From Legacy Apps to Agentic AI: Watch Into the Box 2026 On Demand
The full Into the Box 2026 conference experience is now available on demand through CFCasts, bringing together two days of keynotes, technical sessions, product announcements, practical demonstrations, and community insights.
Explore what is next for BoxLang, ColdBox, AI-assisted development, application modernization, testing, security, cloud development, WebSockets, Git workflows, internationalization, and much more.
The recordings are available as one complete premium CFCasts series, featuring sessions from:
- Into the Box 2026: Conference Day 1
- Into the Box 2026: Conference Day 2
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Want a preview before unlocking the complete series? You can begin watching five Into the Box 2026 recordings for free, including both conference keynotes and three full technical sessions.
The following recordings are available to everyone at no cost:
- Into the Box 2026 Opening Keynote
- Into the Box 2026 Day 2 Keynote
- Top 10 Reasons to Migrate to BoxLang with Jon Clausen
- Be a Rebel… But Trust Me on This: Why ColdBox Is Worth a Look with Michael Rigsby
- Getting Started with BoxLang as an Alternative CFML Engine with Charlie Arehart
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Explore the Into the Box 2026 Sessions
Into the Box 2026 brought together developers, technical leaders, and community experts to share practical strategies for building, modernizing, securing, and scaling today’s applications.
The conference explored the continued evolution of BoxLang and the broader Ortus ecosystem, including new developer tooling, AI initiatives, cloud-native development, testing practices, real-time applications, and solutions for modernizing existing CFML systems.
Browse the complete session catalog below, access the available presentation slides, and look for the Available for Free label to start watching selected sessions at no cost.
Conference Day 1
Into the Box 2026 Opening Keynote
The Into the Box 2026 opening keynote showcased much more than new features. It highlighted the continued growth of the BoxLang ecosystem through new developer tools, AI initiatives, learning resources, runtime advancements, and expanded platform support.
Key announcements included:
- BoxLang Skills Registry:Â A centralized collection featuring more than 200 AI-ready skills.
- BoxLings:Â An interactive learning experience with 28 test-driven development lessons and 129 hands-on exercises.
- MatchBox VM:Â A Rust-powered virtual machine designed to bring BoxLang to WebAssembly, lightweight containers, native binaries, and IoT devices.
- BoxLang Desktop Admin:Â A native desktop application for securely managing BoxLang runtimes and servers.
- Expanded learning resources:Â More conference sessions, documentation, and structured training for developers at every stage.
- Enhanced IDE support:Â Major improvements for VS Code, IntelliJ, and other editors through an updated Language Server Protocol, BoxLang Debugger v2, and improved code formatting.
Whether you are already building with BoxLang or are just beginning to explore it, the keynote demonstrates how the platform continues to evolve through modern tooling, flexible runtimes, and a growing community.
Resources:
End-to-End Testing with TestBox and Playwright
- Presented by Jaime Ramirez and Jacob Beers
Learn how to build true end-to-end tests by combining BoxLang, TestBox, and Playwright.
This session shows how to extend existing TestBox test suites to orchestrate browser-level testing, validate user interface behavior in real browsers, and verify complete user journeys from backend logic through frontend interactions.
Top 10 Reasons to Migrate to BoxLang
- Presented by Jon Clausen - Available for Free
What does the future look like for your CFML applications?
Jon Clausen walks through ten compelling reasons to consider BoxLang as the next step in your modernization journey. Explore its architectural advantages, modern language capabilities, runtime flexibility, improved tooling, CFML compatibility, and growing ecosystem.
The session offers practical insight for developers and organizations looking to modernize existing applications while protecting and extending their current technology investments.
Modernize Without Limits: BoxLang on the JVM
- Presented by Brad Wood
BoxLang combines a modern dynamic language, strong CFML compatibility, and deep JVM integration to provide a flexible platform for both new and existing applications.
