Calling all Salesforce Architects: Dreamforce 2026 is the moment to transform every part of your business. Dreamforce delivers three days of limitless impact with 1,600+ breakout sessions, 150+ hands-on trainings and demos, 50+ keynotes, and 240+ community roundtables. Discover the latest innovations across the Headless 360 platform, Agentforce, Data 360, MuleSoft, Slack, Informatica and more. 

Ready to plan your perfect Dreamforce agenda? 

Whether you’re joining us in San Francisco or tuning in on Salesforce+, this guide will help you plan your personalized architect experience. With My Agenda now live, it’s time to start building your schedule. See the sessions you’ve added alongside personalized, AI-powered recommendations based on your interests, so you can quickly add sessions that interest you or hide them anytime.

Prepare for Dreamforce 2026

Road to Dreamforce Quest

Before arriving at Dreamforce, dive into hands-on learning, must-see sessions, and curated resources to help you build your Agentic Enterprise. Complete the Road to Dreamforce Quest by September 14, 2026, and you’ll be entered for a chance to win* 1 of 100 prize boxes. *No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Country of residence and other restrictions apply. See the Trailblazer Quests page for full details and restrictions.

Architect Trail Map

The Dreamforce Architect Trail Map is your guide to Dreamforce for architects. We’ve curated the experiences, sessions, and connections most relevant to you so you can explore what to prioritize and make every moment at Dreamforce count.

Keynotes for architects

Architect Keynote: Architecture for the Agentic Future

• See the future of enterprise architecture come to life. Experience the latest Salesforce innovations and discover how architects are unlocking, scaling, and governing the Agentic Enterprise.
• Featured speakers: Miriam McCabe, Leo Tran, Shelly Sousa, Tim Breeden, Lilith Van Bisen
• Add this keynote to your agenda | Watch on Salesforce+

Dreamforce Main Keynote

• Join Salesforce Chair and CEO Marc Benioff, along with special guests, to explore what it means to become an Agentic Enterprise, where humans, agents, and platforms together promote customer success.
• Add this keynote to your agenda | Watch on Salesforce+

True to the Core: Live Q&A with Product Leaders

• Join Co-Founder Parker Harris and other Salesforce product leaders as they answer your questions in this fan-favorite, unscripted keynote. This is a unique opportunity to ask your questions and get answers directly from the experts. 
• Add this keynote to your agenda | Watch on Salesforce+

Experience interactive sessions in Architect Vista

Architect Vista features a dedicated theater with a whiteboarding setup, allowing for interactive live diagramming and architectural deep dives. 

All sessions in Architect Vista are:

• 40 minutes long, with time set aside for interactivity and whiteboarding.
• Deeply technical and relevant, covering topics from scale to Headless 360 to Informatica, and more.
• Led by expert architects and engineers from Salesforce and the community

Participate in the Dreamforce Quest and attend two sessions in Architect Vista to win a Ruth plush pal while supplies last. 

Recommended sessions in Architect Vista:

10 Agent Architecture Patterns from Salesforce Headless 360

• What to expect: Compare 10 architecture decisions that shift under Headless 360. Two CTAs will lightboard and redesign the same customer scenario side by side.
• Featured speakers: Poonam Keswani, Navita Sharma
• Add this session to your agenda

Architect Trust for Salesforce Headless 360 and Agentforce

• What to expect: When agents replace clicks, the trust model changes. Learn how to architect authentication, authorization, and audit for Agentforce agents connecting through Salesforce Headless 360.
• Featured speakers: AJ Kramer, Jude Umeh
• Add this session to your agenda

Consult Against Reality: Agentforce 360 Platform Edition

• What to expect: Participate in an interactive architect game that puts you in the consulting seat, architecting real agent scenarios under pressure, with the audience voting on your solution.
• Featured speakers: Beech Horn
• Add this session to your agenda

