A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series
This lecture series recognizes the entrepreneurial vision of A. Richard Newton, Dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering from 2000 to 2007, by inviting distinguished innovators to share lessons from their own successes and failures. Hosted by the Pantas and Ting Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, the lectures take place at UC Berkeley on Tuesday evenings.
Lectures
John Steuart
Managing Director, Claremont Creek Venture
Tony Hsieh
CEO of Zappos and Alfred Lin, CFO/COO of Zappos
John Hanke
Director, Google Earth & Maps
Greg Gianforte
CEO, and founder, Right Now Technologies (sold to Oracle)
Ann Winblad
Co-founder Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Author of Object-Oriented Software
Peter Fiske
Founder, Rapt Industries
Hartmut Esslinger
Founder & Designer, Frog Design Inc. and author Advice for Designers
Peter Vlastelica
Founder,YardBarker.com
Ian Sobieski
Founder and Managing Director of Band of Angels
Titus Brenninkmeijer
Founder Solgenix, LLC
Stacey Lawson
CET Co-founder & Berkeley Industry Fellow
Other Speakers:
Sabeer Bhatia, Co-founder Hotmail, Nanocity and Jaxtr
Judy Estrin, founder and CEO, JLabs/Packet Design Management Company, former CTO Cisco Systems and author Closing the Innovation Gap