IT-forum 2010 studietur San Francisco og Las Vegas

1. IT Forum Sogn og Fjordane
San Francisco March 21 – March 25
PROGRAM
Sunday
March 21 Networking Event
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Wine tour to Sonoma Valley,
10:30 am Visit to Gloria Ferrer,
www.gloriaferrer.com
12:00 pm Lunch at the Swiss Hotel, Sonoma,
www.swisshotelsonoma.com
2:00 pm Visit to Sebastiani Winery,
www.sebastiani.com
Monday
March 22
At the Hotel am
and site visits pm
http://www.larkspurhotels.com/collection/villa-florence
225 Powell Street, San Francisco. Tel: 415.397.7700
8:30 am – 9:00 am Welcome and Introduction
Svein-Egil Nielsen, Innovation Norway, San Francisco
9:00 am – 9:45 am
What drives Silicon Valley
Richard Allan Horning, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Richard Allan Horning practices in the Venture Technology
Group at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in Palo Alto,
California. He specializes in counseling high technology and e-
commerce companies in all stages of development, from start-
up to Fortune 50, with particular emphasis on funding
transactions, intellectual property protection, licensing,
contract and antitrust issues. He also has substantial
experience in representing high technology companies in
litigation and arbitration matters, in both international and
domestic venues.
9:45 am – 10:00 am Break

2. 10:00 am – 10:45 am
http://www.kickapps.com/
Kevin C Zellmer, VP Channel Development
KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with
solutions that enable them to create and manage next
generation web experiences that are social, interactive,
dynamic, distributed, and data-informed. KickApps solutions
consist of a suite of hosted social and media applications and
services that are used by some of the world’s largest websites
and brands to grow & engage their online audiences and foster
deeper relationships with customers.
11:00 am – 12:00 am
DUBLIN CONSULTING
The Future of eLearning
Lance Dublin, Dublin Consulting,
www.dublinconsulting.com
Lance Dublin has been an advocate for innovative approaches
to learning and change throughout his career. He went from
designing a weeklong "Experiment in Free Form Education"
program in high school to co-founding one of the nation's first
fully accredited 'University Without Walls'. Later recognizing
the impact of new user-centered technologies on people,
business and learning, he founded and built Dublin Group, a
company which became a leader in improving individual and
organizational performance and implementing large-scale
change.
Lance is now an independent management consultant,
international speaker and author based in San Francisco,
California and serving clients world-wide. He specializes in
strategy development, program design, and implementation
for corporate learning, change management, and
organizational development initiatives. He brings to his work
more than 30 years' experience in adult education and
training, communication and change leadership, and
motivation and innovation. He is the co-author of the capstone
book in ASTD's e-learning series, "Implementing e-Learning"
and has contributed chapters and articles to numerous other
books and professional publications.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch at the hotel
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Transportation

3. 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
3979 Freedom Circle,
Santa Clara www.webex.com
Grace Kim and Travis Sterne
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for
the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of
business, education, government and home communications,
and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions
are the foundation of these networks.
Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to
create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies,
and countries to increase productivity, improve customer
satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco
name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as
with the productivity improvements that Internet business
solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way
people work, live, play and learn.
WebEx is an easy way to share ideas with anyone, anywhere.’
It combines real-time desktop sharing with phone conferencing
so everyone sees the same thing while you talk. It’s far more
productive than emailing files and struggling to get everyone
on the same page over the phone. And it can often eliminate
the need for people to travel and meet on site.

4. Tuesday, March
23 Site visits
7:30 am Bus departure from the hotel
9:00 am – 10:00 am
500 Castro Street,
Mountain View
Visit to the City of Mountain View,
http://www.ci.mtnview.ca.us/
Experiences with Google WiFi
Representative from Google
Broadcasting of Council meetings
IT Director, City of Mountain View
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
1 Infinite Loop,
Cupertino
Apple, www.apple.com
Cathy Foster, Corporate Government Affairs
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Transportation
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Stanford University
Durand Building http://scpd.stanford.edu/
496 Lomita Mall
Room 450 The Stanford Center for Professional Development connects
professionals worldwide to the research and teaching of
Stanford University faculty in the School of Engineering and
related academic departments. Qualified individuals may study
for master of science degrees on a part-time basis, pursue
graduate certificates and professional certificates, take
individual graduate courses and professional courses,
participate in workshops, view free online seminars and more.
Courses are delivered online, on the Stanford campus in the
heart of Silicon Valley, and at the work site.

