After 6 years of doing Salesforce, I’m finally attending my first Dreamforce- the biggest software event in the world, where people gather from all over the world to share ideas, learn new skills, connect, and be inspired.

I have been fortunate enough to work for a company such as Davanti Consulting, a New Zealand premiere Salesforce Partner. They send people annually to attend Dreamforce but, they don’t just randomly select employees to send. There is a rigid set of requirements and anyone qualified needs to put up a case why they should be selected and what would the company gain by doing so. This was nerve racking as I have now to come up with a presentation that would stand out among the rest of my peers who are as qualified I am.

So how did I pull it off? For one, I was on top of recent news of Salesforce acquisitions of machine learning and AI companies so that kind of gave insights on what Dreamforce would be about this year. I’ve always been keen on exploring other technologies and having a play on them. Salesforce recently did restructuring on their product line and out came App Cloud, coming off from an engagement where I lead the mobile employee app using lightning and another client facing application on force.com. My pitch generally evolved around the idea that attending Dreamforce would upgrade my skills particularly on client facing apps and gain traction on IOT, get an insane amount inspiration and I’ll be bringing back the knowledge with a series of sessions. I got the nod from our senior team and choose me to go to Dreamforce. I’m just stoked as attending Dreamforce was on of my goals for the longest time.

Looking forward to do a series of blog post commencing the event. For now time to earn my Dreamforce badges via trailhead.