At Perficient’s Salesforce team, every day we work with our project teams and clients to bring them the very best work and come up with some pretty creative solutions along the way. We work with our global teams on a project, giving our full attention to our clients.
But sometimes, we don’t get the chance to connect with our coworkers on different client projects or see what’s happening internally.
We spend months or years dedicated to a client and may not be able to connect outside of it often.
Earlier this year, the Culture Committee in the Salesforce Business Unit was looking for ways to bring our entire team together. How can we give the team something that is worth their valuable time … but also fun?
Enter Demo Jam!
The official rules are each team has only five minutes to present their demo to a panel of three judges – and no slides! The unofficial rules are to be creative storytellers and for the audience to participate in the chat by giving colorful feedback —most importantly, to have fun!
After the demos, the audience polls for their favorite. That vote, along with the votes of the three judges (selected from wide corners of our BU), decide the winner!
Over the course of 2024, we have hosted three Demo Jams with attendance on par with our Town Halls! Plus, we have had global representation in each event, truly bringing our full team together. Demo Jam 2 happened right after the summer Olympics where we had teams from India, Mexico and the US competing for the gold! Our innovative team from Mexico won with some creative bonuses for their Lucha Libre masks.
Our summer Demo Jam winners brought creativity to our panel of judges and audience.
The third session, held in late October, celebrated the start of the holiday season, including Halloween, Dia De Los Muertos and Diwali. The winning team from India came in their best Diwali regalia and showed how they used Agentforce AI for language translation in hospitality! Another competitor showed how he is using Data Cloud to streamline our internal sales processes, sparking some ideas from the judges about where else we can use this for our own team and for our clients.
What’s Next?
Our next Demo Jam is slated for mid-January 2025, and we are all so excited to see what comes next. We already have teams committed to participate! With only a few official rules, the possibilities are endless. Want to join the fun and discover why we keep winning workplace culture awards? Reach out to a Perficient recruiter or check out our careers page. See you in the next Demo Jam!
