| Day |
Date |
Time | Activity / Meeting | Topic | Status |
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Sunday |
May 11 | 13:15
13:25
16:30 |
Departure Geneva - Munich (arrival 14:25) Departure Zürich - Munich (arrival 14:25) Departure Munich - San Francisco |
LH3685
LH3743
LH458 |
Suggested travel or KLM via Amsterdam arrival 13:05 |
| 19:20 | Arrival San Francisco International airport, transfer to Palo Alto | Customs & Immigration |
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| ~20:00 | Arrival at the Stanford Terrace Inn, Palo Alto |
Check-in hotel
|
ok |
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Monday |
May 12 | 8:00 | Breakfast in hotel | buffet style |
|
| 9:00 | Guided tour of the Stanford Campus |
including
the Museum, Hoover Tower and Bookstore, our guide is Linda
Bernard |
Confirmed |
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| 10:30 | Visit to Center for Internet & Society of the Stanford Law School | We
will meet with the Associate Director Lauren Gelman |
Confirmed |
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| 12:30 | Lunch at the Faculty Club, Stanford University | Speaker,
Bill Moggridge, founder of IDEO and Associate
Professor at the Stanford Design Division |
Confirmed |
||
| 14:00 | Visit to Center for Critical Foresight | We
will meet with the Director Dr. William Cockayne, Ph.D. |
Confirmed |
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| 15:30 | Visit IDEO, Palo Alto | Bill
Moggridge will host the group at IDEO which
has been a pioneer in product design since more than
twenty years |
Confirmed |
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| 18:00 | Welcome to Silicon Valley party at Stanford Terrace Inn | With
invited guests from Silicon Valley |
Confirmed |
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Tuesday |
May 13 | 8:00 | Breakfast in hotel | buffet style |
|
| 9:00 | Departure for San Francisco | We will travel by train |
|
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| 10:00 | Visit to Yahoo Brickhouse | We will meet with Chad Dickerson, Director of the Advanced
Products Group |
Confirmed |
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| 13:00 | Visit to Loomia |
|
to be finalized |
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| 15:00 | Visit to Atlassian San Francisco |
|
Confirmed |
||
| 17:00 | End of visit |
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Evening free |
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Wednesday |
May 14 | 8:00 | Meet in hotel lobby for an early departure |
|
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| 8:30 | Departure |
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| 9:00 | Visit VMWare, Palo Alto | Breakfast at EMC/VMWare campus |
Confirmed |
||
| 11:30 | Departure for Half Moon Bay | We will stop for lunch at Tres Amigos and meet with Robert Scoble, technology blogger and managing director of FastCompany.TV |
Confirmed |
||
| 14:30 | Departure for San Francisco | We
take the scenic highway 1 along the coast |
|
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| 15:30 | Visit Adaptive Path | Adaptive Path is a leader
in the field of product experience strategy and design. |
Confirmed |
||
| 19:30 | Creative Commons SF Salon Public Event | Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit
organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build
upon and share. |
Confirmed |
||
| 21:30 | Return to Palo Alto |
|
|
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Thursday |
May 15 | 8:00 | Breakfast in hotel | buffet style |
|
| 9:00 | Departure for Cupertino |
|
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| 9:30 | Visit to Apple Computer | Confirmed |
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| 12:15 | Working Lunch |
|
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| 13:30 | Visit to Apple store |
|
|
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| 14:00 | Departure for Mountain View |
|
|
||
| 14:30 | Visit Microsoft Research | We will meet with Chuck Thacker, Microsoft Technical Fellow |
Confirmed |
||
| 17:30 | Return to Hotel |
|
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|
Evening free |
|
|
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Friday |
May 16 | 8:00 | Breakfast in hotel | buffet style |
|
| 8.00 | We will meet with Felix Kramer, founder of Calcars | He will introduce the "plugin Hybrid" |
Confirmed |
||
| 9:30 | Departure from hotel for Vantage Palo Alto | We will visit a "green" housing project with Solar, Heat pumps, etc. |
Confirmed |
||
| 12:00 | Lunch meeting at Fish & Richardson, Redwood City | Guest speaker
will be Eric Eldon, editor of VentureBeat, he will talk
about is struggles as an entrepreneur |
Confirmed |
||
| 14:30 | Visit to NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field |
Details will be available soon |
Confirmed |
||
| 18:30 | Farewell dinner at the Shoreline Lakeside Café, Mountain View
|
Keynote speaker Dr. Jim Fruchterman , Chairman & CEO Benetech |
Confirmed |
||
Saturday |
May 17 | 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. |
People might want to visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Saturday opening hours 11am - 5pm. |
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| 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 |
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| 14:30 | Return
to San Francisco |
Free time to explore the city |
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| 18:00 | Early dinner in China Town |
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| 19:30 | Return to Palo Alto |
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Sunday |
May 18 | 8:30 | Breakfast in hotel | . |
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End of organized events | details about airport shuttle will be announced to the individual participants |
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| 18:00 | dep. for San Francisco International Airport |
for
those on suggested flights |
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| 19:30 | Check in Lufthansa | KLM 13:00 |
suggested |
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| 21:30 | San Francisco-Munich (LH459) |
SFO-AMS
(KL606) |
suggested |
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| arrival next day Zürich/Geneva | Amsterdam |
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Final Tour Program as from 1 May 2008, subject to minor changes |
| Copyright © Silicon Valley Association |