Submit Your Architect Session: The Dreamforce 2026 Call for Participation Is Open

Calling all Salesforce Architects. Dreamforce returns to San Francisco September 15–17, 2026, with 1,600+ sessions, expert-led trainings, live demos, and real-world stories designed to help you build practical skills, connect with the community, and shape the Agentic Enterprise.

Presenting at Dreamforce gives you the opportunity to share your expertise with one of the world’s most engaged technical audiences by sharing real-world insights, elevating best practices, and positioning yourself as a thought leader to help others navigate complexity at scale.

The architect track is looking for compelling, high-quality session proposals that inspire and teach. Showcase your expertise through technical deep dives, architecture patterns, real-world designs, interactive sessions, and innovative business solutions. This is your opportunity to share your perspective, demonstrate what’s possible, and help others level up their skills with proven best practices. 

Whether you’re an experienced speaker or new to the stage, we invite you to share your unique perspective and contribute to the community’s collective knowledge.

The Dreamforce 2026 Call for Participation is open now from April 29, 2026, until May 27, 2026. 

Consider topics for your session

The strongest topics tend to include clear technical patterns, hands-on demos, architecture diagrams, honest lessons learned, practical approaches others can adopt, or innovations that push the platform conversation forward. If your solution required a whiteboard, a clever workaround, a late-night insight, or a “wait, hear me out …” moment — that’s a great sign.

• Technical deep dives that demonstrate your expertise and experience, covering a specific feature, a solution you built, or a passion topic supported by your personal experience
• Pilot or beta experiences that you’ve gained on upcoming features and changes
• Solutions built on well-known and established technologies
• Guided implementations or successful adoption strategies, including key architectural decisions, trade-offs, and learnings
• Projects aligned to the Well-Architected Framework, demonstrating how you applied its principles to real-world architecture and implementation design
• Use cases demonstrating cross-cloud content are very powerful as most real implementations and solutions span several clouds; for example, an integration between the Salesforce Platform and Slack
• Forward-looking designs and solutions, highlighting proven best practices. Share how you are designing for the next generation of Salesforce technology

Choose a session format

Dreamforce sessions follow one of these formats:

Breakout Sessions (40 minutes)

Breakouts are the best fit when your topic needs space to breathe. These sessions are held in dedicated rooms and offer a larger audience capacity. This long format gives presenters ample time to deep dive into their topic, and is ideal for sharing topics that benefit from audience interaction and live questions. In some cases, breakout sessions for architects may also incorporate interactivity such as live diagramming or guided scenario walkthroughs, where appropriate for the topic. If you’re planning for this, make it clear in your submission how you plan to deliver that experience. Consider how you might bring creativity into your presentation delivery, while also leaving time for questions. Up to three presenters may deliver a breakout.

Theater Sessions (20 minutes)

Theater sessions are fast, focused, and built for impact. They feature technical solutions and expertise, and this format shines when demoing a specific product capability, walking through a concise solution pattern, or highlighting a technical insight that lands best when you get straight to the point. Conducted on the show floor in open theaters, they do not allow for formal audience questions, but presenters typically encourage the audience to continue the conversation with them following the session. Up to two presenters may deliver a theater.

Once you have selected your ideal format, it’s time to refine your idea into a winning proposal.

Prepare your proposal

Submitting a Dreamforce session proposal is a simple, step-by-step process. Here are some guidelines for defining your session and filling out the submission for:

1. Review the Call for Participation form.

Carefully read the form before starting. The technical reviewing team is looking for clear architectural narratives, real-world applicability, and actionable takeaways. To maximize your proposal’s chances of being selected, make sure that it clearly outlines the challenge, your solution, and the technical lessons the audience will learn. 

Strong proposals also make it clear how you plan to deliver the content. Consider the flow of your session, how you’ll bring your story to life on stage, and whether your approach leans more toward storytelling, technical walkthroughs, live diagramming, or interactive elements.

2. Craft a clear and meaningful title and abstract.

Title (Maximum 60 characters)

Provide a clear overview of the topic for a technical audience (architects, developers, admins). Ensure that it clearly states what attendees will learn. 

Pro tip: Start with an action verb and include the core product, technology or process.

• Example: Build a Trusted, Well-Architected Data Layer

Abstract (Maximum 200 characters)

Provide a short paragraph diving deeper into what your session will cover. Be creative! What are you going to explain? What are you going to build or demo? What will your audience take home with them and share with their teams? Accuracy and clarity are more important than creative writing. Be careful with AI-generated titles and abstracts, as they can feel inauthentic and impersonal. 

Pro tip: Signal how the session will come together and be clear about how you’ll deliver it, such as whether you’ll walk through a real-world scenario, diagram an architecture live, or guide the audience through key decisions.

• Example: Work through interactive challenges using the Well-Architected Framework to build a trusted data foundation for Agentforce, analytics, automation, and marketing in real-world scenarios.

And finally, be sure that you can attend Dreamforce 2026 if your session is accepted. If selected, you’ll also be expected to partner with the Salesforce Architect Relations team to refine your session, incorporate feedback, and prepare a high-quality presentation that delivers value and shares your knowledge with the community. Note that we do not provide travel or accommodation for presenters.

Review the submission timeline

The Call for Participation is open from April 29, 2026, until May 27, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. PT.

Once you submit a proposal, sessions will be reviewed and accepted. If your session is selected, you will receive an email by the end of June 2026.

Dreamforce 2026 is September 15–17, 2026 in San Francisco.

If your session is not accepted, don’t be discouraged! There are many other opportunities to present at other events, including Trailblazer Community conferences and Trailblazer Community group meetings.

Access speaker support and resources

Once your session is officially selected, you will be asked to confirm session participation in the Dreamforce 2026 Content Portal. This is where you’ll manage your session details and officially commit to presenting at Dreamforce. 

You’ll also be added to a speakers-only Slack channel, where you’ll get updates, resources, deck templates, and presentation best practices to help you develop your session.

All speakers will receive a complimentary speaker pass to Dreamforce 2026. If you already purchased a pass, you’ll receive instructions on how to request a refund or transfer it to someone else.

Submit your session proposal

Submit your proposal today through the Dreamforce 2026 Call for Participation. 

We can’t wait to see the decisions, patterns, and solutions you’ve been working through and how you’ll share them with the Salesforce Architect Community.