Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks throughout a keynote at the 2023 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Benioff mentioned new product capabilities, such as all those driven by synthetic intelligence, will be shown at the firm’s yearly conference in September.
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Salesforce introduced in a Tuesday social-media submit that the business software maker’s Dreamforce meeting for customers and companions will continue being in San Francisco for a single far more yr.
The statement comes months following Marc Benioff, the firm’s co-founder and CEO, explained to the San Francisco Chronicle explained the Dreamforce occasion that was prepared for 2023 may well be the past one particular in the metropolis. Some other engineering organizations, these as Google and Oracle, have picked to shift their activities in other places as media shops have performed up homelessness, drug use and theft in components of the town.
Salesforce did wind up holding Dreamforce in advance of a crowd of about 40,000 this yr, and Benioff pointed to thoroughly clean sidewalks and attendees sensation safe. Police officers and some others had reportedly pushed unhoused persons to migrate elsewhere. The group was much smaller sized than it was in 2019, when 171,000 persons participated.
Ths year’s meeting, showcasing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other guests, was slated to deliver over $89 million in financial activity. Now the metropolis can boast about it sticking about for at least 1 a lot more 12 months. It will occur on Sept. 17 by means of Sept. 19.
“We signed an intensive arrangement with the metropolis that outlined the essential pieces we realized we necessary!” Benioff advised CNBC in a textual content concept.
London Breed, San Francisco’s mayor, thanked Benioff in a post on X, formerly regarded as Twitter, that involved a photograph of the two, clad in Golden Condition Warriors basketball clothing.
In an X publish of his individual, Benioff claimed is “now the AI capital of the planet.” It’s dwelling to OpenAI and other noteworthy synthetic-intelligence startups, this kind of as Adept AI and Anthropic. Salesforce employed this year’s Dreamforce conference to display off AI abilities integrating with technological know-how from Anthropic and OpenAI.