Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff speaks during the keynote speech at the Dreamforce 2023 conference in San Francisco on September 12, 2023.
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sales force announced on Tuesday social media posts The Dreamforce conference for the business software maker’s customers and partners will be held in San Francisco for another year.
The statement comes months after the company’s co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff said: san francisco chronicle The Dreamforce event, planned for 2023, may be the last one in the city.Several other technology companies, e.g. Google and oraclechose to move the event elsewhere due to media coverage of homelessness, drug use, and theft in parts of the city.
Salesforce will host Dreamforce this year in front of a crowd of approximately 40,000 people. pointed Keep sidewalks clear and participants feel safe. Police officers had reportedly Encouraging people without housing to move elsewhere. The number of spectators was much lower than in 2019, when 171,000 people attended.
This year’s conference featured OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other guests. It is scheduled It will generate more than $89 million in economic activity. Now the city can boast that it will survive for at least another year. It will be held from September 17th to September 19th.
“We have entered into an extensive agreement with the city that outlines the key elements that we know are needed,” Benioff told CNBC in a text message.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed thanked Benioff. post The post on X, formerly known as Twitter, included a photo of the two wearing Golden State Warriors basketball gear.
Benioff said in his X post that San Francisco is “now the AI capital of the world.” It is home to OpenAI as well as notable artificial intelligence startups such as Adept AI and Anthropic. Salesforce used this year’s Dreamforce conference to showcase his AI capabilities integrated with technology from Anthropic and OpenAI.
San Francisco report There will be 620 accidental drug overdose deaths in 2022, down from 640 in 2021 and 725 in 2020. The number of homeless people in the city was 7,754 as of February 23, 2022, down from 8,035 on January 24, 2019, according to city data. Indicated. Banana Republic, Nordstrom and Whole Foods have all closed downtown stores in recent months, raising concerns.
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