ToTheValley 2018

23-27 april 2018
San Francisco

From April 23-27 handelsroute.nl organizes a trade mission for IT and digital infrastructure companies to Silicon Valley.

Participation is open for all (Dutch) companies in the digital industry with the ambition to start or further extend their business in the United States. 

Please browse the project website for more information and registration, or contact us via phone +31 20 775 4411 or email: info@handelsroute.nl. 

Price and registration

Registration for this event has expired.

 

Cost
2795,- euro excl VAT
1397,50 euro excl VAT if you are allegible for a RVO trade mission voucher
1750,- euro excl. btw for second participant of the company (co-worker package)

  • full guided 5-day program
  • 4x LUNCH
  • 5 x DINNER (limited alcoholic beverage assortment included)
  • 1 expo pass CloudExpo
  • Option to invite a guest to most networking events

Excluded:

  • 21 % VAT (BTW)
  • alcoholic beverages during dinner or lunch
  • tavel and cancelation insurrance
  • hotel and flight (from and to Holland)
  • Note: CloudExpo pass is Expo only upgrade can be purchased at own expense

For more information please contact us: info@handelsroute.nl or +31 - 20 - 775 4411



Mission voucher policy
Dutch registered companies might be eligible for a mission voucher valued 50% of the participants fee with a maximum of 1500 euro (excl taxes).

 

Please check the RVO website for more information.

Itinerary

Handelsroute creates tailor made programs. We enter into a dialogue with you and your fellow travellers to see which company visits and contacts would benefit you most. We appreciate that you would like to get an impression of what a program might look like. For your convenience we have  listed a program executed in January 2018:

 

Dag 1

Departure Amsterdam - San Francisco

Aiport Transfer to Hotel Palo Alto

Briefing at HanaHaus

Welcome dinner with guest speaker (Introduction Doing Business in Silicon Valley)

 

Dag 2 

Visit Apple Park 

Company visit Dell EMC

Company visit ReGen Villages Stanford

Stanford Campus Tour

 

Dag 3

Check out hotel

Company visit ElectriQ Power at Battery Lab, with three guest speakers

Lunch with guestspeaker Michael Sutherland 

Company visit Yelp

Check inn hotel San Francisco 

 

Dag 4

Company visit Incubator Rocketspace 

Lunch

Company visit Meyer Sound Berkeley

Company visit Franz

Dinner and sports Cal men's Basketball vs. Oregon 

 

Dag 5

Breakfast seminar Hosted by Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco, including presentations by

Lunch

Company visit LinkedIn (Presentation by VP of product developemen)

Follow up and individual meetings

Debriefing dinner

 

Dag 6

Day off

 

Dag 7

Departure San Francisco - Amsterdam

HOLLAND; Digital Gateway

In Europe, having high speed internet access is now very common. Almost everywhere in Europe people and organizations go online via fixed and/or mobile broadband. The underlying infrastructure that makes it all possible to surf the web is called the digital infrastructure. The infrastructure that makes the internet work. 

Digital infrastructure:
The digital infrastructure is the combined fixed and mobile access networks, data centers, cloud & hosting providers, domain name registrars, internet exchanges, content delivery networks, etc. 

Part of the digital infrastructure are international digital hubs, these are only present in a few countries around the world. These digital hubs are international intersections of connectivity and are the key commercial multi-tenant data center markets. 

Digital Hub:
Digital hubs consist of international backbone-, fiber- and IP-carriers, data centers, internet exchanges and major cloud providers. They have developed into an unique ecosystem of infrastructure, customers and suppliers. 

The Netherlands is one of the most important Digital Hubs in the World. The Digital Gateway to Europe is centered around the Metro Region of Amsterdam. In the Netherlands it is seen as the 3th international hub, Mainport, next to the Port of Rotterdam and Schiphol Airport. 

Near the Digital Gateway 

For companies less dependent on latency or the need of being next to the special digital hub ecosystem, just being outside the Amsterdam region is good enough and in almost all the cases still better than anywhere else in Europe. As the Netherlands is a small country, this immediately means basically all of the Netherlands. Notable data center hot spots are: Rotterdam, Groningen and Eindhoven for commercial data centers. 

Apart from multi-tenant data centers, the Netherlands is also home to hyperscale data centers. Main campuses are Agriport, north of Amsterdam and Eemshaven, Groningen in the north of the Netherlands.

Mission voucher by RVO

Mission voucher policy
Dutch registered companies might be eligible for a mission voucher valued 50% of the participants fee with a maximum of 1500 euro (excl taxes).
 
Please check the RVO website for more information.

Contractor

This trip is supported by DIgital Gateway and NAF NorCal.

More information

Please contact us for more information on this or other projects: info@handelsroute.nl