SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16, 2017 /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 at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting taking place in Davos, Switzerland, from January 17-20, 2017. At the event, Benioff will participate in the following panel discussions:


    --  Tuesday, January 17: Benioff will join Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO,
        General Motors; Shu Yinbiao, Chairman, State Grid Corporation of China;
        and Dr. Vishal Sikka, CEO, Infosys, in a panel discussion moderated by
        Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.
        The session will begin at approximately 6:00 pm CET. A live webcast of
        the event will be available at: http://wef.ch/82968.
    --  Thursday, January 19: Benioff will moderate a panel discussion with Mary
        Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Peter Maurer, President,
        International Committee, Red Cross; Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever; Bernard
        J Tyson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente; and will.i.am, Founder and
        President, i.am.angel Foundation. The session will begin at
        approximately noon CET. A video recording of the panel will be available
        at 9:00 am PST on Friday, January 20, on Salesforce LIVE:
        https://www.salesforce.com/video/430986/

Additional Resources for World Economic Forum


    --  More information about the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 is
        available at: https://www.weforum.org
    --  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

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    --  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 #wef)
    --  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

Connect with Salesforce


    --  Like Salesforce on Facebook: http://facebook.com/salesforce
    --  Follow @salesforce on Twitter: http://twitter.com/salesforce
    --  Read the Salesforce blog: http://blogs.salesforce.com/

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