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2024 Session Schedule

We have an awesome set of sessions for 2024. We could not be more proud of our stellar speakers who make Forcelandia what it is!

Check back! Session schedule will change.

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July 10th

Time Gym Parsons Room Jordan Room Theater
8:00 – 8:30       Registration
8:30 – 9:50       Keynote
Marla Hay
Demo Jam
10:00 – 10:50 Dynamic Named Credentials: A Fun Dive into Secure API Access for Salesforce
Marlene Guerra-Reeve
Innovative Error Handling Strategies in Salesforce Apex
Rob Cowell
Testing Flows 3 Ways
Bonny Hinners
How I learned to stop loving and fear AI
Josh Birk
11:00 – 11:50   Selection Success: How to Position Your Unique Content to Get on More Stages and Amplify Your Profile
Ivy Gustafson
Code Meets Clicks: Designing Custom-Coded Solutions that are Declaratively Configurable
Lauren LaMonte
Enterprise Environment Management & CI/CD at Scale
Joy Shutters-Helbing & Mike Reynolds
12:00 – 1:20 Lunch      
1:30 – 2:20 Do you STILL need a trigger for that?
Kestryl Lowrey
Getting Started with Data Cloud
Melissa Shepard
Switching Sides: How to transition from a Salesforce Admin to Marketing Cloud Admin
Chris Angalet
Platform Integration: What’s New and What’s Coming
Jeremy Westerman
2:30 – 3:20 Gen AI in Customer Service
Mike Jortberg
No one Likes a Hardcoder
Kristi Campbell & Ray Dehler
Practical Governance
Allison Park
Build event-driven integrations with Salesforce Pub/Sub API
Neha Ahlawat
3:30 – 4:20 One Flow vs Multiple Flows: Which Runs Faster?
Evan Ponter
Using AI To Write “complete” User Stories 73x Faster
Ian Gotts
OpenAI Assistants And Flows – Running Assistants in Salesforce
Alex Bryner
 
4:30 – 6:00 Networking Happy Hour      
7:00 – 9:00 Networking Dinner – Requires Separate Registration      

July 11th

Time Gym Parsons Room Jordan Room Theater
8:00 – 9:00 WIT Breakfast – Requires Separate Registration      
9:00 – 9:50 Seamless Integration between Salesforce and AWS
Kris Harrison
Refactoring Legacy Code: Why, When, and How
Richard Moore
Behind the Scenes of Trailhead Hands-On Challenges
Daniel Hoechst
Fantastic Design Patterns and Where to Use Them
Kevin Poorman
10:00 – 10:50 Git-dy Up! And Let’s Learn Git for Salesforce
EJ Sherman
Lightning-Fast Flow Strategies
Deb Weller
Five Tips Every Admin Should Know about Visual Studio Code
Robert Davis
Streamlining Salesforce Development with CI/CD and Automated Code Analysis using GitHub Actions
Uday Valakatti
11:00 – 11:50   Convince your boss to prioritize tech debt
Marina Shuman
Crafting a Salesforce-Focused GPT: Insights from a Business Analyst’s Journey
Jana Walker & Janeen Marquardt
Building Your First Integration
Stephanie & Kevin Poorman
12:00 – 12:50 Lunch      
1:00 – 1:50 Salesforce Flow Makeover: Turning Multi-Screen into Reactive Wonders
Stephanie Foerst
  Should I go with the Flow?
Charles Watkins
Coding Challenge: AI vs Developer
Brett Barlow
2:00 – 2:50 Breaking up (with the Database) is easy to do
Stephanie Poorman
Data Cloud CRM Enrichments
Shraddha Nakra & Aneel Yelamanchili
4 Dev Fundamentals to Up your Admin Game
Kate Lessard
Panel Discussion: When Good Projects Go Bad
Stephanie Foerst, Melissa Hansen, Brad Gross, Angela Mahoney and Rich Nevin
3:00 – 4:00       Closing Keynote
Edgar Cambranes
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