Architect Dreamin' Americas 2026
Past edition
2026 facilitators
Facilitators are working architects. They don't give talks: they guide the room through a real problem.

Allie Vaughan
Technical Director AI & Data360, Perficient
Unifying the Un-unifiable: Exploring Custom Unification Strategies in Data Cloud

Allison Park
Principal Enterprise Architect, Salesforce

Beech Horn
Technology Engagement Manager and Architect
Async Under Fire: Architecting a Scalable Solution Before It Breaks... Again


Blake Ferguson
Senior Product Manager, Lucid Software
From Messy to Meaningful: How Architects Design Diagrams That Actually Drive Decisions

Charly Prinsloo
SVP Global Salesforce Practice Head, Ness Digital Engineering

Crystal Zhu
Sr Salesforce Architect | Data Architect, CGI
Designing for Trust: The Art and Architecture of Salesforce Security

Gaurav Kheterpal
Chief Evangelist, Copado
Designing for Resilience: Building Architectures That Don’t Break at Scale

Janeen Marquardt
Chief Technical Strategist, Maple Digital Transformation

Jon Cline
Transformation Architect for Business Owners
Evaluating People First AI with private AI Pipelines and Open Source LLMs

Lilith Van Biesen
Principal Architect Evangelist, Salesforce
Architect-to-Architect: A Community Roundtable on Designing What’s Next
Secure Architecting Quickfire: Patterns, Antipatterns, and Rapid Remediation
Trusted AI: Architecting Securely for Next-Generation Salesforce Solutions

Louise Lockie
Salesforce Consultant & Trainer, Tangara Consulting

Marlene Guerra-Reeve
CRM Technical Architect, Hertz
Async Under Fire: Architecting a Scalable Solution Before It Breaks... Again

Matt Meyers
CEO & Founder, EzProtect
Architecting for Salesforce Security: What's going wrong? What's going right?

Melissa Hill Dees
Technical Evangelist And Partner Engagement, EzProtect

Mikel Lindsaar
CEO & Founder, StoreConnect
Architecting high-performance Salesforce-native platforms for controlled public data access

Miriam McCabe
Sr Director, Architect Evangelism, Salesforce
Architect-to-Architect: A Community Roundtable on Designing What’s Next
Secure Architecting Quickfire: Patterns, Antipatterns, and Rapid Remediation
Trusted AI: Architecting Securely for Next-Generation Salesforce Solutions

Peter O'Connell
Executive Director, JPMorganChase
Scale Integration and Automation with Salesforce Event Bus and Event Driven Architecture

Ross Belmont
Senior Director of Product Management, MCP & Platform, Salesforce

Shelly Sousa
Lead Technical Architect, Salesforce

Stephan Chandler-Garcia
Sr Director, Technical Content Engineering, Salesforce
Designing Reliable Agents with Agentforce Script and Builder


Steven Loper
Salesforce Architect, AssistRx
Architecting Across Many Orgs: Building Connection Without Chaos


Tyson Read
Sr Director of Product Management, Salesforce
Scale Integration and Automation with Salesforce Event Bus and Event Driven Architecture

Von Clark McClendon
Principal Architect Evangelist, Salesforce
Architect-to-Architect: A Community Roundtable on Designing What’s Next
Secure Architecting Quickfire: Patterns, Antipatterns, and Rapid Remediation
Trusted AI: Architecting Securely for Next-Generation Salesforce Solutions

