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A. Richard Newton

Lecture Series

A Berkeley Changemaker® Course

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Fall 2025

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The Newton
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The A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series honors the entrepreneurial vision of A. Richard Newton, the Dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering 2000–2007. Inspired by his legacy, we host distinguished innovators sharing valuable lessons from their personal and professional journeys. Keynote speakers include highly accomplished leaders and notable Cal alumni. Their engaging stories reveal insights for innovation, leadership, industry trends and life lessons.

As an official Berkeley Changemaker® course, this lecture series equips students across all majors and academic levels to identify their passions and develop agency to create meaningful change at the intersection of technology and entrepreneurship.

This course serves as an excellent introduction for those interested in technology innovation and entrepreneurship, and it fulfills a requirement for two tracks of the SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.

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*Attendance at the first three classes is mandatory to secure enrollment from the waitlist.

Note: Since Fall 2022, SCET classes have been offered under Engineering course numbers. Previously, this course was listed as INDENG 95/195/295.

Greeting from the Instructor

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Victoria Howell

vhowell@berkeley.edu

Victoria Howell is an associate instructor at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. She leads the A. Richard Newton Lecture Series: A Berkeley Changemaker® Course, the Center’s flagship program. Her background is in financial services, strategy and marketing, and she now dedicates herself to delivering opportunities/events connecting exceptional individuals to diverse audiences. Her work encourages learning and empowerment for aspiring innovators, entrepreneurs, career-minded professionals and seasoned executives. She holds a BA from University of Virginia and an MBA from The Darden School of Business University of Virginia.

Disrupting an Industry

Spring 2025 Speaker Lineup

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Diane Greene

Cal Grad. Pioneer in Cloud computing. Cofounder, former CEO of VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, and former CEO of Google Cloud. Named among Forbes’ “America’s Top 50 Women in Tech” and received the Abie Award for Technical Leadership from AnitaB.org and the Campanile Excellence Achievement Award from UC Berkeley.

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Jon Tien Calm

Jon Tien

Cal grad & inaugural SCET certificate holder. Chief Product officer at Calm - disrupting mental wellness with readily accessible and personalized approach.

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Jessica Mah + Shervin Pishevar

Jessica Mah & Shervin Pishevar

Jessica Mah, head honcho of Mahway and founder of InDinero. Self-described "unicorn breeder andNamed to 30 Under 30 lists for both Inc. and Forbes.

Shervin Pishevar, founder, investor and philanthropist who helped start and champion 6 new industries: Hyperloop, On Demand, Ride Sharing, Cloud Kitchens, Sharing |Economy andNew Cities/Network States industries

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Lisa Dyson

Lisa Dyson

CEO, Air Protein - Our Moonshot to Feed the Planet and Chairman of the Board, Kiverdi  - Remaking How Things Are Made With Carbon Transformation

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Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban

Disrupting Healthcare as cofounder of CostPlus Drugs.
Former owner of World Champion Dallas Mavericks basketball team. One of the most popular and tough Sharks on the Emmy Award Winning show Shark Tank.

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Garry Tan

Garry Tan

President and CEO of Y-Combinator

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Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhardt

Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhardt

Cofounders of Tesla - bringing EVs to the mainstream  & Rocket Ebook - the first E-reader

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Patrick Chung

Patrick Chung

Managing General Partner, XFund. First investor in Sam Altman (co-founder and CEO of OpenAI), Anne Wojcicki (co-founder and CEO of 23andMe), Peter Reinhardt (co-founder and CEO of Segment), Zach Perret and Will Hockey (co-founders of Plaid) and more.

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Sean O’Sullivan

Sean O’Sullivan

Founder and managing partner SOSV Ventures and creator AI + Compassion Project

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Ryan Petersen

Ryan Petersen

Cal grad; founder and CEO, Flexport, making global TRADE as simple and reliable as flipping a light switch.

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About A. Richard Newton

Richard Newton

The Newton Series is named in honor of former UC Berkeley Engineering dean A. Richard Newton. The Series highlights individuals like Dean Newton, who exemplify the qualities of an innovative changemaker.

A. Richard Newton was a distinguished professor and beloved dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley from 2000-2007. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng.Sci degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1973 and 1975. In 1975, he began to work on SPICE at UC Berkeley, a simulation program initially developed by Larry Nagel and Donald Pederson to analyze and design complex electronic circuitry with speed and accuracy. In 1978, Newton was awarded his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley.

