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.

Additional Resources for World Economic Forum


    --  More information about the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 is
        available at: http://wef.ch/davos16
    --  View the Open Forum programme at: http://wef.ch/openforum
    --  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 #Davos2016)
    --  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

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