Sessions

Biggest Little Dreamin’ 2027 · Reno, Nevada

The Sessions

Here’s what’s confirmed for January 28–29 so far, with more sessions announced in November.

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15Sessions confirmed
17Speakers so far
NovMore sessions coming
Jan 28–29Reno Ballroom
Round 1 · community-selected

15 sessions confirmed.

No selection committee, no one person picking winners — registered attendees helped select these sessions through community voting. Times and rooms haven’t been assigned yet; the full schedule goes out once Round 2 wraps in November.

  1. 10 Click-Not-Code Tricks Your Users Will Love

    Admin

    Emma KeelingEmma KeelingSalesforce Consultant / MVP / CGL, Hazledene Solutions Limited

    Ten configuration-only wins you can ship without writing a line of code.

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    A practical session for admins highlighting ten high-impact UI improvements that boost clarity, speed, and user satisfaction. Learn simple configuration techniques that make Salesforce feel smoother, cleaner, and easier for teams to use every day.

  2. 5 Essential Tips for Agentforce Success

    AI

    Melissa Shepard

    Five concrete moves to get more out of Agentforce without the guesswork.

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    Discover 5 key tips to boost Agentforce performance, streamline efficiency, and maximize results using Salesforce tools, data insights, and smarter workflows. This session delivers high-impact, immediately actionable content tailored for customer service leaders, Salesforce admins, and operations professionals tasked with implementing Agentforce.

  3. Architecture Before Automation: Why Most Salesforce Transformations Fail

    Architect

    Dhairya Shah

    Why automating a broken process just makes it break faster — and what to fix first.

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    Most Salesforce transformations don’t fail because of technology, they fail because organisations automate before they architect. This session breaks down why automation without architecture leads to long-term technical and operational debt, and lays out a practical, architecture-first approach to Salesforce transformation.

  4. Blueprints for Better Agents: Design Before You Build

    AI

    Janeen MarquardtPartner, Chief Technical Strategist, Maple Digital

    Templates and checklists for agents that survive real users, not just demos.

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    Design agents like an architect, not a prompt engineer. Learn proven design principles to diagram workflows, define boundaries, and build AI agents that scale beyond demos and survive real-world use, with templates, patterns, and checklists you can immediately apply.

  5. Bring Ethical Awareness & Forethought into Your Designs w/ Consequence Scanning

    Leadership

    Melissa Hill DeesFounder, Telosofi

    A lightweight practice for catching the downstream effects of a change before it ships.

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    Every Salesforce decision carries consequences, some visible, many not. This session introduces the consequence scan, a lightweight yet powerful practice that helps teams pause, zoom out, and evaluate the downstream effects of their application decisions before they ship.

  6. Dear Setup, It’s Not You, It’s Me

    DeveloperAI

    Michael DargenioSuper Salesforce admin, Veracyte

    Watch a real ticket go from intake to deployed, start to finish, without opening Setup once.

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    A live ticket lifecycle from intake to deployment, managed entirely from one window: Claude Code, running inside Visual Studio Code, connected to Salesforce, Jira, and Confluence through a custom set of MCP servers. Covers Screen Flow building, automated UI testing, browser-driven Setup actions with no API required, and the shift from declarative configurator to architect and product manager.

  7. From Admin to Entrepreneur: Launching Your Business in the Salesforce Ecosystem

    Career

    Matt KaufmanMatt KaufmanCEO, MK Partners

    A 20-year consultancy founder’s honest roadmap from employee to owner.

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    Are you a Salesforce Admin or Developer looking for a positive change in your career? Drawing on 20 years of experience founding and growing MK Partners, one of the ecosystem’s longest serving consultancies, this session covers the essential roadmap for navigating the transition from employee to entrepreneur.

  8. From AI Anxiety to AI Confidence: Helping Trailblazers Stay Relevant

    AICareer

    Ama SurangikaCo-Founder & Salesforce Solution Architect, Blazora LLC

    A framework for deciding what to learn next instead of panicking about all of it.

