Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership Week

Berkeley Engineering & Silicon Valley Leaders 5 Days · 7 Topics · 12+ Experts

Preparing executives to lead innovation and incorporate the next disruptive technologies

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Program Highlights

Responsible for leading your company's innovation? Interested in understanding disruptive technologies from the leaders?

Help your company advance with new strategies, technologies, and a transformative framework now.

Program Details

Location

San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the UC Berkeley Campus

Program Timing

Updated: November 1-5, 2021

Application Deadline

October 1, 2021

Launched in 2012, this program has brought together candidates from across the globe with renowned Berkeley faculty and Silicon Valley executives to learn and work on the challenge of driving continuous innovation from leaders as diverse as shipping industry executives to leading hospital administrators. Originally part of a joint, exclusive effort by Berkeley Engineering and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Executive MBA program, this week is now an open enrollment program, expanded to include select leaders from around the globe and from Silicon Valley to increase the diversity of thought and provide a broader, global network to the cohort.

Why Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership

This program guides leaders to transform their organizations with new insights on strategy, disruptive technologies and creating innovative cultures.

Advance Disruptive Innovation in your Firm

Get insights on how to be at the forefront of innovative trends with the Berkeley Method of Innovation Leadership framework.

Understand Emerging Technologies

Hear from UC Berkeley's thought leaders in Blockchain, AI, Robotics, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Cognition.

Learn from Silicon Valley Executives

Obtain insight from executives, entrepreneurs, VCs, and UC Berkeley faculty on their successful practice of innovation.

Network with Global Leaders

Join general and technical leaders from firms around the world including Pacific Rim, Europe and South America.

Program Overview

Who Should Attend

Executives and Founders
VPs
General Managers
Directors
Architects or Technology Leaders
MBA Candidates

What to Expect

Learn Berkeley Method of Innovation Leadership
Executive level discussions on the most relevant disruptive technologies
Plan your firm's innovation via project & feedback from UC Berkeley faculty
Enhance your company culture for innovation

Course Format

Learn about emerging business models
Visit innovation centers in Silicon Valley
Receive feedback from Silicon Valley executives, entrepreneurs and UC Berkeley faculty
Network with global business leaders

Typical Speakers

Featured Speaker: Pieter Abbeel

Working to break AI out of its ivory tower is Pieter Abbeel, electrical engineering and computer science professor at UC Berkeley, (who) is "puppeteer(ing) the robot around in a way that the robot experiences exactly what it’s going to experience when it’s doing it itself," says Abbeel. "That way a robot can learn much more efficiently." By using VR, Abbeel and his team have shortened the robotic skill-acquisition process from months and weeks down to a single day.

Featured Speaker: Steve Blank

"Almost every large company understands that it also needs to deal with ever-increasing external threats by continually innovating. To ensure their survival and growth, corporations need to keep inventing new business models. This challenge requires entirely new organizational structures and skills."

Sample Schedule

1: Strategies for Innovation 2: Tactics and Technology Leadership 3: An Innovative Culture 4: Leadership from the Silicon Valley 5: Transform — Project Feedback

1: Strategies for Innovation

Berkeley Method: Innovation Leadership with Strategic Transformation & Disruption Threats
Opportunity Competition Your Project
Guest Speakers

2: Tactics and Technology Leadership

3: An Innovative Culture

4: Leadership from the Silicon Valley

5: Transform — Project Feedback

Partners & Supporters

Testimonials

"The course was excellent; it was perfect to share our experiences and knowledge from different backgrounds and realities." — General Manager, Sodimac Chile

“The lessons you learn in SVIL are organizational changing.” — CEO Latin America retailer

“My key takeaways included the following:

My company needs to make better use of big data
Innovation process for horizon 3 will be critical to the company's future
The state of the art of different technologies and tendencies (AI, big data, marketing, VR)"
How to approach the innovation processes among organizations
The skills and perspective that entrepreneurs and managers must have or develop” —
Chief Acceleration Officer, Digevo

“It was a fantastic week.” — VP of Innovation, Volvo Penta

Contact

Questions? Contact Vicky Howell at vhowell@berkeley.edu for more information.

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