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Salesforce DevOps: Past, Present, Future

Jack McCurdy (DevOps Advocate, Gearset)

The Salesforce landscape is constantly changing. DevOps and its part in driving change is no different. Join Jack at the opening keynote to hear where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going when it comes to delivering with excellence on the Salesforce platform.

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Advanced SF logging & monitoring with Nebula logger

Ellie Matthewman (Lead Salesforce Engineer, LendInvest)

In today's fast-paced Salesforce environments, reliable logging and monitoring are critical to operational success. This session will explore how we’ve enhanced visibility into our Salesforce applications using Nebula Logger for robust logging. I'll share real-world examples of how this tool has transformed our debugging process, improved system reliability, and provided actionable insights. Whether you're looking to refine your operational strategy or improve efficiency, this talk will offer practical, scalable solutions for optimising logging and monitoring in Salesforce.

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Salesforce CI/CD for beginners

Brandon Chin Loy (Product Manager, Gearset)

Calling all those just discovering the world of Salesforce DevOps, deployments, and CICD... This session will take you through a look into CICD as a traditional DevOps concept and how you translate it to Salesforce development. You’ll break down the parts that make up a CICD process on Salesforce, the problems we need to solve in each of them, and how you can bring these practices into your team.

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Embedding quality into your Salesforce Software Development Lifecycle

Samuel Arroyo (VP, Product & Technology, Provar)

Quality is often seen as an afterthought in software development, but it's essential to prioritise quality from the outset to deliver successful projects. In this session, we'll explore practical ways in which you can integrate quality into every stage of your Salesforce SDLC.

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A Practical Guide to Managing Data Quality in Salesforce

Vasile Fana (Founder & CEO, ArchCloud Digital)

A practical session on managing data quality in Salesforce. This guide covers the entire data lifecycle, from establishing a strong governance to ongoing monitoring, enrichment, and archiving. Learn essential techniques and best practices for deduplication, automated backups, and data cleanup, with real-world insights to enhance the integrity and effectiveness of your Salesforce data.

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How to deploy Flows like a pro

Tom Smith (Product Manager, Gearset)

Flows are an incredibly powerful type of metadata but they can also be a pain to deploy, causing bottlenecks, headaches on release day, and end-user frustration. In this session hear about common Flow deployment pains, best practices to avoid them, and see Gearset's Flow Navigator.

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Choose the right DevOps model for your project

Doria Hamelryk (Technical Architect, Nortech Consult) and Bogdan Ciureanu (Release Architect, WEBANDTECH)

Choosing the right approach to DevOps implementation can be challenging, as it involves more than just technical considerations. What business goals are you aiming to achieve? How mature is your project in terms of workflows and team management? How is global governance structured? Join us for a deep dive into Salesforce DevOps as we explore six levels of implementation, from the simplest to the most advanced. This session will guide you through the technical setup, key project management practices, and the business benefits at each stage, giving you a framework to optimize your Salesforce DevOps journey.

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Digital Body Language Demystified!

Andrew Cook (Salesforce Administrator, Darktrace)

In this time of increased remote working, your digital body language defines you. Understand your perceived emotions, engagement, and intent through virtual cues like response time, tone, and emojis.

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Scaling Pains: Navigating DevOps and Data Management Challenges for Growing Salesforce Teams

Laurence Boyce (Sales Engineer, Gearset)

As Salesforce teams grow, so do the challenges they face in managing development, deployment, and data. In this presentation, Gearset will share insights into common growing pains Salesforce teams experience in their DevOps and data management processes. We’ll explore how increasing business demands can lead to bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and complexity in handling releases and data integrity, and discuss strategies to help teams overcome these challenges and scale effectively.

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Fireside Chat: Building a Salesforce DevOps Career

Amit Kumar Tiwari (Head of Salesforce Architecture and Practice, Intellect Design Arena Limited), Deepak Veera (Product Manager, MongoDB), Jeremy Foster (Manager of Salesforce Development, The Pilot Company), Jolene Mair (Salesforce Applications Engineer IV, HackerOne), and Jonny Harris (Salesforce Release Supervisor, Zurich Insurance Ltd)

5 DevOps Leaders — Amit Kumar Tiwari, Deepak Veera, Jeremy Foster, Jolene Mair and Jonny Harris — are teaming up to share their thoughts on the evolving landscape of Salesforce DevOps. Learn about pivotal career decisions, essential tools and how to foster a DevOps culture. They’ll share invaluable advice for those beginning their careers and practical strategies to improve work-life balance too. Don't miss these expert perspectives that will empower your career growth in Salesforce DevOps.

