The biggest event on the Salesforce calendar in Australia / Aotearoa New Zealand happens on Feb 28th.

We have some local community members attending, so join us for lunch to hear all about the latest announcements, as well as announce the photo booth winners from last year's end of year gathering.

There may also be a couple of Salesforce vendors (ISVs) in town and we'll give them strictly limited demo time!

Grateful thanks to PwC for allowing to use their meeting rooms for this event. There will be a light lunch provided, sponsored by the Salesforce Trailblazer Community team.

All welcome, please register early so we can get the catering accurate, and please keep your RSVP accurate. If your work colleagues wish to attend, please encourage them to register so that we can adequately cater for everyone.

Note that the registration asks if you would like to have your company's name displayed on your name tag - this is in response to event feedback. Event organisers do not get access to any personal information about attendees other than first and last name as part of the standard registration.

Please note that the agenda timings are approximate, and may be updated.

This is a fully in-person meeting, and will not be live-streamed or recorded. We are co-hosting this event with the local non profit user group.

Please do not attend if you are unwell.

Any issues: email Anna.Loughnan@trailblazercgl.com

See you there!

Raksha & Anna

February / March Community Updates

Spring 24 Release

The latest Salesforce release - Spring 24 is now live in all production instances. Join us virtually later in March (March 20th) to hear from our perennial favourite Stephen Stanley as he'll take us through his take on the release highlights. Watch out for the meeting announcement coming in March.

If you are wanting to find out more about the release ahead of our virtual session then join the Brisbane user group's virtual session on Feb 20th: https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/events/details/salesforce-salesforce-user-group-brisbane-australia-presents-release-readiness-sprint-into-spring-24/

Sydney World Tour & Other Sydney Events in March

It's not yet too late to register to attend the World Tour event in person on Feb 28th: https://www.salesforce.com/au/events/world-tour/sydney24/ 

Check out Salesforce+ if you cannot attend in person: https://www.salesforce.com/plus/experience/world_tour_sydney_2024

If you are planning to attend the world tour event in person, and you'll be in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington on Feb 22nd, then please join us for drinks and a meet & greet, you'll get to meet other Kiwis attending as well as get the run down on the unmissable sessions! Email anna.loughnan@trailblazercgl.com for an invitation.

The following 2 days, Feb 29 & March 1, there is a 2-day Salesforce Commons sprint - join in and help out the non profit community, registration & info here: https://invite.salesforce.com/commonscommunitysprint-aadf?utm_campaign=amer_cbaw&utm_content=Dreamforce_Industries+Event  (or reach out to Anna who has attended sprints in London & Sydney). It's also a chance to check out the new Salesforce Tower in Sydney - with incredible views and hospitality. Please do reach out if you are interested and feel very welcome to come along to the drinks on Feb 22.

A few weeks later, 18-20 March is the Trailblazer bootcamp, also in Sydney. More information is here: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/bootcamps/sydney and feel free to reach out to Anna if you'd like more information, as we had a very good & successful local attendance at last year's bootcamp on the Gold Coast.

Trailblazer DX - March 6-7, San Francisco

Registration is still available for Salesforce's biggest event in San Francisco outside of Dreamforce: https://www.salesforce.com/trailblazerdx/ 

Some content may be available after the event, on Salesforce+.

If there are any major announcements from TDX that we are aware of at the time of our event at PwC, we'll include these in the meeting agenda.

New User Groups Announced for Aotearoa New Zealand Cities!

I have been working with some keen, committed Salesforce enthusiasts around the motu, and am delighted to announce that there are now two more official user groups in Aotearoa New Zealand!

Richard van Wayenburg is now the leader for Tāhuna Queenstown: https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/salesforce-admin-group-queenstown-new-zealand/ 

Jonathan Hesp is now the leader of the Tauranga user group (listed as Pāpāmoa as that's where he actually lives!): https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/salesforce-admin-group-papamoa-beach-new-zealand/ 

Both of these groups will be jointly co-hosting with us the upcoming virtual Spring 24 release highlights meeting later in March, and there will be time at this meeting for the new leaders to introduce themselves as we welcome them to the Trailblazer Community.

It's great to see user groups established around the motu, please support them where you can and let your colleagues in these cities know too!

Upcoming Meetings for 2024

Raksha and I are are working hard in planning some exciting user group meetings in 2024. We will continue to host virtual and in person meetings. As already mentioned, we will be hosting a review of the highlights of the Spring 24 release, and we are working on scheduling exciting customer presentations including use of the Data Cloud and Experience Cloud products. We are hoping to schedule in one or more sessions featuring public sector customers and the exciting functionality they have been producing. We also hope to host a senior Salesforce product manager at some stage, with a deep dive into Service Cloud and Omni Channel.