Monday, September 3, 2012

Reasons to attend Dreamforce

Andy Pattinson over at ProQuest Consulting is outlining great reasons why you should go to Dreamforce this month in San Francisco:


With Cloudforce just over a month ago and still fresh in the memory we think it’s important not to waste anytime and get ready for salesforce’s mega event of the year in San Francisco. With only 60 days to go to Dreamforce 10 here are my top 10 reasons to book your ticket for Dreamforce and experience an event like you’ve never seen before:
10 - The partner expo is an incredible place to learn all about the salesforce eco-system, theAppechange comes to life with all of salesforce’s partners showcasing their products and services with an incredible buzz. Learn about all the amazing products you can use to extend your use of salesforce like Conga, Marketo and OrchestraCMS.
9 - A really good Australian contingent travels every year, the Aussies have an amazing reputation at Dreamforce, San Francisco really is a home away from home for the week. We have many events where we all get together so you never feel too far away from Oz, you get to make great friends and have a lot of fun along the way.
8 - Take the opportunity to get certified, learn more about salesforce, take the exams and improve your knowledge, Train the Crowd a local Australian leader in salesforce training are running sessions so there is no reason not to.
7 - Learn from your peers, from world leading organisations and salesforce partners delivering industry changing projects. To see some of the amazing examples rolled out during the course of Dreamforce will fill you with incredible ideas for how you can improve your business, beat your competitors and become a social enterprise.
6 - Developer camp ground, we highly recommend you visit the developer campground to learn about the amazing things you can do with the salesforce platform, with Heroku and all of the great tools the community work with.


5 - Incredible breakout sessions, the agenda for this years sessions is going to be bigger and better than ever, there will be many amazing topics on everything from application development to user training and everything in between, in fact the biggest problem is juggling your agenda to fit everything in.
4 - Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Why wouldn’t you want to see one of the biggest bands of the last 20 years headline the main evening!
3 - If the Chilli Peppers aren’t your thing there are many amazing parties to go and socialise with your collegues, partners and salesforce staff, it’s a great opportunity to let your hair down in the evenings and discuss the amazing things you’ve learnt each day.  
2 - Great speakers, from Gen. Colin Powell to Tony Robbins, Jeff Immelt to Richard Branson you’re sure to learn amazing things from some of the leading lights in their field, whats not to love about that?
1 - The Dreamforce Keynote sessions are like nothing else (Get a sense of last year's keynote here) , from the minute you sit down in the main auditorium for the warm up session you know you’re in for a treat, @PeterCoffee does an amazing job interviewing attendees and warming up the audience for a keynote that never disappoints. Then it’s time for the main event with Marc@Benioff...who know’s what this years event will unleash!  I’ll be there...will you?

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