Lars Malmqvist - Architecting AI Solutions on Salesforce: Design powerful and accurate AI-driven state-of-the-art solutions tailor-made for modern business demands

Design powerful and accurate AI-driven state-of-the-art solutions tailor-made for modern business demands

Lars Malmqvist

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To Damiana, Ada, and Pino. To my mother, Inger Bejder, and the memory of my father, Finn Malmqvist.

Lars Malmqvist

Lars Malmqvist has spent the past 12 years working as an architect and CTO within the Salesforce ecosystem. For the past 5 years, he has been particularly focusing on advanced AI solutions. He has worked on over 40 Salesforce implementations, ranging from simple out-of-the-box scenarios to advanced, bespoke, multi-cloud solutions for large global brands. He is a 23x certified Salesforce CTA with degrees in computer science, mathematics, and technology management and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. Currently, he works as a senior manager at Accenture and is in the final stages of completing a PhD with a focus on deep learning.

I would like to thank my wife, Damiana, for her undying support and my children, Ada and Pino, for their constant inspiration.

As a Salesforce solution architect, Madhav Kakani delivers exceptional value to customers by designing high-performance solutions and leading successful implementations of Salesforce CRM to automate sales, marketing, and business-critical processes.

His work entails negotiating solutions to complex problems with multiple parties and agendas, managing technical scope and client expectations, and managing development and change following the Salesforce governance framework.

He has been working on the Salesforce platform for 15 years, and in addition to leading projects, he has also done numerous implementations using different technologies available on the platform, namely Apex, Visualforce, Aura Lightning Components, Lightning Web Components, and Flows.

Rafael Gutierrez Castillo is a Salesforce architect with multi-cloud implementation experience. With ten years of working experience, he started his career in the education industry, developing leadership programs for university students.

He has worked in different positions within the Salesforce ecosystem, including business consultant, tester, solution consultant, and solution architect.

Working as an associate manager at Accenture, he designs solutions that bridge the gap between business processes and technology and advises companies on their digitalization and transformation journeys. With 20 Salesforce certificates, he is passionate about building automation processes, solution design, process management, and development of leadership skills.

Ashvin Bhatt is an enterprise architect, technical writer, trainer, and speaker with more than 10 years of experience on the Salesforce platform and working on various clouds. He has trained 500+ people on Salesforce through various initiatives. He is a certified application architect and holds a wealth of experience on various Salesforce products. He is a co-organizer of Salesforce Architect Summit and has been a speaker at various events, such as Dreamforce and TDX.

He has worked in a variety of domains, such as high-tech, advertising, manufacturing, health, insurance, and pharma, to name a few. He believes in sharing his knowledge through community-led initiatives to help foster learning and innovation.