Dreamforce 2026 currently has 1,393 sessions in the catalog, and more are being added every week. That is a lot of choice. It is also a very good way to spend half your Dreamforce week scrolling through the session catalog, trying to work out where you actually need to be. So, we did the hard bit for you.
We have picked 13 sessions that we think are worth putting on your agenda if you are an Admin, Consultant, Architect, or Developer. These are not necessarily the sessions with the biggest titles or the most obvious Agentforce angle. Instead, we have focused on sessions that answer useful questions about your role, your skills, and what’s coming next.
1. From Skeptic to Superfan: A Customer’s Setup Agent Journey
Thursday, 9:30-9:50 AM PT, Theater
As an admin, Setup with Agentforce is firmly on my “to watch” list. Partly because I don’t want it to take my job, and partly because I’d rather like the idea of handing off some of the more mundane parts of administration. I’m also a huge fan of Cheryl Feldman and her team, so I have every confidence that they’re working on something that will be genuinely useful for admins.
That said, I like to approach every new feature or tool with a healthy dose of scepticism, which is exactly why this session caught my attention. There are plenty of sessions covering Setup with Agentforce, but this one takes a different approach. A real-life admin will share their adoption journey, including what worked, what didn’t, and presumably a few things they wish they’d known before getting started.
2. Evolve Your Role as a Salesforce Administrator
Tuesday, 9:00-9:20 AM PT, Theater
AI is changing the Salesforce Admin role. The question is what that actually means for the people doing the job.
Rather than asking whether AI will replace admins, this session looks at how the role itself might need to evolve. I think this will be particularly interesting for admins wondering what their career could look like in a world where AI takes on more of the day-to-day work.
3. Own Your Value Beyond Automation
Tuesday, 8:30-8:50 AM PT, Theater
There’s a line in this session description that immediately caught my attention: “admin value was never about clicks; it’s about judgment, governance, and business understanding.”
As more of the hands-on work becomes automated, the things that make a good admin valuable aren’t going away. In fact, they could become even more important. If you’ve ever worried that AI will reduce the admin role to simply configuring whatever the AI tells you to configure, this session is well worth a look.
4. 0 Margin for Error: 10 Data Quality Requirements for AI
Wednesday, 09:00-09:20 AM PT, Theater
Everyone knows we have data problems. What I like about this session is how bluntly it acknowledges them.
The AI hype is all well and good, but we still haven’t solved the data quality issues we’ve been talking about for years. And as AI moves from simply reading our data to actually acting on it, those problems become a lot more important.
This session looks at what two years of real-world implementation has taught revenue teams and operators, and gives you 10 practical data quality requirements to take away. No pretending that AI will magically fix messy data. Just a frank look at what needs to be in place for AI to actually work.
5. Scale Your Career: Navigating the Agentforce Shift
Wednesday, 3:00-3:20 PM PT, Theater
We are hearing a lot about how Agentforce is changing the way we build and work with Salesforce. But what does that mean for your career?
This session introduces four emerging career archetypes for the Agentforce era. Whether those archetypes end up being genuinely useful or simply give us some new terminology to throw around, it should be an interesting look at how Salesforce sees the workforce evolving.
And, of course, it gives you a chance to work out which archetype you are.
6. Certify Your Edge: Salesforce Credentials in the Agentic Era
Wednesday, 2:00-2:20 PM PT, Theater
Certifications have always been an important way to demonstrate Salesforce knowledge. That does not suddenly become less important because AI can do more of the work.
In fact, you could argue that knowing what you are doing becomes even more important when you are working alongside AI; after all, you are still responsible for the output.
If you’ve been wondering whether it is worth investing the time in another Salesforce certification, this session should help you think about where credentials fit into an increasingly AI-driven career.
7. Your Evolved Role: Human Skills for Admins Managing Agents
Wednesday, 1:00-1:20 PM PT, Theater
Managing agents is going to require a rather different skill set from managing a Salesforce org.
You need to understand what your agents are doing, when to intervene, how to communicate their limitations, and how to make sure they are operating within the boundaries you have set. In other words, those “soft skills” might be about to become considerably more important.
This session looks at the human skills Admins will need as they move from configuring Salesforce themselves to managing AI that can do some of that work for them.
8. 10 Agent Architecture Patterns from Salesforce Headless 360
Wednesday, 1:30-2:10 PM PT; Thursday, 12:30-1:10 PM PT, Breakout
If you are an architect, this is one to get in the diary. Two Certified Technical Architects will use a real customer scenario to demonstrate and compare 10 different architecture decisions under the new Headless 360 model.
There is a lot of talk about how Salesforce’s architecture is changing. This session should allow you to see what that actually looks like in practice, and what it means for the people responsible for designing these systems.
9. A Day in the Life of an AI-Assisted Architect
Wednesday, 10:30-10:50 AM PT, Theatre
What I like about this session is that it doesn’t present AI as something that simply does the architect’s job for them. Instead, it looks at how architects can use AI to understand systems, explore designs, document decisions, and speed up delivery, while still being accountable for the outcome.
That last bit is important. AI can help you do the work faster, but it doesn’t get to take responsibility when the design turns out to be terrible. This session promises a practical look at what an AI-assisted architect’s day could actually look like, including how to validate the work AI produces.
10. What’s Next for Salesforce Security: Roadmap Readiness
Wednesday, 11:30-12:10 PM PT, Breakout
Security is probably the most important thing happening in Salesforce right now. And as we move into an increasingly agentic world, it’s becoming more important, not less.
AI and Agentforce are bringing huge new capabilities to the platform, but they also introduce new security considerations. When agents can access data and take action on our behalf, getting the fundamentals of authentication, identity, and access control right is critical.
