Calling all Salesforce Developers! It’s time to experience the largest and most trusted AI event in the world: Dreamforce 2025. Get ready to unlock unprecedented success with the power of trusted AI, real-time data, and CRM.
We know you’re eagerly counting down the days until the event, happening on October 14–16, and this guide will help you plan your perfect three-day experience.
Across Trailblazer Forest, developer track sessions, 115+ community-led sessions, and hands-on learning, there are more opportunities for developers than ever before. Whether you’re joining us in San Francisco or on Salesforce+, this guide will prepare you with the must-do and must-see activities for developers at Dreamforce 2025.
How to prepare for Dreamforce 2025
Road to Dreamforce 2025 Quest
Get ready for Dreamforce with curated resources, can’t-miss sessions, and hands-on learning by diving into the Road to Dreamforce Quest on Trailhead. Complete the Quest before October 13, 2025 and you’ll be entered for a chance to win* an Agentforce prize box (1 of 100). *No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Country of residence and other restrictions apply. See the Trailblazer Quests page for full details and restrictions.
Dreamforce Hackathon: Build the future with Agentforce and Slack
Prepare for Dreamforce by joining the Dreamforce 2025 Hackathon and reimagining Salesforce user experiences in Slack. Explore building the future of Salesforce applications with rich conversational experiences that bring humans and agents together to unlock unprecedented productivity, and get a chance to win the $100k Grand Prize.
The Hackathon Submission period is open from August 20, 2025 – September 24, 2025 — register now and complete your submissions by the due date to be eligible for prizes. Terms apply, see Official Rules.
Don’t forget to add the session, Hackathon Showdown: Build the Future with Agentforce & Slack, to your Dreamforce 2025 agenda to watch finalists pitch their innovative solutions onsite at Dreamforce.
Dreamforce keynotes for developers
Dreamforce is jam-packed with must-see sessions for developers, including two visionary keynotes and an exciting product roadmap discussion. If you’re attending in person, be sure to add these sessions to your agenda, or register for the livestream on Salesforce+.
Dreamforce 2025 Main Keynote
Join Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and guests to explore what it means to become an Agentic Enterprise, where humans and agents work together to drive customer success.
📅 Mark your calendar: Tuesday, October 14, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PT
❗Add the Dreamforce Keynote to your agenda or watch on Salesforce+
Developer Keynote: Build Your Agentic Enterprise
Discover new developer tools to build the future of apps with AI and data. Learn how to build your Agentic Enterprise with Agentforce, Data Cloud, Slack, and the deeply unified Salesforce Platform.
📅 Mark your calendar: Wednesday, October 15, 2:00 p.m.–2:50 p.m. PT
❗Add the Developer Keynote to your agenda or watch on Salesforce+
True to the Core at Dreamforce 2025
Join Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris for the annual True to the Core Keynote. Hear product leaders share highlights from our product roadmap and answer your questions live.
📅 Mark your calendar: Wednesday, October 15, 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. PT
🎤 Featured speakers: Steve Fisher, Meredith Brown, Kat Holmes, Parker Harris, Srini Tallapragada, Alice Steinglass, Khush Singh
❗Add True to the Core to your agenda or watch on Salesforce+
Get hands-on in Trailblazer Forest 🌲
After you pick up your Dreamforce conference badge in Moscone West, head to Trailblazer Forest, the home for developers, admins, architects, and IT leaders. Here, you’ll find deep technical sessions, hands-on learning opportunities, and the latest product demos led by Salesforce experts.
The following are some key areas you’ll want to look out for in Trailblazer Forest.
Developer Grove
Developer Grove is the ultimate hub for developers at Dreamforce 2025. Begin your three-day learning journey here and dive into the latest innovations in Salesforce development.
Stop by the Genius Bar-style demo to get hands-on with the newest developer innovations. Plus, jump into a 15-minute hands-on activity to experience Enterprise Vibe Coding and learn how to build faster with AI-powered code generation from natural language prompts.
Camp Mini Hack
Camp Mini Hack is for developers, admins, and architects who love to solve challenges. Stop by Camp Mini Hack, choose a hack, and win prizes along the way. With challenges for all skill levels, you’ll dive into topics like Apex, Flow, Slack, Data Cloud, and more.
At Camp Mini Hack, you’ll experience Agentforce in action. An agent will welcome you, guide you through your chosen hack, validate your solution, and unlock your prize.
