Copado Champions Panel

Shubham Kolkar (moderator), Swati Agarwal, Dinesh Yenda, Piyali Sanyal, Deepak Sharma

Moderator Shubham and Copado Champions Swati Agarwal, Dinesh Yenda, Piyali Sanyal, and Deepak Sharma discuss real-world Salesforce DevOps implementation and the growth of the practitioner community. The panel details strategies for building enterprise trust through native Salesforce integration, shifting quality engineering left using automated gates, and utilizing AI-driven pull request summaries to reduce manual reviewer bottlenecks. The speakers share how they prioritize CI/CD features to achieve immediate ROI, specifically citing Apex test coverage enforcement and PMD integration as essential for stabilizing complex release pipelines. The session concludes with a discussion on the evolving role of Copado Champions in mentoring new practitioners and shaping industry standards for quality and governance.