Palo Alto

Spring European Networking

Spring European Networking 2024

The American-European Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations invites you to join us for another wonderful European Networking Event.

Come and mingle with entrepreneurs and a range of professionals involved in cross-border business in a very relaxed and European atmosphere. This event attracts many international business professionals from different European countries. Members of the partnering organizations and their guests have priority access to tickets for this event.

Complimentary appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks will be served.

Young Professionals European Summer Mixer

We invite you to come out to our Young Professional Networking Mixer to mingle with young professionals from different businesses and industries in a relaxed atmosphere. This event is hosted by the Young Professional Groups of GABA, FACC, BABC and other European organizations, and is supposed to provide young workers a chance to meet and talk about their careers, give tips on starting out in the Bay area and help answer each other’s questions.

Complimentary appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks will be served.

We would like to thank our sponsor: WilmerHale

Cost: $10 for Members, $15 Non-Members, $20 at the Door

Visa & Immigration Options in North America For Spanish and EU Companies and Nationals

A panel of leading immigration attorneys from California, Mexico, and Canada, will discuss key aspects of employment, investment, and other visa availability for multinational companies and individuals/families interested in obtaining a temporary or permanent visa solution within one or more of those countries. The panel will focus on common questions, such as when a visa is required for business travel, and provide a practical review of visa options for some of the most common scenarios.

Smart Manufacturing and Industrie 4.0

GABA and EIT Digital invite you to join a discussion with German Industry 4.0 leaders and US Smart Manufacturing experts that are part of the German American Friendship year (“Deutschlandjahr – USA”).

Industrie 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing are subjects of great importance in Germany as well as the US. During this conference, we will discuss the concept of Industrie 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing as well as it key technologies and its vast range of applications. Taking place in the context of the “Year of German-American Friendship”, the conference features a German delegation of Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 leaders that includes several of the originators of the Industrie 4.0 concept as well as the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing Leader of the Year 2017 Award. The German delegation will discuss this vast topic with US experts from a broad range of companies and organizations. After the opening by the German Consul General in San Francisco and two keynote speeches by leading representatives of Siemens and RTI, the conference will cover the following topics in interactive panel discussion formats:

What puts the “Smart” in “Smart Manufacturing”?
Data and Connectivity – Sensors, Internet of Things, 5G
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
Opportunities and Threats
Digital Twins
Additive Manufacturing
Robotics
Cybersecurity
The Future of Work
Industrie 4.0 Platforms
The European Perspective on Industrie 4.0
Industrie 4.0 Collaboration Opportunities
Standardization
Industry associations
Opportunities for smaller companies / SMEs
How to get started / how to get connected

Date and Time:
Thursday, Nov 08, 2018
03:30 PM – 08:30 PM Pacific

Location:
SAP
3410 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Agenda:
3:30 – 4:00pm Registration and Networking
4:00 – 4:10pm Opening Address by German Consul General in San Francisco, Hans-Ulrich Südbeck
4:10 – 4:40pm Keynote by Dieter Wegener, “Industrie 4.0 Overview – What it is and where it’s going”
4:40 – 5:00pm Keynote by Stan Schneider, “The US Perspective on Industrie 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing”
5:00 – 5:25pm Panel Session: “Key Technologies for Smart Manufacturing / Industrie 4.0 – What puts the “Smart” in “Smart Manufacturing” ”
5:25 – 5:50pm Panel Session: “Key Technologies for Smart Manufacturing / Industrie 4.0 – Opportunities and Threats”
5:50 – 6:10pm Break
6:10 – 7:10pm Panel Session: “Industrie 4.0 Landscape and Collaboration Opportunities”
7:10 – 7:30pm Q&A session with German delegation and US speakers
7:30 – 8:30pm Networking Reception

Complimentary appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks will be served.

Cost:
Regular: $35
$50 Day of event

The Not-so-Hidden Megatrend: People Determining Their Own Software at Work!

Grass-roots IT – hodgepodge and security nightmare, or the trend that will finally bring good user experience to the enterprise? Let’s think this through – with some of the most seasoned observers of our industry on this not-to-be-missed panel.

