Silicon Valley Tour

Final Program
Sept 28 - Oct 7 , 1997

 Day

Date

Time Activity / Meeting Topic Status
 Sunday  Sept 28  7:15 am

Departure from Geneva KL292

from Zürich KL300 6:55 am

Transfer to KL605 (Amsterdam)

Latest check-in at 6:30 (GVA)

6:15 (ZHR)

 Done

 1:35 pm Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto by bus

 

 Customs & Immigration

 Done

 4:00 pm Arrival at the Stanford Terrace Inn Check-in hotel

Done

 6:30 pm Group dinner Sundance Mining Company

 Welcome dinner offered by SVA

 Done

 Monday  Sept 29  9:00 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto    
9:30 am Stanford University

 Guided tour of the campus

 Done

 11:00 am HighWire Press, Stanford University, Todd McGee, Scientific Advisor and one of our Software Developers

 Electronic Publishing of Scientific journals

Done

 12:30 pm Tressider Union, Stanford University. Lunch on campus

Meet Laurent Mieville, Swiss scientist

Done

 2:00 pm Knight-Ridder New Media Center, San Jose, Mr Chris Jennewein, Director

supervises 29 newspaper Web sites of the entire newspaper group

Done

4:30 pm Return to Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto

Evening suggestions:Bach concert or evening with Michael Moore

 Done

 Tuesday Sept 30 8:10 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto  
8:30 am Knight-Ridder Information, Mountain View, Mr Balz Wyss, Electronic Publishing Division Dialog, the biggest database system in the world

Done

 1:30 pm Visit to Apple Computer, Cupertino

State of Business related to Publishing & media, Internet & Multimedia

Done

 7:00 pm Stanford Terrace Inn, Roberta & Murray Suid, Monday Morning Books followed by a dinner at Fresh Taste Publishing in a Hi-tech age 

Done

 Wednesday  Oct 1  9:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto    
 10:00 am

Visit to BackWeb

replaced by a visit to Netscape and Nuance Communications

Cancelled &

replaced

1:00 pm Visit to TV/COM International, San Jose, Mr Eric Dorsey, Director of Architecture & Systems High definition Digital TV

Done

3:30 pm Rest of the afternoon free for shopping and local sightseeing with visit to Fry's Electronic Supermarket  

Done

7:45 pm Dinner party offered by Apple Computer, Carpaccio's, Menlo Park Keynote speaker Chris Gulker  Business Development Manager, Apple

Done

 Thursday  Oct 2  8:00 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto for San Francisco by train

 Train departs at 7.01 arrives at 7:48

 Done

10:00 am

Visit to Seybold exhibition, San Francisco Mosconi Center with

keynote speeech by Steve Jobs

Macromedia

Andrew Skillen

Done

 12:00 pm Individual visits to the rest of the exhibition (or nearby museum of modern art)

Top event for information publishing professionals

Done

 6:00 pm Cocktails in the Marriott hotel, (bar at the top) one of the landmarks of San Francisco close to the Mosconi Center

Followed by dinner, suggestion Lulu's

trains at 7,8,9 and 10 pm

Done

Friday  Oct 3  8:30 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto  
 9:00 am Visit to Oracle, Redwood Shores

to be determined

Done

 1:30 pm Visit to Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, Corporate Overview , Andrea Obana

Product Demonstration Gabriel Mott Visionarium Demonstration Kurt Schmitt

Done

 4:00 pm Return to Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto

we need volonteers to help with the party preparations

Done

 6:00 pm Silicon Valley Party, Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto

Offered by SVA with guests from Silicon Valley

Done

Saturday  Oct 4 9:00 am Departure from Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto to the wine country, North of San Francisco    
 10:00 am Our first stop will be at the Golden Gate Bridge

Done

 11:00 am Visit to O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol

Electronic Publishing

Done

 1:00 pm Lunch in Sebastopol followed by a tour of the Sonoma winecountry

Winetasting

Done

 9:00 pm Return to Palo Alto

Dinner in Palo Alto

Done

 Sunday Oct 5  8:00 am Day entirely free for shopping and sightseeing (minibusses available)

Suggestions: Santa Cruz via Big-Basin (redwood) park.

San Francisco

Monterey

Done

 7:00 pm Dinner in a local restaurant or on the way from sightseeing

Done

 Monday  Oct 6  9:00 am Morning free for packing and checking out  

Done

 11:30 am Faculty Club, Stanford University. Lunch with Prof Jeffrey Moore, graduate school of Business Lunch offered by SVA

Done

 1:30 pm Departure for San Francisco Internation airport

Done

 4:00 pm Departure for Switzerland via Amsterdam  

Done

 Tuesday  Oct 7 3:45 pm

Arrival Amsterdam 11:35 am

Arrival Geneva/Zürich

 

Done

Last updated 11 October 1997