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Demo Jam

What is a Demo Jam? Demo Jams are a game show style event where app partners showcase their most compelling app in a super short, no fluff, 3-minute demo. – At the end, the attendees vote live on their favourite demo – Hosted by Salesforce MVPs What are the Demo Jam rules? It’s simple. There […]

5 Steps to Deliver an Awesome Demo

Everybody has to deliver demos – whether it is your job to sell products/projects to a client or show off the beautiful solutions you create. Delivering an impactful demo is a soft skill that does not come easily, but can be learned! Today, we’ll go over 5 simple steps to improve your demos to wow […]

Staying Mentally Fit as a Salesforce Consultant

Every role in the Salesforce ecosystem comes with it’s own joys and challenges. Being equipped to deal with these can help individuals stay mentally healthy and support their peers. Safiyyah will draw from her own experiences as a Salesforce Consultant and Mental Health First Aider to share tools and resources, alongside feedback from a survey […]

5 Things Every PM Needs to Ace a Successful Delivery

Leading a project, whatever the size, is always a challenge. Do it right and you bring success. Do it wrong, and things spiral into a very unhappy place to be. I will share with you the checklist I use to make sure that expectations are set correctly, and we can all be successful. I will […]

Designing for Better Outcomes

It’s tempting to think that the Salesforce apps we design relate only to our users, and any consequences of our design are limited to the effect we’ve designed. Considering the broader consequences can be done during the design process with a simple tool called a consequence scan, an important part of the agile development process. […]

The Superpower of Visuals

Our brains are wired for visuals. Since we are born seeing comes before words. From prehistoric cave paintings to the map of the London underground, images, diagrams and charts have long been at the heart of human storytelling. And story-telling, story-creation, story-translation… is much what we do as Salesforce professionals. How much do you use […]

Inquisitive Mind – A Consultant’s Day

A Salesforce Consultant lays the foundation of the project with curious mind and is always in the spotlight. In between understanding the requirements, they juggle between meetings with business, development team, architecture and what not. This presentation will target the audience who wants to work as a consultant and others who wants to understand what […]

How Salesforce Can Help Save The Planet – Net Zero Cloud

Net Zero Cloud is a new Salesforce product that aims to solve new and increasingly pressing business issues. In this presentation, I will talk about my journey with Net Zero Cloud to show you how anyone can develop on Salesforce products to tackle novel business problems. You will leave this presentation much clearer on what […]

Powerful CRM Analytics Dashboards With Only the Click of Your Mouse

CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM and Einstein Analytics) has a reputation for being code-heavy. In the past, this has prevented some people from investigating a tool that could be pivotal to their business. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Join me as we say goodbye to drab dashboards and spreadsheets and unleash the […]

Design in the Wild! A Look at Salesforce Designers in Their Natural Habitat

Salesforce recently launched their newest official career pathway, Salesforce Designer: elevating the role design plays across the ecosystem. Hear from PwC Salesforce Designers Angela Conway and Katka Vokrinkova as they share what being a Salesforce Designer looks like ‘in the wild’: the interplay between two Designer roles – UX Designer and Design Strategist, their role […]

How to Validate Every Venture with a V2MOM

In 22 years, Salesforce has gone from a few friends renting an apartment to a company with $17.1bn revenue. This session will look at how you can use the same tool for success: the V2MOM strategic plan. It sets out the Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures to provide employees with a clear vision and […]

The World’s Shortest Job Description

In 2019, my job description was literally “Make new friends.”, aka, get out there and “network” like crazy. Why is networking so important? And, if it’s that important, how is effective networking done? In this presentation, I will share my story and the reasons why networking is vitally important. You will walk away with practical […]

Using Salesforce to Create Happier Workplaces

Happiness is more important than ever in the workplace. It helps create resilient, supported, productive and present employees. Positive emotions are not just nice to have, they unlock our potential to dream, explore, learn and play. They help us to be motivated and productive, and guide us to establish the right culture in our organisations. […]

Dynamic Tableau CRM Dashboards with Advanced Editor

Ever build a dashboard that’s just a bit too cluttered? Does it look like a copy and paste of multiple charts with only minor variations? Using the Advanced Editor you will learn how ‘Custom Queries’ can be created to have one chart with many views through dynamic dimension selectors and best of all, there is […]

Professional AI for Everyone: Upgraded Einstein Tools for Business Scientists

Einstein Discovery sits at the heart of Salesforce’s CRM AI toolkit. In recent upgrades to Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics) some seriously cool capabilities have snuck in to allow Business Scientists to undertake professional-grade Machine Learning and decision-support inside Salesforce. In this session you’ll experience real examples of using the new AI tools and deployment […]

10 Tips in 10 Minutes to Hire the Best Salesforce Talent

The Salesforce economy is booming: 4.2M jobs will be created in the Salesforce ecosystem by 2024. But how do you know you’re recruiting the right people? I’ve been in Salesforce recruitment for 4 years and I’m going to give you the inside tips on who, how and when to recruit the right people for the […]

Demystifying Agile for Trailblazers

Delivering enhancements in our current landscape can sometimes be lengthy, painful, complex… We will look at what Agile really is (as it is often misunderstood), from charts, pyramids and onions! and when and how Agile could help us to deliver better Salesforce value sooner, safer and happier!

Top 10 Project Risks and How to Mitigate Them

When you embark on a project there always seems to be curve balls thrown at you that can affect you delivering successfully and according to plan. I’ll countdown my top 10 risks that I’ve encountered while delivering Salesforce projects. I’ll share with you the signs to look out for, and how best to mitigate them […]