Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang (and Gwen Stefani) kick off Dreamforce 2026

Earlier today, Salesforce kicked off its annual mega-event – Dreamforce. The 2026 incarnation once again takes place in Salesforce’s home of San Francisco, and this year, Hypertext was in the audience as an invited member of the media.

This is how we brought you the live coverage on Twitter/X and Facebook, but you can now watch everything yourself thanks to an official upload of the event on Salesforce’s social media channels.

The YouTube upload is embedded at the bottom of this article and, as you saw in the headline, some serious celebrity power was on stage.

Unfortunately, this official upload isn’t complete. It’s lacking the opening from Leandro Perez – SVP and CMO of Australia and New Zealand at Salesforce – who celebrated two decades of the company’s Trailblazer platform. Trailblazer is is a learning, certification and social media platform based around Salesforce’s many facets. Anyone with spare time on their hands is invited to use the platform for free to upskill themselves and help others, which has created a collaborative space that has existed for so long.

The upload also nixes the short performance from Gwen Stefani. Usher and Gwen Stefani are the headlining musical acts for Dreamfest, a concert that will take place on the night of 16th September to benefit UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dreamfest is a sister event to Dreamforce.

The upload does show you everything else we saw from the audience. Marc Benioff (CEO and Co-Founder, Salesforce, pictured above left) introduces and chats to notable guests including Dario Amodei (CEO and Co-Founder, Anthropic) and Jensen Huang (CEO, Nvidia, pictured above right).

Amodei mostly spoke about how fast AI has grown alongside the businesses around it, while Huang called the rise of AI a new industrial revolution. We’re not sure how these sentiments gel against recent calls from the industry, especially Amodei, to slow the progress of AI for the various safety-related reasons.

Lastly, as we covered just prior to the event, Salesforce has rolled out several new and named AI agents for its customers to use in every facet of business.

We’ll have more coverage from Dreamforce 2026 over the coming days, so make click back soon.

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