Uncover Your Path to Sustainable Disruption
Launched in 2012, this 5 day program brings 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. Featuring interactive sessions from leaders as diverse as shipping to leading hospital administrators. Originally part of an exclusive joint effort by Berkeley Engineering and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Executive MBA program, this week is now an open to a select group of professionals from Silicon Valley and around the globe.
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SILICON VALLEY INNOVATION LEADERSHIP WEEK
PROGRAM SNAPSHOT
Program Dates
OCT. 31st - NOV. 4th 2022
Program Fee
$9,800
Location
Application Deadline
OCT. 1, 2022
LIMITED SPACE APPLY TODAY
Learn more about SVIL
Why Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership
This program guides leaders to transform their organizations with new insights on strategy, disruptive technologies and tools for creating innovative cultures.
What innovation leaders say about SVIL
"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
“It was a fantastic week.”
— VP of Innovation, Volvo Penta
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
- 4 full days of instruction, interactive project work & pitch
- 1 day of site visits
- Learn about emerging business models
- Receive project feedback from iconic Silicon Valley innovators and UC Berkeley faculty
- Network with global business leaders
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.
Read more about Abbeel's approach to moving AI and robotics forward to solve real world problems.
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."
SVIL Curriculum
Featured Faculty
Pieter Abbeel
Professor, AI/Robotics,
EECS, UC Berkeley
Co-Founder, Embodied Intelligence, Covariant, and Gradescope
Robert Strand
Executive Director
Center for Responsible Business
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
