Special Guests
Zayne Turner, Principal Architect Evangelist at Salesforce
Zayne focuses on helping developers and architects get the resources and skills they need to solve their toughest problems and build modern applications on the Salesforce platform. She has been a coach for RAD Women, and is an #EqualityAlly.
Andrew Fawcett, VP Product Management, Salesforce, Platform team, former CTO FinancialForce, Salesforce MVP
Phil Komarny, Vice President, Innovation at Salesforce.com
Highly social, entrepreneurial, award winning senior executive with a 20-year track record of delivering innovative, high value solutions by aligning existing problems with emerging technologies. Experienced as a c-level executive within higher education that has leveraged entrepreneurial instincts, a broad technical skillset, and a very strong reputation for developing and motivating teams at all levels to integrate new technologies that create value for the organization. Currently deep in the blockchain and self sovereign identity spaces.
Phillip Long, Special Advisor & Faculty Affiliate at ASU
Phil is a long-time academic, serving in both faculty & administrative roles researching emerging technologies & analytics. He's a lapsed behavioral ecologist who enjoys running & scotch (in that order).
Kate Giovacchini, Associate Director of Software Services at EdPlus at Arizona State University
Speakers
Mark Adcock
Mark, a senior consultant at Appirio, has a background in Information Technology with over a decade of experience in Higher Education and Nonprofit technology. He is passionate about helping nonprofits and education organizations maximize their impact by accelerating their digital transformation, improving their business processes, and integrating their systems with Salesforce. Joining the Salesforce Lightning Champions program in 2019, Mark, a Salesforce MVP and Lightning Champion, takes pride in sharing his experience and knowledge of Salesforce Lightning with the broader community.
Steve Baines
Steve is the CEO and Founder of Forcivity, a Salesforce ISV and Consulting partner based in Manchester, NH. Steve has been using Salesforce since 2004 and became a CTA in 2018. Steve co-founded Northeast Dreamin’ in 2017 and became a Salesforce MVP in 2019. He has a passion for helping others realize their potential, enabling them to grow both personally and professionally and loves sharing his knowledge and experiences with others in the hopes they will do the same with him.
Zachary Banks
Zachary Banks is an #AnalyticsChampion and one of the #SalesforceATX Administrator UGLs. He has four years of experience on the platform, and began working with Einstein Analytics back when the program was known as Wave. He is currently a Technical Consultant at Appirio, with experience in Service Cloud, Community Cloud, and Sales Cloud.
Heather Dykstra
Senior Developer Evangelist at Salesforce
Heather’s job at Salesforce allows her to be an advocate, a teacher and an explorer at the front of Salesforce Technology. She has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from CU Boulder, has 4 years of experience on the Salesforce Platform, and a lifetime of experience in technology, having built her first computer at just 10 years old!
Rohan Gore
Rohan is a Technical Architect in Groundswell Cloud Solutions based out of Vancouver. He has more than 9 years of experience on the Salesforce platform.
Ann Jackson
Ann Jackson is the founder and Chief Analytics Evangelist at Jackson Two, a boutique consulting firm specializing in data analytics and visualization. Her practice focuses on enabling and empowering businesses to fully utilize their data assets. This is accomplished by making compelling visualization solutions, training team members on modern analytics tools, and building connections between multiple data sources. Ann has been recognized as a Tableau Zen Master multiple times due to her mastery of the product, participation and leadership within the global community, and her contagious passion for data analytics. She has also co-lead Workout Wednesday, a weekly data visualization technical skill building challenge, since 2018.
Amit Jain
Architect at Deloitte Consulting with more than 15 years of experience with over 5 years of Salesforce experience. I have earned many certifications including Salesforce Certified Application Architect and System Architect.
I love to leverage the Salesforce platform to deliver solutions that drive the maximum business impact for the client. I am very interested in new and emerging technologies and tend to work on new ways which enable to extend the salesforce platform to achieve true digital transformation.
