Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2023” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

“We’re going to be talking about CF summit in Las Vegas and what's new and what you need to know about that.”

Show notes

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas in October 2023?

ACF 2023 released - detailed sessions on new features

Networking with other CFers and Adobe CF engineering team

What performance improvements will be presented?

AI-powered solutions coming in ACF 2024

Adobe is moving to annual release cycle due to the speed of tech change, including AI

Adobe are looking for customers to give ideas for new features too

What is the importance of the summit for CFers?

Becoming a certified CFer

Access to 50+ training videos and take an exam during the Summit or later at a time of your choosing

24 hours of video-on-demand training

Constant updates of new topics are added

Topics and Speakers

Keynote speaker -  Vivek Kumar, Senior Director of Engineering

Call for speakers is open

Sponsors

FusionReactor

xByte

Media3

TeraTech

Dates

Mon 2 - Tue 3 October 2023 main conference

Monday evening event

Wed 4th for the certification

Location

The Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Student pass

Free to high school and college students

Includes all the conference sessions, networking and t-shirts etc

Need student id

Does not include the evening event (due to alcohol being served there)

Does not include hotel room

Application form on the CF Summit website coming soon

Cost

Session Pass - $99

Access to all sessions & workshops on October 2nd and 3rd

Access to all keynotes, panels, workshops & speaker Q&A

Access to first-day party 

Professional Pass - $199

Access to all sessions & workshops on October 2nd and 3rd

Access to all keynotes, panels, workshops & speaker Q&A

Access to first-day party 

Access to ColdFusion Certification training on October 4th

Registration

Register | CF Summit 2023 (adobeevents.com)

CF Summit India

This is returning!

In early December in Bengaluru, India

Mentioned in this episode

TeraTech Blog post CF Summit

CF Certification

TT ACF 2023 blog post

https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/ 

Free Student Pass

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Bio

Kishore Balakrishnan is a Director - Product and Growth Marketing at Adobe with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe, he held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager and Senior Product Marketing Manager before becoming the Product and Growth Director. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization, liaise with the 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.

Links

LinkedIn Kishore Balakrishnan | LinkedIn

Twitter https://twitter.com/kishore31

Email [email protected]

Episode transcript

Michaela Light 00:01

Welcome back to the show. I’m here with Kishore Balakrishna from Adobe. And he’s the head of marketing for ColdFusion. And we're going to be talking about CF summit in Las Vegas and what’s new and what you need to know about that. Welcome Kishore.

Kishore Balakrishnan 00:21

Thanks, Michaela, Thanks for having me. And it was a pleasure talking to you.

Michaela Light 00:26

Yes. Good to see you again. And he’s done a lot of things in Adobe, he’s been the Quality Manager, program manager. And currently, he’s the product and growth Marketing Manager for ColdFusion. So and he’s been involved in CF. He’s been with ColdFusion for like at least 10 years now.

Kishore Balakrishnan 00:49

Yes. Bein in ColdFusion for 10 years. Yes.

Michaela Light 00:52

They should give you some award, you know.