Dreamforce is back, and Aekot is heading to San Francisco.
This September 15 through 17, Salesforce’s flagship conference returns to the Moscone Center for three days of keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, and the kind of hallway conversations that end up mattering more than the sessions themselves. It started in 2003 as a few thousand people at the Westin St. Francis. Now it pulls in tens of thousands of Trailblazers from well over a hundred countries, plus a virtual audience on Salesforce+ that dwarfs the in-person crowd. Dreamforce 2026 is built around a single idea this year: the agentic enterprise, and what it actually takes for a business to run on autonomous AI agents rather than just talk about them.
We’ll be there, and we wanted to share why.
Why we show up every year
Dreamforce is where the Salesforce ecosystem compares notes. Product teams show what’s shipping next. Partners talk shop about what’s actually working in client implementations versus what looks good in a demo. Customers ask the questions that don’t come up in a sales call. Marc Benioff usually opens the week with the big keynote, and this year the speaker list runs wider than the usual product roadmap crowd, with names like Tony Robbins and Sterling K. Brown alongside AI researchers and academics talking about what agentic systems mean for how people actually work.
For a consulting partner like Aekot, that mix is hard to replicate anywhere else. We build on Salesforce every day, across Health Cloud, Field Service, Agentforce, and the rest of the platform, but Dreamforce is where we get to stress-test our own thinking against what everyone else in the ecosystem is building and breaking. A roadmap slide is one thing. A twenty-minute conversation with an admin who deployed the same feature three months ago and hit three problems nobody mentioned on stage is worth a lot more.
There’s also a simple continuity to it. We were at Dreamforce last year, and the year before that pattern holds: the sessions change, the products change, but the value of standing in a room with the people actually running these systems doesn’t.
What we’re paying attention to this year
A few things are on our radar heading into this Dreamforce:
Agentforce, past the pilot stage. A lot of orgs spent the last year running Agentforce pilots. We’re interested in what the teams further along are saying about deployment at scale, where agents are earning their keep, and where they’re still getting supervised babysitting.
Data Cloud as the foundation, not the add-on. The sessions worth attending this year are less “here’s a new feature” and more “here’s what happens when your data actually is unified.” We want to hear from teams who’ve made that shift.
What’s changing for admins, developers, and architects. New AI capability always changes what the humans around it need to know. We’re going in with an eye on what that means for the people who actually build and maintain these orgs, since that’s most of our own team.
The parts that don’t show up in a keynote. Some of the best insight at Dreamforce comes from a five-minute conversation at a booth or in line for coffee. We’re planning to have plenty of those.
Dreamfest, unofficially. It’s not a session, but it’s worth a mention: the closing concert has raised well over a hundred million dollars for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals since it started. Good excuse to end the week on a decent note.
What we’re bringing to the conversation
We’re not going to Dreamforce just to collect swag and sit in the back of keynotes. Our team spans Apex and Lightning Web Components development, Copado-based CI/CD, and the kind of admin and architecture work that turns a Salesforce org from a collection of features into something a business actually runs on. We’ve spent this past year deep in Health Cloud and Field Service work through our internal ownership program, and we’ve watched Agentforce move from a slide in a keynote to something clients are asking to actually implement.
That combination, hands-on development plus a genuine content and community presence in the ecosystem, is part of what makes Dreamforce useful for us. We’re not just there to listen. We show up with real implementation experience to compare notes against, and we leave with a clearer sense of where the platform is heading and where our clients will need help getting there first.
Let’s connect while we’re there
If you’re going to be at Moscone Center this September, whether you’re evaluating Salesforce for the first time or three years into an implementation and looking for a second opinion, we’d like to meet you. That goes for fellow partners too. Some of our best client work has started as a conversation at an event like this one.
Event: Dreamforce 2026 Dates: September 15–17, 2026 Location: Moscone Center (North, South, and West), San Francisco, CA Also streaming: Salesforce+
Follow along with us on LinkedIn for updates from the ground, and use #AekotAtDreamforce if you want to say hello before we’re even there.
See you in San Francisco.