As ten of our team travelled to the annual London’s Calling Salesforce community event this year, we thought why not share some insights into what the day holds and their recommendations to make the day as productive and fun as possible.
“But do we need to do it?” with Leanne Botwright - as BA it is our job to always question “why?”. This talk was a great reminder to ensure we question “do we need it?” too. Leanne was also very engaging and the session was fun.
“We are all Imposters” with Tom Bassett. “Just be You” - it’s so important to realise that “being you” is all that you need to be to shine. I went to Tom’s presentation a few hours before I was about to present and I was suffering with a huge dose of self-doubt. It was just the medicine I needed and I felt so much more confident standing up in front of an audience later on to talk about some of the latest Flow features.
Salesforce Einstein 1 Studio Demystified. Christine Marshall did a great job of simplifying the language and products in the Salesforce AI offering (Prompt Builder, Co-Pilot Builder and Model Builder) and explain in detail exactly what they do and they could be used.
Obviously “Making it up as you go along in Flow” but I perhaps can’t choose that ;-) so will go for “Salesforce & AI from the trenches - What we learned in the last year” - Robert Sösemann delivered an engaging talk on the huge amount of work the Aquiva Labs team have carried out in exploring AI in Salesforce. The big takeaway really was just how challenging it is and the amount of “new skills” you need to be prepared to acquire.
My favourite talk was "Headless Architecture" by Sam Wadhwani and Sahan Perera. It was insightful because it emphasised the importance of preparing for integrations with UIs decoupled from Salesforce, avoiding business logic on the front end, and ensuring security for custom UIs
I really enjoyed “Building reusable UIs with LWC: Develop once, use everywhere” by Edith Valencia-Martinez. The information was presented in a really intuitive way, and will be a methodology I implement more going forwards.
My favourite talk was “Code Generation through AI - why it’s amazing and we need to be careful”. Paul Battisson had some great explanations on how AI works and how it can potentially evolve in the future. Bringing people up for a Chinese whispers style showcase was a particular highlight..
‘Making it up as you go along in Flow’ was easily the best talk of the conference (although I might be a little biased!) I really enjoyed the ‘How to sell a sandwich: Making simple apps customers love’ By Lawrence Newcombe… I’ve always wanted to put something on the app exchange and the talk ran through the process you would have to go through.
“Demystifying Cookies” by Fabien Taillon gave me a lot of insight into what those mysterious cookies are, how they really work and what’s up and coming for them
My favourite talk was "Help! How to manage your project manager" by Pei Mun Lim. Although this talk wasn’t as directly relevant to my job role as some of the other talks it offered some really great techniques on how to manage my work and work related social interaction. It gave an interesting insight into why people fall into common pitfalls surrounding this. This was topped off with some awesome sketches and a thought out, engaging structure to the talk.
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