As you can imagine, these community events require a lot of effort and coordination. We've had some wonderful months of weekly morning calls amongst the dreamOlé team; checking every single detail so that everything went smoothly on the event day.
After last year, when we had power cuts and some WIFI problems, nothing could go wrong this year...
What a surprise it was for us to discover that, after all that effort, there was a pilot strike planned for the weekend of dreamOIé in Barcelona!! OMG!! Really!! What could we do? That was out of our control... But we warned everyone to double check their flights. One of our sponsors couldn't make it in the end, and I myself was affected with a really long delay... But I finally got there on time for the speakers' welcome!It goes without saying that we had the most amazing venue that we could ever have. Look at these views!!
That was a really good start to our event, and it was only the kick off to what would be a great day in Barcelona, with almost 250 attendees.
It was amazing to find out about the local Salesforce community, and how well they embraced the concept of our community events, bringing all their enthusiasm to our event and making it a wonderful day.
This post is mainly a thank you post to everyone that made it possible.
Thanks very much to our sponsors, because none of this would have been possible without your support and enthusiasm.
Many thanks to our great selection of speakers, with amazing content that made our event very appealing to all the attendees. You can check all our sessions here.
Special mention to Holly Firestone, who was our opening keynote speaker, and told us all about the Salesforce community and the #Ohana spirit that wraps everything we do. The only thing she asked for was to have "tapas" alongside her talk, and by the looks of her surprise face I think we delivered!! ;)
Thanks very much to Christie Fidura and the Trailblazer Community for bringing great content to our event. We need to make a bigger effort our end to make this more visible, and it's a great honour to have your support.
Second special mention to Joshua Hoskins, this digital nomad that flies more than a pilot... hahaha and my amazing #DemoJam co-host, the real star of the show, what would have I done without you!!?? Thanks very much for bringing your Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent to our lives!
The next special mention goes to Zayne Turner, for bringing inspiration to the room as part of our closing keynote; telling us about what drives innovation and having lots of fun playing with code!! High five to all of those Developers out there!!
And last, but not least!! Thanks very much to each and everyone of my co-organisers for making this adventure so special and for becoming part of my #Ohana! Inés García, Alba Rivas, Pablo García, Laura Díaz, Agustina García, Carlos Campillo and Carolina Ruiz. You are all an amazing bunch of people, and I can't wait to start the arrangements for next year!! Check out the multiple skins of our logo!! It's lovely!!
I couldn't resist to add this final picture, which shows one of our strong points, our #AfterParties are becoming a ritual, and this year we ended up going to the beach amongst other activities.Stay tuned for announcements, as we are still in the process of deciding the new location for dreamOlé '19, but we'll let you all know once it's chosen.
THANKS!!
