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