Camp Trailhead
Visit Camp Trailhead to earn a new, hands-on Trailhead badge and learn more about Agentblazer status. Have fun at the photo booth, connect with fellow Agentblazers, and earn exclusive swag.
Platform Park
Learn how to build, scale, and customize AI-powered solutions through 19 expert-led, technical platform demos. Get hands-on demonstrations of Salesforce’s core platform tools, and experience how to build faster and smarter with Flow Builder, AI apps, and automation.
Basecamp Theater 🎤
Kickstart your learning journey with introductory sessions at Basecamp Theater. With seven repeating sessions, you’ll explore how to harness AI with Agentforce, unify data with Data Cloud, connect Salesforce with Slack, and build on the Salesforce Platform. Dive into the latest automations, developer tools, and AI-powered features to turn ideas into impact. The full list of sessions is below.
- Agentforce for Admins and Developers
- Data Cloud for Admins and Developers
- Create Salesforce Channels and Employee Agents
- Vibe Coding with Slack
- Introduction to the Salesforce Platform
- Vibe Coding on the Salesforce Platform
- Agentic Setup
Skill up with developer sessions
Developer sessions are deeply technical and tell stories about business challenges, their solutions, and the results achieved that showcase customer success. Learn best practices, deep technical knowledge, and plenty of inspiration. There will be sessions for all levels across features and topics, including Salesforce Platform and developer tooling, Apex, Enterprise Vibe Coding, Lightning Web Components, and more.
The Developer Track offers a mix of 20-minute theater sessions and 45-minute breakout sessions. In theater sessions, you’ll experience a concise and informative introduction to a specific topic. In breakout sessions, we’ll be focusing on a specific product or solution, followed by a Q&A. For a more thorough exploration of technical aspects, join our 75-minute Deep Dive sessions.
To find developer sessions in the Dreamforce session catalog, select “Role” in the left navigation and check “Developer” to see all developer sessions. Join these sessions in Developer Theater, directly next to Developer Grove in Trailblazer Forest.
Can’t-miss technical developer sessions to add to your agenda ✏️
Salesforce Platform & developer tooling sessions
Advanced Apex Best Practices
What to expect: Write better Apex with advanced patterns. Learn best practices for Agentforce actions, a decision guide for Async Apex, and how to build your own frameworks for truly scalable solutions.
Featured speakers: Mitch Spano, Daniel Ballinger
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Build Future-Proof Apps with Apex Enterprise Patterns
What to expect: Learn how Apex Enterprise Patterns reduce technical debt, ensure scalability, and align with Salesforce best practices. This session includes live demos and real-world use cases for devs and architects.
Featured speakers: Himanshoo Seth, Ashish Arora (Accenture)
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Create Apps and Code Faster with Enterprise Vibe Coding
What to expect: Join our product teams and deep dive into our new MCP-powered Dev Agent, featuring Code Analyzer and ApexGuru for better code. Learn how you can create apps and code faster and better with AI.
Featured speakers: Jeff Douglas, Mayuresh Verma, Michelle Lin, John Belo
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Discover the Future of Salesforce Development: Roadmap & Q&A
What to expect: Explore new tools to enhance your developer experience. Salesforce product managers will share the roadmap for agents, MCP, and vibe coding, and answer questions in this interactive session.
Featured speakers: Karishma Lalwani, Dan Fernandez, Saoud Rizwan
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How to Design and Build Better Lightning Web Components
What to expect: Learn the LWC lifecycle from idea to built component. Learn design thinking, how to use visual mockups, tools to help build, and comprehensive testing strategies for high-quality components.
Featured speaker: Dave Norris
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Introduction to Lightning Web Components
What to expect: Get started with Lightning Web Components, a framework for building rich and composable user interfaces, on the Salesforce Platform and outside of it, with standard HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Featured speaker: Satya Sekhar Chegondi
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Introduction to Salesforce APIs
What to expect: Learn how Salesforce APIs power integrations and data exchange. We’ll demystify different API types (REST, SOAP, etc.) and authentication methods with real-world examples.
Featured speaker: Aditya Naag Topalli
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Write Less. Build More. Vibe with Code Builder
What to expect: Supercharge your dev flow with vibe coding in Code Builder. Use natural language to generate code, speed up setup, and level up your skills. Write less, build more, and learn faster — that’s the vibe.