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is a Lead Solution Designer at John Hancock, a financial services company based in Boston. Jen is also a Salesforce MVP. She blogs about Salesforce process automation and Salesforce releases at jenwlee.com and is the co-host of Automation Hour. Jennifer has spoken at multiple Salesforce hosted events, such as Dreamforce, TrailheaDX, Boston and NYC World Tours; and is a repeater presenter on Flow at Salesforce community Dreamin' events (Southeast Dreamin', Midwest Dreamin' and Northeast Dreamin'). Jen absolutely LOVES Trailhead - she's a 8x Trailhead Ranger. She is also a graduate of RADWoman and is 6x Salesforce Certified.
Chuck Liddell
Chuck Liddell runs an AppExchange company named Valence, empowering admins by providing data integration natively on the Salesforce platform. Chuck is a Hawaii User Group leader, 20x certified Salesforce MVP, certified Salesforce instructor, and led his company through the first batch of the Salesforce incubator in San Francisco. He regularly speaks at conferences, including Dreamforce and TrailheaDX. Chuck’s passion is the intersection of education and expert developer patterns. He organizes The Extracurricular, an advanced collaborative learning session embedded in TDX, and has recorded Pluralsight videos covering developer topics such as authentication and Lightning Web Components.
Michael Norton
Michael is a Principal Solution Engineer at Salesforce, has been working with the platform since 2007, and currently maintains six Salesforce Certifications. Prior to Salesforce Michael spent several years working at American Express, AAA Northern California, and several startups in the valley. He formerly co-lead the Phoenix Salesforce Developer Group and is a fourth degree black belt in Shaolin Kung Fu.
Adam Olshansky
Adam is a 14X Certified, 6X Trailhead Ranger, and Salesforce MVP working as a Salesforce Developer at Google. He's worked with Salesforce for over 5 years, presented at Dreamforce 7 times, and also given Salesforce presentations at conferences as far as India and Uruguay. He's passionate about giving back and helping teach people to code, specifically in the Salesforce ecosystem, and has been a volunteer instructor for 5 RAD Women cohorts, focused on teaching women to code on Salesforce. He's also the 2X defending lip syncing champion of Dreamforce.
Dan Peter
Daniel Peter is a 27x certified Salesforce MVP and runs the Bay Area Salesforce Developer Group. He's the Salesforce Practice Lead at Robots & Pencils.
Jessie Rymph
Jessie writes and delivers webinars for Salesforce.org nonprofit customers with a focus on constituent engagement and is excited to share her love of Flow with you again this year. For thirteen years, she has specialized in CRM, email marketing and fundraising platforms across sectors. Jessie co-led the Seattle Salesforce Nonprofit User Group a few years back.
Steve Simpson
Steve is founder, President, and CTO, Ethos Solutions. Drawing on over 25 years of experience in the software industry, Steve has extensive expertise in enterprise-level software engineering, architecture, and technical architecture leadership. Steve is a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect and holds 21 Salesforce certifications. He is also a 5th Degree Master Instructor in Tang Soo Do and a PADI SCUBA Diving Instructor.
Phil Weinmeister
Philip Weinmeister is the VP of Product at 7Summits, where he is focused on building innovative components, apps, and bolts that enable impactful, transformative communities on the Salesforce platform. Phil, a Salesforce MVP, is 18x Salesforce certified and has been building solutions on the Salesforce platform since 2010, previously working at Silverpop, EDL Consulting, and CloudCraze. In 2018, he released Practical Guide to Salesforce Communities and, in 2019, he released the second edition of Practical Salesforce Development Without Code. Phil is most active in the Community Cloud ecosystem, being named the first-ever Community Cloud MVP in 2017 and the Most Active Community Cloud Trailblazer in 2018.
Tahsin Zulkarnine
Tahsin Zulkarnine is a Technical Architect at Groundswell Cloud Solutions, a premier system integrator, and a silver partner of Salesforce. He is a certified cloud architect in two domains: Salesforce and AWS. Currently, at Groundswell, Tahsin is the subject matter expert (SME) of code architecture and data security (sharing and visibility). He has over 12 years of experience in architecting, leading, and developing scalable, high-performance web and cloud solutions. Besides, he has expertise in enterprise design patterns and a contributor to the open-source financial force library. Academically, he completed Masters in computer science from the University of Lethbridge, specializing in software architecture. Tahsin has 7x Salesforce certification including Salesforce Certified Application Architect and he is also an AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate.