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THURSDAY HIGHLIGHTS
General session - Force.com platform
"When are you going to ask for innovation," salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff challenged the audience, before introducing Force.com and the new Chatter social platform as “fresh, exciting ways to break out of the status quo” presented by traditional platforms. Executives from companies including BMC, Vetrazzo, Japan's Lawson, Avon, CA, Appirio, and Accenture joined Marc on stage to demo new applications built on Force.com.

Special general session - General Colin Powell inspires
An impassioned Marc Benioff took the stage to showcase the great work the Salesforce.com Foundation does for the community, including donating $2 million to a new University of California San Francisco children’s hospital. He warmly introduced his friend, General Colin L. Powell (Ret.), who received a standing ovation.

General Powell regaled the crowd with funny stories of life after his Secretary of State post, such as becoming a proud owner of a Corvette. He imparted the audience with notions of ideal leadership, including contributing to society, always taking care of one’s “troops,” being a disciplinarian when necessary, and most importantly, being trustworthy. General Powell held the 8,000+ audience rapt, and reminded us all to be self-motivated and inspired.

4th annual Appy Awards
Congratulations to all our Appy Award winners! We’re in awe of the amazing ways they’re using salesforce.com technologies.
Sales Cloud Appy: Jamie Cornell, Chief Marketing Officer, Prudential Retirement (deployment by Deloitte)
Power of Us Appy: Susan Troen, Director of Data Services, Year Up
MVP Admin Appy: Emily Kranz, VP of Customer Facing Operations, Listingbook, LLC
Chief Innovator Appy: Yoichi Yokomizo, EVP and CIO, Lawson, Inc.
Custom Cloud Appy: Joe Drouin, CIO, Kelly Services, Inc.
Enterprise Deployment Appy: Junichiro Hisada, Director of IT, Sompo Japan Insurance, Inc.
Best Partner App Appy: DocuSign (as voted by thousands of Dreamforce attendees and tallied by a Force.com custom app designed by CloudConnect)

Tons of sessions
Thursday was packed with sessions, starting bright and early at 7:30 a.m. In our ever-popular hands-on sessions, attendees got to practice what they were learning right in salesforce.com.

Missed a session? You can download the slides for this or any of the Dreamforce sessions in the Attendee Portal. After Dreamforce ends, most sessions will be available on YouTube, and in early December, we'll add them to the Dreamforce Web site. So even if you missed something, you won't miss a thing!

Cloud Crawl
At press time the Dreamforce crowd was making their way to the Temple Nightclub to get their drink on. Partygoers collected stamps from Cloud Crawl sponsors to earn an invitation to experience San Francisco’s South of Market nightclub scene.

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ON TAP TODAY
As you attend the final sessions of Dreamforce 2009 today, take a moment to pull out your calendar and...

Save the date for Dreamforce 2010
It's never too early to get excited about the next Dreamforce! Enter December 6-9, 2010 into your calendar.
We'll see you next year!

TODAY'S FEATURED SESSIONS
See the future: Find out what’s in store for salesforce.com in upcoming releases.

Platform Road Map: Administrator Tools of the Future
10:15–11:15 a.m.
Esplanade 310
Adam Torman, salesforce.com; Patricia Orr, salesforce.com; Mary Scotton, salesforce.com

The Service Cloud Road Map: What’s Next?
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
North 121/122
Larry Robinson, salesforce.com

Product Road Map: Sneak Peek into the Future
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
North 133
William Moxley, salesforce.com

Analytics Road Map
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Esplanade 306
Thomas Tobin, salesforce.com; Leo Tenenblat, salesforce.com

DON'T MISS
Cloud Expo
Have you made you way to the Cloud Expo yet? If not, head over there this morning before Dreamforce winds down so you won't miss the latest cloud-computing innovations from over 250 sponsors. Prepare to be wowed with over 1,000 solutions, ideas, and advice.

And don't forget to stop by the AppExchange Test Drive Zone, where you can learn what's new with the world's first marketplace for cloud-computing applications. While you're there, find out how you can get behind the wheel of a Tesla, the world's first high-performance, 100% electric vehicle.
Location: Moscone North, Hall D

AND FINALLY...
Have fun! Get out there and explore the sessions, meet people, get your questions answered, and enjoy your time at Dreamforce.

And don’t forget to tell us what you think about the sessions you've attended. Take a session survey by logging into the Attendee Portal or finding a survey kiosk in Moscone South. Complete a survey, and you'll be entered to win one of several iPod Nanos in our daily drawings.

Thursday's iPod Nano winners:
David Ledrowski, Progress Software
Joy Tewksbury-Pabst, Hayes Management Consulting
Mike Burroughs, Benelicious-ISV Edition
Rob Burkett, Benefitfocus.com, Inc.
Toshiyuki Zamma, Gartner Co, Ltd.
Jessica Rush, Jobing.com
Deborah Parker, Liberty Mutual
James Scott, Tiburon
Jamie Hooper, Independent Community Bankers of America-ICBA
Heather Deloughrey, M Squared
Ethan Granger, Land Advisors Organization LLC
Tilmin Hudson, CPP Inc.
Robert Duncan, Make-A-Wish Foundation of British Columbia and Yukon
Sujata Nakhre, Network Solutions LLC

Thanks for making Dreamforce such a huge success… Hope to see you next year!