Featured speakers: Grisha Lyukshin, Raj Sensharma, Greg Whitworth
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Agentforce & AI Sessions
AI Tools for Developers to Build Accessible Products
What to expect: Salesforce is using AI to make accessibility easier for everyone. Learn how tools like the Accessibility Agent help developers build accessible components, apps, and agents from the start.
Featured speakers: Karen Herr, Megan Alfaro
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AWS and Salesforce: Enable Seamless Agent Interoperability
What to expect: Discover how to leverage Agentforce and AWS to unlock multi-agent scenarios.
Featured speakers: Pragya Anand, Ross Belmont, Bill Tarr
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Building Agentic Apps Faster with AI-Powered Developer Tools
What to expect: Learn how to quickly and effectively build and deploy AI agents on the Salesforce Platform. Hear about the future of creating agentic experiences with AI-powered low-code and pro-code tools.
Featured speakers: Shannon Matthews, Rashmi Singh, Joshua Stern
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Create Advanced Agent Tests with Low-Code and Pro-Code Tools
What to expect: Learn how advanced testing capabilities, like context variables, custom evaluations, and context history, can improve the quality and reliability of agent tests.
Featured speakers: Ran Fu, Vivek Chawla
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Create Apps and Code Faster with Enterprise Vibe Coding
What to expect: Join our product teams and deep dive into our new MCP-powered Dev Agent, featuring Code Analyzer and ApexGuru for better code. Learn how you can create apps and code faster and better with AI.
Featured speakers: Jeff Douglas, Mayuresh Verma, Michelle Lin, John Belo
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Get Started with Agentforce Lifecycle Management and DevOps
What to expect: Hear how IT leaders empower teams to build, test, and ship Agentforce quickly, securely, and at scale with ALM. Discover best practices for products like DevOps Center, Sandboxes, and Agent Builder.
Featured speakers: Rob Power, Karen Fidelak, Rohit Mehta
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Get Started with Lightning Web Components Using Agentforce
What to expect: Customize the Salesforce Platform UI with Lightning Web Components. Build and execute your first data-driven component using Agentforce for Developers — no coding experience needed.
Featured speakers: Joseph Flowers, Stuart Werner, Rahul Shah
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Intro to Agent and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
What to expect: Learn Salesforce’s five-stage ALM process for AI-powered agents and apps. Discover our tools to plan, build, test, deploy, and observe with governance baked in to reduce risk and accelerate innovation.
Featured speakers: Diego Mogollon, Travon Jackson
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Navigating Agentforce LLM Provider Options
What to expect: Learn how to use the new Agentforce model provider experience, where you can now select from OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Sonnet for your agent use cases.
Featured speaker: Darvish Shadravan
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Security Best Practices with Agentforce
What to expect: Learn about the security model for internal and external facing agents, and best practices on sharing data with Agentforce.
Featured speaker: Vishwa Vikas Dagala
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Test Your Agents and Deploy with Confidence
What to expect: Test, analyze, and optimize performance. Explore a comprehensive testing and deployment strategy using Sandboxes, Agentforce Testing Center, Scale Test, Scale Center, and ApexGuru for scalable AI solutions.
Featured speakers: Vaishnavi Nulu Reddi, Faisal Velani
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Data Cloud Sessions
Bring Your Own Code: Data Cloud’s Developer Superpower
What to expect: Learn how to use Data Cloud’s Bring Your Own Code (BYOC) to run custom Python on your data. We’ll show you how to securely deploy and execute code, unlocking new use cases.
Featured speaker: Aditya Naag Topalli
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How Agentforce Thrives on Data Cloud’s Unified Intelligence
What to expect: Discover how Agentforce uses structured, unstructured, and segment data as dynamic knowledge to power real-time, contextual experiences across service, marketing, and commerce.
Featured speakers: Matthew Lieber, Gina Nichols
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Master Data Ingestion Techniques for Data Cloud
What to expect: Master data ingestion in Data Cloud with key methods, connectors, and mapping tips. Learn best practices to streamline flow, boost integration, and enable real-time, actionable insights.
Featured speakers: Madhu Rokkam, Sowmith Kotha, Sandeep K
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Optimize Your RAG in Data Cloud with Hybrid Search Ranking
What to expect: Hybrid Search in Data Cloud brings improved RAG to GenAI apps. Admins and developers can fine-tune and optimize RAG performance using hybrid search ranking functions to achieve elevated search results.
