Please join us on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 11:45 to 1:30 at the offices of Sonnenschein Venture Technology, 1530 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94304, for a Silicon Vikings lunch. The featured speaker is:

Peter Magnusson, Founder of Virtutech speaking on “My Journey at Virtutech from Startup to Exit”

Virtutech was founded in 1998 to continue developing work first started at Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), on a simulator to support computer architecture and operating system research, eventually named “Simics” (short for “the SICS Simulator”). Peter was the founder and CEO of Virtutech for many years, helping the company to become the dominating third-party full system simulation system, with a stellar cast of customers over the years including Sun Microsystems, Ericsson, AMD, HP, IBM, Cisco, Freescale, and Honeywell. In 2010, Wind River, an Intel subsidiary, acquitted Virtutech.

Peter is currently Vice President of Marketing at Conformiq, Saratoga.

Please join us for this very interesting lunch; $10 at the door.

Seating is limited, and to insure that there is enough food, pre- registration is required. To sign-up use the link below, or by sending an email to lunches@siliconvikings.com.

Please join us for our monthly Silicon Vikings pub evening between 18:00 to 20:30 on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at TGI Friday's (NEW VENUE), Cupertino Square, 10343 North Wolfe Road, Cupertino, CA 95014-2507 - (408) 257-2050.

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Our pub evenings are held on the 2nd Thursday of the month. The June pub evening will be held on June 9.

SACC-SF invites Silicon Vikings members to its monthly Luncheon on April 22nd with guest speaker Sean Eilers. Sean will be discussing the multi billion dollar online lead generation industry, one of the fastest growing segments of online advertising. His presentation will cover innovative lead generation techniques, advanced targeting, privacy concerns, as well as feature real world examples current advertising campaigns and publisher integrations. For more information and sign up, please visit the event website at http://aprilluncheon.eventbrite.com.

The Telecom Council of Silicon Valley's Entrepreneur Forum is having an upcoming lunch meeting on "Investment Outlook for Telecom Startups" on Tuesday May 11th from 12-2 at the AT&T Campus in San Jose. Their speakers from Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Sofinnova Ventures, Translink Capital and Nokia Growth Partners, will give their insight and thoughts into the changes in venture investing, how these affect startups, and the investment outlook for a few segments within telecom - including mobile, fixed, infrastructure and services. Silicon Vikings members who register before May 1st will get 50% off by using the discount code "Svikings." After 5/1, full price registration is $50. More information such as speaker info, attendee list, meeting details, and registration is online here: http://telecomcouncil.cvent.com/event/EF_Venture_Capital.

The German-American Business Association (GABA), the European Commission and Stanford University’s Dept of Mechanical Engineering invite you to a two-day exchange on building stronger collaborations and ties between Europe's and Silicon Valley's innovation communities and clusters.

The conference will feature thought leaders from Silicon Valley and European venture capital, angel investor, university, start-up, corporate and policy organizations. For additional information & registration please visit www.123signup.com/event?id=mtyxf, www.innovationbridges.com and www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104155256291531&index=1.