Demo hosts in San Francisco
Hosts who learn your demo script and run it all day on screens, tablets and touch walls at Moscone.
DreamforceRSACGDC
Bay Area brand ambassadors, lead qualifiers and demo hosts for Dreamforce, RSAC, GDC and every week at Moscone Center. Trained on your product before day one, so they can carry the second question too. $85 an hour, every role.
Moscone Center, morning fogDemo host at a client tech booth
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Tech buyers ask the second question. These five roles are trained to answer it before handing off to your engineers.
Hosts who learn your demo script and run it all day on screens, tablets and touch walls at Moscone.
Qualifiers who tag every scan hot, warm or nurture so your sales team knows who to call first.
Ambassadors for lounges, street teams and SoMa takeovers during Dreamforce week.
Models who give a tech booth presence without losing credibility with a technical crowd.
Hosts for customer lounges, Union Square suites and JPM week meetings.
Send the show and productWe read your deck before the call.
We train a Bay Area teamA briefing call and demo practice.
They arrive demo-readyReady for the first and the second question.
San Francisco is a tech-conference town, and its booths are judged on the demo. Purple Exhibits staffs Moscone Center and the Bay Area’s other venues with a local roster of brand ambassadors, lead qualifiers, demo hosts and models at a flat $85 an hour per person. Every team gets a product briefing before day one, so they can hold a real conversation about your software and hand qualified people to your engineers. Book six weeks ahead for Dreamforce and RSAC, when hotels sell out; rush requests in 72 hours.
SF at a glance
| Rate | $85 per hour, per person, every role |
|---|---|
| Travel fees | None for San Francisco, the East Bay or the Peninsula |
| Main venues | Moscone North, South and West; Union Square hotels; San Jose and Santa Clara convention centers |
| Peak weeks | JPM Healthcare (Jan), GDC (Mar), RSAC (spring), Data + AI Summit (Jun), Dreamforce (fall) |
| Book ahead | 6 wks for Dreamforce and RSAC · 3 wks otherwise · rush 72 hrs |
| Transit | BART to Powell St or Montgomery St · Muni Central Subway to Yerba Buena/Moscone |
| Weather | 60s °F and fog most of the year. Staff dress in layers |
Three buildings in SoMa plus the streets and hotels that become part of the show during the biggest weeks.
Face each other across Howard Street and work as one big exhibit floor for the largest shows. Most expo halls and keynotes live here.
A block away at Fourth and Howard. Three levels of halls and session rooms; often the developer or partner pavilion.
The streets around Moscone become part of the show during the biggest conferences, with closures, lounges and branded takeovers.
Ten minutes’ walk north. JPM Healthcare runs almost entirely in these hotels, and every big show spills into their ballrooms.
The best SF booths work like a sales funnel. Each stage needs a different person; your engineers only meet buyers who are ready.
Turns a passing badge into a conversation in five seconds.
Asks your three questions, scans, and tags the lead hot, warm or not now.
Runs the scripted demo and answers the first layer of questions.
Gets a warm, pre-qualified buyer with notes already in the scanner.
Moscone hosts the giants, but Bay Area events run from Union Square ballrooms to Silicon Valley campuses. Our crew covers them all.
Investor conferences, JPM week meetings and partner summits.
We send: Meeting hosts, greeters, registration staffDeveloper conferences and semiconductor shows in the South Bay.
We send: Demo hosts, lead qualifiersProduct launches and customer celebrations by the bay.
We send: Brand ambassadors, event hostessesPop-ups, sampling and street teams during conference weeks.
We send: Brand ambassadors, sampling teamsKeynotes, all-hands and customer events.
We send: Greeters, ushers, emceesDuring Dreamforce the streets around Moscone close. Our staff arrive by train.
Five to eight minutes on foot. Our East Bay crew from Oakland and Berkeley rides in.
The Central Subway stops right by the convention center.
About 12 minutes’ walk. For staff living down the Peninsula.
Expect closures during Dreamforce. We plan walk-in routes for every call time.
