SF News Dreamforce Kicks Off Tuesday With Celebrity Speakers, Largest Crowd Since 2019 Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference, which these days is all about AI, is set to bring in about 45,000 attendees when it kicks off Tuesday in SoMa, which is the biggest crowd it's had since the pandemic.
SF News San Francisco Leaders Get Ready to Roll Out the Red Carpet For Politicians and Journalists From Across Asia In November With Dreamforce last week, some San Francisco residents got a taste of what's to come in mid-November, when world leaders and representatives from 20 nations in the Asia-Pacific region — along with a bevy of journalists — descend on the city for a major summit.
Business & Tech SF Tourism Board Launches New Ad Campaign to Sell City as Still Quirky and Fun Trying to counter several years of bad national press and a concerted effort by conservatives to single out San Francisco for urban ills that exist in many cities, SF Travel has launched its "largest ever" ad campaign to lure conventioneers and tourists back to town.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Returns as Much Smaller, Mostly Outdoor Conference in SoMa This Week 170,000 people usually come to Dreamforce, which along with the now departed Oracle OpenWorld would typically clog up traffic all over downtown for several days as conventioneers descended on the city. This year will be much different.
SF News Dreamforce Is Happening In SF In September, But Will Be Smaller Than Usual Salesforce has announced that Dreamforce is back on as an in-person event this year, though it clearly will not have the usual 170,000 attendees coming to San Francisco.
Business & Tech San Francisco Loses Major Convention, Oracle's OpenWorld, to Las Vegas Following several years in which the convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness on downtown streets as a deterrent for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, the city is losing one of its longstanding mainstays, Oracle's OpenWorld.
Arts & Entertainment Macworld 2013 Boasts Ashton Kutcher, iPhoneography, Music, & More Though this year's Macworld/iWorld 2013 features Will.i.am, Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad -- the last two will star as Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in jOBS, respectively -- it will
Arts & Entertainment Furry Convention Taking Place In San Jose Right Now Further Confusion, billed at the world's largest anthropomorphic (or "furry") convention, is currently spreading lint and color audacity in San Jose now through the 17th. Guests of honor include Blotch and Paul Kidd.
Arts & Entertainment Exotic Erotic Ball Moves from SF to Richmond Bad news for all polyamorous bisexuals into S&M gear (and speaking of kooky local conventions): the Exotic Erotic Ball this October is relocating from the Cow Palace to the new Craneway
Arts & Entertainment Fancy Food Fest Fends Off Famine It's for food industry pros only, but your humble narrator managed -- at great personal sacrifice, of course -- to wander the aisles at the annual Fancy Food Show at Moscone Center over
Arts & Entertainment Spammers Unite for Free Booze, Cubicle Tchotchkes ad:tech San Francisco landed here yesterday and is currently underway at Moscone Center until Thursday. We've acquired access to the exhibition hall and had a chance to briefly peruse the delightful offerings
