Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Parth Sevak, Director of Technology and Principal Architect at Incepta. Join us as we chat about how Parth built a multi-agent system designed to connect surplus food with the people and organizations that need it the most and won the Agentforce for Good Grand Prize at the TDX Hackathon. You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Parth Sevak. The Hackathon project focused on reducing food waste If you listened to last week's episode with Alexandra Iyer, you know that Agentforce for Good was a popular problem at this year's Agentforce Hackathon at TDX. Contestants took on big issues like nonprofit volunteer coordination and disaster relief. That's why I was so excited to sit down with Parth Sevak, whose project Harvest Bridge won the Agentforce for Good Grand Prize. Harvest Bridge is a multi-agent application that connects food donors with organizations near them. As Parth explains, food waste is a serious problem. According to the UN's World Food Programme, about 318 million people are facing acute hunger today. "In North America, 30-40% of the food that is produced never gets eaten," he says. So he decided that this would be the perfect problem to tackle for the Agentforce Hackathon at TDX. Simple integrations and out-of-the-box tools Under the hood, Harvest Bridge features multi-agent coordination between four agents to handle donor intake, food matching, volunteer logistics, and reporting analytics. While it sounds incredibly complicated, Parth is quick to point out that 80% of the work was done in configuration with out-of-the-box admin tools. Parth needed to write some Apex to do specific things like geo-matching, which he vibe-coded with the Claude plugin for Agentforce. Crucially, he didn't have to write glue code to make everything work between Agentforce, Data 360, automations he built in Salesforce, Slack, and Tableau. "All of it just worked like a charm," he says, "five years ago, that integration story would have been months, if not years." How to get started building Agentforce solutions In just a few days, Parth was able to build an autonomous, multi-agent system that uses Agentforce, Data 360, Slack, and Tableau to match surplus food with local organizations and coordinate delivery in under 90 minutes. If you're looking to get started with Agentforce, Parth recommends jumping on Trailhead as your first step. The Agentforce Specialist certification gives you the tools you need to start building, and then it's all about getting your hands dirty. Make sure to listen to the full conversation with Parth Sevak about how he built Harvest Bridge and won the Agentforce for Good Grand Prize. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast so you never miss an episode. 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Now, this was part of the TDX26 Hackathon Challenge and what makes this conversation the most compelling isn't just the technology, it's how admins and architects can really orchestrate data automation, AI agents and human coordination together without months of integration work. We also get into what it means to design a trustworthy system where humans stay in control while AI handles scale and speed. So, if you've ever been wondering about how Agentforce changes the role of the Salesforce admin from builder to system orchestrator, this episode's for you. Be sure to subscribe, share the episode with your team, your friends, your local Salesforce admin user group and let us know what kind of real world problems you'd solve with Agentforce. But for now, we're going to get Parth on the podcast. So, Parth, welcome to the podcast. Parth Sevak: Thanks, Mike. Really glad to be here. Mike: Well, I'm glad to have you. So, if everything shakes out, the episode before this will be the episode with the Agentforce for Good People, but sometimes scheduling is what it is. But I was at TDX this year and we had Hackathon winners and you were part of the Agentforce Hackathon. And so, that's how I got connected with you. But I think before we get into that, I'd love to know a little bit about how you got started in the Salesforce ecosystem, what you do and let's go from there. Parth Sevak: Absolutely, Mike. Again, thanks for having me. So, the story of how I ended up in Salesforce is really interesting. That was not my plan. In fact, back in 2011, I was a fresh computer science engineering grade hunting for my first real tech off somewhere. And that time, the startup economy was just taking off and Java was the thing, the only thing in my perspective as far as I was concerned. And then my boss pulled me aside and said, "Parth, you are going to work on Salesforce." And I said, "Oh, what is Salesforce? I'm looking for Java opportunities." So, he made his pitch. "Apex is basically Java, you will feel right at home. And there is this thing called Dreamforce, massive event, you might get to experience it someday." And that's where you see a lot of enterprise innovation is going to come in. Basically, he sold it and 16 years later, here I am loving the challenge, loving the stretch, always finding ages I haven't touched yet and it keeps me motivated. Mike: He was a heck of a salesman. Java, here's Salesforce. It's just like Java. And if you're good enough, you might get to go to Dreamforce. That's awesome. So, go ahead. Parth Sevak: Yeah. And just to tell you what currently I'm doing. So, these days- Mike: Yeah, please. Parth Sevak: ... I'm working as a director of technology at Incepta Solutions where I lead data, CRM integration and agentic AI transformation for enterprise clients across financial services, retail manufacturing and pharma healthcare. But I make sure to keep one foot in hands-on building always. And that's how HarvestBridge happened at TDX, as you see. Mike: Yeah. So, let's talk about that. I mean, it's really cool. This isn't our first hackathon since we've come out with Agentforce. We've been doing hackathons and the early hackathons, I was a judge in quite a few and some of the really neat ideas that people were coming up with for the use of AI agents and some agentic use cases I think were really kind of interesting. I know we had that at TDX. So, I guess let's start off with the TDX Agentforce for Good Hackathon. What made you want to enter that to begin with? Parth Sevak: Yeah, to be really honest, it was again, my boss encouraged me because even I was not sure whether I would be attending the TDX in first place, but my boss was really motivated to join the party and he invited me. And then I realized, okay, if I register for TDX, there is an option to participate in the hackathon. And that's how my journey began. Mike: Oh, well, we made that awfully easy for you, didn't we? Parth Sevak: Yeah. Mike: I mean, I would like to think I'm a competitive person, but when it comes down to it, I think I really like watching competitions as opposed to competing. What made you think, "Oh, I'm going to get into this because the idea that I have is so great." So, tell me a little bit about what your idea was and what it solved for. Parth Sevak: Yeah. So, honestly, the topic I picked is not a fleshy topic, right? I picked the food waste, which is definitely not a hackathon topic. It's not a biotech, it's not a blockchain. But my heart said, pick it anyway because food is the most basic thing and somehow we managed to throw away nearly half of it while families a few blocks away are skipping dinner. And then again, I am a data guy, so please allow me to share some numbers here. Mike: Oh yeah, please. Parth Sevak: And that application for me, that 2.5 billion tons of food wasted every year, 783 million people are facing hunger. And when I read that and thought, "This cannot be right." And I check UN website, food banks' websites, and again, the numbers held up. And the on that hit really hardest is this number, which is in North America, 40% of food produced never gets eaten right here in our cities, whether it's San Francisco, Toronto, basically with our neighborhood. Mike: I mean, that's crazy. I know I've seen ... I forget the show. It was on Discovery Channel here in the US and they talked about ... I didn't know there were hog farmers out in Las Vegas, but there are and they work with the casinos. The casinos have all those buffets to get all their food scraps. I thought that was really, really fascinating. I guess you think about it and until you look at it on a larger scale, do you even understand how much food is produced and unfortunately how much is wasted? Parth Sevak: Yeah, totally, Mike. Mike: So, let's talk about your solution because it involves Agentforce. So, were you going to feed Agentforce some apples? That's a joke because you can't feed it apples. I mean, you could feed it apples maybe like an emoji. Parth Sevak: So, yeah, I think let me first of all piggyback on this one, this idea that this HarvestBridge as a idea, right? When you look at this project from the outside, it may sound like as a big AI project. We have four agents, multi-agent coor
