Adobe ColdFusion Online Summit 2026
Join us January 26–29, 2026 for a fully online learning experience designed for developers and teams building modern, high-performance web applications with Adobe ColdFusion.
By attending, you’ll gain insights into:
• New capabilities in the latest CF release that boost speed, security, and productivity
• Strategies for building scalable, reliable, and future-ready CF applications
• Practical techniques you can immediately bring into your development workflow
• Applying AI in real-world web application development using ColdFusion
Can’t join a session live? All registrants will receive recordings within 24 hours, so you can revisit the content anytime.
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When is it?
- January 26–29, 2026
Where is it?
- The Adobe ColdFusion Online Summit 2026 will be streamed online, and you can attend from anywhere.
Costs
Why Attend
Over 20+ expert-led sessions
Learn from developers and architects through sessions on performance, security, deployment, modernization, AI in development, and practical ColdFusion use cases.
Join from anywhere
Attend live from your location and choose only the sessions that fit your day and workflow.
Access session recordings within 24 hours
All registrants will receive recordings of every session, allowing them to revisit the content or catch up on anything they may have missed.
Take part in live giveaways
Each session offers small giveaways for attendees, making live participation a bit more engaging.
Agenda
AI-Driven Observability: Transforming DevOps and Application Performance with FusionReactor and OpsPilot AI
08:00-08:50, January 26, 2026 (PST)
Real-Time Graphs with ColdFusion, GraphQL, and WebSockets
Learn how to harness the power of GraphQL and WebSockets to deliver real-time data visualization in your ColdFusion applications. This session will show you how to consume live data from a GraphQL endpoint, stream it to the frontend using WebSockets, and render it in dynamic, interactive graphs. Whether you're building dashboards, monitoring tools, or live reporting interfaces, you'll gain practical strategies for integrating modern real-time features with ColdFusion.
09:00-09:50, January 26, 2026 (PST)
Learn how to harness the power of GraphQL and WebSockets to deliver real-time data visualization in your ColdFusion applications. This session will show you how to consume live data from a GraphQL endpoint, stream it to the frontend using WebSockets, and render it in dynamic, interactive graphs. Whether you're building dashboards, monitoring tools, or live reporting interfaces, you'll gain practical strategies for integrating modern real-time features with ColdFusion.
Dave Ferguson
Getting going with Coldfusion Builder
10:00-10:50, January 26, 2026 (PST)
Perhaps you've heard that Adobe offers a free extension for VS Code called Coldfusion Builder–or maybe this is news, though it's nearly 3 years old. Perhaps you wonder how it compares to other cfml extensions for vscode (Kamasamak's, Ilya's, or that from the Boxlang team), or how it compares to the “simplicity” of Dreamweaver, HomeSite+, or editors like Notepad++, Sublime, etc. In this session, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will address those audiences and highlight things that CFBuilder can do that most or none of them can, including the CF Security Code Analyzer, PMT code profiler, CF step debugger, and more.
Charlie Arehart
Harnessing AI Superpowers in ColdFusion
11:00-11:50, January 26, 2026 (PST)
Generative AI has become the biggest game changer in development in recent years. Using GenAI with ColdFusion has never been easier with powerful API capabilities and more. In this session, I'll introduce Google Gemini's GenAI platform and demonstrate how easy it is to use with ColdFusion. There will be plenty of demos and real practical examples of what you can do right now.
Custom Theme Building for Adobe ColdFusion Charts
12:00-12:50, January 26, 2026 (PST)
Join Mark Takata, Senior Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist, for a deep dive into customization features in the new charting libraries shipped with CF2025. We will build a customization engine for creating engaging, beautiful charts for all your visualization needs, and look at what items are available to swap out. We will include building an application to create themes, and code will be available after the talk for folks to check out and use to build their own colorful, beautiful dashboards and charts.
