| 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 in the foothills |
A few of our friends will join
us |
ok |
||
| 15:00 | Return via Stanford University campus | Visit to the Stanford 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 |
|
| 8:30 | Departure for Stanford University |
|
|||
| 9:00 | Visit Networking Department (SUNet) | We
will meet with Ms. Lea Roberts |
confirmed |
||
| 10:30 | Visit D-School | George
Kembel will host us |
confirmed |
||
| 12:30 | Lunch at the Faculty Club, Stanford University | Speaker David Nordfors, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Innovations in Learning |
confirmed |
||
| 14:30 | Arrival at IDEO, Palo Alto | Bill Moggridge will host the group at IDEO which has been a pioneer in product design since twenty years |
confirmed |
||
| 16:00 | Return to the 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 | Agenda Intel Transition Mac OSX 'Unix-Open Source' Universal Code/Developer Situation The iPod 'World' Lunch at 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 | This is the commercial part of AXL in Shanghai which we visited in 2005 We will be received by the Chairman/CEO Alan Liu and we are invited for lunch |
confirmed |
||
| 13:30 | Departure for the Presideo, San Francisco |
|
to be finalized |
||
| 14:30 | Visit to the Internet Archive and/or Lucas Film Letterman Digital Arts Center |
Located in the historic Presideo of San Francisco |
to be confirmed |
||
| 17:00 | Visit SwissNex San Francisco | 17:00 Tour of swissnex |
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 | 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 | Lunch visit to Plaxo, Mountain View | Plaxo has developed innovative new products such as Plaxo Basic its core service, which allows users to access a single up-to-date address book |
confirmed |
||
| 14:00 | Visit Brocade, San José | .Mike
Schmitt will give a presentation about WAFS technology |
confirmed |
||
| 18:00 | Anniversary Party in Palo Alto organized with the Palo Alto Jazz Alliance (PAJA) in the Elk's Lodge in Palo Alto |
Jacky Golay will play with local musicians in a trio and there will be many guests from Silicon Valley |
confirmed |
||
Friday |
May 5 | 8:00 | Breakfast in hotel | buffet style |
|
| 8:30 | Departure for San Jose |
|
|||
| 9:00 |
Visit to Vinq, San Jose
|
We will meet with Mark Torrance, CEO and David Newhoff, Director of Product Development |
confirmed |
||
| 12:00 | Visit Computer History Museum, Mountain View | The
museum hosts both real and virtual exhibits.It maintains
the worlds largest collection of artifacts from the early
information age until today |
confirmed |
||
| 15:00 |
Return to Hotel |
free time for shopping |
|
||
evening free |
|
||||
Saturday |
May 6 | 8:30 | Breakfast in hotel | . |
|
|
Start of Tour Extension or time for shopping | details will be announced to the individual participants |
|
||
| 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 | reserved |
|||
| 18:55 | San Francisco-London | BA 286. |
reserved |
||
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 |
 |
|
Tour Program as from 20 April 2006, subject to changes |
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