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The Commonwealth Club began hosting programs in Silicon Valley in the late 1980s to provide a convenient face-to-face forum for public discussion to the growing population of what has become one of the most influential regions of the United States and the world.
In May 1997, through a merger with the existing World Forum of Silicon Valley, The Commonwealth Club/Silicon Valley was established to provide a broad public forum for the South Bay. Today The Club hosts numerous events from Palo Alto to downtown San Jose.
Past Silicon Valley speakers include Madeleine Albright, Erin Brockovich, Jesse Jackson, John McCain, Martin Amis, David Broder, John Chambers and Alice Waters, among many others.
In addition to providing this same rich calendar of high-quality speakers that have been the hallmark of The Commonwealth Club for more than a century, The Commonwealth Club/Silicon Valley is actively engaged in developing events that address issues pertinent to the vibrant, maturing Silicon Valley community.
The Commonwealth Club/Silicon Valley gets involved in the ongoing discussions in the region through valuable partnerships like the Citizen's Education Project with the San Jose Mercury News, which involves the publication of excerpts from a Club program in the paper severral Sundays a month.
Commonwealth Club members who live in Silicon Valley receive the same wide-ranging benefits as other members, including the weekly publication, The Commonwealth, which features a special section for Silicon Valley programs.
Our Silicon Valley staff is located in downtown San Jose. The Commonwealth Club/Silicon Valley is led by a group of distinguished South Bay citizens who have joined together to form The Commonwealth Club/Silicon Valley Advisory Council.
Tom Campbell
Dee Dee Myers