Mark Takata
Mastering Prompt Engineering: Getting AI to Work for You
08:00-08:50, January 27, 2026 (PST)
Write a high-energy, engaging conference session proposal that explains why prompt engineering matters for software engineers. Hook the audience with real-world examples of good vs. bad prompts. Explain why vague instructions lead to junk results, while structured, iterative prompts unlock AI’s full potential. Cover best practices, common mistakes, and AI-friendly phrasing that makes tools like ChatGPT a real asset in coding, debugging, and brainstorming. Provide actionable takeaways engineers can use to fine-tune their prompts for better code explanations, documentation, and problem-solving. Keep it fun, interactive, and packed with insights that make attendees walk away thinking, “Why wasn’t I doing this sooner?”
Guust Nieuwenhuis
Understanding and Implementing Passkeys
09:00-09:50, January 27, 2026 (PST)
Passkeys are quickly maturing and becoming more widespread as a preferred way to securely authenticate users. In this session you will learn how Passkeys work, and how to natively implement them into your ColdFusion applications to provide a secure, modern approach to authentication that goes way beyond usernames and passwords.
Justin Scott
Mastering WebSockets with ColdFusion
10:00-10:50, January 27, 2026 (PST)
Fasten your seatbelts for a high-speed adventure into the electrifying world of WebSockets with ColdFusion! In this turbocharged session, you’ll go from zero to hero, starting with the absolute essentials. Ever wondered what WebSockets are and why they’re a game-changer in web development? Get ready to find out, and see them in action! We’ll kick things off with a live coding journey, setting up and tearing apart a simple application, illuminating the path from initial handshake to full-fledged communication.
Giancarlo Gomez Gomez
AI Won’t Steal Your Job (But It Will Rewrite Your Regex)
11:00-11:50, January 27, 2026 (PST)
Agentic AI with ColdFusion
12:00-12:50, January 27, 2026 (PST)
In this session, developers will gain the skills to build enterprise-ready agentic AI systems using ColdFusion. Designed for the modern cloud and engineered for the creators of tomorrow, the AI Foundry Studio and Microsoft Fabric share the same core infrastructure that OpenAI relies on to power its GPT models and AI agents.
Michael Hayes
ColdFusion Security in Action: Defend, Secure, and Update
08:00-08:50, January 28, 2026 (PST)
In today’s security-first development landscape, creating a secure ColdFusion application is not just a best practice—it’s a necessity. ColdFusion provides a powerful set of built-in security features that developers must actively use to protect applications against evolving threats. Understanding and mitigating vulnerabilities like those listed in the OWASP Top 5—including injection flaws, broken authentication, and sensitive data exposure—is crucial, and ColdFusion offers native capabilities to help address these risks. This session will emphasize secure coding practices and highlight the developer’s responsibility in safeguarding applications from design to deployment. We’ll also cover recent security updates from the ColdFusion engineering team, the significance of breaking changes introduced for security hardening, and how failing to apply these updates can leave applications dangerously exposed. How modern ai tools can be leveraged for secure coding and production ready applications. Finally, we’ll explore Adobe’s ongoing commitment to a security-first approach and demonstrate, with a live example, how unpatched applications can be easily compromised—underscoring the importance of staying informed and proactive in ColdFusion security
Satyam Mishra
Modern ColdFusion: Unlocking Scalable, Asynchronous, Multithreaded and Cloud-Ready Distributed Architecture
09:00-09:50, January 28, 2026 (PST)
My journey to ColdFusion came after working with various tech stacks over the years. What started as a shift driven by project needs, ended up being a pleasant surprise. ColdFusion delivered not just speed and simplicity, but also robust support for object-oriented programming and seamless integration with both legacy systems and modern architectures. What truly stood out was its ability to manage asynchronous job queues with post-execution hooks and multithreading – features typically associated with more complex architectures. Additionally, integrating AWS SNS and SQS into ColdFusion workflows enabled us to build scalable and reliable distributed systems. In this session, I’ll share how we’ve harnessed these capabilities in real-world scenarios and why ColdFusion remains a surprisingly powerful tool in today’s modern development ecosystem.
