Finally, we were able to conduct the first meetup of 2015, with the help of Madan and Abhishek (and all of the enthusiastic crowd present). The venue and the sessions were fixed up 1 week prior to the meetup - which we are aiming to plan much ahead from next time.
As always, there were 100+ RSVPs for this time. Around 30-40 turned up. First we introduced each other, discussed about DF'14, till the start of the first session.
I, being the organizer, took up one of the sessions - My Certification Experience. This wasn't challenging for me, as I had to share about my experience before/while/after taking up the certification exams. I have 6 certifications, by the way ;)
Then we had a snacks/tea/coffee break. People mingled with each other, got to know more about each other. There were some customers who took part and asked benefits of Salesforce over other products. It was such a great opportunity for me to justify Salesforce.com. I hope they have clear answers now ;)
+Abhishek Tripathi positively took up the challenge and agreed to take up the 2nd session - Spring'15 release. It was great session, as there were some nice discussions took place.
After that we had the Cloud Trivia. As always the energy in the hall was fabulous. Even guys who were still thinking about certifications, some of great Spring'15 releases, took part energetically.
Congratulations to the winners of some cool goodies:
- Tanay
- Rajesh, Mangesh (Freshers)
- Sujesh
- Aditya
- Abhishek Raj
- Praveen
- Neeraj
- Swaraj Behera (Twitter Hero - Most tweets with #SalesforceDGBangalore).
It was a very satisfying experience. I look forward to making this meetup more consistent and more awesome, as we discussed. There will be more and more technical sessions in future meetups. See you soon :)
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