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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.

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 Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco and Föreningen Svenskar i Världen (The Association of Swedes Abroad) invite Swedish Silicon Vikings members to a reception on April 23rd at 6:30pm for Karin Ehnbom-Palmquist, Ambassador and Secretary General Föreningen Svenskar i Världen. Details below in Swedish:

Kom och träffa Karin Ehnbom-Palmquist på besök i San Francisco! Karin kommer att berätta om det viktiga arbete som Föreningen Svenskar i Världen (SVIV) bedriver och hur deras arbete direkt påverkar din situation och dina rättigheter som utlandssvensk.

När: Fredagen den 23 april, 2010 kl. 18.30 – 20.30

Var: NY LOKAL: The Consul General of Sweden Residence, San Francisco, CA

Inträde: $15/person. Vin och tilltugg kommer att serveras. Inträde betalas på plats med kontanter eller check utställd på Barbro Osher. Både SVIV medlemmar och icke-medlemmar är välkomna till mottagningen.

OSA: 16 april till sf "at" consulateofsweden "dot" org eller tel: 415.788 2631.

Om SVIV: SVIV är utlandssvenskarnas främsta lobbygrupp. Föreningen har en unik roll i hemlandet som representant för ca 400 000 svenskar i utlandet. SVIV driver frågor som antagits av våra medlemmar under Utlandssvenskarnas Parlament, som genomförs vartannat år. De resolutioner som antas under parlamenten drivs sedan vidare gentemot berörda departement och politiker.

Några av de saker som SVIV bidragit till är att brevröstning numera är tillåten var du än bor i världen. Man medverkade också till rätten att ha dubbelt medborgarskap, vilket infördes 2001. SVIV arrangerar också konferenser och föreläsningar kring aktuella teman och länder samt arbetar med opinionsbildning gentemot allmänheten, politiker och organisationer.

Mer information om SVIV: www.sviv.se.

Medlemsskap till SVIV kan lösas på plats med betalning via check eller via SVIVs hemsida.

SVIV-ombud i the Bay Area:

Lisa Wiborg i San Francisco: 415-922-3236
Christian Olsson i San Jose: 408-647-9762

Silicon Vikings Stockholm chapter is holding its second meeting on Tuesday March 30th 6pm to 8pm at the same location (thank you to Hamilton Advokatbyrå and Thomas Nygren) with lots of networking and a special speaker.

Beth Topolovsky, Founder and Managing Partner at Stinson Partners AB who have a background from Cisco in the US and Sweden and have started many companies in Stockholm, will be speaking and leading a discussion.

Please RSVP with your name and number of guests to sv-jacob.vendle "at" siliconvikings "dot" com

Note: Cancelled due to Vulcano!
Members of Silicon Vikings are cordially invited to attend a hosted New Media Network networking reception in the Spanish Room, Clift Hotel, 495 Geary Street, San Francisco, on Monday, April 19, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, to meet a delegation of business executives from the leading Norwegian media companies who are in California to study disruptive media and new business models. Representative companies include NRK, TV2, Telenor, Schibsted.

Due to San Francisco Fire Marshal regulations and Clift Hotel policy access to the reception is strictly controlled, and is available by pre-registration only; no on-site registration is permitted. You may register by sending an email message with your name, company name, company position and email address to: Steinar Bjornsen, Bendi International at steinbear "at" bendiinternational "dot" com.