Rickson Chew
Stop developing on production! CI/CD pipelines for small business that are fast, effective, and inexpensive
10:00-10:50, January 28, 2026 (PST)
If you're developing against production, or have a very limited budget for infrastructure, this session will teach you the ins and outs of creating a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline. You'll learn about creating a local development environment for your application using ACF Docker containers. You'll use a cloud repository, and code deployment pipeline to deploy your code to a production server automatically when you push to production. We will discuss AWS in specifics, but the concepts are also available on GCP and Azure. Most importantly, this session will focus on cost-effective ways to manage this all!
David Byers
Shipping Faster and Safer with AI in Engineering
Breaking Language Barriers: i18n Strategies for Developers
09:00-09:50, January 29, 2026 (PST)
Speakers
Charlie Arehart
A veteran server troubleshooter who's worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels.
David Byers
David Byers has been a ColdFusion leader, developer, proponent, user group manager, community contributor, two-time presenter at CF Summit, and attendee to every in-person Summit since its inception. David has held C-level positions with Epicenter Consulting and Modloft, and promotes the modern use of ColdFusion in organizations, breaking the preconceptions and stigma of the platform. His goal is to become the ColdFusion Evangelist when Mark Takata hits the lottery and disappears, but only because he lives in Las Vegas and can't conveniently play the lottery himself.
Raymond Camden
Raymond Camden is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Adobe. He works on the Document Services APIs to build powerful (and typically cat-related) PDF demos. He is the author of multiple books on web development and has been actively blogging and presenting for almost twenty years. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.raymondcamden.com ), @raymondcamden on Twitter,
Monte Chan
Rickson Chew
A Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience in various web and application programming, managing a technical team providing expertise in determining the strategic technical direction, project and dev management, and system architecture for initiative and sustainment projects in collaboration with several respected companies and very creative people including those in the Fortune 500 list.
Dakota Clum
Dakota is the CTO at xByte Cloud with a specialization in cloud and dedicated infrastructure solutions. With a deep background in ColdFusion server solutions, I’ve had the unique opportunity to deploy, tune and optimize hundreds of ColdFusion Enterprise server environments at scale within the Cloud.
Nikhil Dubey
A seasoned developer with over nine years of experience, I am currently part of Adobe’s ColdFusion engineering team, where I help shape and evolve the CFML language. I am deeply engaged in refining and enhancing the ColdFusion platform, from optimizing its core functionality to innovating with new language features like GraphQL, IIFEs, parallel programming, dynamic switch-case that meet the demands of modern web development. I also worked in building PMT and VSCode extension for ColdFusion. My focus lies in delivering robust performance, security, and ease of use, empowering developers worldwide to build efficient, scalable applications. Beyond coding, I enjoy collaborating with a diverse team of skilled professionals, constantly learning and adapting to the latest industry trends.
Dave Ferguson
Dave has spent the majority of his life living in sunny Southern California. Over the past almost 20 years has worked in information technology after his attempt at being a career restaurant manager failed miserably. He has spent the majority of that time specializing in large enterprise-class systems. While he continues working on those types of systems he now focuses a large amount of his free time in the mobile application space.
Giancarlo Gomez Gomez
Giancarlo is a full-stack developer with over 25 years of experience with various languages and a passion for continuing to learn. He is the owner/lead developer of Fuse Developments, Inc., established in 2004, his consulting business specializing in web and mobile development. He is also the co-manager of the South Florida Adobe ColdFusion Users Group. You can find him on Twitter and GitHub @GiancarloGomez and read his occasional ramblings at giancarlogomez.dev.
Michael Hayes
Michael Hayes is a seasoned technology expert with deep experience in software development, infrastructure automation, and cybersecurity. Specializing in ColdFusion, Azure integrations, RESTful APIs, and automated tooling, Mike combines innovative use of AI technologies like OpenAI with structured programming to create intelligent, real-time mechanisms. He has extensive expertise in optimizing databases, crafting automated system solutions with PowerShell, and streamlining cloud-based infrastructure deployments. With a passion for turning complex technical challenges into streamlined, efficient solutions, Mike is dedicated to empowering development teams to build secure, robust, and scalable applications.
