SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE:
CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company,
today announced that Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will participate at the World
Economic Forum Annual Meeting taking place in Davos, Switzerland, from January 17-20, 2017. At the event, Benioff will
participate in the following panel discussions:
- Tuesday, January 17: Benioff will
join Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO,
General Motors; Shu Yinbiao, Chairman, State Grid Corporation of
China; and Dr. Vishal Sikka, CEO, Infosys, in a panel
discussion moderated by Ngaire
Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. The session will begin at
approximately 6:00 pm CET. A live
webcast of the event will be available at:
http://wef.ch/82968.
- Thursday, January 19: Benioff
will moderate a panel discussion with Mary
Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Peter Maurer, President, International
Committee, Red Cross; Paul Polman,
CEO, Unilever; Bernard J Tyson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser
Permanente; and will.i.am, Founder and President, i.am.angel
Foundation. The session will begin at approximately noon CET. A video recording of the panel will be
available at 9:00 am PST on
Friday, January 20, on Salesforce
LIVE: https://www.salesforce.com/video/430986/
Additional Resources for World Economic Forum
- More information about the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
2017 is available at: https://www.weforum.org
- Watch the sessions on demand on YouTube at:
http://wef.ch/youtube or http://wef.ch/youku
- Access the press photo archive at: http://wef.ch/pics
Connect with the World Economic Forum
- Become a fan of the Forum on Facebook at:
http://wef.ch/facebook
- Follow the Forum on Twitter at: http://wef.ch/twitter and
http://wef.ch/livetweet (hashtag #wef)
- Read the Forum's blog at: http://wef.ch/agenda
- Follow the Forum on Google+ at: http://wef.ch/gplus
- Follow the Annual Meeting on a smartphone at:
http://wef.ch/m
Connect with Salesforce
- Like Salesforce on Facebook:
http://facebook.com/salesforce
- Follow @salesforce on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/salesforce
- Read the Salesforce blog: http://blogs.salesforce.com/
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