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Choosing good test data shouldn’t be a lottery

Tom Smith (Product Manager, Gearset)

If our sandboxes don’t contain realistic test data, how can we expect to test our changes? Dummy data might sound attractive, but rarely reflects production, missing important edge cases. But storage limits mean we can’t bring every edge case from production into our dev sandboxes. So how do we decide what data we need for testing? In this session, we’ll explore what it means to choose a realistic snapshot of production data.

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Making Sense of AI Models

Peter Chittum (Developer Relations Advisor)

The world of AI revolves around the construct of a “model”. But unpacking what exactly this is can be daunting. Treat your self to a visual feast that breaks down the core concepts behind modern AI models. Starting from basic machine learning algorithms, and working through the most state of the art LLM architectures, walk away with a greater sense of what a model is, how it works, and even more importantly why to select a given model. For AI beginners of all technical roles and levels.

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Supercharging DevOps - getting 100% improvement

Adrian King (Founder, COO & CTO, Elements.cloud)

The data shows that 50% of what gets built never gets used. That is a huge waste of Devops resources. To get a 2x improvement in productivity you need to make sure that they are building ”the right thing”.  This session looks practical, proven ideas to dramatically improve the implementation lifecycle. The result: higher adoption, less technical debt, happier users.

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Quality Street: What’s Your Favourite Coding Standard?

Sunny Matharu (Chief Technology Officer, ThirdEye Consulting)

Session description coming soon!

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How to solve sandbox syncing

Richard Owen (Senior Product Manager, Gearset)

Out-of-sync orgs in Salesforce lead to code conflicts, deployment failures, and testing issues that can halt productivity within your release pipeline. In this session, you’ll get the advice you need to achieve seamless deployments, team-wide efficiency, and a streamlined Salesforce release pipeline — as well as best practices for effortless org alignment.

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Zurich’s Fast Track to Production

Jonny Harris (Salesforce Release Supervisor, Zurich Insurance Ltd)

A talk on how Zurich has implemented Gearset Pipelines to help fast track our changes from the developer environment to Production, while keeping up quality assurance.

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Top 5 DevOps challenges for large & complex teams

Amit Kumar Tiwari (Head of Salesforce Architecture and Practice, Intellect Design Arena Limited)

This session will highlight the top 5 DevOps challenges faced by large/complex teams using Salesforce and provide effective solutions to overcome these barriers.

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Salesforce Org Health Check: Proactive Strategies for Maintenance and Optimization

Rob Cowell (DevOps Advocate, Gearset)

A guide to conducting a Salesforce Org health check, demonstrating techniques to assess and improve performance, security, and cleanliness using Salesforce's built-in tools.

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The Four Roles of an Awesome Admin

Heather Black (CEO, Supermums Training and Recruitment)

Join us to create a plan as a Salesforce Admin to balance the 4 Roles of an Awesome Admin and 40 tasks that we need to do. Leave with this free downloadable resource to give you a plan of action https://supermums.org/resources/four-roles-of-an-awesome-admin-and-40-step-checklist/

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DevOps Center: From Ladyfinger Cookies to Tiramisu

Filip Teter (DevOps Lead, Cloobees)

Get ready to whip up something delicious! We’ll show you how we’ve taken the ingredients of Salesforce DevOps Center and layered it with scripts and tools to create a delectable dish. From automating deployments to streamlining releases, we'll share the results of our secret formula that elevates everyday Salesforce DevOps into a Michelin-star experience. Join us in the kitchen as we cook up an automation you can taste in your own projects!

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Discover the Basics of Lightning UI Performance Testing

Craig Suthers (Founder/Architect, Grandstand Performance)

Learn how to measure Lightning Platform UI performance, write and automate tests, and collect performance metrics, following best practices for performance testing.

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Scale your Salesforce Development: From manual deployments to a CI pipeline

Jeremy Foster (Manager of Salesforce Development, The Pilot Company)

Worried about managing increased demand on your Salesforce team? In this session, find out how The Pilot Company successfully scaled their Salesforce development with strategic planning, implementing robust tools and technologies, and harnessing continuous improvement.

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