Brian Klaas
Brian Klaas is the Assistant Director for Technology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Teaching and Learning. He also has a faculty appointment in the School's R3 Center for Innovation in Science Education. He teaches graduate level courses on communications design and data visualization for non-expert audiences as well as applications of generative artificial intelligence in public health. Brian leads a team of developers who build learning experiences for the School of Public Health, including tools that harness generative AI to improve student writing and assist faculty in the creation of effective assessments. He is a frequent speaker on both storytelling in the health sciences and practical use of generative AI for public health professionals at health science conferences and workshops around the country.
Satyam Mishra
I am Satyam Mishra, a Computer Scientist at Adobe with 10 years of experience in enterprise application development. For the past 5 years, I’ve been part of the ColdFusion team, where I serve as the Security Champion. My work has focused on critical areas such as security, server performance, and the Performance Monitoring Tool for ColdFusion.
Guust Nieuwenhuis
Guust Nieuwenhuis is a Full Stack Web Wizard with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like the European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), CZ Groep, Proximus, Avery Dennison, ZilliZ and Mediagenix. Through We Are North, he does ‘Customization-As-A-Service'. They don't build from scratch, but find the best solutions out there and tailor them to their customers' business needs. In doing so, they never lose sight of the goal of the client. In his free time, Guust play the double bass and drums, cross the forest on his mountain bike and coaches the youth at his local football club (where he's a board member as well). He like spending time with my wife and two kids or meeting friends for a chat, game or drink. When Guust still have some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfil his hunger for the latest trends in IT.
Brian Sappey
Justin Scott
Justin is the Chief Information Security Officer at Smart Communications and has been working with ColdFusion for 26 years. His career has spanned application architecture and development, network engineering, systems administration, database management, as well as risk management and compliance. He resides in Vancouver, WA and when not working on technical matters enjoys reading and occasionally playing competitive dodgeball. He has previously spoken at Adobe Summit on Advanced Encryption.
Carl Von Stetten
Carl Von Stetten has served as a Geographic Information System (GIS) Analyst with Central San for 23 years. He has developed and maintained multiple internal ColdFusion-based GIS applications for use by staff and is well-versed in Microsoft SQL Server and Esri ArcGIS Enterprise technologies. Carl achieved the Adobe Certified Professional:Adobe ColdFusion certification at the 2022 CF Summit. He can usually be found hanging out in the CFML Slack team.
Mark Takata
Mark Takata is the Technical Evangelist for Adobe ColdFusion. He has been an application developer for over 25 years, with professional experience in over a dozen languages & frameworks. He lives in West Sacramento, CA with his wife & two dogs.
David Tattersall
David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 30 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he focused on company management, business development and sales & marketing. Intergral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. His flagship product – FusionReactor – www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers.
Dan Wilson
With 25 years in product engineering, product marketing, and architecture, I’ve built and scaled software for startups, Fortune 500s, and open-source communities alike. My work spans full-stack development, rapid prototyping, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy. I’ve led engineering teams, architected platforms, and delivered developer tools used around the world. I also bring hands-on experience with AI tools and workflows, helping product teams use AI to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality. A frequent speaker with 80+ global presentations and active contributions to open-source, I enjoy writing, teaching, and talking about where code, product, and business meet. Outside the session, I accept conversations, bug reports, and hot takes on AI. Let’s talk shop.
Kevin Wright
Through his consulting company, Kinetic InterActive, Kevin provides businesses insight into the use of technology to solve a variety of business challenges. Providing business workflow analysis, user experience design, website usability and custom software, Kevin helps organizations understand the importance of technology in today’s business environment. Past projects have included work for VirginMobile, NBC Universal, Fox Home Entertainment in addition to many local small businesses and startups
