Jayda Aboelata

(she/her)

Jayda Aboelata

Salesforce

Solution Engineer Apprentice

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jayda is a second-year Solution Engineer Apprentice at Salesforce, where she works across customer discoveries, technical demonstrations, internal innovation projects, and AI-driven solutions. Before moving into enterprise technology, Jayda worked in STEM tutoring and educational content development, using AI tools alongside her expertise in maths and chemistry to build scalable teaching frameworks and improve learning efficiency. With a strong academic background spanning Maths, Physics, Chemistry, and Arabic, she is passionate about the future of technology and its real-world impact, bringing a fresh next-generation perspective on AI, innovation, and digital transformation. Alongside her work, she also mentors young people interested in building careers in technology, helping make the industry more accessible to the next generation.

Sessions

Avril Couper

Julie Palmer

Jayda Aboelata

Moumita Grimm

12:20

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13:00

Panel

Collaborators Stage

From Classroom to AI-Native: How the Next Generation is Entering and Shaping the Workforce

This session brings together Salesforce apprentices and programme leadership to give a real, ground-level view of what it actually looks like to enter the workforce today. Through a mix of lived experience and practical examples, the panel will explore how young people are navigating the transition from education into industry, and how AI is already shaping the way they work from day one. It will contrast early-stage perspectives with those further into the programme, showing how quickly capability develops when given the right environment. Alongside this, the session will open up the bigger picture around digital and AI skills in the UK. It will touch on the gap between education and employment, the misconceptions around “digital natives”, and the role programmes like Future Trailblazers are playing in closing that gap. Importantly, this is not theoretical. It’s a real view into how an organisation like Salesforce is embedding AI into everyday workflows, from tools like Slack and automation through to how individuals are learning, operating and contributing. The aim is to give students, educators, and industry leaders a clearer, more honest understanding of what pathways actually look like today, and where the opportunities really are.

Avril Couper

Julie Palmer

Jayda Aboelata

Moumita Grimm

12:20

-

13:00

Panel

Collaborators Stage

From Classroom to AI-Native: How the Next Generation is Entering and Shaping the Workforce

This session brings together Salesforce apprentices and programme leadership to give a real, ground-level view of what it actually looks like to enter the workforce today. Through a mix of lived experience and practical examples, the panel will explore how young people are navigating the transition from education into industry, and how AI is already shaping the way they work from day one. It will contrast early-stage perspectives with those further into the programme, showing how quickly capability develops when given the right environment. Alongside this, the session will open up the bigger picture around digital and AI skills in the UK. It will touch on the gap between education and employment, the misconceptions around “digital natives”, and the role programmes like Future Trailblazers are playing in closing that gap. Importantly, this is not theoretical. It’s a real view into how an organisation like Salesforce is embedding AI into everyday workflows, from tools like Slack and automation through to how individuals are learning, operating and contributing. The aim is to give students, educators, and industry leaders a clearer, more honest understanding of what pathways actually look like today, and where the opportunities really are.