Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff to Participate in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19, 2016 /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 in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 taking place in Davos, Switzerland from January 20-23, 2016. At the World Economic Forum, Benioff will participate in the following public sessions:

• Wednesday, January 20, 2016: Benioff will join Alcoa Chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld, Schneider Electric Chairman and CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson and Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and CEO Meg Whitman in a panel moderated by Boston Consulting Group CEO and President Rich Lesser. The session is titled "The Digital Transformation of Industries," and will begin at approximately 10:30 a.m. CET. A live webcast will be available at http://webcasts.weforum.org/widget/1/davos2016?a=72291&p=1&pi=1.
• Saturday, January 23, 2016: Benioff will join International Trade Union Confederation General Secretary Sharan Burrow and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Groupe Maurice Lévy in a panel moderated by CNBC's Geoff Cutmore. The session is titled "The Future of Growth: Technology Driven, Human Centred," and will begin at approximately 9:15 a.m. CET. A live webcast will be available at http://webcasts.weforum.org/widget/1/davos2016?a=73501&p=1&pi=1.

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