Posts by Jocelyn Weber Phipps
Jesse Dieker receives the 2021 UC Berkeley Excellence in Management Award
SCET Operations Director, Jesse Dieker, has just been awarded the 2021 UC Berkeley Excellence in Management Award. Jesse was nominated by her colleagues at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology for her superb leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. During this unprecedented event, Jesse helped the management team plan for different scenarios and outcomes that…
Read MoreSCET Launches New Global Online Courses in Leadership and Data for Professionals
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at the University of California, Berkeley now has two new offerings for professionals and researchers around the world – Data-X Live, Online & Engineering Leadership Global. Data-X Live, Online: Develop new skills in this applied data science course Data-X has been a highly popular course at UC Berkeley…
Read MoreApplication for Fall 2019 Batch Opens at UC Berkeley’s Blockchain Xcelerator!
The University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce that the application for the Fall 2019 Batch of the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator will be open from Monday, July 22nd until Thursday, August 15th at this site. The Xcelerator seeks to support blockchain-related startups by leveraging Berkeley’s uniquely integrated blockchain and innovation ecosystem, ranging from the…
Read MoreExecutives See the Future of Work at Bluescape during Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership Week
Executives taking part in SCET’s Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership week had the opportunity to visit the San Francisco office of Bluescape, a leader of innovative, collaboration workspace solutions, and begin to envision the integration of the many tools used in workplaces today, such as Slack, PowerPoint, Google Sheets and Adobe Creative Cloud, in a shared, multi-user,…
Read MoreCall for Blockchain Research Proposals – Funded by Ripple’s Partnership with Haas on the University Blockchain Research Initiative
The Sutardja Center’s Blockchain Lab is pleased to share the Call for Research Proposals from the Blockchain Initiative being led by Haas’ Institute for Business & Social Impact (IBSI) & Master in Financial Engineering (MFE) Program. The Haas Blockchain Initiative is funded by a multi-year, multi-million-dollar grant from Ripple, a growing company in the emerging…
Read MoreEngineering Leadership Professional Program Joined by Keyssa CEO & VP
Last night, the Engineering Leadership Professional Program had the pleasure of being joined by Eric Almgren and Steve Venuti of Keyssa’s leadership team, who provided first-hand insights on the new Keyssa case (Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics). The case was taught by Rick Rasmussen and was recently published by Stanford GSB. The case…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineering Welcomes 7 New Companies to Leadership Program
On August 11th, Berkeley Engineering and the Sutardja Center will kick off the Fall 2016 session of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program with our 9th cohort since the program’s inception in 2011. We are pleased to welcome back our past participating companies – Google, Cisco, SanDisk, VMware, Samsung, Qualcomm and Yahoo! – and greet candidates from…
Read MoreFinal Lecture by NY Times Best-Selling Author and Celebration for Engineering Leadership Professional Program
On June 9th, the Spring 2016 cohort for SCET’s Engineering Leadership Professional Program assembled with their guests on the Berkeley campus for the program’s final lectures by New York Times best-selling author Inder Sidhu and SCET’s Founding Director, Ikhlaq Sidhu. Inder Sidhu, former SVP of Strategy and Planning for WW Operations at Cisco, lectured on…
Read MoreEngineering Leadership Alumni Gather at Samsung’s New HQ for Mixer
On Thursday, March 10th, alumni of the Sutardja Center’s Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP) gathered at Samsung’s newly opened North American HQ in San Jose for a well-attended mixer. The event included tours of the “vertical garden tower”, $300 million, 1.1 million-square-foot research and development center, a highlight of the evening. Another highlight was an update…
Read MoreSteve Blank and other Silicon Valley Distinguished Leaders to Speak at Engineering Leadership Professional Program Starting January 21st
The Sutardja Center will kick off the 6th year of our Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP) on January 21st in Silicon Valley. Guest speakers this semester include – Steve Blank, co-founder of E.piphany, serial-entrepreneur and developer of the Customer Development methodology, which launched the Lean Startup movement; Jerry Fiddler of Foundation Capital and co-founder, Chief…
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