Business & Tech Dreamforce Commits to Three More Years In SF (But Benioff Gives Himself a Loophole to Leave) Salesforce announced they will keep their Dreamforce conference here through 2027 in a windfall for the city’s tourism industry, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave himself an out, saying Dreamforce will only stay as long as SF “remains safe and secure and trusted.”
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 Day Around the Bay: Dreamforce Road Closures Already Underway We now know the day the L-Taraval trains are going to begin running again; the Giants are finally ditching those bizarre creamsicle-orange uniforms; and Dreamforce road closures have already started with the conference looming next week.
Arts & Entertainment Elton John Reveals Reason For Canceling His Dreamforce Concert Elton John has now explained the "unforeseen circumstances" that are keeping him from performing his much-anticipated Oracle Park show during Dreamforce.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elton John Pulls Out of Dreamforce Concert A 26-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with the early July Thompson Fire near Oroville; an arrest has been made in Friday's homicide in Dublin; and Elton John has backed out of performing in SF at Dreamforce.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Is Indeed Returning to SF in 2024, Despite Marc Benioff’s Threat to Move Conference Elsewhere Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff will not move his company's Dreamforce mega-conference to Las Vegas or Austin or wherever, despite his own threats that he might, as he announced today that Dreamforce 2024 will remain right here in SF.
SF News Welp, at Least One Dreamforce Attendee Was Accosted By a Mentally Ill Person A week after Dreamforce ended, we thought, without a hitch and without any report of an unpleasant street incident, we now get a report of one such incident in which an attendee was assaulted and knocked to the ground by an unhinged suspect.
SF Politics Benioff Praises City Cleanup For Dreamforce, Asks Why It Can't Be Like This Every Day Apparently Dreamforce went well this week, and city efforts to clean up the area around the Moscone Center so that conventioneers didn't have to step over bodies or needles were a success.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Arrives Tuesday, Bringing Celebrities, Street Closures, Traffic, and Breathless AI Hype Some 43,000 corporate types will converge on South of Market for SF’s biggest conference Dreamforce, which starts Tuesday, making a mess of traffic, but hopefully also a mess of money for the local hospitality biz.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Threatens to Move Dreamforce Conference Out of SF Over Homelessness, Drug Use The annual Dreamforce convention is still set to begin less than two weeks from now, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to move the whole shebang elsewhere if he thinks drug use and homelessness disrupt this year’s event.
SF News Matthew McConaughey Was At Dreamforce Talking About Running for President Someday Actor, activist, spokesmodel for Lincoln Motor Company, nude bongo player, and generally affable stoner Matthew McConaughey says that it's "inevitable" that he should run for president one day, and he'll likely just get "pulled into it."
Business & Tech Dreamforce Coming Back With ’Tens of Thousands’ Attending In September, Because What Could Go Wrong Apparently Salesforce is confident enough that COVID-19 will be a non-factor three months from now that they’re bringing back a large-scale Dreamforce, but they’re being a little vague on whether they’ll allow 170,000 people again.
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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce Cancels Dreamforce The SFPD was reportedly enforcing a curfew at a Civic Center tent encampment, the name of the guy who barricaded himself in Glide last week has been released, and the city is reimbursing workers who have money tied up in medical savings accounts.
SF News Dreamforce Street Shutdowns Begin, Avoid That Part of SoMa at All Costs Howard Street between 3rd and 4th Street was shut down Tuesday ahead of next week's kickoff of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce convention. And for everyone who doesn't know the drill, this means it is officially time to avoid driving anywhere near SoMa for the next two weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Bono Bash Donald Trump During Last Night's Dreamforce Concert U2 was the headliner for Dreamforce's big central concert event Wednesday night at the Cow Palace, and Bono took the opportunity to have a conversation of sorts with a video projection of Donald
SF News Stanley Roberts Reminds Us Why You Should Never Drive During Dreamforce The four-day Dreamforce 2016 conference kicked off yesterday, bringing its usual hordes of lanyard-wearing conventioneers and SoMa traffic with it. And just like with any big event, KRON 4 reports that the SFPD
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Is It OK To Hate Tourists? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
SF News Day Around The Bay: How To Crash Dreamforce Parties Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Apparently there's some "dark money" going toward funding City
SF News Again, Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Dreamforce Kicks Off Today Salesforce's answer to Oracle's Openworld conference, which itself recently shut down/effed up traffic in part of SoMa as it annually does, happens all this week, and given all the rest of the
SF News Bring On The Tourists: Hardly Strictly, Fleet Week, And Dreamforce To Kick Off October A confluence of events all hitting San Francisco the first week of October means that things are about to get more crowded than usual. Hardly Strictly starts Friday and lasts through the weekend,
SF News Video: Uber's Travis Kalanick Asks 'Am I Going To Be Part Of The Future Or Am I Going To Resist It?' Uber's C.E.-bro Travis Kalanick has been on what reads to many as an apology tour, appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, posing for a piece of corporate portraiture in
SF News 'Business Consultancy' Defaces SF Sidewalks Then Lies About It Wonder how @bluewolf got to spraypaint ads all over SF downtown sidewalks near #Dreamforce: required to remove later? pic.twitter.com/DR8UxwQPb3— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) September 14, 2015 A New York based business
SF News Here's How The Salesforce Convention Might Screw Up Your Life Yes, you just recovered from the crowds at Oracle OpenWorld, we know. But now an even bigger event, Salesforce's Dreamforce convention is here through Saturday October 18 to snarl things right back up
