobe full cold fusion. And now as well as taking care of marketing and organizing CF summit, he also does some cold fusion sales help as well. And just in case you think he's just some kind of marketing genius alone, he actually did a degree in computer applications. So he actually understands was programming stuff as well. So welcome Kishore.
Kishore Balakrishnan 0:42
Thanks for it all. It's always great to be back talking to you.
Michaela Light 0:46
Yes. And good to hear from you. So what exactly is CF summit? 2020? Because I'm assuming it's not going to be happening in Las Vegas this year?
Kishore Balakrishnan 0:57
Unfortunately, no, we would not be having it in Las Vegas this year. Next year, definitely not the Unfortunately, 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.
Michaela Light 1:21
Wow. When you say the biggest How big do you think it will be?
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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.
Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.
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