The recurring shows we plan around. Dates shift year to year; confirm with each organiser.
v2027.01Union Square hotels · Hospitality hosts + meeting greeters
v2027.03Moscone · Demo hosts + brand ambassadors
v2027.04Moscone · Lead qualifiers + demo hosts
v2027.04bMoscone · Lead qualifiers
v2027.06Moscone · Demo hosts + lead qualifiers
v2027.06bMoscone · Demo hosts
v2027.09Moscone + SoMa · Brand ambassadors + lounge hosts
v2027.10Moscone West · Startup-alley hosts
Dreamforce runs three big expo days and the whole city fills up. A 10×20 needs four people: a greeter, a qualifier and two demo hosts. Here is that team from our Bay Area roster, against the same team flown in during the most expensive hotel week of the year.
| Dreamforce, 10×20 in the expo | Cost |
|---|---|
| Purple local staff | |
| Travel, hotel, per-diem | $0 |
| Your SF total |
| Typical fly-in agency, same team | Cost |
|---|---|
| Staff hours at $85 | |
| Round-trip flights ~$380 each | |
| Hotel SoMa, Dreamforce week · ~$600/night | |
| Per-diem ~$79/day | |
| Fly-in total |
What each option really costs and delivers at a San Francisco show.
| Purple local crew | Fly-in staffing agency | General temp agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per staffer | $85 an hour in SF | Higher once travel is added | Lowest rate, highest risk |
| Flights and rooms | None. SF is home | ~$380 airfare and ~$600 a night, each | None |
| Knows SF venues | Local crew, every season | Usually first time in town | Sometimes |
| The SF edge | A briefing call and demo practice. | Not local | Not specialised |
| Knows your pitch | Learns your three key points | Generic script | Not their job |
| Qualified leads | Asks your questions, tags hot or warm | Basic scanning | Badge scans at best |
| Booth build too | One company, one plan | Staff only | Staff only |
Fly-in costs use the same typical SF rates as the budget above. Other agencies’ pricing varies.
Tech buyers walk away from a booth that can’t answer the second question. We train every host on your product before the show.
Hotels and local talent are gone weeks before Dreamforce. Reserve six weeks out.
Conference-week rooms near Moscone can run several hundred dollars a night. Local staff skip that line entirely.
Staff walk in through 58-degree wind. Brief a layer for the street and the booth look for inside.
A scan is worthless without a tag. We set up hot, warm and nurture codes with your team.
During the biggest shows the sidewalks are part of the event. Street teams and lounges catch the people who never enter the hall.
The city, the East Bay and the Peninsula, all a BART or Caltrain ride from Moscone.
After the expo closes
Customer happy hours steps from Moscone.
Hotel bars and private dining rooms for executive dinners.
Ferry Building and waterfront venues for partner receptions.
About three minutes. No deposit.
We’ll email your quote within 24 hours, usually much sooner. Need it now? Call (800) 994-8030.
Call (800) 994-8030 and ask for the Bay Area desk.
$85 an hour per person, four-hour minimum, for any role: demo host, lead qualifier, brand ambassador or model. Bay Area bookings carry no airfare, hotel or per-diem, which matters in a city where conference-week rooms are among the most expensive in the country.
Yes. We staff booths, lounges and street activations during Dreamforce and booths at RSAC Conference, both at Moscone. Every team gets a product briefing, and we reserve them six weeks ahead.
Yes, at the first level. We run a pre-show training call, learn your demo script and practice the common questions, so staff can show the product and hand serious buyers to your engineers with notes.
Dreamforce, RSAC Conference, GDC, AWS Summit San Francisco, Data + AI Summit, Snowflake Summit, TechCrunch Disrupt and J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference meetings, plus events at the San Jose and Santa Clara convention centers.
By BART to Powell Street or Montgomery Street, by Muni’s Central Subway to Yerba Buena/Moscone, or by Caltrain to Fourth and King. During Dreamforce, street closures make transit far faster than rideshare.
Three or four: a greeter in the aisle, a lead qualifier and one or two demo hosts. Tech booths get long, deep conversations, so plan more demo coverage than at a consumer show.
Yes. J.P. Morgan week runs mostly in Union Square hotels, so we supply meeting greeters, suite hosts and registration staff in business attire.
Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Hindi, Korean and Japanese speakers are on the Bay Area roster for international buyers.
Our Bay Area coordinator sends a briefed replacement within two hours, or that shift is free.
Yes. We design, build and install exhibits at Moscone and staff them, under one plan.
Send the show and what you sell. A Bay Area price within 24 hours.
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