Day |
Date |
Time | Activity / Meeting | Topic | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday |
Sept 26 | 8:25 am 10:00 am |
Departure Geneva SR 927 Departure Zürich SR 106 |
Latest check-in 7:30 am (GVA) 9:00 am (ZHR) |
Done |
| 1:15 pm | Arrival Los Angeles International airport, transfer to Santa Monica by mini-bus | Customs & Immigration |
Done | ||
| 3:00 pm | Arrival at the Radisson Huntley hotel | Check-in hotel, time to relax | Done | ||
| 4:00 pm | Happy hour in the hotel, followed by an early dinner | Also time for a walk around downtown | Done | ||
Wednesday |
Sept 27 | 9:00 am | Departure from hotel | . |
Done |
| 9:30 am | Visit to SCANZ Communications , Santa Monica (310 255 7577) | Information Appliance company. Wireless real time digital video and audio. One of its products is Scanz scannor. | Done | ||
| 11:00 am | Short tour of KACD, 1425 5th street, Santa Monica (310 451 1031) | During our lunch break we will take a brief visit to this local rockstation which is becoming a global Internet station | Done | ||
| 12:45 pm | Visit to University of California LA (UCLA) We will try to grab some lunch on the way. |
The head of UCLA's Digital Arts will give a tour and we will meet with Michael Krieger (role of the University in IT) (310 428 5208) |
Done | ||
| 2:30 pm | Tour of the UCLA campus (digital related activities) | Also visit of some of the more historic places (birthplace of the Internet) | Cancelled | ||
6:00 pm |
Welcome dinner in the neighbourhood of UCLA (Westwood) Dinner hosted by SVA |
If there is time, we will visit the Armand Hammer museum Michael Krieger and others will be our guest |
Done | ||
Thursday |
Sept 28 | 9:00 am | Departure from hotel to "Silicon Freeway" | . |
Done |
| 10:00 am | Visit to Troika Networks, Inc., 2819 Towngate road, Westlake Village (Cohen 805 370 2633) | Highly available, scalable and reliable IT infrastructure |
Done | ||
| 12:30 am | Picnic Lunch at the home of the Vilkelis', family ( 31922 Lynbrook Ct, Westlake Village, 818 889 3537) Lunch sponsored by SVA |
This is an almost finished "wired" house as Gintas & Illaria will demonstrate. We will also meet with Benjamin Kuo |
Done | ||
| 3:00 pm | Departure for Los Angeles | We need to be ahead of the traffic jams |
Done | ||
| 4:00 pm | Visit to the Paul Getty museum (310 440 7300) No cost except for dinner |
One of the world's famous art collections housed in a new museum on a hill-top. We will have a bite to eat at the museum café. | Done | ||
| ~7:00 pm | Drive via Sunset Blvd to Santa Monica | Rest of the evening free |
Done | ||
Friday |
Sept 29 | 9:00 am | Departure from hotel | . |
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| 9:30 am | Visit to ec2, 746 West Adams, Los Angeles (James Klein USC Annenberg Center for Communication 213 743-1759) | EC2 is a business incubator and media research center focusing on the advancement of digital technologies | Done | ||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch on the USC campus at own expense |
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Done | ||
| 1:00 pm | Visit to USC IMSC, 3740 mcClintock, Los Angeles (Ann M. Spurgeon, Integrated Media Systems Center, University of Southern California 213-740-4877) |
IMSC is developing a computer-based environment that supports the creation, sharing, distribution and effective communication. | Done | ||
| 3:00 pm | University of Southern California | We will meet with Dr. John Silvester USC's V.Provost, head of Scholarly Technology . He's on the board of the California university high speed network consortium | Done | ||
| ~6:00 pm | Happy Hour followed by dinner at own expense |
Exact location to be defined | Done | ||
Saturday |
Sept 30 | 9.00 am | Departure from hotel to Santa Barbara | Check-out, drive along the coast via Ventura | Done |
| 11.00 am | Visit to Commission Junction, 1501 Chapala, Santa Barbara (Jean Touboul 805 896 8440) | Commission Junction creates powerful alliances between affiliate content sites that have information or entertainment of interest to businesses and consumers. | Done | ||
| 12:30 pm | Lunch in downtown Santa Barbara at own expense |
The Santa Barbara area is called "the California riviera" | Done | ||
| 2:00 pm | Drive from Santa Barbara to Morro Bay via San Luis Obispo | . |
Done | ||
| ~4:30 pm | Arrival in Morrow Bay, check-in Ascot Suites winw and cheese offered by hotel |
Time for a whirlpool bath. Sunset wine & cheese reception. Dinner in one of the many local restaurants | Done | ||
Sunday |
Oct 1 | 9:30 am | Departure from Morro Bay | Breakfast & Check-out hotel |
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| 10:30 am | Visit of the famous Hearst Castle, San Simeon Film and visit paid by SVA |
The visit will start with a film "Hearst castle, building a dream" | Done | ||
| ~1:00 pm | Picnic Lunch, in San Simeon at own expense |
In the Visitors Center | Done | ||
| 1:30 pm | We take highway 1 to Monterey via Big Sur and then the freeway to San Jose | This one of the most beautiful coastal roads in California | Done | ||
| ~6:30 pm | Arrival in Palo Alto, check-in Stanford Terrace Inn | Evening free, suggestion walk to California Avenue and dinner in one of the restaurants | Done | ||
Monday |
Oct 2 | 9:00 am | Departure from hotel | Drive to San Francisco ~50 km | Done |
10:30 am |
Visit Obvious Technologies , San Francisco | Video Streaming | Done | ||
| 12:30 pm | Lunch in San Francisco at own expense |
We will visit Oracle Open World exhibition | Done | ||
| 2:00 pm | Visit Audiosoft, San Francisco | Streamed content (music) | Done | ||
| 6:30 pm | Farewell dinner with enterpreneurs from Silicon Valley in McArthur Park in Palo Alto Dinner offered by SVA |
We will meet with Richard Alan Horning of TZMM and many others |
Done | ||
Tuesday |
Oct 3 | 9:30 am | Departure from hotel | Check-out | Done |
| 10:00 am | Visit Apple Computer, Cupertino lunch offered by Apple |
Business and technology update, followed by lunch and visit to company store | Done | ||
| 1:30 pm | Visit Apple Computer, (continued) | Product showcase, Digital technologies | Done | ||
| 3:30 pm | Departure for San Francisco, we will stop at the Stanford Shopping Center | Last minute shopping |
Done | ||
| 7:00 pm | San Francisco International airport | Latest check-in 7:25 | Done | ||
| 9:25 pm | Departure SR 109 | . |
Done | ||
Wednesday |
Oct 4 | 5:25 pm 6:55 pm |
Arrival Zürich Arrival Geneva |
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Done |