Spring 2017- 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.
Click here to view speakers from Fall 2015's Richard Newton Lecture Series
Lectures from Fall 2005 - Spring 2015 can be found on the Newton Lecture Series Page.
Schedule
Tuesday February 7th, 5pm
Cal Grad, Amit Kumar, Accel Partners and cofounder CardSpring (acquired by Twitter)
Tuesday, January 17th, 5pm
Cal Grad, Komal Ahmad, founder and CEO, Copia. Social Entrepreneurship. Find Lecture Here
Tuesday January 24th, 5pm
Victoria Howell, associate instructor, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology @howellvhowel
Tuesday January 24th, 5pm
Ama Marston, global strategy and leadership expert and author, Transformative Resilience
Tuesday January 31st, 5pm
Ikhlaq Sidhu, founding director and chief scientist, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, and IEOR Emerging Industry Professor @IkhlaqSidhu
Wednesday February 8th, 5pm
Film Screening of award winning, She Started It, featuring female entrepreneurs.
View the trailer for the film here.
Eventbrite: shestartedit-berkeley.eventbrite.com
Tuesday February 14th, 5pm
Alan Amron, entrepreneur and inventor of press-on memo, today known as Post-it note by 3M. Hardware. Find Lecture Here
Tuesday February 21st, 5pm
Cal Grad, David Friedberg , Founder, The Climate Corporation, Founder and Chairman, Metromile & Founder and Chairman, eatsa. Topic: Digital Agriculture
Tuesday February 28th, 5pm
Brienne Ghafourifar , co-founder Entefy (featured in She Started It documentary) on Digital Interaction
Tuesday February 28th, 5pm
Alston Ghafourifar, co-founder Entefy (featured in She Started It documentary) on Digital Interaction
March 7th, March 21st, April 4th & April 11th
CAL Student Founders Panel w/ Travis Brashears, Directed Energy; Nathan Jin, Ripe.io; Divy Shrivastava, Paladin Drones; and Sahar Yousef, cognitive research
Tuesday March 14th, 5pm
Cal Grad, Jason Creadore, cofounder, Civil Maps. Artificial Intelligence. Find Lecture Here
Tuesday March 21st, 5pm
CAL Engineering Leader Panel moderated by Amit Kumar, Partner, Accel and featuring Padmini Pyapali, Uber; Jeff Huang, Facebook; Sanjay Jeyakumar, Twitter. Find Lecture Here
Tuesday April 4th, 5pm
Rob Solomon, CEO GoFundMe, COO Groupon and Venture Partner, Accel. Fireside chat with Ken Goldberg, Professor & Chair of IEOR Department
Tuesday April 18th, 5pm
Amy Herr, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley and recently recognized with the 2016 Mid-Career Achievement Award from the American Electrophoresis Society (AES). Bioengineering. Find Lecture Here
Tuesday April 25th, 5pm
Cal Grad, John Hanke, founder and CEO, Niantic Labs (creator of Google Maps and Pokemon Go) in conversation with Bjoern Hartmann. Digital Mapping and Digital Intelligence.
Tuesday April 25th, 5pm
Bjoern Hartmann, associate professor and UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute Director in conversation with John Hanke. Digital Mapping and Digital Intelligence