Salesforce Pushes Agents Into Work: TDX 2026

Enterprise software is entering a new phase of maturity. For years the industry optimized for visibility. Dashboards everywhere. Alerts firing like smoke alarms. Automation layered on top of workflows that still needed constant human babysitting. Useful, sure. But not exactly progress. Now the conversation inside product teams and executive meetings has moved to a more interesting question. What happens when systems stop waiting for instructions and start pursuing outcomes? Salesforce calls this evolution the Agentic Enterprise. And in April, the builders responsible for turning that concept into working infrastructure will gather in San Francisco to pressure test the idea, a conversation increasingly shaping the broader startup ecosystem around AI infrastructure and enterprise software.

TDX 2026, Salesforce’s developer conference, lands April 15–16, 2026 at Moscone West. The theme is direct and unapologetic: Build the Agentic Enterprise. This is not branding theater. It is a working session for the people who translate ambition into systems that function. Developers. Admins. Architects. Partners. The individuals responsible for wiring modern organizations together. More than 400 technical sessions and hands on trainings will dig into what it takes to build AI agents with Agentforce and deploy them inside real enterprise environments without breaking the machinery that already runs the business. For builders operating inside the Salesforce orbit and across the startup ecosystem, this is where the practical mechanics of agent driven software begin to surface.

The room itself is built for builders. Walk through Campground and the energy is part expo, part operating theater. Product teams demo what is shipping. Developers compare notes like jazz musicians trading riffs. Vibe Coding sessions push participants into hands on development with Agentforce Vibes, treating AI development less like a lecture and more like instrument practice. Agentforce City turns the concept of the agentic enterprise into something you can physically navigate. Mini Hacks challenge reflexes under pressure. And the TDX Hackathon Showdown raises the volume when teams bring their agent driven builds to the stage. The energy feels less like a traditional conference and more like a working laboratory for the next layer of the startup ecosystem forming around AI agents.

Then come the moments where the ecosystem speaks directly to the platform. The TDX Opening Keynote sets the strategic direction for the Salesforce platform. True to the Core brings product experts into a live question session where the community asks exactly what is on its mind. Visionary Sessions introduce AI thinkers and ecosystem leaders exploring where this technology is heading. Around the edges of the conference, Trailblazer Bootcamp runs April 12–14 for deep technical immersion, while certification exams inside Moscone West give builders a chance to validate their skills while the ideas are still fresh.

The deeper story is that agents are not features. They are participants inside the enterprise system. Salesforce frames this through Agentforce, a platform designed for AI agents that pursue goals, interact with enterprise data, and coordinate actions across workflows while humans remain responsible for oversight. When thousands of developers, admins, architects, partners, and public sector technologists converge around that idea, Moscone West stops looking like a conference venue and starts resembling a workshop where the operating system of the modern enterprise is being written in real time, with implications that extend well beyond one platform and into the evolving startup ecosystem surrounding intelligent enterprise systems.