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, 6:30pm - 8pm in Li Ka Shing Auditorium. Syllabus and course information available on bcourses. CLICK HERE to see the past speakers from previous semesters.
SCHEDULE
Victoria Howell
Associate Instructor
Sep 3,2019
Charlie Giancarlo
Cal grad, Chairman and CEO at Pure Storage. Internet Pioneer, Entrepreneur, Investor, and former senior executive of Cisco.
Sep 10, 2019
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
Founder, Openwater. Former engineering executive at Facebook Oculus, Google [x], and Intel.
Sep 17, 2019
Han-Shen (Han) Yuan
Engineering SVP Upwork. Former senior engineer at eBay.
Sep 24, 2019
Ana Arriola
GM and partner, Microsoft AI + Research & Search. Former design executive at Facebook, Samsung, Apple, Sony and Theranos
Oct 15, 2019
April Underwood
Cal grad, founder, #Angels and former Chief Product Officer, Slack. Named one of Fortune’s “40 Under 40”
Oct 22, 2019
Marc Tarpenning
Cal grad. Cofounder, Tesla Motors
Oct 29, 2019
David Barrett
Founder and CEO, Expensify
Nov 5, 2019
Alan Gunshor
Serial entrepreneur (launched five start-ups and new businesses at Netscape, Oracle, and Microsoft)
Nov 12, 2019
Dr. Shafi Goldwasser
Director, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and AM Turing Award Laureate
Nov 19, 2019
Thanksgiving Break
No Class
Nov 26, 2019
Mike Schroepfer
CTO, Facebook in conversation with Tsu Jae King Liu, UC Berkeley’s Dean of Engineering
Dec 3, 2019
CLASS INFORMATION
INDENG 95 | 195 | 295
Academic Units: 1
Pass/No Pass
For additional questions, please email vhowell@berkeley.edu.