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The 50th Screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap is shown during Newton Lecture Series

By 234742 / April 20, 2016 / Comments Off on The 50th Screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap is shown during Newton Lecture Series

While introducing her documentary to guests and students in Sibley Auditorium, Robin Hauser Reynolds tells the audience how humbled she is by the response it has caused. Since the documentary’s debut a year ago at the Tribeca Film Festival, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, has been screened in 16 countries, The White House, Google, Auto Trader UK, and luckily for…

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Samsung Electronics’s Yoon Lee to speak at Jacobs Hall this Friday

By 234742 / March 8, 2016 / Comments Off on Samsung Electronics’s Yoon Lee to speak at Jacobs Hall this Friday

On March 11th from 12-1pm, Yoon Lee,Vice President of Insight Concept and Portfolio at Samsung Electronics,  will speak on “Designing with Context” in 310 Jacobs Hall as part of the Jacobs Design Conversations series. Yoon currently leads Samsung home appliances’ midterm products as well as portfolio development. Yoon has 20+ years of product design and development experience in areas from product strategy, design research,…

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Introducing the Berkeley Innovation Index (BII) Concept Paper

By 234742 / February 23, 2016 / Comments Off on Introducing the Berkeley Innovation Index (BII) Concept Paper

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology recently released the first version of a Berkeley Innovation Index (BII) Concept Paper. Developed by a eclectic team of psychologists, engineers and entrepreneurs, this index aims at bringing new insights and possibilities for innovation measurement. Read the full BII concept paper here. Innovation is widely recognized as an important variable…

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Pyrnt – Bringing Instant Print Photography to Smartphones

By 234742 / December 18, 2015 / Comments Off on Pyrnt – Bringing Instant Print Photography to Smartphones

Prynt, a San Francisco-based startup founded by two graduates of a Berkeley Engineering entrepreneurship program, is bringing instant print photography to smartphones. The grads designed a smartphone case equipped with a built-in mini-printer, for printing digital photos on the go. The founders, Clément Perrot and David Zhang, were schoolmates at École Polytechnique, France’s premier science…

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Jacobs Winter Design Showcase – December 9th and 10th

By 234742 / December 3, 2015 / Comments Off on Jacobs Winter Design Showcase – December 9th and 10th

On Wednesday, December 9, and Thursday, December 10, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation will showcase student work featuring project displays and demos from 10 different Jacobs Institute courses. This event will be a great opportunity to meet a diverse community of student makers, explore original projects across disciplines and celebrate a semester of design innovation at Jacobs Hall. To find out…

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Jacobs Design Conversations: Benjamin Joffe, 12-1 THIS Friday!

By 234742 / November 9, 2015 / Comments Off on Jacobs Design Conversations: Benjamin Joffe, 12-1 THIS Friday!

Each semester, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation invites leading designers and makers to Berkeley to speak as part of the Jacobs Design Conversations series. Connecting diverse perspectives under one roof, Jacobs Design Conversations are spaces for dialogue on a broad spectrum of innovations and ideas. As part of this series, Benjamin Joffe will share his insights…

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Kick Off Event

Sutardja Center and Jacobs Institute Collaboration Kick Off Event

By 234742 / October 30, 2015 / Comments Off on Sutardja Center and Jacobs Institute Collaboration Kick Off Event

Over 80 people gathered today in the newly built Jacobs Hall, which recently opened its doors in Fall 2015 as the new home of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, to announce a partnership between the Sutardja Center and the Jacobs Institute. By combining the Sutardja Center’s expertise in techno-centric entrepreneurship and the Jacobs Institute’s…

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Welcome Back – It is Fall

By 234742 / September 11, 2015 / Comments Off on Welcome Back – It is Fall

Fall is an exciting time of year at the Sutardja Center. With students returning for Fall Semester, our classes are more widely attended than ever before with over 1,200 students expected to attend this year. The center is also preparing to move to its new location on the plaza level inside California Memorial Stadium, 210…

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Announcing the Global Innovation Program within the SCET Innovation Collider

By 234742 / August 31, 2015 /

The Sutardja Center announces its new Global Innovation Program at UC Berkeley. As the Sutardja Center moves into its new location at the east end of campus at the Kabam Stadium, it will host the first five new Global Partner Institutions that will have outposts on the Berkeley Campus in the inaugural year of the…

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