Blazing Trails

Salesforce Ventures is Salesforce's corporate investment arm and the only strategic investor 100% focused on investing in enterprise cloud companies. Learn how to get to know them, and their portfolio at Dreamforce.

There's so much great stuff to take in at Dreamforce, but at the same time, it can be tough to fully disconnect from the demands of your regular job. So how does one juggle it all? Use Quip! Here are our top 5 tips.

This is a very special episode of Blazing Trails. We're bringing you an exclusive conversation with two of the trailblazing women who are driving forces behind Dreamforce. We'll also be taking a closer look at the intricate details that make Dreamforce come to life. Vivi Forny, Director of Events Demand Generation has been working at Salesforce for 8 years. In that time, she has led the charge behind demand generation, website production, and a whole lot more. Her role not only encompasses Dreamforce but all Salesforce Events. We will also be joined by Catherine Simmons, Vice President of Strategic Events. Simmons has been at Salesforce for 9 years and started working in our London office before moving over to our San Francisco headquarters. Simmons works on Dreamforce throughout the year, she is focused on event production, strategy, and bringing a world-class experience to all attendees.

For any entrepreneur, startup leader, or trailblazer at a growing business, Dreamforce has something for you. Join Marie Rosecrans, SVP of small and medium business marketing at Salesforce, as she shares her top tips for small business trailblazers on how to maximize their Dreamforce experience, and will provide the inside scoop on what’s in store for SMBs at Dreamforce.

At Dreamforce '16, we launched Salesforce Einstein - Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded in the Salesforce Platform. It's one year later, and we have some exciting new AI innovations to share! Just like last year, Einstein will be everywhere at Dreamforce this year. So we want to make sure all our AI trailblazers know exactly how they can learn more about Einstein at Dreamforce '17.

Did you know that Dreamforce is the world’s largest nonprofit technology conference with more than 3,000 non-profit attendees? For those who venture to San Francisco to partake in the festivities, it’s an opportunity to get inspired about how technology can propel your mission so you can expand your impact.

In this episode, we're heading to the Salesforce Design Leadership Conference. Our creative department gathers every year for a full day of unique speakers. Design inspiration, storytelling, and learning about different artists and their craft are pivotal for all of us, whether or not we work in the creative field. The Salesforce Design Leadership Conference brings together some of the brightest minds for a day of pure inspiration. Hear from J Mays - former Chief Creative Officer at Ford Motor Company and former Design Director at Audi - as he dives in to how our early experiences shape our views on design. His insights show us how design can take us to many places, how stories make good design possible, and the power of spectrum thinking. Mays also explores how culture and history specifically shaped his automotive designs. Next, John Zissmos, former Chief Design Officer at Salesforce, sits down with Daniel Caudill, Creative Director at Shinola - a design-centric powerhouse that blossomed from a defunct shoe polish company in Detroit. Caudill discussed how Shinola established themselves as an iconic brand, while expanding the capacity — and reinvigorating the spirit — of manufacturing in America. It's a design story wrapped in hope and invention. One that will have you rooting for the company over and over. Finally, hear about the power of film editing - the ability to make subtle or bold changes that shape or reshape a film’s narrative. Academy Award-winning film editor Lisa Fruchtman, discusses how she weeded through mountains of raw celluloid to give us some of movie history’s most iconic films like "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now". Discover what past films influenced her most, and why the best editors make their changes seem effortless, even invisible.

People have had some really amazing memories at Dreamforce. We’ve heard stories of people making giant leaps in their careers, meeting their soulmate, meeting their future coworkers, and even falling in love with San Francisco and moving across the country. This year, we want to hear from everyone who has been inspired by their Dreamforce experience. Learn about our new campaign, #DFTrailblazer, and how a lucky winner can win a free Dreamforce pass!

Every company is on a journey to digital transformation - a journey that will transform their business from selling and delivering a physical product or asset, to delivering proactive customer experiences tied to connected products. Hear how we are bringing this to journey to life at Dreamforce.

For our higher ed attendees, Dreamforce is an opportunity to really get inspired about technology and how it can propel their students’ success and ultimately their institution’s success.