Silicon Valley Tour

29 April - 7 May 2006

Final Program

as of 20 March 2006

 Day

Date

 Time Activity / Meeting Topic Status

Saturday

  April 29

10:10

 

11:05

 

13:50

Departure Geneva - London Heathrow (arrival 11:00)

Departure Zürich - London Heathrow(arrival 12:00)

Departure London - San Francisco

BA 725

 

BA 711

 

BA 287

confirmed
16:35 Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto

Customs & Immigration

18:00 Arrival at the Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto

Check-in hotel

Time to relax and explore

Light supper in a local restaurant

ok

Sunday

 April 30 9:00 Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

10:00

Departure for a walk or bike ride in the foothills

 A few of our friends will join us

ok
15:00 Return via Stanford University campus Visit to Stanford University and the Bookstore

16:00 Return hotel

Time to relax

18:30 Welcome to Silicon Valley dinner at the MacArthur Park in Palo Alto Dinner speech by a guest from Silicon Valley

to be confirmed
       
       

Monday

 May 1  8:00 Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

10:30

 

Arrival at IDEO, Palo Alto

 

Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO will lead the tour

IDEO has been a pioneer in product design since twenty years

http://ideo.com/about/

confirmed
12:00 Departure for Stanford University  

12:30 Lunch at the Faculty Club, Stanford University

Speaker not yet known

to be confirmed
14:00 Stanford University

Bill Moggridge will probably host the group at the D-School

http://www.stanford.edu/group/dschool/

to be finalized
 15:30 Stanford University Visit Networking Department

to be confirmed

17:30
Return to Hotel

Evening free

Tuesday

  May 2 8:00 Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

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

9:30 Visit Apple, Cupertino

Tentative Agenda

Intel transfer

Open Source/Universal Code

iPod World and more

Lunch Cafetaria
Confirmed
14:00 Visit Google, Mountain View

Visit organized by Louis Perrochon and Katie Kensley
Confirmed
18:30 Dinner offered by Google

Confirmed
~20:00 Return to Hotel

Wednesday

  May 3 8:00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

 
9:00 Departure for San Francisco

10:00

Visit AXL Musical Instruments Co

http://www.axlusa.com/Html/axl_english.html

 

This is the commercial part of AXL in Shanghai which we visited in 2005

Confirmed
12:30

Visit the recently reopened De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park

http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/

One of the favorite museums of San Francisco

 

to be finalized
15:00

Visit to the Internet Archive and/or Lucas Film Letterman Digital Arts Center

http://www.archive.org/

http://www.lucasfilm.com/inside/letterman/

 

Located in the historic Presideo of San Francisco

 

to be confirmed
17:00

Visit SwissNex San Francisco

http://www.swissnex.org/

17:00 Tour of swissnex
presentation of swissnex, Christian Simm
17:30 Meet with Alex Fries, Entrepreneur in Residence
18:00 pm Meet with Franco Dal Molin, Entrepreneur in Residence www.collanos.com
18:30 networking & light refreshments
20:30 return to Palo Alto

confirmed

Thursday

  May 4 8:00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

ok
8.30 Departure

We will take the famous Sand Hill Road

ok
9:00

Visit to the Stanford Linear Accelerator

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/

We will be received by Neil Calder, Director of Communications

From an exclusively high energy lab, SLAC is now involved with many other activities

Confirmed
12:00 Visit start-up company looking for innovative new products

to be finalized
14:00

Departure for the Computer History Museum, Mountain View

http://www.computerhistory.org/

The museum hosts both real and visrtual exhibits.It maintains the worlds largest collection of artifacts from the early information age until today.

 

ok
17:00 Return to hotel

Evening free

Friday

  May 5  8:00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style
 
 9:00 Departure for Mountain View

9:30

 

Visit SGI, Mountain View

http://www.sgi.com/

17/3: Cancelled due to relocation of SGI

 

We will meet with Robert Bishop, CEO

We will stay for lunch

Confirmed
13:00 Departure  

 14:00 Visit to a Start-up company

looking for innovative new products

to be finalized
 18:00 Anniversary Party in Palo Alto organized with the Palo Alto Jazz Alliance

There will be a Jazz Trio and

many guests from Silicon Valley

to be finalized

Saturday

  May 6  8:30 Breakfast in hotel .

9:30
Start of Tour Extension or time for shopping

details will be announced on March 17

at the preparatory meeting

15:30

dep. for San Francisco International Airport

  

16:30 Check in BA

.

18:55

San Francisco-London
BA 286.

reserved
  arrival next day see Wednesday

.

Tuesday

  May 9   return from tour extension .

San Francisco International Airport

16:30 Check in BA

confirmed
18:55 San Francisco-London

BA 286.

confirmed
   

   

.

Wednesday

 May 10

13:00

Arrival London-Heathrow

15:15 / 15:50

Departure London-Geneva (arrival 17:55)

Departure London-Zürich (arrival 18:30)
BA 734/ BA 718

This program is subject to changes