We sure hope you enjoyed the first 2 days of Dreamforce! But don’t worry—there’s plenty more energy and excitement in store for you today. Be sure to check out photos from Tuesday and Wednesday on our Facebook page, and we hope you’ll post a few of your own, too! But first, why not submit a question for today’s afternoon keynote with Google’s Eric Schmidt?

HAPPENING THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

Platform Keynote with Marc Benioff and Special Guests (9:00 – 11:00 a.m.)
Join salesforce.com Chairman & CEO Marc Benioff as he unveils that latest platform enhancements that will make your company more social and mobile than ever before. Find out how advanced collaboration and a bit of innovation can open the door to the Social Enterprise.
Location: Moscone South, Halls A, B, & C

Birds-of-a-Feather Tables (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Join us for these vibrant, valuable discussions on the crowd-sourced topics important to you. Check the “Birds of a Feather 2011” Chatter group to submit ideas. No need to register; just show up!
Location: Moscone West, Level 3 Foyer

Lunch (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Need some fresh air? Enjoy the sunshine with lunch outdoors in the Yerba Buena Gardens. Grab a seat or a picnic blanket and catch the tunes from our live DJ. Lunches will also be served in Moscone West’s Cloud Dine.

Salesforce.com Foundation Volunteer Event (11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Got a few minutes to spare and share? Join us at the Community Engagement booth today, where you can create tote bags for homeless youth with Project Night Night.
Location: Moscone South, Upper Lobby

Platform State of the Union (11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.)
This annual address provides an update on the vision and direction of our Social Enterprise platform. We’ll go over some major platform announcements and discuss the present and future of Force.com, Heroku, and Database.com. If there’s one session all developers should attend, it’s this one.
Location: Developer Zone, Moscone West Rooms 2001/2003

Industries at Dreamforce (11:45 – 3:45 p.m.)
We’ve got special content for media and communications, manufacturing and retail, and healthcare and life sciences! Each industry subset offers a keynote, plus customer speakers and breakout sessions to give you new way to capitalize on the social revolution.
Location: The InterContinental Hotel

UCSF: The Unusual Thinkers Track (11:45 a.m. – 3:40 p.m.)
We’ve got an entire track dedicated to changing the way you think about your health. Join us for these 30-minute sessions from leading practitioners at UCSF as they discuss everything from the future of healthcare to breast cancer to hospital safety.
Location: Moscone West, Rooms 2009/2011

Partner Super Sessions (11:45 – 3:45 p.m.)
We’ve invited six of our largest partners to present 1-hour thought leadership sessions on their chosen topics of expertise. Here are today’s sessions:

• 11:45 p.m. – Driving Business Results from the Social Enterprise (Accenture)
• 1:15 p.m. – Your Checklist: Cloud, Mobile, Social, and Analytics in the Post-Digital Enterprise (Deloitte)
• 2:45 p.m. – Google: Designed for Teams, Built for the Web (Google)

Location: Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center on Howard Street

Developer Hackathon Finale (2:45 – 3:45 p.m.)
The annual Hackathon is a can’t-miss event for developers, and this year it’s bigger and better than ever! This exciting code competition will challenge coders to show us what they’re made of—and what they’re making. Interested? Don’t miss this show-stopping finale and demonstration.
Location: Moscone West, Rooms 2002/2004

Afternoon Keynote with Google’s Eric Schmidt (4:30 – 5:30 p.m.)
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is a true social game-changer. His “fireside chat” with Marc Benioff explores the social evolution—including Google+ and Google’s internal social transformation. Submit your questions via the “Eric Schmidt Keynote” Chatter group.
Location: Moscone South, Halls A, B, & C

Cloud Crawl (9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.)
Earn access to this exclusive party by visiting the Cloud Crawl sponsors listed on the card in your badge holder. Once you collect your last sponsor stamp, you’ll receive a sticker from that sponsor with the party entrance information.
Location: Temple Nightclub, 540 Howard Street

DON'T MISS

Demo Touch.salesforce.com
How do you capitalize on the next generation of hardware devices and apps? With touch.salesforce.com, of course! You heard about it in the keynote; now see it live. Access your Salesforce or Force.com apps on any mobile device. We’ll have staffers available in the Salesforce.com Campground from 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. to walk you through it.

Live Contact Center Tour
We're taking you on guided tour into the heart of customer support at Dreamforce ‘11. Learn how the Service Cloud powers 30,000+ visitor interactions and watch as agents respond in real time to attendee calls, emails, chats, tweets, and posts right in the Salesforce.com Campground in the Cloud Expo.