Do you think you have what it takes to be selected?

With Dreamforce rapidly approaching, we launched our Call for Speakers this week. We are really excited about this year’s lineup of topics and are looking for great customers to help us round out our roster. A reminder that we are looking for speakers, not fully baked presentations.

Speaking at Dreamforce is a fantastic experience and if you have ever attended, you know that the quality of session speakers is extremely high. If you are thinking “Hey, I have a great story to tell and I should submit my idea!” Well if that’s the case then here are a few tips and guidelines to give you an idea of what we’re looking for.

For 40 minute sessions, we’re looking for speakers that:

1. Have a great story to tell and a passion for sharing your knowledge with others

2. Help solve common challenges

3. Provide clear successful use cases, best practices, teachings and how-to’s

4. Can go deep on how your company is using Salesforce including the roll-out

5. Highlight the ROI and additional benefits your company and team has seen since implementing Salesforce

For our 20 minute theater sessions, we’re looking for speakers that:

1. Can highlight a tip or trick like “Use this shortcut to save 10 minutes a week”

2. Tell a great customer success story

3. Focus and/or highlight a specific feature and how you are using it

4. A great demo

5. Cross Cloud Solutions - using multiple products to solve your challenges

Now that you have an idea of what we’re looking for, here are a few helpful tips for crafting your speaker submission so that you get selected to speak.

1. Outline your talking points - think about why an attendee should give your their time

2. List what problems you are solving

3. List and rank your top messages

4. List your target personas and/or industries - who is the audience for your story?

5. What is the take-away or action item the attendee walks away with?

Once you have those 5 things outlined you are ready to apply to speak

6. Once on the submissions page, be as precise and descriptive as possible - the more direct you are the easier it is for our content teams to understand exactly what you would like to speak about

7. Let us know what other speaking experience that you have

8. Think about if you would prefer to speak in a 20 or 40 minute session.

The Developer and Admin Call for presentations have closed - the major difference is that we are looking for speakers, not full presentations. If you are a Developer or Admin and want to speak in a session at Dreamforce, please go ahead and submit your nomination.

Our Salesforce.org Call for presentations is still open so if you have a great non profit or Higher Ed story to tell go here to submit your session idea.

The Call for Speakers closes on September 1, 2017 and all speakers will be notified of their status the week of  September 18, 2017.

Thanks very much and we look forward to seeing you at Dreamforce