DREAMFORCEGETTING A TALK ACCEPTED AT

DREAMFORCE PRESENTATIONS

▸ Surfacing Your Canvas App in SF1

▸ JSForce in Action

▸ Build a Lightning App with Angular Material Design

▸ Angular 2 + Ng-Lightning + Lightning Design = Great Apps

PROCESS OF SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS

▸ Check the Salesforce site for announcement of when call for papers opens.

▸ Different areas have different deadlines. (Dev, Admin, etc)

▸ Sessions are 30 minutes and 50 minutes long.

▸ Know your audience and clearly explain topic and key takeaways.

THINGS TO CONSIDER

▸ Titles are important

▸ Diversify

▸ Submit multiple abstracts

▸ Talk Journal

SOME STATISTICS: ADMIN TRACK

▸ 867 total submissions

▸ 648 speakers submitted

▸ 75 available Dreamforce slots

PROCESS ONCE ACCEPTED

▸ Create Show-Flow that breaks down your session by topics you’ll be covering and top allotment for each topic.

▸ Create rough draft of presentation.

▸ Dry run of presentation a couple weeks prior to Dreamforce.

DEVELOPING IDEAS AND INSPIRATION: CONFERENCES

▸ Attend other conferences to find inspiration and be exposed to new technologies/methods/ideas.

▸ Check out talks and trending topics.

▸ Good place to check out the pulse of the industry.

DEVELOPING IDEAS: PROBLEMS YOU ARE SOLVING

▸ Tackle a problem you’re currently encountering.

▸ Create a talk on your solution.

DEVELOPING IDEAS: MESSAGE AND COMMUNITY BOARDS

▸ Check out salesforce message boards

▸ Detect common problems people are encountering or topics people have a strong interest in.

DEVELOPING IDEAS: LOOK TO THE FUTURE

▸ Salesforce Roadmap

▸ Emerging technology

▸ Where you see the future going

▸ Proof of concept/prototypes

GOOD TOPICS

▸ Internet of Things

▸ Emerging technology

▸ Tooling on top of Salesforce

▸ Deep dives into established SF technology

QUESTIONS?

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