TrailblazerDX 2024 for Salesforce Devops

Next week Salesforce welcomes developers to TrailblazerDX 2024 for a two-day event in San Francisco. Also known as TDX, this event is similar in look and feel to the annual Dreamforce conference. But TDX is generally a smaller, more intimate gathering where attendees get to mix with Salesforce employees, share experiences with fellow Trailblazers, and explore admin and developer-related topics.

This year there will be a big emphasis on the Einstein 1 AI platform at TDX. But in this post, I wanted to call out the Salesforce devops sessions and vendors. For those who need to zero in on Salesforce release management and managing application development, I hope this list makes your TDX experience a little more effective.

Salesforce Devops Sessions

I curated this list of Salesforce devops-related sessions from the over 300 offered on the show agenda. A few of these sessions feature some of our favorite Salesforce devops heroes and community members.

Jason Lantz is presenting on Riskonnect: DX Best Practices for Complex Launches on Thursday @2:00 PM in AppExchange Theater (Level 2).
Rob Cowell, DevOps Advocate at Gearset is presenting in The Art of Modular Development with Unlocked Packages on Wednesday @ 1:30 PM in Room 2008 (Level 2).

Title	Time
Get Started with Application Lifecycle Management and DevOps	WEDNESDAY, MAR 6 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM PST BREAKOUT 2 (ROOM 2004, LEVEL 2)
How Mature Is Your Salesforce DevOps?	WEDNESDAY, MAR 6 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM PST OAK THEATER (LEVEL 2)
Taming Salesforce Development Using DevOps Center	WEDNESDAY, MAR 6 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM PST TRAILBLAZER THEATER (LEVEL 3)
The Art of Modular Development with Unlocked Packages	WEDNESDAY, MAR 6 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM PST BREAKOUT 4 (ROOM 2008, LEVEL 2)
Why You Should Be Using Jest Tests on LWCs	WEDNESDAY, MAR 6 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM PST TRAILBLAZER THEATER (LEVEL 3)
Tips and Tricks to Becoming a Salesforce DevOps Expert	THURSDAY, MAR 7 8:00 AM – 8:20 AM PST COMMUNITY COVE (LEVEL 3)
Tips and Tricks with DevOps Center	THURSDAY, MAR 7 9:30 AM – 10:10 AM PST BREAKOUT 3 (ROOM 2007, LEVEL 2)
Choosing Between DevOps Center, Custom or Third-Party Tools	THURSDAY, MAR 7 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM PST TRAILBLAZER THEATER (LEVEL 3)
Riskonnect: DX Best Practices for Complex Launches	THURSDAY, MAR 7 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM PST APPEXCHANGE THEATER (LEVEL 2)
Unlock the Power of the Salesforce CLI	WEDNESDAY, MAR 6 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM PST REDWOOD THEATER (LEVEL 2)

Salesforce Devops Vendors

Be sure to stop by these sponsors of TDX. I’m sure they will be happy to see you at their booths.

One newcomer to the field is Swantide, who is showing their IT Companion Chatbot which is designed to let you “become a 10x admin instantly.”

Copado – Copado’s low-code DevOps Platform empowers every Salesforce user to deliver confidently by unifying CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and metadata deployments — all powered by genAI. Booth 17
Provar – Provar offers solutions to support you on your expedition to quality. We provide integrated quality management, maintainable test automation, release governance, and outstanding support to teams using Salesforce. Booth 18
ACCELQ – ACCELQ is a leading Continuous Testing platform deeply aligned with Salesforce to significantly accelerate and improve the quality of your Salesforce releases. Booth 37
Elements.cloud – Elements.cloud a Change Intelligence platform, accelerates your time to value from Salesforce. It allows you to make intelligent change decisions based on a shared understanding of org configuration, dependency analysis, & documentation. Booth 21
Flosum – Flosum is a leading provider of end-to-end native DevSecOps, data backup and recovery, data protection and security automation platforms. Our mission is to enable IT leaders to manage the cloud with confidence and empower developers to innovate using Flosum’s solutions. Booth 20
Odaseva – Odaseva is built specifically to address the needs of enterprise Salesforce customers, providing a Zero Trust approach to protecting data on a single powerful platform. Booth 34
Own Company – Own is the leading SaaS data platform, ensuring data availability, security, compliance, and insights. Partnering with Salesforce, ServiceNow and Microsoft Dynamics 365, Own enables customers to truly own their own data. Booth 22
Metazoa – Metazoa’s Snapshot: the top Salesforce toolkit for admins, integrators, and consultants. Standardize, automate, and use AI-driven services seamlessly! Booth 14
Opsera – Opsera is built for today’s DevOps organizations. From comprehensive pipeline creation and management to a robust marketplace of pre-built integrations and complete analytic and reporting capabilities, Opsera helps organizations achieve faster release cycles, maintain, and improve quality, and increase efficiency within their software development processes. Booth 15
Pharos AI – Pharos is a fully native observability application that identifies, tracks and monitors every error generated in Salesforce. It helps you analyze critical exceptions by highlighting your code, stack trace and audit trail all on one screen. Booth 38
Prodly – Prodly is the best-in-class ALM platform for configuration data-driven Salesforce apps with one market-leading product for the DevOps test and release stages and several emerging products for other stages of the Configuration Data Lifecycle. Booth 12
Quality Clouds – Embed governance and best practices into your development workflow to build and release functionality quickly, securely, and with greater reliability. Booth 16
Clayton – We help developer teams find and fix vulnerabilities and anti-patterns, fast. Booth 40
Swantide – Become a 10x admin instantly with Swantide AI. Booth 45