10 Sessions Admins Shouldn’t Miss at TDX18

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TrailheaDX is just around the corner on March 28 and 29! While you should definitely
create your own ideal agenda, we think adding these 10 sessions below will help you
get the most out of your time at TDX18.

 

Use your Salesforce Powers for Good!
Marc Baizman, Cheryl Timoney, Jason Wurtz

Calling all volunteers! Are you a Salesforce expert interested in pro bono work with nonprofits? Join us to learn about the common use cases in the nonprofit sector, how to find a nonprofit, how the Nonprofit Success Pack works, and best practices for pro bono engagements.

The Process Before Process Builder: How, Why, and When to Use Salesforce
Marc Baizman, Gillian Bruce

The most important part of building with the Salesforce platform is understanding how and why to implement specific features. Join us to learn how to work with teams to understand their existing processes, identify optimization points across the organization’s lifecycle, and match business needs to technical features.

Lead the Salesforce way with the Platform
LeeAnne Rimel

You can lead the 4th Industrial Revolution by building smart connections between apps, data, and people. Learn how you can be constantly learning, developing techniques, and innovating ahead to take your organization and career to the next level with the Salesforce Platform. You’ll walk away from this session with new tools to help you think ahead and solve problems that haven’t yet surfaced.

Navigating your Salesforce Career
Michael Gerholdt

In an ever-changing landscape of skills, it’s easy to just copy what someone else did to be successful. But are someone else’s achievements really what you want? Everyone is always looking for a “How to” approach to accomplish a goal. Join us and we’ll focus on a “Why to” approach to reach your goals.

Design Compelling Lightning App and Page Customizations
Noah Guyot, John Vollmer

Lightning offers powerful, flexible tools to sculpt your Salesforce interface to match the unique ways your users and organization work. But do these tools now make you an admin, designer, and researcher rolled into one? Are you discovering the challenge of translating user and business needs into efficient, thoughtful experiences that boost productivity and engagement? Join members of Salesforce’s Platform UX team as we explore design-focused best practices for Admins using Lightning App Builder.

Dynamic Experiences with Lightning App Builder
Michael Gonzalez

We made some big updates to Lightning App Builder to empower you to build dynamic experiences for end users without code. Join us to learn more about Dynamic Lightning Pages, localization capabilities, and using expressions to create tailored experiences for end-users.

Supercharge Your Productivity with Lightning Experience

Lightning App Builder makes it super simple to quickly assemble apps using just declarative drag and drop features. Join us as we show how easy it is to use the power of Lightning App Builder. We’ll walk through how to upgrade a Classic app and create a new Lightning app, configure and personalize the app, create record and app pages, and configure the utility bar. We’ll also cover Lightning Console apps.

An Introduction to Lightning Flow
Arnab Bose, Thomas Krawczyk, Wendy Lee

Lightning Flow provides declarative process automation for every Salesforce app, experience, and portal. With Lightning Flow, you can deliver rich, engaging, guided visual processes to automate your business. Now you can also take advantage of using Lightning components to orchestrate dynamic screens. Join this session to learn how you can use Lightning Flow in your business to boost efficiency and transform the way you engage with customers

Accessibility for All: Best Practices to Make an Accessible Lightning Experience
Shreyans Jain, Adam Rodenbeck

Lightning Experience is the Salesforce UI for all users, especially because it has accessibility features baked in. Learn about all the accessibility features that Lightning provides, and how you can craft the best experience for users that rely on assistive technologies. We will discuss accessibility Do’s and Don’ts, and demonstrate best practices for designing with accessibility in mind. We’ll show you how developers and admins can make the world’s most popular CRM the easiest to use for ALL users.

The Future of Salesforce Security and Authentication
Josh Alexander

We take your security as seriously as you do – let us show you the future. Be the first to learn about the next-gen features and functionality of Salesforce Authenticator 3.0, and the all-new Mobile First Experience. Redesigned to add even more security to your organization with enhanced user experience, Salesforce Authenticator 3.0 will change the game. We’ll walk you through a step-by-step demonstration and highlight the new value-adds.

We’re excited about the amazing sessions happening during these two upcoming, adventure-packed days. We hope to see you at some (or all!) of these 10 great sessions for #AwesomeAdmins.

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