High Tech Study Tour

Telecom Valley, France

9 - 15 May 2004


Program

7 May 2004

 Day

Date

Time Activity / Meeting Topic Status

Sunday

 May 9

14h50

Departure Geneva - Nice - Côte D'Azur

Easyjet 927

(recommended flight leaves from the French side)

Individual booking

15h55 Arrival Nice - Côte D'Azur Terminal 2

Shuttle bus downtown Nice

Leave bus at West-End hotel

.

~17h00 short walk to hotel Windsor

Check-in hotel

or before when arriving earlier

.

Monday

May 10  ~07h30 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

confirmed

08h15

 

Departure by coach for Chambre de Commerce (CRCA) Nice

 

Multi-media introduction of the region by Côte d'Azur Development

confirmed

10h15 Departure by coach for Sophia-Antipolis

 

ok

11h00 Visit to SAEM followed by a bustour of Sophia-Antipolis and lunch at Mediathel (13h00-14h15)

 

Introduction Sophia-Antipolis by Mr.Cabrol

free choice of lunch offered by SVA

confirmed

14h30 Visit Fondation Sophia-Antipolis We will meet with the founder of Sophia-Antipolis Senateur Lafitte

confirmed

16h00 Visit CERAM Graduate school of Management & Technology

Presentation of Incubator Paca-est by Ms. Géraldine Quétin

followed by

Prof Bernasconi

chair entrepreneurship

followed by welcome cocktail at le Fairway (17h30-19h30)

with invited guests from Telecom Valley

ok

Tuesday

 May 11 ~08h00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

ok

09h00 Departure from hotel by coach
Drive to la Gaude

ok

10h00 Visit to the IBM la Gaude

10h00 Welcome la Gaude & eBusiness Solution Center - Jacques Gros

10h30 eBusiness solution - Claire Lamy

11h00 Health Care & Life Sciences/Digital Media - Olivier Rousseau

11h30 AT&T - Claude Galand

12h00 IBM Wireless e-Business Strategic Solutions -. Jean-Michel Corrieu

ok

13h00

We will drive to St. Jeannet

Lunch at Auberge des 4 chemins

lunch €12.-

confirmed

14h30 Return to hotel

rest of the day free for shopping and sightseeing

ok

   

 

 

Wednesday

 May 12 ~08h00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

ok

09h00 Departure from hotel by coach

Drive to Sophia-Antipolis

ok

10h00 Visit to W3C-INRIA-ERCIM

10h00 Presentation W3C and Q/A - Daniel Dardailler W3C Director Europe

11h00 Presentation ERCIM - Bruno Le Dantec ERCIM Deputy Manager

11h30 Presentation INRIA - Philippe Mussi

ok

12h00 Lunch at INRIA

free choice of lunch at own expense

confirmed

13h30 Visit to ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute)

Presentation by Jørgen Friis Deputy Director-General

the organization, activities, products, relations, etc.

confirmed

15h00 Return to Nice

Optional evening outing to Astrorama

confirmed

Thursday

 May 13 -08h00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

ok

09h00 Departure from hotel by coach

Drive to Sophia-Antipolis

ok

10h00   Visit to Amadeus

10h00 Welcome - Lucy White Internal Communication Products

10h15 General Amadeus presentation - Paul Van de Wal Director Corporate Strategy

11h15 Tour of the Customer and Training Centre

12h00 Lunch at Amadeus

confirmed

13h30 Visit to Equant Sophia Antipolis Heraklion Building Ithaque meeting room

13h30 Overview of Equant - J-M Chaduc

14h15 IP VPN Product Overview - M-N Sauvayre

14h45 Equant Product Portfolio Review - T. Hayes

15h30 Equant Services Demo- C. Lichtenhauer

16h00 Equant Training CoE Review - A. Saubesty

 

confirmed

16h30 Return to Nice

Optional evening outing to Monte Carlo organized by Phil Tobler

confirmed

   

 

Friday

 May 14  07h30 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

 ok
 08h00 Departure from hotel by coach
Drive to Sophia-Antipolis

ok

09h00 CICA,a business development center Eurecom,an outstanding telecom engineering school and research center

09h00 - 10h00

We will visit CICA

10h00 - 11h00

Eurecom presentation by Prof. Bonnet

11h00 - 12h00

Short presentations of several startup companies:

Wificom

Web2tel

Kuantic

followed by lunch

confirmed

14h30 Visit Sophia Startup club

Will meet with Ms. Annie Ovigny

Followed at 15h30 by presentations at SAEM by Alain André (CICOM) & Jacques Putneys creator of Nasdaq Europe

 

Confirmed

~17h00 Return to Nice

ok

~20h00 Evening in Nice

Farewell dinner

confirmed

Saturday

 May 15 ~ 07h30 Breakfast in hotel
.buffet style

ok

08h00

Checkout hotel

Your luggage can be stored

ok

08h40 Walk to Nice main railway station

We will tale the train to Cannes la Bocca at 9h00

ok

09h30 Arrival in Cannes la Bocca

Walk to Alcatel-Space, guided tour

rest of the day free suggestion explore Cannes which hosts the film festival

ok

~ 19h30

Take the shuttle from downtown Nice to Airport

Latest checkin is 40 minutes before departure

ok

21h50

Departure Nice-Geneva

Easyjet 930

(recommended flight leaves from the terminal 2)

Individual booking