A high level overview of Dreamforce 2013 given to the Sydney Salesforce Developer User Group.

1. #df13 for Developers

2. Dedicated Developer Zone

5. Sessions on YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/user/dreamforce/
• Playlists by role…

6. Key Announcements
• Salesforce1
– The Mobile Client
• Salesforce1
– The Platform
• Force.com CLI
– Open Source / Tooling API / Written in GO
• Aura
– Next Gen UI Framework
• Heroku1
– Better Salesforce + Heroku Integration
• Official support for Community Open Libraries
– Ruby and Node frameworks.

7. What does it mean to be a ‘Salesforce1’ Developer
• ‘Polyglot’ programmer
– You know multiple languages
• Apex, JavaScript, Ruby, Java
• API fluent
– You know the APIs and the concepts behind them
(Rest/Oauth/JSON etc)
• You build Composite Solutions
– Force.com + Heroku
– Salesforce + ExactTarget

8. Planning #df14
• Book your Accommodation now
– The Mosser is very cost effective
– DF Accommodation planning gets good rates
– Leaving it to the last minute can get very
expensive
• Airline
– Experienced Travellers avoid LAX and/or United
• I flew Air NZ

9. Speaking at #df14
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Get on Twitter and follow people!
Keep an eye out for the ‘call for papers’ session.
Submit more than one idea.
Team up.
Think ‘MARKETING’ for title and synopsis
– You need to sell it to Developer Evangelism Team and
attendees
• Prior Speaking history
– i.e. …. THIS DUG 