058 All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion with Kishore Balakrishnan

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.
https://teratech.com/podcast/all-about-the-adobe-cf-summit-east-2018-coldfusion-with-kishore-balakrishnan/
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 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 govt
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East?

Mentioned in this episode
Conference event http://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/48292-adobe
Roadmap episode http://teratech.com/podcast/revealing-coldfusion-2018-roadmap-details/
Educational free https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/standard/faq.html
Community Portal blog about CF Summit http://blogs.coldfusion.com/coldfusion-community-portal-is-now-live/
Bio
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.