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Wag Your Own Tail

I was once told, ‘how sad is it a dog that doesn’t wag its own tail.’ You need to wag yours and a resume may not do it alone. You need to highlight your own achievements & in this workshop I will use the skills I have learned in my career and reading the book […]

Shaping Success: The art of Consultancy in action

Join me in this session to explore the intricacies of consultancy as we delve into the multifaceted nature of the role. From personal insights to practical strategies, we’ll discuss how to cultivate a path towards excellence dealing with daily challenges of this role. Moreover, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in an engaging activity designed […]

Building reusable UIs with LWC: Develop once, use everywhere

Tired of repetitive UI development in Salesforce? This hands-on session will transform your workflow by teaching you to build reusable components with Lightning Web Components (LWC). We’ll walk you through the creation of a LWC and showcase how to effortlessly integrate it multiple times within your application. By the end, you’ll gain a solid understanding […]

DataWeave: The Mr T of ETL?

DataWeave promises fast and flexible data transformations in a purpose-built language and is available to call directly from Apex. But what is it like to work with and live with DataWeave in Apex? We will look at the efficiency of DataWeave compared to Apex; how it can be configured to make flexible solutions; and what […]

Maximizing Collaboration: Streamlining Slack Channels with Flow

Unlock the full potential of Slack and Salesforce by seamlessly integrating them through Flow automation. In this interactive demonstration, discover how to leverage Flow to create, manage, and optimize Slack channels for enhanced project management efficiency. Learn step-by-step procedures to dynamically create channels, add members, distribute messages, archive channels and send Screen Flows—all triggered by […]

From Admin to Architect – My #journeyToCTA

Certified Technical Architect, many dream about the CTA, some start the #journeyToCTA and a select few finish as Certified Technical Architect. Johann will show how an Admin from a small Start-Up can become CTA. He will take us on his adventure from Admin to Architect. This talk is for Admins and Consultant who might want […]

Salesforce & AI from the trenches – What we learned in the last year

Since ChatGPT’s release, we at Aquiva Labs have been exploring AI in Salesforce, creating PoCs, free AppExchange apps, and open-source contributions. This session will share our journey, showcasing the tools we’ve developed, the methodologies we’ve adopted, and the lessons learned. Spoiler alert: Mastering custom AI is challenging, yet leveraging the support of a Low Code […]

Toughen up your Tests by Taking on the Mutant Army

Your unit tests have 100% coverage, so quality is assured. Or is it? Mutation testing adds bugs to your code and verifies that your tests detect them. In this session I’ll cover the underlying concepts, how mutation testing works in practice and the benefits and drawbacks of this approach. I’ll also demonstrate a Salesforce CLI […]

AppExchange: What Does It Take to Publish Your First App?

A few months ago, Salesforce celebrated 10 Million AppExchange Installs. Did you participate in this milestone only from an end-user perspective? Let’s change it! It’s the best moment to learn what it takes to build and publish an app. Maybe you are Salesforce Developer looking for a new way to master your technical skills or […]

Net Zero Now – Leveraging Net Zero Cloud to Bridge the Intention-Action Gap

Net Zero Cloud is one of Salesforces fastest growing organic products that continues to amaze the ecosystem with rapid innovation. Independently voted the leading Sustainability Management Software, everyone should be embracing NZC to catalyse a decarbonised future within our business, our industry, and our planet. We will talk about factors driving the Net Zero Imperative […]

Supercharge your DevOps Center Pipeline

Learn how you can extend the core capabilities of DevOps Center pipelines by integrating issue tracking, static code analysis, and unit and functional tests while gathering results into a central quality hub all within Salesforce. Analyse your deployments in new ways to learn how to measure quality, report current and historical test coverage, and define […]

Fantastically Bad Apex Automation Patterns (and how to avoid them)

Your Apex triggers are probably wrong. When starting on Salesforce, developers think that they can carry on the same design patterns from the outside. It takes years to realise that this doesn’t work, causing poor user experience and crashes. My new (fictional) colleague keeps making these mistakes. Together we’ll look at some common Apex trigger […]

Designing for Better Outcomes

It’s tempting to think that the Salesforce apps we design relate only to our users, and any consequences of our design are limited to the effect we’ve designed. Considering the broader consequences can be done during the design process with a simple tool called a consequence scan, an important part of the agile development process. […]

Second Generation Packaging – It’s Not Just for ISVs

Second generation packaging solves development and distribution challenges in multiple scenarios – ISV, SI Consulting, End Users and Open Source. In this session I’ll cover the various types of second generation packages that are available, who they are suitable for and why they are an improvement over unmanaged/first generation packaging.

Why Admins Need to get Familiar with Marketing Cloud

Salesforce as a platform continues to evolve and enhance its capabilities. It is made up of a few clouds and the lines between them continue to blur. Marketing Cloud has traditionally been the furthest removed from its sibling “core” clouds. However, this is changing. Two of the bigger initiatives that are driving Marketing Cloud closer […]

Tips to Architect a Future-proof Salesforce Org

After 7 years of experience in support, I’ve faced several non-time-proof projects. In this talk, I’ll show 5 real customer issues, how the issues were solved, how we could have prevented with strong architecture design, and what to keep in mind to ensure our designs are time-proof. The issues to I’ll talk about are: Bad […]

Domain-Driven Design Architecture Patterns in APEX

Over the years, after seeing numerous small & large projects, I tend to think that Salesforce is an excellent platform for building monsters. It’s so easy to just add new features, implement business requirements in so many different ways that eventually you end up with a “Big Ball of Mud” rolling down the hill. This […]

One Process to Rule Them All

You may have heard that best practice with the Salesforce Process Builder is to only have one process per object. And you may be the only one. We see dozens of orgs where either no one knew that, or people did and didn’t follow the guidelines. To be fair, it’s not that obvious how to […]

Marketing Cloud “Make Data View Tables, Great Again”

Have you been working with Marketing Cloud SQL Queries for a while, but never really understood how you can use them to achieve great segmentation to see how your subscribers are engaging with your emails? Do you want to better understand how Data View Tables relate to one another? In this session, I will be […]