After three years of connecting virtually, Deloitte Digital was proud to return to Dreamforce in person this year as a Pioneer Sponsor and as the top tier sponsor of the APAC Networking Lounge. From inspiring keynote addresses to innovative demos and sessions, Deloitte Digital's commitment to helping clients transform impersonal transactions into trusted relationships was on full display. Here are our key takeaways from the event.
Back for its 20th anniversary, Dreamforce this year truly felt like a family reunion! We were thrilled to be back for three days of collaboration, learning, and inspiration and we are proud to announce we won two Partner Innovation Awards in the integration and Better Together categories.
KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR 2022
If you missed the event, here are five takeaways to help you build loyalty and drive growth:
Salesforce Genie
Salesforce introduced Salesforce Genie, a hyperscale real-time data platform that powers the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. The new platform helps companies transform customer data and information into real-time personalised insights. The new platform adapts to changing customer insights, allowing organisations to seamlessly integrate digital and real-world customer interactions to create a more personalised customer experience.
Net Zero Marketplace
Salesforce announced Net Zero Marketplace, a trusted platform that makes carbon credit purchases simple and transparent, allowing organisations to accelerate positive climate impact at scale. The platform also connects buyers and ecopreneurs, and offers a hub to learn more about climate issues.
Slack innovations to boost team productivity
Alongside Salesforce, Slack introduced product enhancements to help teams work together. Product innovations include:
Slack canvas: Helps teams capture, share knowledge, and access Salesforce Customer 360 data directly in Slack
Slack huddles: Now offer additional capabilities to drive digital co-working sessions, including video, multi-person screen sharing, message threads, and more
New slack platform offered to developers: Accelerates time-to-value for automation
In addition to the product enhancements, Slack also announced the first iteration of Slack Partner Industry Solutions. Deloitte Digital was named a preferred consulting partner in the launch, which is indicative of our continued investment in building solutions to achieve business goals and meet industry-specific customer needs.
2. Investing in digital transformation strategies is key to driving growth
Sam Roddick, global head of Deloitte Digital, joined Sharon Price John, Build-A-Bear CEO, and Sim Tshabalala, Standard Bank CEO, to discuss digital transformation for an evolving future. The panelists shared strategies to accelerate constant reinvention and drive sales. They emphasised that organisations should move fast, pivot accordingly, and leverage the right technology to develop new products to meet demands.
Roddick also shared compelling insights on how organisations can avoid the pitfall of scaling digital transformation strategies before understanding the problems they are trying to solve. By Prioritising the needs and motivations that drive customer demand, organisations can transform to meet customer where they are and anticipate where they will want to be in future.
The three days were filled with sessions that covered a broad range of topics reflective of Salesforce's core values - trust, customer success, innovation, equality and sustainability, and this is where Deloitte Digital shows up well.
In the Dreampitch session hosted by Salesforce and Deloitte Digital with a panel of judges and Deloitte Digital Chief Commercial Officer Dounia Senawi, UpLink ecopreneurs shared pitches on innovative and sustainable businesses and insights into how their work is benefiting people and the planet.
In partnership with Deloitte and Salesforce, UpLink brings together ecopreneurs and sustainability and marketplace experts to source ideas and innovations in support of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
4. More than ever, supporting employee wellbeing is critical to an organisations success
Kirsten Rhodes, managing principal at Deloitte, spoke with Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, to discuss their wellbeing journey's and how wellbeing has impacted their work and beyond. Their discussion emphasised how essential it is to prioritise wellbeing across all facets of life.Matthew McConaughey's fireside chat was equally inspiring.
He talked about his growing up in Uvalde, Texas, his personal choices for choosing quality time with his family and wife above running for Governor of Texas.Work often extends beyond a physical location - body, mind, purpose, and inclusion all play major roles in job satisfaction and employer loyalty. When organisations understand and centre wellbeing, they can create more transparent and supportive teams.
5. Support purposeful and iterative approaches to hiring, training, and retaining talent
Deloitte Digital proudly announced Wave, a new initiative launched alongside Salesforce to build talent.
Wave, a global training program, will help create more diverse workforces and launch career paths for racially and ethnically diverse individuals.Our Digital Career Compass program in Australia is built on a similar philosophy of supporting the development of diverse talent and creating more equitable and inclusive workforces.
See you next year Dreamforce!
This article was originally written in collaboration with Rachel Sillet, Salesforce Alliance Lead at Deloitte Digital
At Deloitte Digital, we believe in transformation with trust and creating solutions at the intersection of data and design. Dreamforce provides a space to showcase how we use creativity, technology, and data-driven insights to help organisations transform impersonal transactions into trusted relationships. Though Dreamforce 2022 is over, we're already looking ahead to 2023. Until then, we'll continue to dream big and innovate even bigger to create effective solutions that help organisations build loyalty and growth.
Claire is the firm's National Alliance Lead, with responsibility for the overall strategy and integration of our alliances across our priority sectors, business units, accounts and client issues. Claire brings a breadth of experience across a range of alliances, including her current Salesforce Lead Alliance Partner role and her previous experience of working across Workday, ServiceNow, Google and Pega. , Claire couples her unique alliances experience with working closely with clients across Banking, Telecommunications, Retail and not-for-profit to help digitise their employee and customer experiences. In addition to Claire's alliance and client focus, Claire is an active advocate for inclusion and diversity in all its forms, such as driving a diverse digital skills capability uplift program for disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in Australia. Read more about this training program here.
Paul is a Partner and national Capability Lead within the Australian Salesforce Practice of Deloitte Digital. He has two decades of experience in Enterprise and Solution Architecture, and delivery of complex Enterprise Projects spanning a diversity of industries, with an emphasis on Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Master Data Management (MDM), and Data Quality. Paul is a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, the highest qualification available on the platform, and is one of only a few hundred globally to hold this certification.
