31 May 2018 - Salesforce London World Tour Week - preparing for the big day

It’s now 2 weeks since London World Tour and I’m about recovered enough to tell you about it. My voice has returned and I no longer sound like I’ve been nursing a 40 day smoking habit. You see, it’s no longer just about a day. For some of us, it’s a week’s marathon event. 

The fun started on Monday evening as we kicked off with the London Admins, hosted at the mothership. We were graced with some special guests who had flown in for World Tour and who were happy to do a turn for us, telling us about Summer 18 highlights or smart neat tricks. So thanks to Eric Thum, Jacinta Burke, the awesome Admin evangelists Gillian Bruce and Marc Baizman and not forgetting Astro’s Mum, Dominique!

If that wasn’t enough then we also managed a big swag giveaway including new Summer 18 Codey socks that flew through the crowd until they were caught by their delighted new owners. Socks really are the swag must have!


We also attempted our own gratitude tree. It’s something that was done at TDX this year and I thought it would be nice to take a moment and give thanks for our Salesforce world. 


Oh, and did I mention cake? I think I’m starting a new tradition of World Tour Cake. We had one last year and it felt appropriate to do it again. Why not, it’s a week of celebration. It certainly didn’t hang around very long. 


Naturally we finished the night with the obligatory after show pub. Day one completed by 01.00. 

With the slight inconvenience of going to work the next morning, World Tour evening 2 kicked off on Tuesday night with the Developer Meetup, again at the Tower. 

The Developer crowd is different, no arguing there. It’s predominantly a male audience and I had to hunt out female attendees, most of whom were other User Group Leaders or Salesforce staff members. There’s work to do here. 

The Developer team also made good use of the mothership in town and had the pleasure of the Lightning Product Team giving their roadmap highlights. With more functionality moving to click configuration the traditional role of a Developer is changing. 


Another night ending up at the pub for after show drinks while plotting what social events can be added to Dreamforce early bird arrivals and for Yeur Dreamin’ attendees. Vineyard tours and boat trips anyone? Day 2 in bed for 00:30. Going well don’t you think?

Day 3 and Wednesday evening brought special drinks for World Tour speakers for both the Admin and Developer Theatres. It was great to hang out with other speakers for the event, many whom had traveled far just for the opportunity to talk. Serious Ohana commitment here. These faces, a collection of User Group Leaders, MVPs, and dedicated community members are the ones you see again at other Salesforce events. This is how Ohana grows. This is how your Salesforce family becomes international and we are all connected. Technology helps with this. 


Day 3 completed with an ‘early’ finish of 23.30. I needed to restock my energy levels ready for the big day. Salesforce World Tour London!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

15 November 2023 - In memory of Gemma Blezard

Image
I first met Gemma in November 2017 when Bluewolf hosted the London Admins Community Group at their office. Gemma was our contact point. She sat in the audience and heckled us the whole evening. I immediately liked her.  After that moment Gemma became a regular of the London Admins and also volunteered to speak at our meetings, one memorable talk was about her certification journey and how she had her eye set on becoming a Certified Technical Architect.  It was also late 2017 when Gemma was working on her Architect certifications that she realised that there wasn't the support or content to help her achieve them. So, she created it herself and decided to share it with the world, under the monica, Ladies Be Architects. Only 10% of the Salesforce Certified Architects were women, and few people came from a non technical background; Gemma wanted to change that. The LBA grew traction as more content was added and promoted. The group grew as there was a real thirst for this knowledge. Wit
Read more

24. Cancer Diaries - Project Closure

Image
A project is a defined allotment of time in which to deliver change. At some point a project will come to a close, whether it be at the end of a phase of work, or when the money runs out. Whatever the reason, there are tasks to complete to help wrap up the project and to move onto other things; project closure.  It's the same for me and my breast cancer journey. I gave myself a milestone of completing all the big, impactful treatments - the chemo, 2 surgeries and radiotherapy and then drawing a line under them when they were all finished as a way to say my journey was done.  Often in projects, when a phase is completed the team celebrates. It is used as a mental note to acknowledge the end. It's also very useful to highlight this to clients too, but thats for another blog.  I decided I wanted to do the same and so we devised a project closure road trip. We decided to return to the place we fled to last year on the day of my official cancer diagnosis, to a hotel right on the bea
Read more

16. Cancer Diaries - The Next Phase of the Project

Image
Hello reader, if you remember where I left things I had just completed my 16 sessions of Chemo and was ready for a well deserved rest. Well, a few days later we found ourselves back on a plane, heading to Kos in Greece. This was one of the last important dates on my Life Spreadsheet and it arrived 4 days after the last Chemo treatment - perfect timing!  We arrived in Greece on the Friday to spend the night and then the next day collected a yacht and skipper from the marina and set sail around the Dodecanese Islands. A truly fabulous escape and would recommend it to anyone. You have the choice to anchor up in a quiet bay or harbour for the night and watch the sun go down. We did have some windy weather which created 2 metre waves at times. I'm pleased to report that I wasn't sea sick at all. Let's face it, I wasn't sick throughout my Chemo sessions, I wasn't going to start now.  Returning back to Blighty meant a full return to all things Cancer related, and namely pr
Read more