2009 Canada Study Tour

Time

8:00 p.m.

Meet in UW Business School MBA Lounge, Balmer Hall

8:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Depart Seattle and travel to Vancouver (2 Vans)  

11:00 p.m.

Arrive in Vancouver, check-in at Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel

Time

8:30 a.m.

Meet in hotel lobby to travel to U.S. Consulate (walk)

8:45 a.m.

Arrive at U.S. Consulate General and go through security

– NO ELECTRONICS PLEASE!     (1095 West Pender street, 19th Floor)

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Visit with Consul General and Trade Commissioner

(U.S. Consulate General, Vancouver)

10:00 – 10:20 a.m.

Travel from U.S. Consulate to 2010 Commerce Centre (walk)

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Presentation by Rob Arthurs – Manager of Procurement & Business Opportunities, 2010 Commerce Centre    (800 Robson Street)

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch hosted by Mark Mensing – CEO, Canada Export Centre

( 602 West Hastings Street)

1:30 – 1:50 p.m.

Travel from Export Centre to Law Firm (walk)

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Meet with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP’s Jim Schmidt – Partner, and a member of Management Committee (1040 West Georgia Street, 15^th fl.)

3:00 – 7:00 p.m.

**FREE TIME**

7:00 p.m.

Dinner with UBC Students

(Location TBD)

Time

8:30 a.m.

Meet in lobby to travel to UBC Robson Square (walk)

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Breakfast and roundtable hosted by UBC Sauder School of Business

(800 Robson Street)

10:30 – 11:40 a.m.

Travel from UBC Robson to the Marriott to change clothes (walk)

11:40 a.m.

Meet in hotel lobby and walk to SFU

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Tour of Simon Fraser University Segal School of Business

(500 Granville Street)

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Lunch with SFU Students and Alums

(Location TBD)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

(optional)

Bike-ride with SFU students along Sea Wall of Stanley Park

($10/bike for whole day)

Evening

**FREE TIME**

Time

10:30 a.m.

Meet in hotel lobby and travel to GM Place (walk)

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Presentation by Chris Zimmerman – CEO & President, Vancouver Canucks

(GM Place, 800 Griffiths Way)

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Private tour of GM Place

1:30 – 1:50 p.m.

Travel from GM Place to Marriott for Lunch

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Lunch with Dr. Sukumar Periwal, Executive Director of Strategic Policy & Planning, Intergovernmental Relations Secretariat, BC Government

(Marriott’s Show Case Restaurant)

4:00 – 7:00 p.m.

**FREE TIME**

7:00 – 11:00 p.m. (optional)

Watch the Canucks vs. Canadiennes hockey game at Shark Club Bar & Grill with UBC & SFU students!  (180 Georgia Street West)

Time

8:30 a.m.

Meet in hotel lobby to travel to TD Bank

9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Q&A with TD Bank hosted by Raymond Chun – Senior Vice President, Pacific Region, and David White – AVP HR – Please come prepared with questions to ask!    (700 West Georgia St., 10^th fl.)

11:00 – 11:20 a.m.

Travel from TD Bank to CIBC (walk )

11:30 – 12:30 p.m.

Visit with CIBC’s Jim Keegan – Director, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Commercial Banking (7th Floor, 400 Burrard Street)

12:30 – 12:45 p.m.

Travel from CIBC to Marriott (walk)

12:45-1:10 p.m.

Check out of Marriott hotel, have box lunches in hotel lobby, load vans

1:10 – 1:50 p.m.

Travel by van to Microsoft

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Q&A with Par Singh – Managing Director, and Sudha Setty – Senior HR Manager, Microsoft Canada Development Centre – Please come prepared with questions to ask!     (13511 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC)

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Travel from Microsoft to Kodak (van)

4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Meet with Jason Curtis – Production Manager, Graphic Communications Group, Eastman Kodak Company   (1608 Cliveden Avenue, Delta, BC)

5:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Travel from Kodak to somewhere scrumptious (van)

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Final Dinner with the CST group~!

7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Travel from Vancouver for Seattle (van)

10:00 p.m.

Arrive back at UW Seattle Campus next to MBA Lounge