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    A practical, community-centered conversation about moving from AI anxiety to AI confidence. Attendees will leave with a simple framework for staying relevant in the AI era, including how to choose what to learn, how to experiment safely, and how to support others in the community who feel overwhelmed by change.

  9. How to Survive the SaaSpocalypse

    Leadership

    Abi ClausDirector of Salesforce, Camping World

    AI can write the Flow. It can’t tell you whether the Flow should exist — here’s the part of the job that’s still yours.

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    AI commoditized the part of our work that was always commoditizable: the build, the syntax, the looked-it-up-in-the-docs execution. But the valuable part was always underneath the build. AI can write the Flow. It can’t tell you whether the Flow should exist.

  10. Intro to Apex for Admins Who Use Flow

    AdminDeveloper

    Michelle HansenMichelle HansenPrincipal, Slalom

    Map what you already know in Flow onto your first lines of Apex.

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    Most Admins don’t have even the first clue where to start when it comes to Apex, because it’s literally a different language. By using the familiar concepts of Flow and Flow Builder, this session introduces the basic terminology, structure, and concepts of Apex.

  11. Taking the Leap from CPQ to Revenue Cloud

    Architect

    Eric BrunnerEric BrunnerBusiness Applications Manager, Data Innovations
    Kelvin KiruiKelvin KiruiSenior Salesforce Developer, Data Innovations
    Kelsey BrattonKelsey BrattonSalesforce Business Analyst, Data Innovations

    A real migration, the decisions that almost went wrong, and what the team would do differently.

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    Salesforce CPQ has served countless revenue teams well, but with Salesforce officially announcing the sunsetting of CPQ, the pressure to modernize is real. Pulling back the curtain on a real-world CPQ-to-Revenue Cloud migration: the planning decisions, the moments we questioned everything, and the hard-won lessons that came out the other side.

  12. UAT’s Nuts! Plan the Test Before the Mess

    Testing

    Vanessa GrantVanessa GrantCustomer Engineer, dx0

    A UAT plan built before testing starts, not improvised once it does.

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    User Acceptance Testing is where projects either build confidence or create chaos. This session explores what a solid UAT strategy looks like before testing starts: traceability from user stories to test scenarios, a clear Path to Production, and a meaningful Definition of Done.

  13. Well-Architected Workshop

    Architect

    Sheeba ThukralSheeba ThukralSolution Architect, GaapX.ai
    Ama SurangikaCo-Founder & Salesforce Solution Architect, Blazora LLC

    Spot the anti-pattern, defend your answer, 7 minutes on the clock — team-based and competitive.

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    A fast-paced, 3-round, competitive Well-Architected Workshop. Work in teams to complete challenges: which patterns or anti-patterns can you spot, why, and what advice would you give? 7 minutes to solve, plus 1 minute to read out your solution.

  14. When the Tech Works but the People Don’t

    Leadership

    Illyasha PeeteIllyasha PeetePrincipal and CEO, Catalyze and Cultivate Consulting

    The adoption patterns that stall a technically perfect build — and how to read them early.

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    Salesforce projects can stall even when the build is solid. This session focuses on the people side of Salesforce adoption: how to identify the human and organizational patterns that slow adoption, communicate more clearly during change, and make better decisions when teams feel stuck.

  15. You’ve Gone Live, Now What?

    Admin

    Shari CarlsonShari CarlsonDirector of Professional Services, North Peak Solutions

    Four things to put in place in the first weeks after go-live so year one doesn’t unravel.

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    Congratulations, you made it through the gauntlet of implementation. Four steps to ensure continued success with Salesforce: creating an impact statement to guide your future decisions, a Salesforce staffing plan, a steering committee, and ongoing best practices.

One more round is coming. The Call for Trailblazers final round closes October 31, attendees vote in early November, and the rest of the sessions are announced around mid-November.

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Submissions for the final round close October 31 at 11:59 PM Pacific. Register for $99 and you get a vote on what makes the cut.

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