Salesforce Labs Day: Everything You Need to Know About the Event

Create. Innovate. Educate. Since 2009, Salesforce Labs has brought free, employee-built solutions to AppExchange. The Salesforce Labs team operates to guide employees through the entire process of bringing their own ideas and innovation to life. Last week, Salesforce Labs hosted its’ second-ever Salesforce Labs Day event. On July 20th, The team celebrated these free apps with a fun-filled virtual event that brought Trailblazers, platform experts, and Labs builders together. Keep reading to learn more about this app-tastic event, where to watch the replay and the stellar apps that were highlighted.

What is Salesforce Labs Day?

Salesforce Labs Day was a virtual event that brought the community together to engage and learn. We had six sessions for Trailblazers to discover these free, employee-built apps and how to customize them.

We also scheduled the event to air twice in the day so viewers could join from anywhere.

Regardless of your experience with Salesforce Labs, there was something for everyone at the event. This year, we joined forces with Endiem, Supermums, Altium, and Okta to deliver an exhilarating, info-packed event for Salesforce customers to discover the powers and capabilities of these free, employee-built solutions.

Where can I watch the replay?

We are so thrilled that we had the opportunity to reconnect with everyone! All in all, Salesforce Labs Day was full of apps, demos, and fun. If you missed the event, don’t worry! We’ve divided all sessions into a handy playlist on the AppExchange Youtube channel. We also added brief summaries for each video so you can watch the recordings most relevant to you. Check them out below.

• Tips and Tricks for Creating an Amazing UI: We kicked off the day with an exciting session to help you start your own App-building adventure. We were joined by two rockstar builders to help you learn about constructing effective layouts for your custom apps. Participants learned how to utilize the Lightning Design System and other resources to help create awesome interfaces. Watch the session now to learn more.

• Query Studio for Marketing Cloud: Your New Best Friend for Audience Segmentation Vicki Moritz-Henry, (Certified Instructor and Head of Training for Supermums,) walked us through the process of testing queries and viewing results with Query Studio for Marketing Cloud. Trailblazers learned how to simplify the audience segmentation process with this stellar Labs App. Your audience segmentation will never be the same. Check out Vicki’s session to learn more.

• Innovation on Innovation Innovation Hub is a Salesforce Labs app that allows organizations to create a cooperative space for their employees and customers. Users can pitch, vote, and comment on new product ideas and implementations while fostering a collaborative working environment. We heard from the creative Labs builders behind this solution and learned how Salesforce utilizes their app to identify product enhancements. Watch Katie and Mario’s session to discover more about the solution.

• How to Ensure Effective Data Sharing with Permission Helper- Discover how you can manage your environment’s security requirements with this app from Salesforce Labs.. Aleksandra Radovanovic, Principal Business Technology Analyst at Okta, shared some insight into the Permission Helper app and how you can simplify the field-level security permissions for profiles and groups. With this solution, you can obtain a detailed overview for each of your individual users and execute quick comparisons. Watch her session now to find success with this app.

• 10 Years of Tip Top Apps- What the Pros Know Since 2006, Salesforce Labs has brought hundreds of innovative apps, components, and flows to the Salesforce marketplace. We were joined by Salesforce MVP and Endiem CEO Geraldine Gray to help you uncover the best of the best. Find out which of these solutions can help your organization save time and resources through automation, and learn about each solution

• How to Use Salesforce Labs to Look Like a Reporting Rockstar You don’t have to start from scratch to make a big impact. Salesforce Labs provides multiple prepackaged dashboards that you can bring into your Salesforce environment to start managing complex data-driven processes. Salesforce Architect Kristi Brown and Salesforce Admin Tracie Hart closed out the event with a fun and vivid in-depth analysis about Omni-Channel Dashboard. These Trailblazers demonstrated its’ unique customization capabilities and even provided some recommendations for some other fast and free dashboards you can find.

The Sweepstakes

We were thrilled to engage with the community, and we had plenty of goodies to give out, too. In case you missed it, Salesforce Labs gave out prize boxes to 500 randomly selected registered participants. Participants had the opportunity to win even more prizes from us by answering a few questions on Twitter during the live event. After the sessions, we selected 5 winners to obtain a $200 certification voucher, a Labs Beaker, and an Apple Watch. Congratulations to our Winners!

@J_thaddeus-Toad
@Stephonbike
@JeanetteJett
@SomyaBhat
@Adampayne

Connect with Us!

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