ColdFusion Summit East 2018

Adobe ColdFusion CF Summit East 2018 was on April 25th, 2018 in Washington DC and it was free to attend.

Contents

Speakers
From Government CF to all CFers
Why is it important?

As Adobe people told us and predicted, more than 200 people attended the conference.

This is the East coast counterpart of Adobe’s more bigger event, the Adobe CF Summit (West) conference, which takes place in Las Vegas each year in the Fall. CF Summit East is mainly for the people who can’t travel to LV for any number of reasons (including LV business travel restrictions, budget issues). This is their 6th year in a row to organize this conference in the East Coast. This is the last year's highlights

One of the things that are very interesting is that this is FREE. Yes, that’s correct. It is free to go to this event. It even includes breakfast and lunch. Who said there is no such thing as a free lunch?

Speakers

Most of the speakers have been with the product for as long as it exists. We already know the names of the 10 speakers and what they will be talking about:

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

From Government CF to all CFers

Last year event was titled the CF government summit – but in reality it was not all CF government focused. This lead to some confusion on who should be attending and this is why this year it’s does not include government in the name. All CFers (including government ones) are welcome to attend.

Why is it important?

It is important for all ColdFusion developers to go because you will learn about:

New features in CF
Direction of CF
Roadmap through 2025

This event is very important for the ColdFusion community, and everyone using ColdFusion. It's the largest developer event on the East Coast focusing just on ColdFusion and the place for all CF developers and users to network and to address all the problems and challenges they’re facing and have people from Adobe directly present and involved and willing to listen and develop on that basis.

Adobe is committed in its roadmap until 2025 to improve and upgrade ColdFusion. It is nice to see Adobe’s commitment towards the product marketing with the CF Summit event.

This year conference was recorded so you can expect a lots of good material as a follow-up. Make sure you attend the next one and let us know how it went.

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