Some estimates see employees spending more than half their workday on devices and apps that they themselves have chosen. Some threads that we are looking to get into:

  • How should companies respond? How do they keep cohesion?
  • How do you build software products for this environment?
  • Will this accelerate a new age of user experience? Gartner sees immersive experiences as one of the 3 megatrends in enterprise in the next 10 years.

Hear from some of those that have shaped the last decades to look ahead, how they are charting a course for their companies

Speakers

 

Moderator

  • Tim Bussiek, Technology product & marketing leader, Enterprise, Big Data and IoT, End-user Centricity

 

Location

SAP, Building 1
3410 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304  Map

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30 pm Registration / Networking Reception
6:30 – 8:00 pm Program
8:00 – 9:00 pm Networking

Complimentary appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks will be served.

Cost

Early Bird until May 23rd: $15 Members, $30 Non-Members
Regular: $20 Members, $35 Non-Members
$50 Day of event

The Future of Energy Storage

Keeping the lights on with clean energy 

Imagine for a moment that we have built enough wind and solar power plants to supply 100 percent of the electricity a region like California or a country like Germany consumes in a year. The continuing rapid cost declines of wind and solar power generation assets make it possible that ambitious energy targets can be met at costs competitive with fossil fuels. However, experts agree, without energy storage it will be impossible to get beyond 80% renewable energy. The variable character of wind and solar power makes it impossible to guarantee sufficient supply of energy 24 hours a day. Energy storage goes far beyond the use in electric vehicles. It is the key to a transformation of the way we generate and consume electric energy. Besides enabling the replacement of fossil fuel power plants, storage has a wide variety of other benefits, for utilities, grid operators and private and commercial users. Our expert panel will discuss topics like:

  • What is the roadmap for more storage integration? Germany vs California, what can we learn from each other?
  • If the case for energy storage is so clear cut, why don’t we see more of it? What are major hurdles?
  • Silicon Valley: Innovation Hub for the world. What is the impact of entrepreneurs/startups?

This panel discussion is organized in cooperation with WATTS & WINE, an event series of inspirational talks and networking all around the energy space and beyond, hosted by innogy New Ventures LLC.

Speakers

  • Sila Kiliccote, Staff Scientist at SLAC / Managing Director of Grid Innovations at Stanford University
  • Jorg Heinemann, Chief Commercial Office von Primus Power
  • Michelle Bogen, Advanced Technology Engineer at BMW Technology Office
  • Timothy Wang, Principal at The Westly Group

 

Moderator

  • Eric Olson, Senior Vice President at BSR- San Francisco

 

Location

HanaHaus
456 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301  Map

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30 pm Registration / Networking Reception
6:30 – 8:00 pm Program
8:00 – 9:00 pm Networking

Complimentary appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks will be served.

Cost

Early Bird until May 17: Free! for Members, $30 Non-Members
Regular: $20 Members, $35 Non-Members
$50 Day of event

German TechMatch 2018

The GACC West in cooperation with US Market Access Center

German TechMatch 2018

German TechMatch promotes hand-picked German tech startups showcasing their offerings to corporate investors and tech channel partners in the Silicon Valley.

The event will focus on company pitches, followed by a networking reception, where all companies can present their solutions at demo tables. Meeting with startups in early stages of development will give attendees exposure to fresh and innovative ideas and a quality core team. Attendees will be given plentiful opportunities to network and directly exchange with startups from Germany’s flourishing tech scene- a producer of formidable and original emerging companies.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
10:30 am – 2:00 pm

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

– Innovators/Entrepreneurs
– Business Angels and VCs
– Industry luminaries of innovation, R&D and networking growth
– Tech channel partners
– Corporate Investors

AGENDA

10:30 am | Check-in & registration

11:00 am | Opening address

11:15 am | Pitches from 8 German companies

12:15 pm | 1:1 Breakout Sessions at demo tables

1:00 pm | Networking accompanied by lunch and beverages
   

PITCHING COMPANIES

BEEsharing GmbH

BEEsharing, the network for beekeepers, farmers, traders and bee friends! We provide pollination offers between beekeepers and farmers – for better yield and a successful, cost-reduced apiculture. Preservation and protection of the honeybee, wild pollinators and their habitat will be the main the focus. BEEsharing also provides transportation services for beekeepers and high quality controlled honey and bee products.

