Whether you’re attending CF Summit East 2026 or not, if you’re in the DC area check out the available day-long workshop held the day before (Oct 28), with Brian Sappey, all about building AI app integration using the features introduced in ColdFusion 2025 update 8.

This post is a follow-up to my post on that CF Summit East 2026, being held Oct 29.

While the one-day conference is free, this day-long workshop has a $99 cost. Let me quote the intro from that page about the workshop:

We won’t just show you what’s new. We’ll spend six hands-on hours showing you how to turn your current applications into intelligent systems using the native power of the 2025.8 release. On most platforms, adding AI means re-architecting. Here it’s the opposite: the more established your applications, the more you gain – you’re adding intelligence to systems that already work, without putting a running application at risk.

Like with the conference the next day, this one will include breakfast and lunch (mentioned in the FAQ section)–but no happy hour, it seems. 🙂

See that workshop event page for more details:

https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Register/808650-govevents

including the times, location, parking, topics to be covered in each of its six sections, more on Brian, CPE (continuing professional education) credit info, and of course the registration form.