Brad Wood explores how BoxLang helps bring applications into the future through modern syntax, language enhancements, improved Java interoperability, customizable runtimes, pure lambda functions, cleaner imports, and functional programming capabilities.
Whether you are modernizing a long-standing CFML application or building something completely new, this session demonstrates the flexibility and control BoxLang provides on the JVM.
Getting Started with BoxLang AI and Multiple LLMs
- Presented by Luis Majano
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way software is designed and built, and BoxLang AI brings those capabilities directly into the BoxLang and CFML ecosystems.
Luis Majano introduces the architecture of BoxLang AI and demonstrates how it simplifies integration with modern large language models. Explore prompt engineering, embeddings, vector stores, provider abstraction, intelligent workflows, and patterns for building AI-powered applications with less friction.
Be a Rebel… But Trust Me on This: Why ColdBox Is Worth a Look
- Presented by Michael Rigsby - Available for Free
Are you still unsure whether a framework is the right choice for your CFML projects?
Michael Rigsby explores how ColdBox can simplify application architecture, establish consistent development conventions, improve maintainability, support testing, and help applications scale.
This session is designed especially for developers who may be hesitant to adopt a framework and want to better understand the practical value ColdBox can bring to a team and codebase.
Stop Guessing: Data Modeling and Strategy for Trustworthy AI
- Presented by Curt Gratz
Reliable AI systems require more than connecting an application to a language model. They require intentional data architecture, clear strategy, and thoughtful safeguards.
This session explores how data modeling influences the security, reliability, and usefulness of AI-powered applications. Learn how to approach sensitive information, reduce exposure to prompt injection and data leaks, and build systems that prioritize trust without sacrificing performance or usability.
Creating Your API with BoxLang in AWS Lambda
- Presented by Dan Card
Combine the flexibility of BoxLang with the scalability and cost efficiency of AWS Lambda.
This session walks through the process of building dynamic APIs with BoxLang in a serverless environment. Explore endpoint design, serverless data flows, deployment considerations, cold-start optimization, and ways to build scalable applications without managing traditional server infrastructure.
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SSL Certificates Made Simple, Now with HTTP-01
- Presented by George Murphy
Manual certificate management can create unnecessary work and expose applications to avoidable downtime.
George Murphy demonstrates how to automate the SSL certificate lifecycle with cbLego and CommandBox. Learn how to request, renew, and install Let’s Encrypt certificates across development and production environments using HTTP-01 and other supported validation methods.
Streams, Sockets, and Sorcery: Real-Time BoxLang
- Presented by Eric Peterson
Explore the evolution of real-time web communication, from traditional polling and Server-Sent Events to fully bidirectional WebSockets.
Through practical SocketBox demonstrations, Eric Peterson showcases Core WebSocket Server capabilities for rapid messaging and STOMP Broker Mode for more advanced requirements such as subscriptions, authentication, and heartbeats.
The patterns covered can be applied to live chats, real-time dashboards, notifications, alerts, and other interactive ColdBox and BoxLang applications.
Async Without Tears: Concurrency for CFML Developers Using BoxLang
- Presented by Scott Steinbeck
High-concurrency applications require more than standard threading. They need intentional asynchronous patterns that maintain stability and performance as workloads increase.
Scott Steinbeck explores BoxLang’s asynchronous capabilities through real-world patterns, including BoxFutures, parallel computations, custom executors, race-condition management, and fan-out/fan-in orchestration.
The session provides practical guidance for CFML developers who want to build more responsive and scalable applications using modern JVM concurrency features.
MatchBox: BoxLang WASM, Embedded, and More
- Presented by Jacob Beers
What happens when BoxLang moves beyond the JVM?
This session introduces MatchBox, a native Rust implementation of the BoxLang language targeting native operating-system binaries, WebAssembly, embedded environments, and low-power devices.