Explore Extreme Data Modeling

• What to expect: Learn advanced Salesforce data modeling patterns for flexible, scalable models, including polymorphism, supertypes versus subtypes, extension entities, key value pairs, common entities, and more.
• Featured speakers: J.J. Jakubik, Lars Martinsson
• Add this session to your agenda

Apply Architecture Patterns for Multi-Agent Governance

• What to expect: Discover architecture patterns for governing multi-agent AI systems. Learn approaches for orchestration, trust, escalation, observability, and secure Agent2Agent collaboration at enterprise scale.
• Featured speakers: Gaurav Kheterpal, Ishita Mathur
• Add this session to your agenda

Learn from the Salesforce Architecture Program team

These sessions are led by the team behind the Salesforce Architecture Program and offer a closer look at how we approach solutioning, content development, and acting on feedback from the architect community.

These sessions are:

• Led by the Salesforce Architecture Program, including evangelists and program leaders defining best practices and architectural direction
• Structured to break down real scenarios and solutions, using examples, frameworks, and architectural decision-making
• Focused on sharing program resources and gathering feedback, with opportunities to learn how content is evolving and share your perspective

All Salesforce Architecture Program sessions at Dreamforce:

Meet the New Well-Architected Framework

• What to expect: The Well-Architected Framework has evolved for the agentic era. Explore the new pillars of the new framework and learn how to apply them to trusted, scalable, and reliable agentic systems.
• Featured speaker: Tim Breeden
• Add this session to your agenda

How Salesforce Built an Agent on the Architecture Center

• What to expect: Learn how we built an AI assistant on the Architecture Center with Agentforce, including architecture decisions, RAG design, content grounding, and lessons learned from building at Salesforce scale.
• Featured speakers: Arvind Palaniswamy, Kshama Sabnis
• Add this session to your agenda

Think Like an Architect: AI-Native Design with Headless 360

• What to expect: Experience “Think Like an Architect” live. Use the What-How-Why method to design a zero-touch support flow using AI and IoT, evaluate complex options, and justify your design decisions.
• Featured speakers: Scott Ratliff, Carl Brundage
• Add this session to your agenda

The Architect’s Blueprint for Hierarchical Agent Networks

• What to expect: As agents grow in scope, coordination becomes critical. Discover how the same structures that make great teams work to improve delegation, governance, and reliability across multi-agent systems.
• Featured speakers: Gulal Kumar, Scott Ratliff
• Add this session to your agenda

Build a Composable Data Platform for Agentic Enterprise

• What to expect: Discover how to build a composable data platform within the Data 360 ecosystem that powers analytics and agentic workflows — unlocking unified, actionable data for agents at scale.
• Featured speakers: Badri Baindli, Gulal Kumar, Rudra Ray
• Add this session to your agenda

Explore more sessions for architects

The Dreamforce Architect Track focuses on technical deep dives, architecture patterns, real-world designs, and innovative business solutions. With so many sessions to choose from, some will be offered multiple times so you have more than one chance to attend. Select sessions will also be recorded and available on Salesforce+.

These sessions are:

• Led by Salesforce product experts, customers, and partners, sharing real-world implementations and lessons learned
• Structured to break down key topics and use cases, from platform capabilities to architectural decision-making
• Designed to help you evaluate approaches and tradeoffs, so you can apply what you learn to your own solutions

To find architect-focused sessions in the Dreamforce session catalog, select “Role” in the left navigation and then select “Architect.” There, you can also see which sessions are recorded, repeated, or in-person only.

