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Final Tour Program as from 16 May 2007, subject to minor changes

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Date

Time Activity / Meeting Topic Status

Sunday

 May 13

12:55

 

13:00

 

15:50

Departure Geneva - Munich (arrival 14:10)

Departure Zürich - Munich (arrival 14:00)

Departure Munich - San Francisco

LH3685

 

LH3745

 

LH458

Suggested travel or

KLM via Amsterdam

arrival 13:05

18:40 Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto

Customs & Immigration

 

~20:00 Arrival at the Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto

 

Check-in hotel

 

ok

Monday

May 14 8:00 Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

 

9:00

Guided tour of the Stanford Campus by Linda Bernard

including the Museum, Hoover Tower and Bookstore

Confirmed

11:00 Visit to Center for Internet & Society of the Stanford Law School
We will meet with the Associate Director Lauren GELMAN

Confirmed

12:15 Lunch at the Faculty Club, Stanford University

Speaker, Jeffrey MOORE
Senior Lecturer of Operations, Information, and Technology, Graduate School of Business

Confirmed

14:00 Visit to SolFocus at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

We will meet with the Gary D. CONLEY, chairman & CEO

SolFocus is a start-up and a breakthrough innovator of solar concentrator photovoltaic systems

Confirmed

18:00 Welcome to Silicon Valley party at Stanford Terrace Inn
With invited guests from Silicon Valley

to be finalized

Tuesday

May 15  7:30 Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

 

8:15

Departure for Menlo Park

 

8:45 Visit to SUN Microsystems
Open Source Strategy Solaris Overview

Confirmed

12:15 Working Lunch

Thin Client Overview SUN Eco-Computing

Confirmed

14:30 Departure for San Carlos  

 

15:00 Visit to Tesla Motors

High Performance Electric Sports Car, we will meet with Aaron Platshon

Confirmed

 19:00 Return to the hotel

 

Evening free

 

 

Wednesday

 May 16 8:00 Breakfast in hotel

 buffet style

 

9:00 Departure for San Mateo
We will take Highway 101 North

 

10:00 Visit Scalix

Enterprise-class Email & Calendaring on Linux

Confirmed
12:00 Departure for San Francisco

We will stop for lunch

14:00 Visit SwissNex

14:00 Tour of swissnex
presentation of swissnex, Christian Simm
15:00 Presentations by several San Francisco based companies including Linden Lab
17:00 We will meet with Swiss Entrepreneurs in Residence
18:30 Networking evening Keynote speaker Dr. Tim Lipman UC Berkeley (subject electric drive vehicles)

Confirmed

21:00 Return to Palo Alto

 

 

Thursday

 May 17 8:00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

 

9:30 Departure for Redwood City

 

 

10:00 Visit SpikeSource

We will meet with Kim Polese CEO and Paul Salazar, our head of Corp Marketing

Confirmed

12:00 Visit Enthiosys in Mountain View

 

Luke Hohmann will introduce us to Innovation Gamed

 

Confirmed

14:00

Visit to Google

Visit organized by Patrick Chanezon

Confirmed

17:00 Return to Hotel

Evening free

 

Friday

 May 18 8:00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

ok

9.00 Departure for Santa Clara

 

ok

9:30 Visit INTEL

Visit organized by Russ Beutler, Business Development Manager, Geneva

We will meet with Dirk Hohndel

to be finalized

12:00 Lunch, followed by a visit to the Computer History Museum

 

14:30 Vyatta, from San Mateo will visit us in the Stanford Terrace Inn
Open Source Networking, Vyatta's Business model will be presented by Kelly Herrell, CEO and Robert Bays , CTO

Confirmed

18:30

Farewell dinner at the Shoreline Lakeside Café, Mountain View

This event is sponsored by INTEL

Keynote speaker Dr. Aart De GEUS, Chairman & CEO Synopsys

Confirmed

Saturday

 May 19  8:00 Breakfast in hotel

buffet style

 10:00 Departure for San Francisco
this is an optional program

 

 

Free day for those who have other plans

 

 

11:00 We will rent bicycles at Fisherman's Wharf
We will bike to the Golden Gate Bridge and return to San Francisco via Sausalito

Confirmed

 14:30

Return to San Francisco

Free time to explore the city

ok

18:00 Early dinner in China Town

 

ok

19:30 Return to Palo Alto

 

ok

Sunday

 May 20  8:30 Breakfast in hotel
.

 

9:30

End of organized events

details about airport shuttle will be announced to the individual participants

 

18:00

dep. for San Francisco International Airport

for those on suggested flights

 

19:30 Check in Lufthansa

KLM 13:00

suggested

21:55

San Francisco-Munich (LH659)

SFO-AMS (KL606)

suggested

  arrival next day Zürich/Geneva

Amsterdam

 

 

     
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