Explore how MatchBox expands the BoxLang ecosystem through fast startup times, compact binaries, native deployment options, an integrated web server, and support for environments where a full JVM may not be practical.
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Into the Box 2026 Day 2 Keynote
Day 2 continued the Modernization in Motion journey, building on the announcements and technical direction introduced during the opening keynote.
The session explored the continued evolution of BoxLang, ColdBox, CommandBox, TestBox, and the broader Ortus ecosystem, with a focus on turning ideas into practical implementation.
Topics included advanced tooling, performance improvements, cloud-native development, AI-assisted workflows, ecosystem expansion, and community success stories.
Going Global with ColdBox: Mastering Internationalization with cbi18n
- Presented by Kevin Wright
Learn how to prepare ColdBox applications for a global audience using cbi18n.
This session explores patterns for managing translations, locale-aware content, language resources, and internationalized user experiences. Discover how to structure your application so it can support multiple languages and regions without creating unnecessary maintenance challenges.
Getting Started with BoxLang as an Alternative CFML Engine
- Presented by Charlie Arehart - Available for Free
BoxLang is not only a modern programming language. It can also run existing CFML applications as an alternative to Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee.
Veteran troubleshooter Charlie Arehart addresses the practical questions developers and organizations may have when evaluating BoxLang, including CFML compatibility, configuration, licensing, deployment options, compatibility analysis, and ways to run BoxLang without depending on CommandBox.
From CFML to BoxLang: Lessons from the Masa CMS v8 Evolution
- Presented by Guust Nieuwenhuis
The evolution of Masa CMS to version 8 represents a major modernization effort for a large open-source content management platform.
Guust Nieuwenhuis shares practical lessons from transitioning a substantial codebase toward BoxLang compatibility while continuing to support Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee.
Explore large-scale refactoring, the removal of deprecated functionality, security improvements, modern password hashing, architectural decisions, and the work required to future-proof an enterprise CMS platform.
Defense-in-Depth Strategies for Modern Cloud Security
- Presented by Uma Ghotikar
Modern cloud environments cannot rely on a single security control.
Uma Ghotikar explores defense-in-depth strategies for protecting applications and infrastructure through multiple coordinated layers. Topics include identity and access management, network security, encryption, continuous monitoring, vulnerability identification, and risk mitigation across increasingly complex cloud environments.
Agentic Coding with AI: Enhancing Developer Workflows Using BoxLang and VS Code
- Presented by Jacob Beers
Explore how Microsoft Copilot and advanced VS Code AI capabilities can support BoxLang development.
Jacob Beers demonstrates practical ways to use tools, prompts, reusable instruction files, and agent-assisted workflows to improve productivity and bring meaningful AI capabilities into the development process.
Building Secure Headless Apps with ContentBox APIs
- Presented by Javier Quintero
Explore ContentBox as a headless CMS for building secure, fast, flexible, and extensible digital experiences.
This session covers API-first content delivery, endpoint customization, application architecture, multichannel content consumption, and security practices for protecting headless applications.
Learn why headless architecture has become an important strategy for organizations that need to deliver content across websites, applications, devices, and other digital experiences.
Make Like a BIF and Get Outta Here: A Time-Traveling Guide to Creating and Using Built-In Functions in BoxLang
- Presented by Bill Reese
Built-In Functions are a foundational part of the BoxLang development experience.
Bill Reese explores how to use BoxLang BIFs to create cleaner, more efficient, and more maintainable applications. Through practical examples, learn how the standard library supports improved data manipulation, functional programming patterns, modern application design, and alternatives to legacy CFML approaches.
SocketBox: Drop-In WebSockets for the CFML and BoxLang Ecosystem
- Presented by Brad Wood
Modern applications increasingly depend on real-time communication, but implementing and managing WebSockets can introduce significant complexity.
Brad Wood introduces SocketBox as a flexible solution for adding WebSocket functionality to CFML and BoxLang applications. Explore server configuration, channels, subscriptions, message handling, and patterns for building live chats, notifications, dashboards, and other interactive experiences.
