Business Stammtisch

Andreas Flury will speak on Swiss Precision in IT Education: "How Switzerland's Educational System delivers profoundly trained IT professionals".

Business Stammtisch

Guest speaker:
Mr. Toby Hecht, CEO and Founder,
The Aji Network, Santa Clara, CA

Business Stammtisch

Guest speaker:
Christian Simm, Initiator and Executive Director
swissnex, San Francisco, CA

Followed by hors d'oeuvres, wine tasting and a light dinner.

Special Guest:
Walter Baechtiger, CEO, Point-X Branch Strategy Solutions

Special Guest:
Stefanie Lustenberger, Swiss-California Foundation

"Iraq the morning after: Prospects for Peace beyond June 30."

Guest speaker:
Mr. Bill Emmott, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist

In conjunction with The British-American Chamber of Commerce

11:30 a.m. Registration; 12:00 p.m. Luncheon
Bankers Club, 52nd Floor
Bank of America Building, 555 California Street, San Francisco

"Investing in Uncertain Times"

Guest speaker:
Kathryn Hall, President and Chief Investment Officer, Offit Hall Capital Management LLC, San Francisco

11:30 a.m.
Stanford Court Hotel, San Francisco

"How to Leverage Your Assets to Achieve Financial Independence"

Special Guest:
Hans Overturf, Personal Financial Planning

Club Entrepreneur - Introduction and Kick-Off Meeting

5:30 p.m., swissnex, 730 Montgomery St., San Francisco

Excursion to Cuvaison Winery
Calistoga, Napa Valley

You are cordially invited to an entertaining and tasty outing to the
Napa Valley, featuring the wines of Cuvaison paired with the
exceptional cheeses under the expert tutelage of "Madame de Fromage".

Industrial Design Exhibition & Lecture from the Director ECAL

Swiss Business Luncheon
Speaker: Paul Erdman, Economist and Novelist

Special Guests: Walter H. Diggelmann and Martin Naville
11:30 a.m. - 2.p.m. at Stanford Court Hotel, San Francisco, CA

Day on the Bay
Bay Cruise and barbecue lunch with the Red & White fleet,
organized jointly with the United Swiss Societies of Northern California

Swiss Business Luncheon

"Networking Between Science and Economy"

Speakers: Walter Anderau, Member of the Executive Board, Swiss Re;
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zehnder, President of the Board, Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH), at:

The Stanford Court, a Renaissance Hotel
905 California Street - San Francisco

Time:
11:30 a.m. No-Host Cocktail
12:00 Noon Luncheon

Speaker: Jesus Martin-Garcia, Director, eClosion Life Sciences Incubator, Geneva / Switzerland
Eclosion's primary target in the USA is young Swiss or "Swissophile"

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
 at Swissnex
730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
(between Washington and Jackson Street)

Business Stammtisch

Special Guest: Christian Nobs, Qualys: Network Security & the Vulnerabilities of the Future SACC

Stammtisch

Open Network Meeting

Annual Christmas Luncheon

The annual Christmas luncheon, raffle and auction will take place on December 15 at the Stanford Court. As always you can expect culinary delights from Chris Steuri's kitchen, augmented by the wines donated by Vina Robles Winery and Merryvale Vineyards, as well as valuable raffle and auction prizes, including tickets to Switzerland from Swiss and Belair and one of those unique hand-crafted wrist watches from Urs Ryser.