5. 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Wallenberg Hall,
450 Serra Mall,
Stanford University
Visit to Stanford University
MediaX, http://mediax.stanford.edu/about.html
Dr. Martha Russel, Associate Director
Media X research focuses on people and technology - how
people use technology, how to better design technology to
make it more usable (and more competitive in the
marketplace), how technology affects people's lives, and the
innovative use of advanced communication technologies in
research, education, art, business, commerce, entertainment,
communication, national security, and other walks of life.

6. Wednesday,
March 24 Site visits
8:30 am Bus departure from hotel
9:00 am – 10:00 am
1550 Bryant Street,
San Francisco
Penthouse Seesmic, www.seesmic.com
Conference Room Loic Le Meur, founder and CEO
Build your community in one central place with Seesmic
Desktop, which integrates both Twitter and Facebook. This
all-in-one tool makes it easy to reply to your friends and
share text, links, photos and videos all in one screen.
Seesmic Web is a web application helping to easily manage
and build your community directly in your browser. You can
now be connected to your Twitter community from home,
school, work, or, actually, everywhere you might need it!
Process your messages in an email-like interface, view and
add to your Twitter lists and save your searches synced with
Twitter.
Seesmic Look is a unique way to immerse yourself in the
real-time web. Optimized for Windows 7, this innovative
interface allows you to feel the pulse of millions of users or
be inspired by individuals of your specific interest. Beginners
learning to understand real-time can stay engaged and
connected without even logging into Twitter, while
experienced users can take advantage of Look's powerful
features in creative and imaginative ways.
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
One South Van Ness,
2nd Floor, City of San Francisco, Tech-Connect,
San Francisco http://www.sfgov.org/site/digitalinclusion_index.asp
The San Francisco Digital Inclusion Initiative
Michael McCarthy, Department of Technology
eGovernment
Chris Vein, Chief Information Officer
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Transportation and Lunch at
Palomino, 345 Spear Street, San Francisco

7. 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
360 Spear Street
San Francisco www.gogrid.com
360 Spear Street, San Francisco
John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder
Paul Lancaster, Business Development Manager
GoGrid is a leading Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider with
extensive expertise and experience running complex, on-
demand cloud, dedicated and mixed server infrastructures.
With over 10 years of dedicated hosting experience, our team
wanted to develop a new kind of hosting solution to address
the scaling needs of today's businesses. Over the years, we
have seen some of the limitations with dedicated servers and
managed hosting, in terms of flexibility, elasticity and their
lack of an on-demand nature. Virtual Private Servers have
been around for awhile and always seemed like a good idea,
but somehow they always seemed to lack the performance,
throughput and reliability of physical boxes. Through our
experience in the dedicated server hosting market, extensive
R&D in Xen-based grid technology, and needs of the many
rapidly growing companies we serve, the opportunity became
clear.
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Visit to AT&T, www.att.com
6:30 – 8:30 Networking
reception
McCormick Kuleto’s,
900 North Point,
San Francisco

8. Thursday
March 25 Site Visits
9:30 am – 10:30 am
www.qik.com
Vijay Tella, CEO
Qik lets you share your everyday life experiences as it
happens with your family and friends — right from your
mobile phone.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
www.faculte.com
Maher Hakim, CEO
Faculte is a multimedia communications platform for
professionals and organizations. The company was founded in
2007 with a simple mission: to help people and businesses
use rich media (video, voice, visuals) to share and sell
knowledge and information online. Our product design
approach is straightforward: make it easy, and make it
fun!Our team spans professionals from various backgrounds
and nationalities from the San Francisco Bay Area all the way
to Cluj, Romania. We believe that technology not only bridges
distances but also improves communication between people
in the same location. We now have the ability to capture and
communicate our thoughts using rich forms of media from
video to voice to visuals.