Time/Date |
What's going on |
Speaker/Company |
Sunday |
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2.00pm |
Group arrives to hotel Four Seasons California.
2050 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
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Monday |
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8:00am |
Breakfast in the hotel |
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9:00am |
Program review
Presentation: "Introduction to Silicon Valley".
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Andrew Kunov,
President, Silicon
Valley Innovation
Center |
10:30am |
Visiting Stanford University
Overview University, visiting the museum and library,
familiarity with the history and activities currently
time. During his visit to Stanford participants will
consider relationship education and business in Silicon
Valley. How Stanford affects the development
of IT spheres in a valley, and vice versa.
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Ilja Gruen, Lecturer at
Stanford University
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12:30pm |
Lunch in Cantor Arts Center |
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2.00pm |
Visiting Facebook
A rapidly growing number 1 social network in the world.
During the visit to Facebook participants
familiarize with the company closer and learn about
"Social" models of the Internet.
Scheduled session of questions and answers (Q & A), in
during which participants will be able to ask questions.
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Sean Ryan, Director,
Games Partnerships
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3:30pm
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Visiting Sofinnova Ventures
The company operates since 1974. It manages more
than a billion dollars to invest in start-up -
companies, as well as passing the experience for their future
development.
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Eric Buatois, General
Partner
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5:30 |
Dinner at the restaurant La Strada Italian |
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Tuesday |
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7:30am |
Breakfast in the hotel |
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9:30am |
Visit to Intel Museum
A place where participants can learn the history of the company
Intel, as well as to see how things are going in the company
today.
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11:30am
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Visiting Apple
Participants meet with the employees of Apple.
Meeting with speakers and questions-answers session.
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Mark Grats, Sergey
Benke
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12:30pm |
Lunch at Apple cafe with speakers
Informal meeting with leadership of
most valuable company in the world.
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2:00pm |
Visiting DFJ Ventures
This venture company was founded in 1985
year. It has more than 400 investments in
young companies. Participants will learn more about
venture capital, communicating with the managing
director of the company.
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Alexandra Johnson,
Managing Director
DFJ
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4:00pm |
Visiting Threshold Ventures
Presentation "Introduction to Venture Capital".
Participants will be able to ask questions from
management of Threshold Ventures.
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Jon Baer, Senior
Executive
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6:00pm |
Dinner at the restaurant Pastis. Informal meeting with
co-owner of Almaz Capital Peter Loukianoff.
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Wednesday |
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7:30am |
Breakfast in the hotel |
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9:30am |
Presentation: "What you need to know to create
successful technology business in the U.S.? "
During this presentation, participants will be able to learn more
about the specifics of the IT business in the U.S. and ask questions.
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Velton Zegelman,
Corporate &
Employent Law,
Julian Zegelman,
Partner |
11:00am
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Visiting Insperity: «HR Automation and Policy
Management: New Solutions »
During the meeting, participants will learn in detail about
"War for Talent" occurring in Silicon
Valley and challenges in the field of IT staff that facing
companies.
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Kathy Gatterer,
Manager HR Services
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12:30pm |
Dinner, Concordia-Argonaut Club
Lunch at the private club with the company owner Kustov &
Associates, Inc.
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Dmitry Kustov,
Kustov & Associates,
Inc.
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2:00pm |
Visiting AirBnB
Young company that has created a reliable
platform search and bookings housing. Meeting with
leadership and question and answer session.
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4:00pm |
Visiting Juniper Networks
Participants will become familiar with the latest developments in
network solutions and Cloud Computing.
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Andrey Titov,
Director of Business
Operations
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6:00pm |
Dinner in the Café Renzo |
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Thursday |
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7:00am |
Breakfast in the hotel |
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9:30am |
Visiting Cognizant, Business Incubator
Is a leading provider of IT technology, business
consulting and business applications. Q & A session
with the executive director of the company.
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Mark Iwanowski,
Executive Director
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11:00am |
Visiting Opera Software
Meeting with company management and Q & A session.
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Victor Shaburov, VP
of Opera Store
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12:30pm |
Lunch at the Blue Garden Cafe |
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2:00pm |
Visiting SAP
Meeting with director and an expert of products SAP.
SAP is the market leader in technology program
solutions for business. She will explain more about products, innovations
and modern trends.
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Victoria
Menshchikova,
Director, Produtst
Marketing
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3:30pm |
Visiting Equinix
The company is the developer of platforms for data processing center.
Meeting with the General Manager and Technical Director of the company.
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Slava Kritov,
General Manager &
CTO
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5:30pm |
Dinner at the restaurant Maggiano’s Little Italy |
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Friday |
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7:00am |
Breakfast in the hotel |
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9:30am |
Visiting Google
Tour to the office Google. The main office
GooglePlex, which employs 10,000 people.
"How it works". The group will visit the headquarters and
learn more about the organization of Google.
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Denis Krupenikov,
Senior Manager
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12:00pm |
Visiting Knight Management Center, Stanford Campus
Meeting with representatives of Stanford University.
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Stanford GSB
representative
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12:00pm |
Lunch at the Stanford campus |
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2:00pm |
Visiting Harris & Harris Group, Venture Capital firm
Active investor in companies that specialize in
nanotechnology. Meeting with management and session
questions and answers.
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Alexei Andreev,
ExecutiveVice
President
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3:30pm |
Seen 500 Startups Incubator
500 Startups - One of the most prominent IT
incubators in Silicon Valley.
Features of incubators in the SV,
infrastructure and opportunities for startups.
Discuss about international
startups in informal atmosphere.
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Max Skibinski,
Serial Entrepreneur
and Angel Investor
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6:00pm |
Dinner at the restaurant Pampas, Brazilian Steakhouse |
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Saturday |
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Saturday |
The group leaves on a day trip to San Francisco
San Francisco is known as a significant cultural
"Capital" of the United States. Here are just some of
the most famous places for visit:
Famous bridge "Golden Gate » (Golden Gate) - ( length 2730
meters , the scope spans 1280m ) and Park (7 square
kilometers ), which has many museums, the Japanese
Tea Garden, cages with animals, tennis courts and
playgrounds. Alcatraz Island (Alcatraz Island) - a very beautiful
island in the bay.
On it in the immediate vicinity of the city, was built
famous prison Alcatraz . Many famous criminals, including
Al Capone and the legendary contained therein.
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