Detailed Silicon Valley program

Tour program sample. Silicon Valley tour. October, 2013.
California, USA.

Note: this program is just an example. Exact program of upcoming tours are formed only with the customer participation and based on customer's goals.

Time/Date	What's going on	Speaker/Company
Sunday
2.00pm	Group arrives to hotel Four Seasons California. 2050 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Monday
8:00am	Breakfast in the hotel
9:00am	Program review Presentation: "Introduction to Silicon Valley".	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.	Ilja Gruen, Lecturer at Stanford University
12:30pm	Lunch in Cantor Arts Center
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.	Sean Ryan, Director, Games Partnerships
3:30pm	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.	Eric Buatois, General Partner
5:30	Dinner at the restaurant La Strada Italian
Tuesday
7:30am	Breakfast in the hotel
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.
11:30am	Visiting Apple Participants meet with the employees of Apple. Meeting with speakers and questions-answers session.	Mark Grats, Sergey Benke
12:30pm	Lunch at Apple cafe with speakers Informal meeting with leadership of most valuable company in the world.
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.	Alexandra Johnson, Managing Director DFJ
4:00pm	Visiting Threshold Ventures Presentation "Introduction to Venture Capital". Participants will be able to ask questions from management of Threshold Ventures.	Jon Baer, Senior Executive
6:00pm	Dinner at the restaurant Pastis. Informal meeting with co-owner of Almaz Capital Peter Loukianoff.
Wednesday
7:30am	Breakfast in the hotel
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.	Velton Zegelman, Corporate & Employent Law, Julian Zegelman, Partner
11:00am	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.	Kathy Gatterer, Manager HR Services
12:30pm	Dinner, Concordia-Argonaut Club Lunch at the private club with the company owner Kustov & Associates, Inc.	Dmitry Kustov, Kustov & Associates, Inc.
2:00pm	Visiting AirBnB Young company that has created a reliable platform search and bookings housing. Meeting with leadership and question and answer session.
4:00pm	Visiting Juniper Networks Participants will become familiar with the latest developments in network solutions and Cloud Computing.	Andrey Titov, Director of Business Operations
6:00pm	Dinner in the Café Renzo
Thursday
7:00am	Breakfast in the hotel
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.	Mark Iwanowski, Executive Director
11:00am	Visiting Opera Software Meeting with company management and Q & A session.	Victor Shaburov, VP of Opera Store
12:30pm	Lunch at the Blue Garden Cafe
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.	Victoria Menshchikova, Director, Produtst Marketing
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.	Slava Kritov, General Manager & CTO
5:30pm	Dinner at the restaurant Maggiano’s Little Italy
Friday
7:00am	Breakfast in the hotel
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.	Denis Krupenikov, Senior Manager
12:00pm	Visiting Knight Management Center, Stanford Campus Meeting with representatives of Stanford University.	Stanford GSB representative
12:00pm	Lunch at the Stanford campus
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.	Alexei Andreev, ExecutiveVice President
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.	Max Skibinski, Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
6:00pm	Dinner at the restaurant Pampas, Brazilian Steakhouse
Saturday
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.