Silicon Valley Tour

17 - 26 June , 1999

Final program

26 June 1999

 Day

Date

Time Activity / Meeting Topic Status

Thursday

 June 17

2:30 pm

4:20 pm

Departure Geneva SR 933

Departure Zürich to SR 108

Latest check-in 1:30 pm (GVA)

3:20 pm (ZHR)

completed

 7:10 pm Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto by bus

Customs & Immigration

completed

8:30 pm Arrival at the Stanford Terrace Inn Check-in hotel

completed

 Friday

 June 18  9:00 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn .

completed

9:30 am Visit to Garage.com, Palo Alto We will meet with Andy Scott, Geoff Baum and Guy Kawasaki, Chairman and CEO

completed

11:30 am The Fiber-to-the home project in Palo Alto

We will meet at the Stanford Terrace Inn with Peter Alan of Nanospace, Murray Suid FTTH trial, Michael Silverton, Fiberhood Networks, Joe Villa-Real, Ondas Networks

lunch offered by SVA

completed

2:00 pm Visit to Apple Computer, Cupertino

Hardware update by Jesse Stein

MacOS update by Steve Sullivan

Multimedia Solutions by Steve Sullivan

completed

 6:00 pm Dinner in the Piano Bar of Caffé Macs offered by Apple Computer Apple's successful turnaround by Carl Flyglare, Linux on the Mac by Kevyn Shortell

completed

8:30 pm

Return to the Stanford Terrace Inn .

 completed

 Saturday

 June 19 9:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn  .

 completed

10:00 am Stanford University

 Guided tour of the campus by Linda Bernard

completed

 11:30 am Stanford Museum

Lunch in the Museum restaurant with Martin Morf, Swiss Computer Scientist

completed

1:30 pm visit to Fry's Electronics

The largest electronic store in the world

completed

3:30 pm Return to Stanford Terrace Inn

Time for a rest or a swim

completed

 7:00 pm Apéro in the hotel followed by dinner at the Bistro Elan

completed

 Sunday

 June 20  7:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn

 Option 1

An all day outing to Grass Valley in the Sierra Foothills. We will meet with the inventors of the Furbee, the most successful electronic doll, but also attend the bluegrass festival

 cancelled

8:30 am Moffett Field, Mountain View

Option 2

public airshow called "Wings Over Moffett" historical planes both on the ground and in the air. Also guided tours are available to visit the Computer Museum History Center

completed

 9:30 am Visit of San Francisco starting with the Golden Gate Bridge

Option 3

Phil Tobler will be the guide

completed

 Monday

 June 21  8:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn  .

 completed

9:00 am Visit to Photo Access, MountainView

New products for digital cameras. We will meet with Gene Wang

completed

 11:00 am Visit to PriceWaterhouseCoopers Technology Center , Menlo Park

We will meet with John du Pré Gauntt, luncheon offered by PWC

completed

2:00 pm Visit to ImaginOn, San Carlos

We will meet with the founder and CEO David M.Schwartz

completed

4:00 pm Arrival in San Francisco. Presentation of the Digital Island company in the Carnelian Room (52 floor) Bank of America Center followed by a cocktail reception with spectacular views over the city and the bay

We will also meet with guests from Silicon Valley and the Swiss Community

completed

Tuesday

 June 22  9:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn

Check-out hotel

 
 10:00 am Visit to Extreme Networks, Santa Clara

Gigabit Lan-switches and routers

completed

12:30 pm Visit to Corporate Business Center, INTEL, Santa Clara

Home Networking project and new Micro architecture with Russell Beutler and Rick Smith

luncheon offered by Intel

completed

 4:00 pm Transfer to Convention Center, San Jose

Registration, Check-in Crowne Plaza

completed

 6:00 pm McEnery Convention Center

Opening Reception INET'99

completed

Wednesday

 June 23  9:00 am INET'99 Conference

see INET'99 program for details

completed

10:30 am

Exhibition hall opens

We will meet at the Geneva stand

completed

 7:00 pm The Tech Museum of Innovation

Gala Evening INET'99

completed

Thursday

 June 24 8:30 am Meeting with invited guests

The Geneva stand at expo is our meeting point

completed

 9:00 am INET'99 Conference

see INET'99 program for details

completed

6:00 pm Farewell dinner at Scott's Seafood Bar & Grill

With guests from Silicon Valley and INET'99 offered by DEEE Geneva

completed

 Friday

 June 25  8:00 am Crowne Plaza hotel

Checkout of hotel

 completed

9:00 am INET'99 Conference

see INET'99 program for details

completed

12:00 pm End of Conference .

completed

1:00 pm Optional visit sto International Business Incubator, San Jose and MCIWorldcom's MAE-West Internet switch Meeting with Barbara Harley and

completed

6:00 pm

9:20 pm

Departure for San Francisco airport

SR 109

.

completed

Saturday

 June 26

5:20 pm

6:55 pm

Arrival Zürich

Arrival Geneva

 .

completed