SCET will host the Innovation X Roundtable: Algorithms and AI for Media in the 21st Century to further discuss the top of truth and disinformation online on Oct. 21, 2021 I was recently at the Advisory Board Meeting of the BI Business School in Norway. In this remarkably well run meeting, we were asked to…
SHHHH….Three Secrets to New Venture Mentoring Magic: Insights from Silicon Valley and Beyond by Victoria Howell, Gigi Wang, Po Chi Wu, Bob Upham, Rick Rasmussen, Mike Grandinetti, Kal Deutsch, Helen Chen, Shuonan Chen and Buddy Burke What makes a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship mentors go from good to great, and even magical? This past…
We live in a constantly accelerating state of rapid change. It is essentially a continuum of innovation and relentless disruption. Within one generation, the average lifespan of a company has decreased from over 60 years to under 20, while the average product lifecycle length has reduced by 75%. Retailers have lived through the effect of…
In SCET’s Newton Lecture Series fireside chat, Dr. Pat Brown narrates the story of Impossible Foods, tying his professional journey into a narrative of his determination to solve the most challenging problems and the quest to follow his curiosity. Dr. Patrick O. Brown is the founder of Impossible Foods, a producer of plant-based meats, fish,…
How would you build a model to do this? Some great minds are not deterred by difficult questions. Alongside a multitudinous clan of hackers and anon blockchain renegades competing to do the same, one our very own Berkeley & Blockchain Xcelerator graduates, Francesco Piccoli, has taken a recent crack at predicting the worlds crowning digital…
SCET Alt:Meat Lab Director Co-Authors Chapter in ‘Design Thinking for Food Well-Being’ with Two Other UC Berkeley Professors and Launches New ‘Design of Affordable Plant-Based Foods‘ Class One of the latest books on food design thinking to hit the shelves, ‘Design Thinking for Food Well-Being‘ features several UC Berkeley professors as contributors, including Ricardo San…
“We launched a free app in the app store and 2 weeks later we get this call… ‘Heeeey it’s Steve, whatcha doin’? Wanna come over to my house tomorrow?’” Adam Cheyer on how Apple acquired Siri Adam Cheyer is the creator of Siri, Bixby, Viv Labs, Change.org, and Sentient. Billions of people have used his…
Ads and subscriptions are the winning business models for B2C content. But a third model is emerging which may spark an internet revolution. Model 1: Try it free Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, Twitch, Crunchyroll, HBOMax, New York Times, Wired, Apple Music, Disney+, MasterClass, Prime Video. What do you think of? Say it on three. One, two,…
Impact Food has just won the Hult Prize! The UC Berkley plant-based seafood startup team, who got their start at the Alt Meat Lab out of the SCET, managed to come out on top at the esteemed Hult Prize competition, an annual, year-long competition that crowd-sources ideas from MBA and college students after challenging them…
In 1999, Dave Gilboa was doing research in Robert Full’s integrative biology lab on the movement of cockroaches, spending hundreds of hours working with freezing cockroaches, putting iridescent paint on their legs, placing them on a cockroach treadmill, then applying their patterns of movement to the field of robotics. This even led to CRAM: a…