Salesforce.com Announces Cloudforce London 2012 – The Largest Social Enterprise Event in Europe
May 3, 2012
Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced it will host the largest social enterprise event in Europe, Cloudforce London 2012, on May 22nd at the ICC London ExCeL. More than 14,000 people are expected to register to learn how their companies can use social and mobile cloud technologies to transform into social enterprises. Cloudstock, Europe’s first ever social enterprise developer event, will be co-located at Cloudforce London and allow developers to get hands-on, and start coding the next generation of social enterprise apps.
Free registration to attend in person is available at www.salesforce.com/uk/cloudforce or watch the keynote online and join the conversation with Salesforce Live! beginning at 10:00 a.m. BST at www.facebook.com/salesforce…
Immediately following the keynote, Chief Operating Officer George Hu, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Graham Smith and Co-Founder and Executive Vice President Parker Harris will host a press and analyst Q&A session at approximately 12:15 p.m. BST, which will be audiocast live at www.salesforce.com/investor .
Comment on the News
"Response to the social enterprise has been simply stunning at every Cloudforce event around the world," said George Hu, Chief Operating Officer, salesforce.com. "And at Cloudforce London, thousands of companies from across Europe will be joining us to learn how they can use social and mobile cloud technologies to connect with their customers and employees in completely new ways."
The Social Enterprise Revolution
A social revolution is taking place today. The number of social networking users has surpassed e-mail users. Nearly a quarter of all time spent online is spent on social networks like Facebook. People access the Internet more from mobile devices than from desktops. Salesforce.com is helping companies meet the challenge of this social revolution with its social enterprise solution. Today, companies must change the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with customers and employees to stay competitive. By leveraging salesforce.com’s social and mobile cloud technologies to develop customer and employee social networks, companies can transform themselves into social enterprises.
Cloudforce London 2012
Cloudforce London 2012 is the largest social enterprise event in Europe with more than 14,000 people expected to register to attend. In addition to a packed keynote, the event will feature 25 breakout sessions, innovative solutions from over 100 exhibiting partners in the Cloud Expo, and numerous customer success stories from around the world. Salesforce.com executives, partners and customers including – Activision, Burberry, Google, HP, Kimberly-Clark, LinkedIn and O2 – will demonstrate how companies can leverage employee and customer social networks to transform into social enterprises and delight customers and employees in completely new ways.
Cloudstock – Join Developers Coding the Social Enterprise
Cloudstock is Europe’s first social enterprise developer event, featuring technical sessions, hands-on coding and best practices to build the next generation of social enterprise apps. Cloudstock kicks off at 1:30 p.m. BST on 22nd May with the Cloudstock Developer General Session. Developers will learn how to develop apps that are social, mobile and real time with the Salesforce Platform, which includes technologies such as Force.com, Heroku and Database.com. At the heart of Cloudstock is the Dev Zone, which offers demos, a hack lab, community talks, and more.