Diary of a Saasy Girl

Its here! London World Tour. It’s a big, long day with an early start. First call to the polling booth to cast my vote on the European Elections. Women died for the right to vote so I am always compelled to do my bit, even if our politics are in a right shambles currently. Arriving at Excel and my first stop is a quick pic with Louise Lockie and the Mascots, Astro and Codey, as you do. If you’ve never been to a Salesforce World Tour then don’t expect it to be like any usual conference. Oh no, its quite unlike anything else out there. It’s a place for learning, networking and having fun. The branding from Trailhead, Salesforce’s learning platform is the theme around the whole show ground, making a traditional ‘tech conference’ a very friendly and approachable place to be. Time for some learning and networking at the Salesforce Women’s Network Breakfast. Salesforce created this network internally and likes to extend its reach to help others. Its vision is to ...

It's May which means at some point in the month the Salesforce machine spins into overdrive for World Tour hitting London town. What’s special about the London market place is that World Tour here is the largest that Salesforce puts on and is only out done by the San Francisco events that help to generate the content, namely Dreamforce and to some extent, TrailheaDX. What I love about London is that it joins in with World Tour and a one day conference has turned into a week’s activities in the community. I like to consider this week as my mental and physical preparation for Dreamforce. Let me tell you about 2019. In the UK the week tends to start on a Monday and this year there were no Salesforce events. This could have been influenced by a certain final episode of Game of Thrones that was available to be watched and so many of the UK community diligently did, and the Salesforce world patiently waited to learn the fate of all in Westeros. Tuesday, and with...