Last year’s CFCamp 2023 was our first event after a forced-upon-us pandemic break and we were really happy how the conference was re-adopted by the community and that we were able to run in a reasonable and yet safe environment. So….

CFCamp is back for a 2024 edition.

Would you like to meet the German and European CFML web developer communities, listen to expert speakers and find out all about the latest trends around CFML and associated technologies? Then join us at CFCamp 2024, Europe’s largest conference on CFML, Lucee, Adobe ColdFusion and associated technologies.

Our two-day event on June 13-14, 2024 at the Marriot Munich Airport Hotel in Freising brings together 200+ web developers, architects and general technology enthusiasts. The conference attracts attendees who are interested in learning about and discussing the latest developments in the CFML world as well as learning about associated technologies in the fields of web and mobile development.

CFCamp 2024 will provide content for designers, developers, testers, or just about anyone passionate about software and web development. We encourage attendees to look beyond their day-to-day platform of choice and keep up to date with more general trends in web and mobile tech.

We’re looking for interested individuals who are keen on presenting at CFCamp 2024. Talks will be selected by the Programme Committee on the basis of making the conference a varied, diverse and valuable event for everyone.

Submission is open to anyone and we particularly encourage first-time speakers to submit a proposal. Members of the Programme Committee are happy to offer coaching and assistance on talk proposals. We want to create a conference that has a set of great, engaging and interesting talks from a diverse and varied range of speakers and technology experts.

Encouraged topics for submissions include:

Core CFML

• New language and server features in Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee
• CFML frameworks (e.g. *Box, CF on Wheels etc)
• Migrating legacy code
• Modularisation and reuse
• CFML integration with languages such as Java, Kotlin, Groovy etc
• IDEs and editors for CFML
• Developer productivity tooling and coding assistants for CFML
• CFML applications in the Cloud
• Migrating to cloud environments
• Docker and other containerisation solutions with CFML
• API development with CFML (REST, GraphQL etc)
• Approaches to high availability
• General other CFML tools, libraries and frameworks

Frontend web, mobile and desktop development

• Frontend development with JS, TypeScript, Dart etc
• Javascript frameworks (e.g. NestJS, React, Ionic, Angular etc)
• Cross-platform mobile development (e.g. ReactNative, Redux, Swift, j2objc, Flutter etc)
• UX and UI design for web and mobile

Databases and other storage with CFML

• SQL databases and SQL techniques
• Non-relational DB storages, such as Redis, CouchDB etc.
• Storage clustering
• Data stream processing
• Applying Data Science techniques with CFML

Infrastructure and adjacent technology in the context of CFML

• Continuous integration and build pipelines
• AI, Deep Learning, Machine Learning
• Large Language Models with and for CFML
• Code deployment strategies
• Cross-platform development and testing environments (Win, Mac, Linux, BSD etc)
• Manual and Automated Testing
• Crash Reporting and Application Performance Monitoring
• Security (on the server as well as in your application)
• Internet of Things and Home Automation (e.g. Android Things, Voice Assistants, HomeKit etc) and their integration with back end systems

Business and Marketing

• Analytics (e.g. Data Science, Customers Behaviour)
• Company culture and Agile/Lean approaches (e.g. Working with others, Scrum, Kanban etc)
• Engineering Management and non-developer careers in tech
• Marketing and Monetisation of web and mobile apps

The above list is not exhaustive. If you would like to speak on a topic that doesn’t seem to fit into any of the suggestions but goes well with the overall theme of CFCamp 2024, please submit it to us regardless.

Important notes

• Submissions for this CFP are evaluated by a Program Committee. We’re a group of people doing our best to build an interesting, varied, diverse and valuable set of talks and workshops for CFCamp 2024. The first round of evaluating your submissions is anonymised. That means we’re initially looking at your proposals without knowing who you are.

• Please do NOT put any identifying personal information into the “Talk details” section of the submission form. That includes the “Notes” field. Only provide personal information in the form’s “Profile details” section.

Session Formats

We are looking for sessions that fit into a 45 minutes slot (your talk should be around 35-40 minutes of content) and for hands-on workshop sessions that fit into a double slot of 90 minutes. Typically these would cater well for topics with coding elements that people could follow along on their own laptops or for generally more complex topics.

This year, we’re also experimenting with a lightning talk format of 10 minutes and we’re very open for submissions in that format as well. At this stage it’s unclear if we’re going to run lightning talk sessions and the response from the community with ideas for this format will be the main driver for adoption.

Deadlines

The deadline for submissions is March 27, 2024 23:30am UTC.

We plan to notify everyone about the success of their submissions no later than the first week of April.