Dreamforce is a big deal for customers and partners alike. It is the largest Enterprise Cloud Computing event in the world and t he biggest tech conference to be held in San Francisco.  It is the #1 place to be if you are interested in meeting other enterprise customers, prospects and partners.

 

What you may not know is that Dreamforce is also the place for you to learn, network and get inspiration from business luminaries, thought leaders and entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurial Focus

For the first time in the history of Dreamforce, we are hosting a full track of content devoted to entrepreneurship (filter by role "Entrepreneur" in agenda builder). These sessions will help you:

• Grow your business
• Understand key sales and marketing strategies
• Make funding decisions
• Focus on what’s important for your business

Within the Entrepreneur Track, we have assembled a group of rock star entrepreneurs and venture partners in our Founders Forum to share their experience and wisdom on creating high growth, wildly successful businesses that are regarded as some of the hottest properties in the industry today. A few of the seasoned entrepreneurs being featured at the show include:

• Drew Houston (founder, Dropbox)
• Jason Lemkin (founder, EchoSign – acquired by Adobe)
• Mark Organ (founder, Eloqua – IPO, acquisition by Oracle)
• David Barrett (founder, Expensify)
• Wendy Lea (CEO, GetSatisfaction)
• Vanessa O’Connell (WSJ Entrepreneurship Editor)
• Mark Suster (founder, Koral – acquired by salesforce.com)

Want to know more about the Founders Forum and Entrepreneur Track?  Check out the Salesforce Live! webcast (episode 14) to hear about what we have in store for you from Ravi Belani, Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator— the most talked about Silicon Valley program for Enterprise software startups.

 

Community Engagement – Partner User Groups 

With more than 2,000 apps on the AppExchange, 2,000,000+ installs and thousands of ISVs building apps on the Salesforce Platform, the app ecosystem is thriving.  But it’s not just about apps.  Innovative companies are forming, smart people are landing jobs and their businesses are booming. With the recent IPO of Salesforce Platform startup Veeva Systems [NYSE:VEEV], all eyes are set on who will emerge as the next hot AppExcange company. It may very well be you!

To help promote the ISV community and launch the Partner User Group initiative at Dreamforce, we will be hosting partner-lead talks in our community zone. Come to hear from your peers about tips on building a profitable business on the AppExchange, mobile app development best practices, automating trials, license management, bootstrapping your business, marketing tips, automated testing of apps, optimizing sales and marketing for the AppExchange and much, much more (22 sessions in all!).  

Learn more about what Dreamforce has planned for entrepreneurs in this video below.

Check out this complete list of sessions in agenda builder.  Be sure to come to the Partner User Group session at Dreamforce, where you can meet with PUG leaders and find out about starting a Partner User Group in your city.

Get ready to accelerate your business success at Dreamforce and register at the button below.