Jocelyn Weber Phipps

Innovation Workshop Held for William Demant Executive Team at Sutardja Center

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / June 26, 2017 / Comments Off on Innovation Workshop Held for William Demant Executive Team at Sutardja Center

The Sutardja Center was pleased to welcome the executive team from William Demant this week to our Innovation Collider space at the Cal Memorial Stadium.  The custom workshop was focused on entrepreneurship and innovation in mature companies. William Demant, based in Denmark & founded in 1904, is a international leader in hearing healthcare. Today’s workshop offered a…

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Engineering Leadership Professional Program Joined by Keyssa CEO & VP

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / March 28, 2017 / Comments Off on Engineering 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 is…

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Alumni Gathering for Berkeley Engineering Leadership Program at VMware in Fall 2015

Berkeley Engineering Welcomes 7 New Companies to Leadership Program

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / July 27, 2016 / Comments Off on Berkeley 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 firms…

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Final Lecture by NY Times Best-Selling Author and Celebration for Engineering Leadership Professional Program

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / June 13, 2016 / Comments Off on Final 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…

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Indira Joshi, Samsung; Per Karlsson, Ericsson and Ashish Mehra, NetApp enjoy the Samsung sponsored ELPP mixer on 3/10/16

Engineering Leadership Alumni Gather at Samsung’s New HQ for Mixer

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / March 13, 2016 / Comments Off on Engineering 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…

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Steve Blank and other Silicon Valley Distinguished Leaders to Speak at Engineering Leadership Professional Program Starting January 21st

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / January 21, 2016 / Comments Off on Steve 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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Innovation Leadership Week held for DTU Executive School of Business

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / November 16, 2015 / Comments Off on Innovation Leadership Week held for DTU Executive School of Business

Executives from Technical University of Denmark’s Executive School of Business joined the Sutardja Center for four days at the end of October to study Innovation Leadership in Silicon Valley, as part of their focus on Innovation within their Executive MBA studies. The executives were able to hear professors and lecturers from UC Berkeley speak on a wide range…

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Alumni of The Sutardja Center’s Engineering Leadership Professional Program at the alumni mixer at VMware in Palo Alto, California

VMware Hosts Engineering Leadership Alumni Gathering in Palo Alto

By Jocelyn Weber Phipps / October 20, 2015 / Comments Off on VMware Hosts Engineering Leadership Alumni Gathering in Palo Alto

The Sutardja Center’s Engineering Leadership Professional Program was hosted for an alumni mixer at VMware in Palo Alto, California on Thursday, September 24th.  Over 60 professionals from Yahoo!, Samsung, Ericsson, Google, NetApp, Juniper, Applied Materials, Lam Research and numerous other Silicon Valley companies were in attendance. All enjoyed the beautiful venue of the VMware campus,…

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