Silicon Valley Spring Executive Tour

April 25 - May 4 , 1998

Final program

3 May 1998

 Day

Date

Time Activity / Meeting Topic Status

 Saturday

 April 25  7:15 am

Departure from Geneva KL292

from Zürich KL300 6:55 am

Transfer to KL605 (Amsterdam)

Latest check-in at 6:30 (GVA)

6:15 (ZHR)

Done

 1:20 pm Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto by bus

 

 Customs & Immigration

Done

 3:30 pm Arrival at the Stanford Terrace Inn Check-in hotel

Done

 6:00 pm Group dinner McArthur Park Restaurant

 Welcome dinner offered by SVA

Done

 Sunday

 April 26  8:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn    
9:00 am Stanford University

 Guided tour of the campus

Done

 11:30 pm Tressider Union, Stanford University

Lunch on campus 

Done

 12:30 pm Hiking in the Palo Alto Hills followed by a tour of Silicon Valley ending with a visit to Fry's Electronics

Electronic Superstore

Done

6:30 pm Return to Stanford Terrace Inn

Evening free

 Done

 Monday

April 27 8:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn  
9:00 am Broadvision, Redwood City

One-to-One Commerce/Electronic Marketing

Peter Downs

Done

2:30 pm Exodus, Santa Clara

Security, Verifone credit card payment, Fraud Detection Service

Janine Hogg

Done

4:30 pm Return to Stanford Terrace Inn
 7:00 pm Panel Discussion in Hotel Conference room followed by a dinner in the Fresh Taste Manderin Restaurant, 2111 El Camino We will meet with Christian Simm, Science & Technology Counselor, Consulate general of Switzerland SF & other Silicon Valley personalities

Done

 Tuesday

 April 28  8: 45 am Visit to Knowhere, Palo Alto

 Design shop

Michael Kaufman

Done

 11:00 am Visit to Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser, Law firm, Palo Alto "Working Lunch" on Legal and Financial matters, presentation by Richard Allan Horning

Done

lunch offered by TZM&M

1:30 pm Visit to VeriSign, Mountain View Secure e-commerce, e-mail 

Done

 3:30 pm E-Trade Securities, Palo Alto We will meet with the President of Strategic Business Development and Global Marketing, Judy Balint and CIO and Senior Vice President of E*TRADE Technologies, Debra Chrapaty.

Done

6:00 pm

Return to Stanford Terrace Inn  

 Wednesday

 April 29  9:00 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn    
9:30 am Visit to the Stanford Learning Lab, a collaborative venture to improve student learning.

Prof. Larry Leifer, SLL director, Rick Reis, SLL associative director and Chris Thomsen, SLL General Manager

Done

 12:30 pm Elliot Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Lunch with SLL/CDC staff & Jeff Moore of the Stanford Business School

Catered lunch offered by SVA

Done

2:30 pm Afternoon free for shopping and local sightseeing

Done

5:00 pm Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto

Party offered by the hotel management

Done

 Thursday

 April 30  9:00 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn    
9:30 am Visit to SUN Microsystems, Menlo Park

Electronic Commerce, Multimedia applications,Java demonstrations, lunch

Done

 2:30 pm Digicash, Palo Alto

Electronic Money

Mr. Web Augustine Vice- President of Marketing

Done

4:00 pm Cybercash, Redwood Shores

Electronic payments

Ms. Stephanie Tom

Done

Friday

 May 1  9:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn  
 10:00 am Cisco Systems, San Jose

Cisco Overview, E-commerce {Presentation & Demo}, Empowering the Internet Generation {how we Live, Work, Learn, and Play), lunch

Done

3:00 pm Visit to The Fisher Center for Management and Information Technology, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

State of the Art and a Look into the Future of the business-business E-Commerce

Prof Arie Segev

Done

 6:00 pm Arrival in San Francisco, Cocktails in the Marriott hotel, (bar at the top) one of the landmarks of San Franciscovisit

Followed by dinner in a nearby restaurant

Done

 11:00 pm Return to Stanford Terrace Inn

Saturday

 May 2 10:00 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn

 Optional activity

 11:30 am Visit to the Monterey peninsula

Winery tour and visit to the aquarium (other itinaries possible)

Done

 5:00 pm We will take the world famous 17 miles drive and have our farewell dinner in Monterey

Done

 Sunday

 May 3  9:00 am Breakfast in the Stanford Terrace Inn  
10:00 am Time for packing and last minute shopping

Checkout of hotel

Done

13:30 am

Departure for San Francisco airport

KL606 4:10 pm

Also start of optional trip to Oregon

Done

Monday

 May 4 3:45 pm

Arrival Amsterdam 11:35 am

Arrival Geneva/Zürich

 

Done