The Paddy Valley Tour

If the Valley won't come to Paddy, Paddy must go to the valley

This page is for planning the Irish tour of Silicon Valley as suggested by Conor O'Neill on Web2Ireland. Please enter your name in the table below if you're interested in going along, no commitment necessary. The password is silicon. Use the "Edit Page" button above to make changes. Please use the social tag paddysvalley when posting about this tour to flickr, technorati, blogs, etc.

Itinerary suggestions

• James Corbett - the ususal geek sights, cowork locations, some winery
• Damien Mulley - Demo the wares of the Irish folk. Big room, filled with SV contacts.
• Will King - Visit/make contact with any company involved in developing digital mapping services.
• Conor O'Neill - Get meetings with those immersed in both the business and the culture e.g.
  • Yahoo: Brad Horowitz, Caterina Fake, Salim Ismail
  • Technorati: Tantek Celik, Dave Sifry
  • Six Apart: Mena Trott, Anil Dash
  • Citizen Agency: Chris Messina, Tara Hunt
  • Sequoia Capital: Jason Calacanis
  • Wordpress: Matt Mullenweg, Toni Schneider
  • Riya: Munjal Shah
  • Icons: Dave Winer, Marc Canter
  • Obvious Corp: Evan Williams
  • Add more !
• Conor O'Neill. On the fun side:
  • In-n-Out Burger
  • The HP Garage
  • Sand Hill Road in a go-cart :-)
  • Buck's Diner
  • Great America
  • Fry's Sunnyvale
  • Fry's San Jose
  • Fry's Palo Alto
  • Computer History Museum
• Ed Byrne - meet the ex-pat tech community and learn from their experiences of being an 'Irishman in Silicon Valley'
• Paul Sweeney - pre-organise some "lauch annoucements and valley partnerships"
• Jan Blanchard - Organize an Irish Party Night and invite silicon entrepeneurs/VCs etc..
• Derek Organ - Make use of any and all contacts already established by the group to organize a show case event (I've none personally I'm afraid). Publisize early so it grabs a bit of attention, it should. This will in particular require a venue. Also try organizing around any existing events in the valley. Have a meeting with the whole group before going over to discuss itinenary and other plans informally, possibly the openbeer night might act as a conversation starter. Some group activities not involving business or technology to lighting things up.
• Shane Mc Allister - If there's enough of us, we could get Enterprise Ireland to sponsor a "function/reception/meet and greet/piss-up" for all Irish ex-pat techies and influencers (Companies with Cash, VCs, Angel Investors). Their offices are right in the middle of Paolo Alto. Perhaps this could revolve around a showcase of each company's/persons products etc.
• Joe Drumgoole
  • Meet : Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Diego Duval, Marc Andressen, Paul Graham, Mike Arrington
  • Introductions: Any VC with an interest/appetite for investing in Europe
  • Recruit: Marketing people
  • General: Use our presence to raise general awareness of whats going on in the Irish Software Industry
• Julian Ellison: Are we colliding deliberately/inadvertantly with any other event that's going on in November? Can we take advantage of this? Plus any 'function' should have really good live music.
• Jonathan Hill: Just found out that Web2Expo Berlin has been announced for 6-8th November. I wonder if this could cause a brain/blogger drain in the valley for our proposed trip in November? Niall Kennedy interested in being involved.