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130 Adobe CF Summit 2023 (ACF 2023, certification, annual releases and more) with Kishore Balakrishnan

June 26, 2023 By Michaela Light 1 Comment

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.”

Contents

  • Show notes
    • What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas in October 2023?
    • What performance improvements will be presented?
    • What is the importance of the summit for CFers?
    • Becoming a certified CFer
    • Topics and Speakers
    • Sponsors
    • Dates
    • Location
    • Student pass
    • Cost
    • Registration
    • CF Summit India
  • Mentioned in this episode
  • Listen to the Audio
  • Bio
  • Links
  • Episode transcript
    • Read more
  • Join the CF Alive revolution

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

Listen to the Audio

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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.

Kishore Balakrishnan 00:56
I will let my manager know, Michaela. Definitely. Yeah, Toby has been very good to me.

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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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