15th Anniversary Alumni Tour to Silicon Valley

"Still Crazy After All Those Years"

29 April - 7 May 2006


Our first Silicon Valley Tour was in May 1992. 2006 will be our 15th year! To mark this event, we are proposing a very special tour, reserved for those who participated in one of the previous tours to Silicon Valley. The theme is "Still Crazy After All Those Years?: Is the valley blooming again?". There are signs that after several bleak years, the boom is back. Just watch the performance of Google, Yahoo, Ebay and Apple. During the tour we will revisit many of the familiar places and companies, -if they still exist- and visit the new ones. We will also team up with many of the people we have met over the years, and see the new directions of technology for ourselves.

Provisional program highlights

Saturday 29 April - Departure from Geneva/Zürich via London to San Francisco, transfer to Palo Alto

Sunday 30 April - Walk in the Foothills, Welcome dinner

Monday 1 May - Visit IDEO Palo Alto, Lunch at the Stanford Faculty Club, Visit Stanford University D-School

Tuesday 2 May - Reserved for large companies (Apple Computer,Google, Microsoft Research)

Wednesday 3 May - Reserved for Incubators and Start-up companies

Thursday 4 May - San Francisco (Swissnex, UCSF Mission Bay, Lucas campus Presidio)

Friday 5 May - Visit Stanford Linear Accelerator, Environmental company, Anniversary Party with invited guests from Silicon Valley

Saturday 6 May - Shopping and/or Sightseeing, Evening departure to Geneva/Zürich or extension to Yosemite Park

Sunday 7 May - Arrival Switzerland, or extension until Wednesday 10 May

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