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Tour de Force at Dreamforce: The Ultimate Force.com Experience
Get ready... The Tour de Force world tour is making its biggest and boldest stop in San Francisco this November! Prepare to go deep on Force.com, the world's first platform-as-a-service. Tour de Force at Dreamforce is the conference within a conference for software developers, admins, IT managers, architects, ISVs, and entrepreneurs. Join 2000+ of your colleagues from the Force.com ecosystem for an all-you-can-learn event featuring incredible news and content, inspiring sessions, hands-on labs, 1:1 tutorials, and more!

Tour de Force at Dreamforce gives you full access to the Dreamforce conference, plus exclusive, developer-only features:

 

• Platform Keynote
  Kick off the conference with salesforce.com Chairman & CEO Marc Benioff's ever-surprising platform address.
  
• Force.com State of the Union
  Get a complete overview of the latest Force.com technologies and the powerful ecosystem that goes with it.
  
• In-Depth, Practical Content
  Force.com experts are ready and waiting to teach you everything you need to build out-of-this-world apps.
  
• Sessions Galore
  We’ve got 40+ sessions on Force.com technologies, complete with hands-on demos and practical guidance.
  
• The Force.com Zone
  Drop in anytime to speak 1:1 with technical experts, network, or get the new high score in the Nintendo Wii Tournament.
  
• Immersion Lab
  Get answers to your burning questions through tutorials or 1:1 guidance from our lab staffers.
  
• Monday Night Hackathon
  You’ll be inspired to build great things with the exclusive cutting-edge technologies announced on Monday, so spend the evening working directly with our top Force.com experts and the rest of the developer community to make your ideas a reality! It’s a collaborative coding marathon event, only at Dreamforce.
  
• Technology Preview
  Be the first to get hands-on with the very latest Force.com technology, announced exclusively at Dreamforce!
  
• Special Events
  Meet and network with fellow developers, Salesforce experts, and industry thought leaders. Get involved!
• Developer Certification
  Sign up for a Force.com certification exam at Dreamforce. Those who pass will enjoy special privileges at Dreamforce!

 

Tour de Force Tracks

Developers @ Dreamforce features six tracks to cram in as much knowledge and innovation as possible—for everyone from executives to administrators to hard-core developers. Each track offers practical presentations from Salesforce experts to give you essential fundamentals, insider tips and tricks, and development best practices across a variety of topics. Pick-and-choose from the tracks to customize your Dreamforce experience.

Track 1: Admin to App Builder
Wish you could build powerful applications for your organization—without programming? Force.com lets you create meaningful apps without traditional development skills. Join fellow admins as you learn app-building techniques to help you—and your company—get more out of Force.com.

Track 2: Force.com Fundamentals
So you’re already a developer, but you aren't creating applications on the Force.com platform yet? This track shows you exactly how to apply your existing skills to Force.com as you learn how to design, develop, and deploy complete and comprehensive applications in the cloud.

Track 3: Mastering Force.com
The Force.com platform provides a crazy-rich development environment. If you already have experience developing on the Force.com platform, the sessions in this track can show you how to extend your skills with the latest technologies, tools, code samples, and integration methods.

Track 4: Platform Tech Talks
New to Dreamforce '08 are Platform Tech Talks which will cover subjects of interest to developers... product roadmap updates, behind-the-scenes glimpses of how salesforce.com builds and delivers technologies, and the opportunity for Q&A with key architects and technologists on the Force.com R&D team.

Track 5: Force.com Entrepreneur
It's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur! Force.com lets entrepreneurs develop, deploy, and market SaaS applications quickly and profitably. This track shows you how to translate your innovation into a real revenue stream, covering key business concepts such as business planning, fundraising, distribution options, marketing, and more.

Track 6: IT Executives
Are you an IT manager or executive looking to understand the current shift in enterprise IT to cloud computing and Web-based architectures? This track is designed to educate you on the latest technical trends with tools and techniques to apply to your own application development processes.

 

Force.com Immersion Lab
Ready to get your hands on the latest Force.com technologies? The Immersion Lab gives you the chance to explore the latest-and-greatest platform products and features. We'll have Force.com technical evangelists, product managers, and R&D experts on hand to answer your most challenging questions.

The Force.com Zone
Take a break in the Force.com Zone! Drop-in to meet up with fellow developers, get some work done, or gain new insights into Visualforce, Apex code, APIs, and other platform technologies. Complete with comfortable seating, WiFi, and our ever-popular Nintendo Wii tournament, it’s the perfect place to meet up with other developers and Force.com experts between sessions.