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Part 3: Making the most of your time @TiEcon 2014 in Silicon Valley - Bare Necessities

Here’s another one we put together to keep handy for our trip to TiEcon, and it might be helpful for out-of-towners.

Eateries: Like going to London, what’s a visit to Silicon Valley without experiencing eateries serving Indian food based on local recommendations?  Here are a few that might make for good eating places while you break the naan with participants, after the event is over.

Thali Vegetarian

3064 EL CAMINO REAL SANTA CLARA, CA 95035

Mon- Fri Lunch 11:30AM-2:30PM

Mon-Fri Dinner 5:30PM - 9:30PM

Sat-Sun Lunch 11:30AM-3:00PM

Sat-Sun Dinner 6:00PM-10:00PM

Phone [phone]

Dosai Place

2665 El Camino Real, Santa Clara , CA 95051 . Ph : (408) 243 DOSA

Milan Sweet Center, Milpitas

296 S. Abel St, Milpitas, CA.  Phone: [phone]

In case you exhaust yourselves, we found this with a google search but do not know anyone who has used the place:

Health Clinic: Santa Clara Urgent Care

Tours: If you go to York, Pennsylvania you can simply sign up for factory tours.  After TiEcon, for a selfie tour, here are a couple of maps of the tech scene we found online:

Silicon Valley Technology Companies on google maps

A Visitors’ Map to Silicon Valley - Geekman Style

Silicon Valley Interactive Map from SIliconMaps

14 sights you must see in Silicon Valley, from Business Insider

and of course, we want to see how we can get Bucks to open a branch in Tampa, Florida, close to the Bucs:

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Part 2: Making the most of your time @TiEcon 2014 in Silicon Valley - A Checklist of Day One Sessions

Summary: Here's a downloadable checklist of TiEcon 2014 Day One Sessions for your use (please double-check details with the official conference agenda as our checklist has not been proof-read): http://tinyurl.com/tiecon2014-day1

The magical thing about large conferences compressed into a small area with a limited time-span is that participants have to make the most of the high density of subject matter experts against the backdrop of a ticking clock.  One of the more useful tools we use for all kinds of things, be it managing children during long summer weekends, or selling a home or moving, or even for projects with remote teams, is something as simple as a checklist.  Dr. Atul Gawande's book 'Checklist Manifesto' is an interesting and quick read, in case you want to know about other applications of checklists.  

We figured we would try using a good old checklist for this conference as part of our preparations for TiEcon 2014, and of course, thought we'd share it with you in case you prefer a more tactile experience versus the swiping one. 

The list of speakers and panelists is exhaustive, so we could only capture Day One of the sessions, and doubt if we will have time to capture Day Two and the workshops.  This checklist, because it is in running pages, gives one a better idea of the massive scope of this conference and how much value has been packed in so short a time.  Kudos to the TiEcon Global Team!

Download it, feel free to make changes, and use it.  If we were to do it again, we would probably add links to the relevant pages to make it easier to proof-read it, and to be able to use this on the web as well -- however, sometimes, less is more, allowing for mindfulness while at the conference, except when tweeting. 

Hope you find this simple tool useful as you navigate the conference halls. Do say hello if you bump into anyone from SiliconGlades and let us know what you think of the checklist and whether it was useful, or simply follow us on twitter (@siliconglades) and dm us.

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Part 1: Making the most of your time @TiEcon 2014 in Silicon Valley

This is the first in a series of posts to help us (and our readers) make the most of the trip to TiEcon 2014 in Silicon Valley.  Based on lessons learned in preparing for the FICCI-IIFA Business Conference that was supported by TiE Tampa Bay (Lesson: It is hard to research every speaker, especially when Bollywood clouds one’s mind, and easier to use twitter instead), 

[Seen in the picture above, among others, Bollywood actor Anupam Kher flanked by Director Ramesh Sippy and Sharad Devarajan of LiquidComics]

and after talking to friends in Silicon Valley whose persuasive powers resulted in this upcoming trip from Tampa Bay Area to The Bay Area, here’s a series of blog posts that we hope you will find useful.

We hope you find this (publicly shared) twitter list of @TiEcon 2014 speakers, panelists and moderators useful.  Here’s the URL again if the one above does not render correctly for you: https://twitter.com/SiliconGlades/tiecon-2014-siliconvalley/members.

We hope (nay, plead) that this shouldn't result in a completely heads-down experience, and bear no responsibility for such behavior by fellow participants, even if the twitter list is the cause.

[Image used with permission from the publishers of the book ‘Almost Everything about Virtual Events’].

We hope you will pause to make eye-contact with us and others when you are at TiEcon 2014!  Stay tuned for more on how to make the most of your trip to @TiEcon 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, May 2014.  Follow us: www.twitter.com/siliconglades.

P.S.: Special thanks to Sean Murphy of Bootstrappers Breakfast for inspiring this dedicated series of articles!