Recommended theater sessions:

A Day in the Life of an AI-Assisted Architect

• What to expect: Learn how architects use AI to understand systems, evaluate designs, govern decisions, and accelerate solution delivery while remaining accountable for outcomes.
• Featured speakers: Abraham Lloyd, Angelica Buffa
• Add this session to your agenda

An Architect’s Guide to Prompt Engineering

• What to expect: Apply prompt engineering techniques that incorporate context, constraints, tools, and output design to create reliable interactions for Salesforce architecture and development.
• Featured speaker: Chetan Chugh, Sebastiano Schwarz
• Add this session to your agenda

A Governance Playbook for Agentforce and MCP

• What to expect: Learn practical governance patterns for Agentforce and MCP systems, including trust boundaries, human approvals, observability, and secure agent orchestration.
• Featured speakers: Matt Meyers
• Add this session to your agenda

An Architect’s Guide to Data Modeling

• What to expect: A well-designed data model is crucial for system scalability. Learn to identify patterns and anti-patterns related to data modeling, and understand use cases for normalization and denormalization.
• Featured speaker: Georgii Saveliev
• Add this session to your agenda

Architect AI-Ready Data with Informatica IDMC

• What to expect: Learn how Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud unifies integration, data quality, and governance to help architects overcome silos and support production AI.
• Featured speakers: Steve Hill, Steve Totman
• Add this session to your agenda

An Architect’s Guide to Slack as the Unified UI for Agents

• What to expect: Compare technical approaches, including Agentforce, custom apps, and partner integrations, to use Slack as your unified agentic UI for orchestrating complex multi-agent workflows.
• Featured speaker: Aaron Winters
• Add this session to your agenda

Build Secure and Extensible Salesforce MCP Servers

• What to expect: Build custom MCP tools to define what AI agents can do, add business-specific logic, and back those tools with flows, Apex, Apex REST, and named queries.
• Featured speakers: Dan Donin, Kaushik Patel, Ross Belmont 
• Add this session to your agenda

Build the Agentic Enterprise in Trailblazer Forest

Head to Trailblazer Forest to see the Agentic Enterprise in action. Created for admins, developers, and architects, this core hub brings Agentforce, Headless 360, Slack, and Data 360 to life through hands-on experiences, technical demos, and expert-led sessions. Gain the foundational expertise and confidence to build and deploy trusted agents in production at scale.

Attend introductory sessions at Headless 360 Theater

Headless 360 Theater features six repeating 20-minute sessions that break down the core innovations of the Agentic Enterprise. Whether you’re an admin, developer, architect, or new to the Salesforce ecosystem, these expert-led introductory sessions provide the essential foundation you need before diving into deeper demos and workshops at Dreamforce. Sessions include:

• Introduction to Headless 360
• Introduction to Agentforce
• Introduction to Agentic Experiences in Slack
• Introduction to Salesforce Vibe Coding Agents
• Introduction to Data 360
• Introduction to Platform

See Headless 360 in action through live demos

Visit the Headless 360 zone to see how unified context and flexible deployment coexist. Through live demos, discover how Headless 360, Hosted MCP Servers, Multi-Framework, and HXL empower you to ground coding agents in real org metadata. Learn how to deploy across various frameworks and render rich UIs natively on React and Slack, all with built-in governance.

Get hands-on at Headless 360 Basecamp

Headless 360 Basecamp is where you’ll get firsthand experience building with any coding agent and deploying on any surface with Salesforce Headless 360. Get hands-on in a guided, 15-minute activity where you’ll learn how to configure Salesforce MCPs within a third-party AI system. Technical experts will be available in the area to help as you go through the exercise.

Dive deeper with product demos at Platform Park

Platform Park features 20 expert-led demos, including 18 platform demos and 2 customer success demos, designed to turn inspiration into implementation. Whether you’re a developer, admin, architect, or partner, go beyond keynotes and sessions to learn how to securely connect data, applications, and AI at scale. Gain practical insights, engage in discussions, and access guided builds that equip you to turn Salesforce innovation into real business outcomes.

Test your skills at Camp Mini Hack

Start building the Agentic Enterprise at Camp Mini Hack. Get hands-on with Agentforce, Headless 360, vibe coding, Apex & Flow, and Data 360 through 30-minute challenges designed for every skill level. Build and deploy working agents with on-demand expert help and real-time automated validation, while earning prizes along the way.

