Chicago, start your engines, we’re coming to you! We are blowing into Chicago on April 23rd for the Salesforce World Tour – are you ready? We’re bringing all the action, excitement, education, and big announcements to the Windy City for FREE! Register now and experience the Salesforce World Tour and all the innovation and fun you can pack into a day at McCormick Place on Thursday, April 23rd. Learn firsthand how to sell, service, market, and succeed like never before.  

Keynote

Marc Benioff, Salesforce Chairman and CEO, is landing in Chicago to inspire and excite our awesome audience! SURPRISE special guests along with our friends from Easter Seals and Merck KGaA will join Marc on stage. Get a look at the Wave Analytics Cloud, go in depth with Platform Lightning Apps, and get an overview of Sales, Service, Community, and Marketing during the big keynote.

Cloud Expo

Come explore the world’s largest ecosystem of leading cloud solutions.  Check out of live demos, 60+ cloud partners, and unlimited ways to transform your business. Visit the Cloud Expo to interact with Salesforce products firsthand and hear how customers are succeeding with Salesforce. The Salesforce World Tour Cloud Expo will be the vibrant center of the event. We’ll have 30 Salesforce demo stations with brand new live demos. You’ll get the full Dreamforce experience with Salesforce1 Lightning & Analytics Theater, and Salesforce1 Mobile.

Product Showcase

Stop by the Product Showcase to check out interactive demos of easy-to-integrate solutions from Salesforce product teams and our innovative partners, including the Analytics Cloud, Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Platform, Service Cloud, and Community Cloud. The Salesforce Campground is the place to get your hands on all products and solutions with multiple theater sessions and workshops.

Industries

The Salesforce Platform speaks your industry's language. There is a massive shift towards deeper customer engagement in every industry. Visit the Industry Zone in the Cloud Expo to see how leaders in your industry are using cloud, social, mobile and data science to connect with customers in a whole new way. Complementing our core Cloud products, see how Industries at Salesforce is addressing the needs of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Manufacturing customers.  

Admin Zone

Visit the Admin Zone in the Cloud Expo to learn tips, best practices and the latest features from fellow Salesforce Admins. Whether you’re an experienced Admin or just getting started - this zone is for you! Bring your questions to our customer experts or attend a customer-led session in the Admin Theater. And be sure to post your photo booth pictures online with #SalesforceTour!

Dev Zone

Let there be Devs! And a DevZone, of course. Get FREE books at the Technical Library, build a mobile-ready app in 15 minutes in the Quick Start lab, and visit our hands-on workshop and Developer Theater. See the latest demos for Force.com, Heroku, Lightning, and Salesforce for Apps.

Success Services

Visit the Success Zone to connect with Salesforce experts and get hands-on advice and training. Drop in to hear about best practices at the Success Theater or join a Circle of Success roundtable discussion with a Success Services expert and some of your peers. We’ll deep dive into your top issues and questions, whiteboard solutions and provide you with a roadmap to help maximize your Salesforce investment. Find out more about all the sessions, schedules, and services being offered at the Success Zone here.

Small Business Zone

In the Small Business Zone, see how your business can use numerous Salesforce products, including Pardot, Data.com, Desk.com and the Sales Cloud. Check out demos focused on small business needs, join a Circle of Success session to get hands on experience, and even play a game or poise for a photo opp!

Sessions             

Learn how to go faster with the all-new Salesforce Customer Success Platform. We’ll have 29 power breakout sessions for every role and industry. Get a full list of sessions here (on the Agenda tab). 

Don’t miss these top sessions:

Accelerate Your Pipeline with Pardot

Meet Pardot, your new sales and marketing secret weapon. Join us to learn how adding marketing automation to your CRM can help optimize your lead generation, and get the right leads to the right people, at the right time. Pardot empowers you to move leads through the funnel and close the ROI loop faster and more efficiently.

Want more Pardot? Visit the Pardot Lounge where you can climb to the clouds on the Pardot rock wall and enter to win the adventure trip of a lifetime! Throughout the day the lounge will also host mini-sessions and product demos, with the chance to win a GoPro Camera at each one.

Marketing Cloud: The Journey is the Reward 

Join us to learn how Marketing Cloud can help you take your digital marketing to the next level. Learn new ways to optimize your email and mobile marketing, enhance your social media management, improve your online advertising and grow your lead nurturing strategy. 

Want more Marketing? We’ve built the perfect day for marketers right here.

Salesforce1 Platform: Build Apps Fast. Build Business Faster.

Speed and innovation are today's currency for business. Join us to hear how you can use Salesforce1 Platform to build apps, transform IT, and deliver amazing innovation to the business. You'll see examples of amazing engaging customer-facing apps, mobile apps, and business process apps all built on the Salesforce1 Platform.

Desk.com: Customer Service the Small Business Way

Join us to see how Desk.com productivity tools help agents close cases faster, a user-friendly knowledge base drives consistency and correctness for agents and for self-service support, and how connecting customer service to other critical parts of your business creates a complete 360-degree view of your customers to personalize every interaction.

Foundation Activities 

Join the force of giving back at the Salesforce World Tour! Salesforce Foundation and Talk Read Sing are partnering to help support early childhood development. Please join us onsiteto help assemble 500 packages of education materials for hospitalized children. Talk Read Sing is a campaign of Too Small to Fail in partnership with various organizations that are dedicated to improving early childhood development

Join thousands of your friends and colleagues at the Salesforce World Tour for power breakout sessions for every role, special onsite surprises, and a cloud expo with hundreds of demos and product experts. The keys to customer success await you in Chicago.

Salesforce World Tour Chicago

Thursday, April 23, 2015

McCormick Place – Lakeside Center

2301 S. Lake Shore Dr.

Chicago, IL 60616

Agenda

  • 8:00 am - 6:00 pm: Registration & Cloud Expo *Cloud Expo will be closed during keynote
  • 8:30 am - 9:10 am: Breakouts
  • 9:40 am – 10:00 am: Pre-Show with Peter Coffee
  • 10:00 am - 11:30 am: Keynote by Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO at Salesforce, with Special Guests
  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Lunch
  • 1:00 pm - 4:40 pm: Breakouts
  • 4:40 pm. - 6:00 pm: Networking Reception in the Cloud Expo