#DreamForce15: Benioff for President, FINGERTIP.ORG, EVENTPRESENCE.COM & Free Massage

If you were thinking that the current lineup for presidential elections is quite wild, here is a different kind of option: rumor goes that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is going to run for President in 2020. And to make sure the word gets out, a #DreamForce15 team is walking around giving away $2 for each tweet featuring the tag #Benioff2020. 

Not to deviate the discussion to the eternal Trump, but I have to confess that I rehashed several relationships with some friends, who said they would consider voting Donald because "he is a great businessman" and therefore he will do a great job running the country. How about this, "friends": wait four more years and vote in a real great businessman, who is also intelligent, and is not afraid of meaningful charity (for details see Benioff Children's Hospital )

There are plenty other cool stuff happening this year at Dreamforce, including a the One Million Children Books challenge, a Valet Bike Parking, as well as the traditional Dreamfest - starting in just a few hours at Pier 70 and featuring the Foo Fighters, The Killers and Gary Clark Jr.

As about the Cloud Expos 2015, the biggest challenge is, once you enter the floor, to not freak out! There are so many cool stuff, that I personally had to figure out a clear system of selection: I simply chose the first two booths that I though are related to my writing focus: culture, tech, and psychology.

The first one is Fingertip, a startup based in Finland, which deals with one of my favorite topics: social decision-making in organizational cultures. Fingertip app introduces a new approach to organizational culture optimization, a holistic methodology that captures the entire lifecycle of a decision from the triggering question to collaborating for the best solution, execution and evaluation. At Cloud Expo Founder Jaakko Pellosniemi gives away his new book, Social Decision-Making.

The second cool startup I saw at Cloud Expo was Event Presence: can't attend an event live for various reasons -such as if your name is Edward Snowden? Or maybe you have difficulties being in large crowds, or speaking in front of a live audience? No problem, you can now rent a Beam, which you or your assistant can pilot around the event grounds, from anywhere in the world. I had the pleasure to chat with Event Presence CEO, Steve Ernst, who introduced me to Michelle Posey, Certified Class 4-Commercial Beam Pilot. Michelle was beaming from lovely Monterey, California:

Oh, and one more thing: there is free food, free coffee and free ice-cream, provided for all DreamForce15 attendees by Adobe food trucks (Mission St. and New Montgomery). As well as free massage -plus coffee and pastries- at Optimizely co-working space.