Louise Lockie's Letters from London

Now I am not usually a glass half empty kinda gal but I can't help but dwell on all the things that I missed at this month's Salesforce World Tour in London. Here is my top 10: Have a photo taken with Darth Vader (after sharing the ' top 25 ' line up with him a photo would have been a great momento) Attend a silent disco breakout (not even New Features for Salesforce Admins with Gillian, Mike & Kris ) Secure any swag whatsoever (I'm particularly jealous of those sporting the London t-shirt with a cloud replacing the o) Join a circle of success (hosted by the wonderful success team incl. favourites Fran & Deirdre ) Attend the Women in Leadership discussion (thankfully I could catch up via Freya 's twitter feed) Get a photo with Saasy (at least my 5th failed attempt to do so) Catch the Sales Cloud keynote with Tim Clarke and Chris Hoy (thankfully captured on YouTube ) Meet with my AE or any of the people who asked to meet up (apolog...

Having only worked with Salesforce for approx 18 months I was chuffed and excited to be given the  green light  to attend my first Dreamforce way back in April. I quickly booked my ticket, flight, and hotel, filed my expenses and then the nerves  promptly  set in. Fast forward 5 months during which time I had read every blog post, watched every episode of Road to Dreamforce , and anxiously quizzed my London Admin User Group leaders as to whether there would be any kind of Brits Abroad meet up (there wasn't). I did what would best offset my nerves, I got organised. Agenda Builder went live on August 5th but when on the 5th? As a San Francisco based company and event chances are it would be PST but I refreshed the page regularly throughout London's working day regardless, no doubt while those with the power to activate the tool slept soundly.... Just as I was thinking about giving up and heading home it was live. I pounced and enrolled on 33 sessions incl...