The EU is planning a bridge-building trip to Silicon Valley

Each year, Silicon Valley business leaders take a trip to the UK in a successful program known (unsurprisingly) as Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK). Now the European Commission is arranging the reverse – sending leading European Union tech companies and policy-makers to Silicon Valley to encourage closer ties between the two regions. That may seem a little unnecessary seeing as how individual European founders can frequently be found on planes to San Francisco, but Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) has the potential to build bridges between the US and EU’s tech sectors. Indeed, there’s something in this…

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