Featured speakers: Paulo Gomes, Franny Hsiao
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Process Unstructured Data with Data Cloud’s Document AI
What to expect: Process unstructured data like images and invoices with Data Cloud’s Document AI. Learn to configure schema, invoke the service via Apex, flows, and APIs, and integrate the results with Agentforce.
Featured speaker: Akshata Sawant
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Unlocking Data Cloud Clean Rooms: A Developer’s Guide
What to expect: Learn to use Data Cloud clean rooms to securely share data and gain insights. We’ll explore the APIs and BYOC to build powerful, privacy-first applications.
Featured speaker: Satya Sekhar Chegondi
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More things to look out for at Dreamforce 2025 👀
Dreamforce welcome reception and Hackathon Showdown 🎉
We’re bringing back the fun on Day 1 of Dreamforce. Join us in Trailblazer Forest from 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14 for extended hours across the floor, along with light food and drinks.
During the welcome reception, be sure to join the Dreamforce Hackathon Showdown to watch Dreamforce Hackathon finalists pitch their innovative solutions that demonstrate the future of agentic applications with Agentforce and Slack, and compete for a chance to win $100,000.
The Well-Architected program is back
The Well-Architected program is back at Dreamforce 2025. As organizations embrace the Agentic Enterprise, Well-Architected principles are more important than ever to ensure long-term success.
Join the Future of Well-Architected panel for an inside look at what’s next for Well-Architected. Discover the program’s evolving vision, hear insights from the leaders shaping its direction, ask your questions, and share feedback.
In Trailblazer Forest, you’ll also find a dedicated Well-Architected space to explore trusted patterns and real-world implementation guidance. Join expert-led sessions grounded in the Salesforce Well-Architected Framework to learn how to scale securely, manage complexity, and make informed architecture decisions. Expect technical deep dives, open Q&A, and live diagramming designed to help you apply best practices and navigate architectural patterns.
Dreamfest 🎸
Pick your stage. Set your vibe. Kick things off your way at Dreamfest.
Rock out to one of the most iconic bands in history, Metallica, or backflip to a high-energy set from pop’s rising star, Benson Boone. All to benefit UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.
Dreamfest will be on Wednesday, October 15 from 6:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. at Chase Center. Dreamfest is included with your in-person Dreamforce registration. All you need to attend is your Dreamforce conference badge and a government-issued ID.
Salesforce certifications at Dreamforce
Dreamforce 2025 full conference pass attendees have the opportunity to take one Salesforce certification exam valued at up to $200 as an experience benefit included in the conference pass. Read the Guide to Certification Exams at Dreamforce for all the details and the full list of available exams.
Quick Dreamforce tips 📝
Accessible Guide to Dreamforce 2025
Learn what to expect at Dreamforce this year from a first-person explanation of the event, plus find important information for attendees with accessibility needs or concerns.
Get even more Dreamforce content on Salesforce+
Can’t make it to Dreamforce in person? Select keynotes and sessions will be live-streamed on Salesforce+ during all three days of the event. There will be 72 hours of live broadcast, featuring exclusive digital content, interviews with experts, behind-the-scenes moments, and more. In addition to the live experience, 400+ on-demand episodes will be available for viewing after Dreamforce ends.
Register for Salesforce+ now to get access to all of the exclusive content.
Explore the Salesforce Admin track
Looking to diversify your agenda at Dreamforce? Check out all of the code and low-code sessions for Salesforce Admins. For more information, read the Salesforce Admin’s Guide to Dreamforce 2025.
Get ready for Dreamforce 2025 ✅
Dreamforce 2025 will be here before you know it! Take these steps now to prepare for the big event.
- Register to attend Dreamforce.
- Add the Developer Keynote to your agenda.
- Prepare for the event of the year with the Road to Dreamforce 2025 Quest. Complete the Quest by 11:59 p.m. PT on October 13, 2025 to be entered to win* an Agentforce prize box (1 of 100).
- Download the Salesforce Events app in the App Store or Google Play Store to keep track of everything on your agenda in one easy-to-access place.
- Connect with your peers in the Salesforce Developers Trailblazer Community Group.
- If you’re not attending Dreamforce in person, be sure to register for the Salesforce+ experience.
- Follow Salesforce Developers on X and LinkedIn for more updates.
About the author
Kaitlin Benz is the Developer Marketing Communications Lead at Salesforce. She’s most passionate about storytelling, podcasts, and vegan food. Find her on LinkedIn.