Integrating BoxLang and AWS Lambda into a Larger Ecosystem
- Presented by Dan Card
Building a serverless function is only one part of delivering a complete cloud application.
Dan Card explores how BoxLang and AWS Lambda can integrate into a broader application ecosystem, including APIs, data flows, external services, deployment processes, and supporting infrastructure.
Learn how to design scalable, cloud-native solutions while reducing the operational overhead associated with traditional server environments.
Agentic ColdBox
- Presented by Luis Majano
Artificial intelligence is changing application development, and ColdBox provides a strong foundation for building intelligent, agent-driven systems.
Luis Majano explores how to integrate large language models and advanced AI patterns directly into ColdBox applications. Learn how to manage prompts and contextual data, connect AI providers, expose application tools, and design agents capable of performing complex tasks within a structured application architecture.
Agentic BDD: Testing in the Age of AI Pair Programmers
- Presented by Eric Peterson
Behavior-Driven Development helps teams verify that software meets real expectations. AI-assisted workflows can make that process faster and more effective.
Eric Peterson demonstrates agent-assisted testing patterns using BDD and TestBox 7. Explore how AI agents can help generate specifications, create test cases from user stories, expand test coverage, and support code quality without replacing the judgment of developers and testers.
From Legacy to Modern: CBWIRE Gets You There Faster
- Presented by Michael Rigsby
Modernizing a ColdFusion application does not always require adopting a complex JavaScript framework.
Michael Rigsby demonstrates how CBWIRE enables developers to build dynamic, reactive user interfaces with ColdFusion and BoxLang while minimizing custom JavaScript.
Learn how to handle validation, interactive components, and real-time data updates through a unified server-side development approach that can help teams modernize applications and complete projects faster.
What You Will Learn
The Into the Box 2026 series covers a broad range of topics for developers, architects, technical leaders, and organizations evaluating the future of their applications.
BoxLang and CFML Modernization
Explore BoxLang as a modern dynamic language, JVM runtime, and alternative CFML engine. Learn how organizations can modernize existing applications, improve Java integration, adopt modern syntax, and prepare their systems for new runtime environments.
Artificial Intelligence and Agentic Development
Learn how BoxLang AI and ColdBox support multiple LLM providers, agents, prompts, embeddings, vector stores, tools, and intelligent workflows.
Several sessions also demonstrate how AI can assist developers through coding agents, reusable instructions, testing workflows, and modern IDE features.
Application Frameworks and Architecture
Discover how ColdBox, ContentBox, CBWIRE, Mementifier, Alpine.js, and related tools can support cleaner architecture, reactive interfaces, accessible forms, headless content delivery, and maintainable application development.
Testing and Development Practices
Explore end-to-end testing with TestBox and Playwright, Behavior-Driven Development with AI assistance, concurrency patterns, structured Git workflows, and strategies for improving collaboration and code quality.
Cloud, Serverless, and Runtime Flexibility
Learn how BoxLang can be used with AWS Lambda, WebAssembly, native runtimes, lightweight containers, embedded systems, and IoT environments.
Real-Time Applications
Discover practical approaches for implementing WebSockets, streams, subscriptions, authentication, live messaging, real-time dashboards, and event-driven application experiences using SocketBox and the BoxLang ecosystem.
Security
Explore defense-in-depth cloud strategies, trustworthy AI architecture, sensitive-data considerations, identity and access management, encrypted communication, and automated SSL certificate management.
Start Watching Into the Box 2026
Into the Box 2026 demonstrated how the CFML community and the Ortus ecosystem continue to move forward through practical modernization, open collaboration, and developer-first innovation.
Whether you want to modernize an existing application, explore BoxLang, incorporate AI, improve your testing practices, strengthen security, or build for new runtime environments, the complete conference series gives you the tools and technical insight to take your next step.
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