Kiwi Dreaming 2024

30 May 2024
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland | Aotea Centre
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Here's your first look at the agenda for Kiwi Dreaming 2024!

We have several breakout tracks, with a variety of speakers in each. Times may still change slightly, but this is a starting guide, so you can see the awesome line-up of speakers and subjects that we have planned for the day! We'll fill in more details such as specific room locations closer to the event date.

We're also still finalising other parts of the agenda, in the Trailhead Corner, and the Workshop break-out. Stay tuned for more updates soon!

breakout session tracks

  1. 8:15am - 9:10am

    8:15am: Go with the Flow: Mia Pacey - AU Olympic Committee
    8:15am: Hidden Gems of NPSP: Charles Thompson - Salesforce
    8:45am: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Developers: Avinash Vatsya - Merkle

  2. 9:15am - 10:00am

    9:05am: Winning over hearts and Minds: How Candour/Kindness are vital to succeed with SF:
    Stefan Panzer - CRMIT
    9:15am: Salesforce Well Architected Framework: Charlotte Hailey - Salesforce

  3. 10:00am - 10:30am

    Morning Break

  4. 10:30am - 10:55am

    Don't Panic! The Admins Guide to Backup: Mark Barcham - Merkle
    Demystify Salesforce DevOps Center: Hazma Siddiqui - Datacom

  5. 11:00am - 11:45am

    A Stealthy Revolution - Make your record pages dazzle: Charles Thompson - Salesforce
    Think Like a Hacker - Dev Techniques nobody teaches you:
    Alex Waleczek - self employed

  6. 11:50am - 12:45pm

    Main Keynote

  7. 12:45pm - 1:45pm

    Lunch

  8. 1:45pm - 2:15pm

    Embrace Change as a Salesforce Professional: Bill Wu - Smartapps
    Bring Your AI Models to Data Cloud: David Norris - Salesforce

  9. 2:20pm - 3:10pm

    The Business Case for Salesforce: How to get your Project Approved: Justin Lanigan - LavaBox
    Automating my job using Einstein AI: Janine Eastwood - Deloitte

  10. 3:15pm - 3:45pm

    Afternoon Break

  11. 3:45pm - 5:30pm

    3:45pm: Proving your Recovery Plan: Adam Walker - Odaseva
    4:15pm: The Planet - your No1 Stakeholder: Ken Holley - Salesforce
    5:00pm: Accessibility Matters: Catherine Hewetson and Alexia Slaven - Merkle

    3:45pm: Where do we even start? The intersection of Agile, UX and SF: Erin Soo Kee - GravityLab
    4:35pm: You Thought you needed code for Integrations? Probs can do in Flow: Stephen Stanley - Goodcloud.Team

  12. 5:30pm

    Wrap Up & Networking Drinks

workshop sessions

hands-on workshop sessions - bring your laptop!
times are still tbc
  1. Apex: What's new and what's coming: Daniel Ballinger, Salesforce

    Bring your AI Models to Data Cloud: David Norris, Salesforce

    Data Cloud Deep Dive: An end-end implementation story: Satya, Salesforce Developer Relations

    Einstein Prompt Builder: Hands-on Session

    Navigating Marketing Cloud Email Studio: Kuldeep Sharma, Salesforce MVP

    Well-architected Workshop with Vickie Jeffery & Bec Aichholzer: Architect An Automated Salesforce Solution

    Intro to Prompt Engineering and Einstein 1 Studio

    Hands-on: Copilot Builder Workshop

Trailhead ako wāhi/learning corner

learn & complete trailhead badges, and talk 1:1 with some of the luminaries in the salesforce community!
Times are still TBC
  1. Take your career to the next level - Marc Baizman, Salesforce

    What do you want to know about CRMA & Tableau? Alexander Waleczek, Auckland Tableau User Group Leader

    Five Ways to Take Action with Data Cloud - David Norris, Salesforce

    Book a 20min 1:1 with any of the following:

    Marc Baizman, Principal Instructor, Salesforce

    Charles Thompson, Senior Program Architect (NPSP), Salesforce

    Bec Aichholzer, Salesforce MVP & Golden Hoodie, Customer Success Architect, VISEO

    Kuldeep Sharma, Salesforce MVP & Marketing Champion, Organiser Bharat Dreamin'

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