happy to present the agenda for jobs, received an economics refrain, featuring a panel including ron conway, his a-rod lacey common on the editor and chief not -- sarah lacey, george hugh, and katie jacob stanton, vice president for twitter the road -- now twitter. we will end the program with the mayor's vision of economic growth for 2012 and beyond. 2011 was a year of substantial accomplishment, despite the slow pace of recovery in california, the economic opportunities have helped make sense of cisco a bright spot in california to advancing tax incentives to supporting economy-boosting infrastructure, and the chamber is helping to ensure job creation and steady economic growth in san francisco. the chamber is particularly proud to advance an ongoing pro-business policy agenda in partnership with a coalition of business, labour, and non-profit organizations, and i am pleased that our labour colleagues to join us this morning. geared with our labor colleagues just waved for the audience eminent -- would our labor colleagues just waved for the audience? they are out there. our theme this mo

ron conway has galvanized the tech community to help make these san francisco's worked together. he is one of the most famous angel investors in silicon valley. he was called one of the most influential people and rain 14 and the list of dealmakers. we also have katie and jacob stanton. katie joint witter -- joined twitter last summer. it is pretty important, because 70% of all tweets come from outside the united states. she was appointed by president obama to serve as his director of participation. casey went to my college, so it is a bizarre coincidence. we also have the chief operating officer of sales force. i encourage you to learn more about these guys here regard i want to get right into the meat of the conversation, so let's talk about why san francisco is so important for sales force, because you are one of the first companies that refuse to move to the peninsula. >> we have been a san francisco company since our founding. i have been out the company for 10 years, and san francisco has been a huge differentiator. it is not only a start-ups, but is all of the talent. it i

i want to give special thanks to ron conaway -- conway. no one has ever called me and angel except my mother. you really are an angel. you went out of your way. we will develop a strong working relationship with sf city, i promise you. now we're glad to end our program this morning with the man who has been the architect of putting tech on the map in san francisco and that is our mayor. please welcome back to the stage john mcnedo. john. [applause] >> thank you. it is now my pleasure to introduce our mayor. edwin m. lee was sworn in on january 8, 2012 as the 43rd mayor of the city and county of san francisco. ed lee is the first asian- american mayor in san francisco history. [applause] mayor lee was elected on november 8, 2011 by the people of san francisco while he was serving as interim mayor. appointed unanimously as successor mayor by the board of supervisors on january 11, 2011. while serving as interim mayor, mayor lee championed balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvent, and successful. reforming city pensions, econo