Master the full agent lifecycle in the Agentforce Zone

Explore the full lifecycle of autonomous AI agents at the Agentforce Zone. Through interactive, expert-led demos, architects will see how to create, deploy, and scale production-ready agents. Discover how Agentforce Studio, Agentforce Builder, Agentforce Operations (formerly known as Regrello), Agentforce Voice, Multi-Agent Orchestration, and Agentforce Observability bring AI-first workflows to life.

Skill up at Camp Trailhead

Get hands-on with Salesforce in 30 minutes at Camp Trailhead. Whether you’re brand new to the platform or an experienced pro, complete hands-on Trailhead badges covering key innovations like Headless 360, Agentforce Coworker, Help Agent, Salesforce Flow, and more. Work on provided laptops or bring your own, receive real-time support from on-site experts, and when you complete one of the highlighted badges, be sure to stop by the prize desk to collect your reward.

Get a peek into the future at Sneak Peeks

Sneak Peeks is back at Dreamforce to give admins, developers, and architects an exclusive look at what’s next for the platform. Catch sessions covering unreleased features across Agentforce, Headless, Flow, and User Access Management. Afterward, stick around for live Q&A to get your burning technical questions answered directly by the product experts.

Connect people, data, and agents in Slack

Slack is the work operating system for the Agentic Enterprise, a multiplayer workspace where Salesforce data, agents, and teams seamlessly collaborate. Step into a real Salesforce org to experience headless automation brought to life. Get hands-on working a sales cycle, service retro, or campaign using interactive Slackbot skills. Explore live demos of Code Channels and end-to-end Slack-to-Salesforce automation (using Workflow Builder, Flow, Apex, and Block Kit).

More things to check out at Dreamforce 2026

Explore sessions for admins and developers

Looking to expand your perspective? Check out sessions on the admin and developer tracks to see how the Agentic Enterprise is being built, governed, and scaled in production. Explore the Admin and Developer Guides to Dreamforce 2026 for more can’t-miss experiences tailored to each role.

Grow your network at Community Cove

Community Cove is the destination for all Trailblazers to connect, learn, and celebrate 20 years of the Trailblazer Community. Catch career growth and thought leadership sessions in Trailblazer Theater, and dive into interest-based networking sessions. Be sure to design your custom Trailblazer card.

Get certified at Trailblazer Bootcamp

Go deeper at Dreamforce with Trailblazer Bootcamp. This is your opportunity to gain hands-on product expertise, elevate your skills, and build lasting connections with peers. It’s all happening from Saturday, September 12, to Monday, September 14, 2026. Learn more about this pre-Dreamforce bootcamp and jumpstart your certification goals.

Experience Dreamfest at Oracle Park

Dreamfest, the ultimate Dreamforce celebration and Concert for Kids, will be on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. at Oracle Park to benefit UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. Dreamfest is included with your in-person Dreamforce registration. All you need to attend is your Dreamforce conference badge and a government-issued ID. Stay tuned for performance announcements.

Quick Dreamforce tips 

Watching from home? Join on Salesforce+

Can’t make it to Dreamforce in person? Select keynotes and sessions will be live-streamed on Salesforce+ during the entirety of the event. In addition to the live experience, a selection of on-demand episodes will be available for viewing once Dreamforce concludes.

Register for Salesforce+ for free to get access to featured content.

Accessible Guide to Dreamforce 2026 

Explore what to expect throughout Dreamforce this year from a first-person explanation of the event, discover accessibility services and accommodations, and find resources to help you plan the experience that’s right for you.

Your Dreamforce 2026 checklist 

Dreamforce 2026 will be here before you know it. Take these steps now to prepare for the big event:

• Register to attend Dreamforce if you haven’t already. 
• Start building your perfect Dreamforce agenda now with My Agenda.
• Refer to the sessions in this post to guide you.
• Download the Salesforce Events app in the App Store or Google Play Store to keep track of everything on your agenda in one easy-to-access place.
• If you’re not attending in person, be sure to register and watch on Salesforce+. 
• Follow Salesforce Architects on X and LinkedIn for more Dreamforce updates.