That’s why this session is high on my list. It’s a great opportunity to catch up on the security changes that have already landed in 2026, including the latest authentication requirements, and get ahead of what’s coming next. I’d much rather prepare for a new security requirement before it becomes mandatory than discover I have a problem when Salesforce tells me I need to fix it.
11. An Admin’s Guide to Agentforce Vibes
Wednesday, 8:30-8:50 AM PT; Thursday, 11:30-11:50 AM PT; Theater
Vibe coding is one of those things I’m simultaneously very excited about and slightly nervous about. Giving an admin the ability to describe what they want in natural language and have AI generate Salesforce metadata is a pretty significant shift in how we think about building on the platform.
The obvious appeal is speed, but I’m more interested in where the boundaries are. When does this genuinely make admins and developers more productive, and when does it create a whole new set of governance and quality problems? This session looks at Agentforce Vibes and Cursor AI, but importantly, it also covers human-in-the-loop guardrails and how to make sure the things AI generates are secure and scalable.
That makes this one worth a look if you’re trying to work out where Vibe Coding actually fits into your Salesforce development process.
12. Discover 10 New Flow Features for Admins
Tuesday, 8:30-8:50 AM PT; Thursday, 1:00-1:20 PM PT, Theater
Sometimes you just want to know what is new.
This session covers 10 new Flow capabilities and, importantly, demonstrates them rather than simply listing them.
Flow remains one of the most important tools in an admin’s day-to-day toolkit, so even if you are spending most of Dreamforce thinking about AI, it is worth making time to see what has changed.
13. Sneak Peek: The New Flow Optimizer
Tuesday, 3:00-3:20 PM PT; Wednesday, 4:00-4:20 PM PT; Theater
The new Sneak Peek format was probably my favourite thing at TDX 2026. I ended up spending an entire day going from one Sneak Peek to the next, because there’s something particularly fun about getting a look at what Salesforce could be building before it’s finished.
What makes these sessions even more interesting is that you’re not just there to watch a demo. You get to ask questions, share your thoughts, and potentially influence the direction of the product while it’s still being developed. That’s a pretty rare opportunity.
Flow Optimizer is a particularly interesting one for admins, with the promise of catching performance risks, missing fault paths, and potential runtime failures before they make it into production, alongside more centralised governance for automation. If you care about building scalable Flows, this is a chance to see what Salesforce is working on and have a say in where it goes.
Bonus: What the SFB Team Would Add to Their Agenda
I also asked the SF Ben technical team which sessions they would make a beeline for if they were heading to Dreamforce. Here’s what caught their attention.
Tim Combridge
Tim is, unsurprisingly, heading straight for the AI coding sessions:
Build Salesforce Agent Skills with Claude Code and Build with Salesforce’s New Dev Plugin for Claude Code.
“These are mine, absolutely! Dave Norris and Philippe Ozil are the best of the best too; these are bound to be killer sessions.”
If AI-assisted development is becoming part of the Salesforce developer toolkit, these are exactly the kinds of sessions I’d want to see.
Mariel Domingo
Mariel is interested in what happens when agents become more autonomous, particularly when they are given a goal rather than a set of instructions: Automate Long-Running Work With New Goal-Based Agent.
“I recently read about reward hacking and AI, and I’m curious to see how goal-based agents work. In my head I’m asking how Salesforce can keep a goal-based agent from satisfying a goal while possibly missing the point entirely, especially once it’s autonomous enough to pick its own path there.”
She’s also got her eye on Flow and MCP with Configure Flow for MCP and Agentforce Best Practices. As more existing automation becomes available to agents, understanding how to build and govern those connections is going to matter.
Andreea Doroftei
Andreea has two picks that focus firmly on the less glamorous, but increasingly important, side of the agentic world: governance and testing.
Agent Governance and Guardrails: Implementation and Testing is a roundtable, available in person, giving attendees the chance to discuss agentic implementation with other professionals and Salesforce leadership.
She would also head to Automate Multi-Turn Agentforce Testing:
“Testing agents manually is not scalable, so automated testing will become more important the more agents are implemented across different functions and to support multiple teams.”
Exactly. If you’ve ever tried to properly test an agent, you’ll already know that “ask it a question and see what happens” isn’t exactly a robust testing strategy.
Peter Chittum
Peter has perhaps the most eclectic list, covering AI, APIs, budgets, and React.
Unlock Advanced Capabilities in Prompt Builder is his pick for getting started with practical AI:
“I’m intrigued by the small ways orgs can begin to test the waters with incorporating AI today. Automations with prompt templates look to be one of those ways we can all start to dip our toes into the water without going full Agentforce.”
Then there’s Test Your Platform Integration Skills Live, the API team’s regular roadmap session. There’s gamification, a contest, and a Platform Integration Champion Belt up for grabs. If you consider yourself an API expert, there is potentially some very serious Dreamforce swag on the line.
Peter is also interested in Taming Your Tokens: Creating a Realistic AI Budget Plan:
“Because we all need to get practical about this. Bottom line, how much will it cost me, and is it in budget?”
Finally, he expects the React sessions to be popular, particularly Explore the React and Multi-Framework Roadmap for Developers and Embed Apps and Widgets with Salesforce Micro-Frontends.
Summary
That gives us 24 sessions between our main shortlist and the team’s personal picks, out of nearly 1,400 currently in the catalog!
Hopefully, this saves you from spending the first morning of Dreamforce refreshing the session catalog when you could be sitting in the room actually learning something.
What sessions are you most excited for? Let us know in the comments.
