Blockchain at Dreamforce 2018
Two very powerful words… Dreamforce and Blockchain.
Here is a quick guide to what you can expect to learn about blockchain at the conference this year.

Introduction to Blockchain — Session 1 / Session 2
SESSION 1
Tuesday, September 25, 8:00 AM — 8:20 AM
Moscone West, Developer Theater
SESSION 2
Friday, September 28, 12:15 PM — 12:35 PM
Moscone West, Frontier Theater
Understand how Blockchain can help your business and how it is incorporated into your favorite Salesforce interface. A simple to understand explanation on the importance of Ethereum and Hyperledger Smart Contracts and Distributed Ledgers. See a live demo of Heroku for Blockchain Add-On and IBM’s fabric natively in Salesforce. By the end of this no-hype session, you will have new knowledge and insight on what blockchain is and how it fits into a Salesforce environment as well as how to learn more about good use cases for this exciting technology.

Blockchain + Salesforce: The Future of Secure Student Data
Thursday, September 27, 2:30 PM — 2:50 PM
Westin St. Francis, Cascade Theater
Join Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) for the first-ever live demo of their Greenlight Platform, which combines Blockchain technology with the Higher Education Data Architecture for Salesforce to create a distributed ledger of student credentials. The Greenlight Platform empowers students to own their own learning credentials. And because the data is stored in Blockchain, it gives employers and educational institutions the ability to instantly verify a student’s credentials.

Blockchain for #SocialGood
Thursday, September 27, 4:15 PM — 4:55 PM
Metreon AMC Theatres, Level 3 Theater 12
At its origin, blockchain was a decentralized model for financial transactions, but the foundational basis for blockchain, concept of a distributed ledger, has since evolved to take on new use cases. It’s no surprise with its transformation and broader adoption, the technology has seen growing interest from those working on social impact and government projects across the #socialgood landscape. This breakout session will host a panel of thought leaders and industry experts discussing the rapidly evolving possibilities of the technology and the accompanying challenges. This session is intended for any level of interest in technology and social impact. There will be a Q&A portion of the panel for you to get involved.

Blockchain Is Just the Beginning: Distribution and Disruption
Thursday, September 27, 3:00 PM — 3:40 PM
Palace Hotel, Gold Ballroom
Salesforce gurus Antonio Figueiredo and Amihai Zeltzer share their insights on the opportunities, impacts, and issues of shared-truth, intermediary-free data models, followed by a fireside chat and moderated Q&A with Peter Coffee of Salesforce Strategic Research.

Build Your Blockchain Use Case with Salesforce & IBM
Wednesday, September 26, 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM
City View at Metreon, Level 4 — Grand View Point
Join Ignite, Salesforce’s customer facing innovation team, and members of the IBM’s blockchain team for a workshop session on building blockchain use cases for your industry. The session will include exploring some of IBM’s existing blockchain customer success stories, an Ignite-facilitated interactive discussion focused on building for each industry group’s user experience, and a guest speaker on next steps and the importance of governance. You’ll leave this session with a can-do attitude and an excitement to get started. This session is intended for executive level business leaders looking for innovative ways to solve industry-wide challenges.

Creating Successful Blockchain Consortiums
Wednesday, September 26, 11:45 AM — 12:05 PM
City View at Metreon, Level 4 — Elevation Ridge Theater
The question of how we might continue to meet/exceed customer experience expectations and avoid disruption is becoming ever more difficult to answer. This breakout/theater session will show you how emerging technologies like blockchain can help each participant in the value chain shift their focus from controlling more of the pie to creating more value together. Ignite, Salesforce’s customer-facing innovation team, has imagined a future enabled by blockchain, IoT, and AI that might just send everyone home with leftovers. This session is intended for anyone looking for perspective around this new emerging technology, outside the hype of cryptocurrencies. It would help to have a basic understanding about the technology, but it’s not a prerequisite.

Digitizing Global Supply, Trade & Transportation Management Powered by Blockchain
Wednesday, September 26, 3:00 PM — 3:20 PM
InterContinental Hotel, Industries Theater 02
Salesforce is delivering the future of Global Trade & Logistics, rooted in secure digital communities, where customers, suppliers and carriers engage from quote through delivery, with automated transparency, trust, efficiency, and speed. Join us as Neurored demonstrates its 100% Native Force.com, Global Supply Chain & Transportation Management App highlighting use cases for shippers, freight forwarders, and wholesale traders. As an added bonus, Neurored will highlight its Blockchain For Files add on, also available in the Salesforce Appexchange, which ensures documents are authentic, unchanged, and free of fraud.

