Deep Dive: 5 Fascinating Topics to Explore at Dreamforce 2025

Dreamforce isn’t just a series of keynotes and product reveals. It’s a playground for ideas, emerging concepts, and future trajectories. Beyond the headlines, here are five intriguing angles and conversation starters that could define the vibe (or spark side discussions) at Dreamforce 2025.

1. Agentic Enterprises: Redefining Work Roles

The move from “AI tools” to “AI agents” is more than semantics—it’s a mindset shift. Instead of purely augmenting human workflows, we’re now designing systems of agents + humans that collaborate. What does that mean for roles like developers, admins, architects, or sales reps?

• Admins may evolve into agent curators or monitoring engineers, focusing on agent performance, safety, and feedback loops.

• Developers may lean into agent orchestration, prompt engineering, and building agent ecosystems rather than traditional UI apps.

• New job tracks—Agentforce Architect, Agent Lifecycle Manager, AI Trust Officer—could emerge.

Dreamforce sessions might showcase orgs that have re-imagined their operating models around agentic workflows. Watch for panel debates: “When should humans override vs. step back?” or “How do we measure ROI in a human-

agent partnership?”

2. Multi-Agent Orchestration & Interagent Collaboration

One agent handling a task is interesting; many agents coordinating complex work is next-level. Dreamforce 2025 is expected to surface features around agent orchestration, where agents manage micro-tasks, hand off to each other, and escalate to humans when needed. Focus on Force

Imagine:

• A lead intake agent coordinates with a risk-assessment agent, passing data and enriching it.

• A service agent, detecting a root cause, alerts a product agent to issue updates.

• Agents that monitor each other, flag anomalies, or optimize load.

Sessions exploring these layered interactions, agent governance, communication protocols, and agent-to-human escalation will be intellectually rich and practically critical.

3. Vertical AI: Domain-Specialized Agent Ecosystems

General-purpose agents have their limits. The next wave is domain-tailored agents for healthcare, finance, public sector, retail, manufacturing, etc. Forecasts suggest Salesforce will build or roll out vertical AI skill sets for these industries. Focus on Force+1

These vertical agents can bring pre-trained knowledge, regulations, domain logic, and best practices. For instance:

• A healthcare agent that understands HIPAA rules, patient triage, or appointment workflows.

• A retail agent that handles promo planning, SKU rationalization, or inventory alerts.

• A public sector agent with compliance, document processing, citizen case management.

Dreamforce may spotlight early adopters in verticals, highlight partner ecosystems, or showcase packaged “industry AI blueprints.”

4. AI Governance, Trust & Transparency in Production

With agents entering mission-critical workflows, trade-offs around trust, explainability, and oversight become non-negotiable. Dreamforce 2025 may bring more than product features—it might usher in frameworks, practices, or even slippery discussions around AI ethics in operations.

Possible conversation themes:

• Context history & audit trails: letting users trace agent reasoning, decision paths, and triggers.

• Human-in-the-loop triggers or override thresholds for high-stakes decisions.

• Bias detection, data drift, and agent retraining cycles.

• Safety nets & failover protocols: how to gracefully fallback to human processes when things go sideways.

• Regulatory readiness: how agents comply with privacy laws, sector regulations, or future AI governance policies.

Attendees should seek out governance panels, trust dashboards, or real-world examples (and mistakes) from early agent deployments.

5. Composable Agent Ecosystems & Partner Innovation

Selling one agent is one thing; building a thriving agent ecosystem is another. Expect Dreamforce to feature architecture sessions showing agent marketplaces, connectors, and partner plug-ins—how third parties can build modules, “skills,” or agent subcomponents that plug into an enterprise agent core.

Imagine:

• A partner builds a fraud-detection module for agents, which can be consumed by other customers.

• A marketplace of vertical skilling agents (e.g. HR agent, legal agent, procurement agent).

• AgentExchange expansions permitting community-built agent templates.

• Versioning, dependency management, and agent upgrade strategies across modules.

Look also for demos of agent dev tooling: testing frameworks, monitoring dashboards, rollback strategies, local simulators, or A/B experimentation tools tailored for agent architectures. The developer blog already hints at new tools for building agentic apps and testing contexts. Salesforce Developers

Bonus: The “Fun Pulse” of Dreamforce — Culture, Music & Surprise

Don’t miss the human side. Dreamforce 2025 will have Dreamfest, the benefit concert supporting UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. On October 15, attendees get to choose between two stages: Metallica performing at Chase Center or Benson Boone at Bayfront Park. Salesforce+2Ascent Cloud+2 This dual-stage format is a bold twist, letting participants pick their cultural vibe. The intersection of tech, social impact, and entertainment will create stories and memories beyond code.

Other intangible topics to watch for in side chats and corridor moments:

• AI fatigue vs. human advocacy: how leaders keep human empathy alive in agentic systems.

• Change management & adoption: how organizations nurture trust, ease fears, and retrain people.

• Moment of serendipity: unplanned demos, partner booths, or pop-up tech art installations—Dreamforce's magic often lives off-script.

In summary, Dreamforce 2025 won’t just spotlight AI—it will provoke rethinking: of roles, of trust, of modular systems, and of ecosystems. Go in with agenda goals—but also leave room for surprise. Some of the most memorable insights may come from offbeat demos or late-night conversations, not just keynote slides. Let me know if you’d like help picking sessions or building your ideal Dreamforce plan!