WizardCast

First, the IdeaExchange Prioritization can get 4000 participants, there will be a donation of $10,000 to habitat for humanity. So get out there, prioritize and then share! We have 2 weeks to accomplish this. Second, I'm really happy to have Scott Allan back to talk about the IdeaExchange. Scott brought Anusha Surepeddi, the Director of Product Management at Salesforce, with him to talk about prioritization from the perspective of a product manager.

We have a special episode including an interview with Kristen Engelhardt - Vice President of Customer & Market Insights at Salesforce. She was they keynote speaker at Midwest Dreamin 2019 and shared a series of stories focused around the question "what would we do if we were not afraid"

Salesforce Spring 20 release is here and is it full of goodness. We take a quick overview of some of the features we're excited, think are noteworthy, or simply just confuse us. Check out our overview of what's growing in your Salesforce org this Spring

It's no secret that Mark and Brian love Salesforce Flow. This episode we are joined by two great Senior Directors of Product Management of Flow at Salesforce! Shannon Hale and Jason Teller share some of the upcoming features in Spring '20 release and where they see the Flow going in the future.  

Welcome to the first episode of Season 5 of the WizardCast posted in the year of the hindsight (2020)! New Years is a time for resolutions, and what better way than to resolve to improve our knowledge and skills. 100 days of Trailhead aims to help admins and devs to do just this. Originally, 100 days of Code, the event has morphed to include both Salesforce Admins and Salesforce Devs. Jessica Murphy joins us to share just how 100 days of code came to be and why it's important.

Dr. Natalie Petouhoff shares her thoughts on Customer Service.  She has a PHD of Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. She's a connoisseur of customer service and is passionate about making the world a better place. 

We're live at the Awesome Admin keynote at Dreamforce 2019! I'm joined by replacement Mark - John Graf, co-host of Cloudforce Collective podcast.  We're asking only the most hard-hitting important questions today. Thank everyone who put up with us including Francis Pindar, Squire Kershner, Alexander Lovell, Marc Baizman, Michael Kolodner, Steve Molis, Corey Snow, Jen Bowen, Charlie Isaacs, Gillian Bruce, Andy Schmiechen, Justice Sikakane, Ben Bolopue, and Leah McGowen-Hare

Brian traveled to Dreamforce to find just who really booked Parker Harris. Since he was here, he decided he might as well do a podcast and find out just what people are hoping, expecting, and dreading to hear in this year's main keynote. Then new co-host Ben Polopue joins Brian to share our thoughts on all that happened during the keynote this year.

Peter Coffee, VP of Strategic Research at Salesforce, is a frequent guest on the WizardCast. Peter was nice enough to sit down with Brian during MidWest Dreamin' 2019 in Chicago to talk about a variety of topics.  Plus, we have a mystery on our hands that we must solve. A goal of 20 million trees by 2020 and Brian being part of the AppExchange Street team at Dreamforce 2019 (coming up November 19!)

Chris Duarte, VP of Trailhead Content at Salesforce, is here to celebrate 5 years of Trailhead! We talk about the last 5 years on Trailhead and what's coming in the future. We talk about everything from the Catter Badge, Admin Certification Study Prep, to the new Marketing Cloud simulation.  Chris was also our first guest and the first -and only - participant of our Salesforce Certification Quiz show. We have her play our updated Salesforce Trailhead Quiz Show and answer a few listener questions. 

It has taken us 4 years and 100 episodes. Parker Harris - cofounder of Salesforce, Overseer of Product Strategy, Member of Salesforce Board of Directors - is here on the WizardCast.  We ask Parker a series of questions from why is he where is he today and what is the zaniest story from working at Salesforce. This episode has everything from Jumping Segways to talking about the Pardot Permission outage. Don't miss very special episode with Parker Harris.

This is an important public service announcement regarding the upcoming episode 100.  Apologies to Bye Bye Birdie and the artist that composed and wrote this song and musical.

Salesforce Winter '20 Release is nearly out! Some orgs have already received the new release on September 20. The majority of customers are getting the new update October 12. This is one big update with over 500 pages of release notes. That's a lot to read, so we read the release notes for you!  This is definitely not everything, but we pull our highlights for the Winter '20 release into this podcast.

Alexander Lovell announces Einstein Search coming to Salesforce in the Winter '20 release! Alexander is the Director of Product Management for Salesforce Search.  Einstein Search brings a lot of new functionality and improvements in global search in Salesforce. Search results are faster, provides more information, and supports "Natural Language." Think searching for "My opportunities this quarter" and getting proper results without creating a list view. 

Salesforce IdeaExchange is getting an update! Jennifer Sacks and Scott Allan from Salesforce have been traveling the world gathering feedback on the start of reimaging the IdeaExchange. To start, you can now prioritize the ideas you want to have Salesforce work on in each release. Better communication, updated technology, and improved internal processes are all part of the reimaging of the IdeaExchange.