Blickfeld GmbH

Blickfeld GmbH was founded in 2017 in Munich and pursues a novel approach to building LiDAR systems for the environmental perception of autonomous machines such as autonomous vehicles. By using commercial off-the-shelf and silicon components, Blickfeld has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that can be produced in low-cost mass fabrication and meets the technical performance specifications required by car OEMs. A high resolution and sampling rate are achieved by employing a patent-pending scanner technology, which merges the best of both silicon microfabrication and already established LiDAR concepts. This advanced approach closes the gap between today’s high-cost systems and the automotive mass-market needs, and thus enables safe and affordable autonomous transportation.

DR. KURT WOLFF GMBH & CO. KG

Dr. Wolff develops, manufactures and markets branded products (Rx, OTC, Cosmeceuticals) and is one of the largest medium-sized, family-owned companies in the German pharma and cosmetic industry and among the top 100 domestic enterprises. With a strategy based on intensive research and development in skin and hair care as well as gynecology, Dr. Wolff stands out by its development skills, galenic formulation expertise and creative marketing of real innovations for more than 110 years.

Dr. Wolff’s market leading brands in dermatology and gynecology are Linola®, Vagisan® and Arilin®. Key brands in hair and oral care are Alpecin®, Plantur®, Biorepair®, and Karex®.

INS Insider Navigation GmbH

INS is the first company that offers indoor navigation without the use of additional hardware. Our hardware independent Augmented Reality indoor navigation enables precise 3D positioning, intuitive navigation and displaying the right 2D or 3D content at the right spot. We have developed a process and an easy-to-implement Software Development Kit (SDK) to make any venue recognizable for any device with a camera. The easy set-up requires no electronic hardware (no beacons,…), while the backend comes with a rest API so customers’ data can be saved on premise or on our INS cloud. The SDK runs on any Operating System (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux). With our AR indoor navigation any venue/site becomes interactive!

Kinfinity

KINFINTY is offering an affordable motion capture Glove and Shirt that simplifies robotic programming and provides a better AR/VR immersion. The patents and the technology developed by KINFINITY allow the products to be used in the professional as well as the consumer sector. Moreover, thanks to skills of the team, it is easily possible to adapt the for a large customer if needed. The new robotic teaching paradigm created by KINFINITY, enables SME to benefit from robotic system in places where programming was considered too expensive. The technology of KINFINITY can be used in numerous other domains, such as medical or sport sectors.

Pxio GmbH

Pxio is a software infrastructure for real-time pixel transport in business environments. Instead of video cables or dedicated hardware for isolated use cases, we create a thin distributed software layer sending pixel data across standard IP networks using existing commodity hardware – including wireless communication, desktop and mobile operating systems, composite display walls of many screens, and much more. Pxio enables flexible and dynamic visual communication and collaboration in the modern business world.

Libify Technologies GmbH | More information to come…

MyLivn GmbH | More information to come…

PARTNERS

Visionary Francophone Women in Silicon Valley

The International Day of the Francophonie celebrates on March 20 Francophone culture and French language around the world.

The Consulate General of Luxembourg is delighted to invite you to a Special Speaker Event together with France, Québec and Switzerland. The event will welcome three Visionary Francophone Women for an inspiring talk on their journey in Silicon Valley:

• Florence Buatois, Board Chair French American Cultural Society.
• Caroline Simard, Director Research Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.
• Virginie Simon, CEO & Co-founder MyScienceWork, French American Business Awards 2017.
Moderator: Hélène Laroche Davis, Chair Modern Languages & Cultures Notre Dame de Namur University, book author: François Truffaut, Robert Desnos.

The event will start with a Welcome Apéro with Luxembourg and Swiss wines at 6:30pm and is hosted at ISTP in Palo Alto (151 Laura Lane, Palo Alto).

To reserve your spots, kindly RSVP to: sfr.events@eda.admin.ch 

You can find more information here.

Québec Movie Night

Reception at 6:30 pm – Movies at 7:15 pm

JE SUIS UNE ACTRICE
Director : Benoit Lach
8 minutes – Québec, Canada
Original French version

ORIGAMI
Director : Patrick Demers
99 minutes – Québec, Canada
Original French version
English subtitles

Find more information here.