Silicon Valley Tour

12 - 20 May 2002

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Program

12 May 2002

 Day

Date

 Time Activity / Meeting Topic Status

Sunday

  May 12

8:05 am

8:00 am

10:40 am

Departure Geneva - London Heathrow

Departure Zürich - London Heathrow

Departure London - San Francisco

BA 742

BA 709

BA 285

done
13:35 pm Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto

Customs & Immigration

done
15:00 pm Arrival at the Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto

Check-in hotel

Time to relax and explore

Light supper in a local restaurant

done

Monday

 May 13  8:00 am Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

OK
8:45 am

Departure for IDEO, Palo Alto

We will meet Bill Moggridge, one of the founders of IDEO

IDEO has been a pioneer in product design since twenty years

Confirmed
11:00 am Departure for Stanford University Visit to the Stanford Bookstore

OK
12:00 pm Lunch at the Faculty Club, Stanford University

Dr. Charles Petrie,

Executive Director

Stanford Networking Research Center will talk about Wireless Internet Does Not Mean 3G

Confirmed
1:30 pm Stanford University Guided walk on the campus, followed by two visits (Wireless Access and the Center for Professional Development)

Confirmed
 ~4:30 pm Return to the hotel time for a swim or to relax

OK

7:00 pm
 Welcome to Silicon Valley dinner at the MacArthur Park in Palo Alto hosted by the Silicon Valley Bank

Guests from Silicon Valley:

Mr. Johan Kampe, Director, International V C Group

Mr. J.Richard Fredericks, Former Ambassador to Switzerland

Mr. Richard Horning, Chair Internet Practice Group TZMM

Confirmed

Tuesday

  May 14 8:00 am Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

OK
9:00 am Departure from hotel We will take Highway 101 South

OK
9:30 am Visit Adobe, San Jose

The future of Imaging and digital video software
 Confirmed
1:30 pm Visit Harmonic, Mountain View

Fiber optics and Data compression
 Confirmed
3:30 pm Visit Transmeta, Santa Clara

Crusoe the innovative processor chip

To be finalized
~6:00 pm Return to Hotel

Optional activities are planned for the evening

OK

Wednesday

  May 15 8:00 am Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

OK 
9:00 am Visit to nVidia, Santa Clara

High performance Graphics hardware

Confirmed
11:30 pm Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser LLP, Palo Alto

"Silicon Valley Europe: The Results of 10 Years of Trans-Atlantic Networking"

followed by lunch.

Confirmed
1:30 pm Departure for Santa Clara

We will take Highway 101 South

OK
2:00 pm Visit to INTEL, Santa Clara Welcome & Intel History - Russ Beutler (EPG-SSG account manager ) 
Intel Process & Semiconductor design development - Bob Beutler (DPG Prescott Sr. Engineer)
Intel & Digital Media - Ralph Biesemeyer (SMG-SMDG Manager, Digital Media & Entertainment)

Confirmed
~6:00 pm Anniversary Party in the hotel

We will meet the Swiss and other guests from Silicon Valley

OK

Thursday

  May 16 8:00 am Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

OK
9.00 am Departure for Mountain View

We will take Highway 101 South

OK
9:00 am  Visit to Neoteris, Mountain View Instant virtual extranet appliances

Confirmed
2:00 pm Visit to SUN Micro Systems, Menlo Park
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE)

Confirmed
5:00 pm Visit to the Silicon Valley World Internet Center

A pub talk and high bandwidth networking with a glass of wine

OK
7:30 pm Downtown Palo Alto

dinner in one of the many local restaurants

OK

Friday

  May 17  8:00 am Breakfast in hotel

buffet style
  
 9:00 am Departure for Cupertino We will take highway 280 South

OK
9:30 am Visit to Apple Computer

Innovations in Personal Computing and Multimedia

Confirmed
1:00 pm Departure for San Francisco We will take highway 280 North

OK
 2:00 pm Visit to eZula in San Francisco

an Online Advertising Solution Provider

To be finalized
 6:00 pm Evening in San Francisco

Optional evening activities

OK

Saturday

  May 18  8:30 am Breakfast in hotel .

OK

9:30 am
 Visit to the Computer Museum History Center, NASA Ames

from PdP 8 to the Connection Machine

OK
 11:00 am Drive to Monterey Possible visit to a winery on the way

OK
 12:30 pm Lunch in historic downtown Monterey

.

OK
15:00 pm

Visit to the world famous aquarium

or 17 miles drive in Carmel

.

OK
19:00 pm Farewell dinner in a fish restaurant in Monterey

.

OK

Sunday

  May 19  9:00 am Breakfast in hotel .

OK

10:00 am
 Time for last minute shopping Stanford Shopping Center is a good place

OK
 12:00 pm latest check-out hotel

OK
13:30 pm Departure for San Francisco International Airport

.

OK
14:30 pm Check-in

OK
16:45 pm Departure from San Francisco for Geneva and Zürich via London

BA 284.

OK

Monday

  May 20

15:20 pm

16:30 pm

Arrival Geneva

Arrival Zürich

BA 716

BA 728

OK
This program is subject to (minor) changes