Newton Lecture Series: 2016 Fall

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, 5pm - 6:30pm in Sibley Auditorium/Bechtel Hall. Syllabus and course information available on bcourses. See a PDF of speakers - Newton Lecture Series - 3-2.

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Schedule

Ikhlaq Sidhu

Founder Director, Sutardja Center

Aug 30, 2016

 

Chris Bregler

Academy Award-winning senior staff scientist, Google

Sept 6, 2018

 

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Pejman Nozad

Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC

Sept 13, 2016

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Mar Hershenson

Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC

Sept 13, 2016

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Jim Cai

CTO and Cofounder of Slyce

Sept 27, 2016

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Doreen Bloch

CEO and Founder of Poshly

Oct 11, 2016

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Laura Gomez

CEO and Founder of Atipica

Oct 11, 2016

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Pauline Shuen

Former Cisco Executive and Founder of Level Chinese

Oct 11, 2016

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Elaine Lin Hering

Senior Consultant, Triad Consulting

Oct 11, 2016

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Tom Dinwoodie

CTO and Founder of SunPower Corporation Systems

Oct 18, 2016

 

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Stephen Torres

Founder of Sunible and CEO, MyDomino

Oct 18, 2016

 

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Paul Alivisatos

UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Oct 25, 2016

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Hugo Giralt Echevarria

CEO and Founding Partner, Propelland

Nov 1, 2016

 

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Charvi Shetty

CEO and Cofounder of Knox Medical Diagnostics

Nov 8, 2016

 

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Cyril Ebersweiller

Managing director and Founder of HAX Accelerator

Nov 15, 2016

 

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John Battelle

CEO and Editor in Chief, NewCo

Nov 29, 2016

 

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Heather Hiles

CEO and Founder of Pathbrite

Dec 6, 2016