Dreamforce '24: Day-1

Today was the first day of Dreamforce. I don’t think I was prepared for just how massive, busy and overwhelming Dreamforce is. At TDX turning up 30 minutes before the keynote is fine. At Dreamforce you’re in an overflow viewing situation with pretty poor streaming in an other building! We’ll get to that. But before that the most important thing: the swag. Gone are the days of a fancy backpack. Now you’ve got to complete the quest to get a recycled cotton tote. Here’s my Day 1 haul

I started the day at 8:30 with the Build Innovative ISV Apps with Agentforce. I mostly did this to meet people I’d only ever talked to online in person. I didn’t learn much about building apps - I’ve already done this for real. However the forward looking roadmap and the conversations after the session were incredibly valuable.

This session ended 30 minutes before the keynote. By the time I got out of the session (which was not in the Moscone Center buildings) and down the street to the Moscone Center the main keynote room was full as were most of the overflows. The overflows were suffering from poor streaming. I watched some of the keynote then ditched it to go down to the main Trailblazer forest and knock out some of the activities there. Hopefully my best time will stand and I’ll get some cool prizes. I am not ashamed to say I did the beginner level just to post a fast time for the swag!

During the afternoon I attended various Agentforce sessions. I’d say nothing particularly interesting was shown. Certainly the detail around other channels, proactivity and the more advanced features was not yet revealed.

I also had a very interesting discussion about Data Cloud One at the booth. This really seems like a bit of a gamechanger for multi-org Data Cloud bringing all the functionality that has been made available on the home Data Cloud org to other connected orgs.

I’m sure I could write more but I’ll leave you with some more pictures from around Dreamforce