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Sabastian Niles

President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Salesforce

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  • Leading Boards Through Rapid Change | Sabastian Niles & Jackie Liu

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein

    How should boards lead when the pace of technological, regulatory, and strategic change keeps accelerating? In this session from the Boardroom Governance Summit 2026, Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer of Salesforce, and Jackie Liu, Partner at Morrison & Foerster, discuss how boards can stay effective amid rapid change, evolving risk, and increasing expectations on directors. The conversation explores board leadership, director engagement, the balance between oversight and strategic involvement, and how boards can adapt without losing focus on their core responsibilities. Re…

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  • Scaling the Agentic Enterprise | Salesforce on Salesforce Keynote, Dreamforce 2026

    September 15, 2026 · 📺 Salesforce

    See how Salesforce is scaling the Agentic Enterprise from the inside out. Hear from Joe Inzerillo and Salesforce leaders on what worked, what broke, and what they’re learning as AI agents expand across the business. Discover the Customer Zero strategies, lessons, and best practices Salesforce is using to operationalize agentic AI at scale — and how you can apply those insights to accelerate your own transformation. • Learn more about Agentforce: https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/ • Check out our guide to the Agentic Enterprise: https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce... • See how Agentforce…

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  • Leading in the Age of Agentic Legal (Preview) | FlexFest 2026

    August 07, 2026 · 📺 Priori

    Preview: Salesforce President and CLO Sabastian Niles joins Original Jurisdiction founder David Lat on what the agentic era demands — from AI agents embedded in triage and compliance to why every individual contributor should have an agentic span of control. Watch the full session:    • Leading in the Age of Agentic Legal | Flex...   FlexFest portal: https://weandgoliath.com/insights/fle... Priori transforms how legal teams find, engage and manage outside counsel, helping organizations make smarter, faster and more strategic legal sourcing decisions. Through its legal technology platform and…

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  • Deterministic vs. Probabilistic: What AI Means for the Practice of Law

    August 05, 2026 · 📺 Priori

    Ask AI the same legal question five times, get five different answers. That's a feature, not a bug of how the technology works. So what does that mean for how lawyers need to change how they practice going forward? At FlexFest 2026, Priori's inaugural virtual summit on the future of legal work, three of the sharpest voices in AI-native legal services took on one of the most misunderstood distinctions shaping the industry: deterministic vs. probabilistic technology. In this clip, hear from: Mark Pike, Associate General Counsel at Anthropic Zack Shapiro, Founder & Managing Partner at Rains L…

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  • The AI Pilot Is Over: Why Law Firms Must Adapt Now

    May 01, 2026 · 📺 Technically Legal Podcast

    We welcome back Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce, to discuss his recent open letter to the legal industry. As law firms reach a critical inflection point, Sabastian makes a clear argument: the era of AI “theater” and small-scale pilots is over. In this conversation, we explore the Innovator’s Dilemma facing law firms, the shift toward agentic AI, and why firms must rethink how they operate, deliver value, and compete. Sabastian explains why legal professionals are uniquely positioned to lead the future of trusted AI—if they embrace transparency, data integrati…

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  • Inside Salesforce Legal: Agentic AI, Innovation Guardrails & the Modern In-House Career Path

    November 06, 2025 · 📺 Technically Legal Podcast

    In this episode, Sebastian Niles shares his journey from nearly two decades at Wachtell to leading Salesforce’s global legal and corporate affairs organization—shaped by his early interest in the intersection of law and business and the role of the lawyer as a full-lifecycle advisor. We discuss what aspiring in-house counsel need today, including the importance of knowing your “why,” staying self-aware, and approaching legal work with authenticity and discipline. Sebastian walks through how Salesforce Legal operates as “customer zero,” using Salesforce technology internally—from an outside c…

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  • The Future of AI Trust: Why Guardrails Actually Accelerate Innovation with Sabastian Niles

    July 07, 2025 · 📺 Analyse Podcast

    Fresh out of the studio, Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce Global, joins us to explore how trust and responsibility shape the future of enterprise AI. He shares his journey from being a high-tech corporate lawyer and trusted advisor to leading AI governance at a company whose number one value is trust, reflecting on the evolution from automation to agentic AI that can reason, plan, and execute tasks alongside humans. Sabastian explains how Agentforce 3.0 enables agent-to-agent interactions and human-AI collaboration through command centers and robust guardrails.…

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  • View from Salesforce | Artificial Intelligence Unlocking the Gulf's Potential

    January 29, 2025 · 📺 Semafor Events

    Salesforce President and Chief Legal Officer Sabastian Niles sits down with Semafor.

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  • View from Salesforce | Next 3 Billion

    September 26, 2024 · 📺 Semafor Events

    Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce sits down with Semafor.

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