Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger goes farther afield than usual this week to promote the California Republic. 
The governor is in Hannover, Germany, for what’s billed as the world’s largest technology trade fair, CeBIT.
Today, he signs both the city’s and the trade fair’s official guestbooks. Those events — read “photo op” — are open to the press. So are his remarks at the opening ceremony tonight.
What’s closed to the press: His meetings scheduled with Lower Saxony Minister President Christian Wulff (now that’s a long title) and with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
What he’s missing in Sacramento: The California School Employees Association is holding a save-our-schools budget rally on the north steps of the Capitol.
What he’s also missing: A joint informational hearing that the Assembly Natural Resource and Utilities and Commerce committees are holding on air emission credits and electrical generation.
Schwarzenegger won’t be rushing back. He’ll deliver remarks Tuesday at a Germany-California summit.
And he can’t leave before he gets his 2009 Transatlantic Partnership Award at the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany luncheon.
FUNDRAISERS: Assemblyman Jim Nielsen will be at the Citizen Hotel’s Scandal Bar tonight. Tickets, $1,500. Added bonus: Bee cartoonist Rex Babin’s scandalous drawings grace the bar walls.
Compiled by Micaela Massimino
Source 
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/020188.html
The focus will be on environmentally-friendly technologies - a topic that played a key role at CeBIT 2008, where Green IT was specially featured. The star attraction of the Partner State program will be the flanking German-Californian ICT Summit. The two countries will both be keen on using this opportunity to step up collaboration and stimulate more bilateral business.
Prof. Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer, President of BITKOM:
“The California Republic is not only an important trading partner. California’s Silicon Valley is also a textbook example of successful business development driven by inward investment. We are hoping to learn from the Californians and get some useful input into our own strategy planning.”
Specials:
- Central California Pavilion in Hall 6
- German-Californian ICT Summit
- German-Californian CIO roundtable (canceled)
- Various platforms for presentations, discussions and B2B matchmaking
- Digital New Media Solutions Forum
Source www.bitkom.org/california.