He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley as a professor of in 1978, and chaired the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences from 1999 to 2000. He became dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering from 2000 until he passed away in 2007. Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor of UC Berkeley described him as, "dynamic and entrepreneurial; he understood the power of engineering and technology in entirely new ways, and he connected them to address society's toughest problems. The vibrancy of his thinking shaped my own ideas about what engineering is and what it can be."

Video Archive

Victoria Howell - Instructor and Director, Professional Programs, Sutardja Center

Scott Buchanan - Chief Marketing Officer at Stacklok

Laura I. Gómez - Cal Grad, CEO at Profunda Health

Aviv Gilboa - Cal Grad, President at Skylight. Former Head of Product Growth at Ring/Amazon and VC at Kleiner Perkins

Kyle Lui - Cal Grad, General Partner at Bling Capital

Merrie Williamson - Cal Grad, Executive Vice President & Chief Customer and Revenue Officer at Equinix.

Lisa Choi Owen - Cal Grad, CRO, and Director

Shawn Villaron - VP and General Manager, PowerPoint, & Site Leader, Microsoft Bay Area Region

Tracy Young - Cofounder of TigerEye and PlanGrid.

Jingcho Yang - Cal Grad, CEO and founder Bukit Vista, Pioneering a New Era of Hospitality

Prof. Aravind Srinivas - Perplexity founder + CEO Perplexity.ai

Victoria Howell - Instructor and Director, Professional Programs, Sutardja Center

Yoky Matsuoka - Cal Grad, CEO, PanasonicWell and cofounder Nest, GoogleX and more

Matt Carlson - Cal Grad, Director, User Experience & Design, Adobe

Jerry Luk - Cal Grad, President at Skylight. Former Head of Product Growth at Ring/Amazon and VC at Kleiner Perkins

Pedro David Espinoza - Cal Grad, CEO of Pan Peru USA

Ashish Kakran - Cal Grad, Executive Vice President & Chief Customer and Revenue Officer at Equinix.

Jeff Huang - Head of Engineering, Instagram and former engineering lead at Facebook and Microsoft

Ben Ling - Founder, Bling Capital

Carl Bass - Maker! Advisor, Boardmember, Entrepreneur. Former CEO, Autodesk Source

Yael Zheng - Cal Grad, SCET Boardmember and SV Chief Marketing Officer, General Partner at Bling Capital

Jing Cho Yang - CEO and Founder, Bukit Vista

Shantanu Narayan - CEO Adobe

Victoria Howell - Instructor and Director, Professional Programs, Sutardja Center

Doug Brien - Cal Grad, Co-Founder and CEO, Mynd

Gary Beasley - Co-Founder and CEO, Roofstock

Lars Moravy - VP, Vehicle Engineering, Tesla

Rachel Holmes - Founder and Director, Black Girls Mean Business

George Kailas - Founder and CEO, prospero.ai

Lisa Choi Owen - Cal Grad, CRO, and Director

Nafeh Sahoaib - Co-Founder & CEO at Humine | Advancing Health Equity through Participant-Centered Clinical Research | Techstars Boulder W23 | Berkeley SkyDeck Pad-13 F22

Ed Abbo - President and CTO, C3.ai

Lila Tretikov - Cal Grad, Technical Executive, CEO, Entrepreneur, currently Deputy CTO at Microsoft and Former CEO of Wikimedia Foundation

Jerry Luk - Cal Alum, Co-Founder and President at Firework

Courtney Chow - Cal grad and VP, Battery Ventures

Tara Bunch - Cal grad and Global Head of Operations, AirBnB

Vivienne Ming - Finding and Prioritizing Problems to Solve

Alberto Todeschini - AI: It turns out the hype is real

Caleb Boyd - AI: Cal Founders

Kai Koerber & Sam Chen - Cal Student Founders and Raising Awareness

Andrea (Annie) Kritcher - Developing Technologies for Others to Commercialize

Dr. Christine Ho - From Founding to Pivoting to Getting Acquired

Razmig Havaghimian - Scaling and Selling (Cal Alum & CEO of Viki, international online streaming site)

Zach Kass - Scaling Technologies (Cal Alum, Head of Go-To-Market, OpenAI)

Matt Carlson - Various Stages of the Start-up Experience from early days of Facebook, Twitter, and more (Cal Alum, Director of User Experience Design, Adobe)

Ed Abbo - Maintaining Growth (President & CTO, C3.ai)

Badri Kothmandaraman - CEO Enphase (Energy), harnessing the power of the sun

Bailey Farren and Noah Wu - Founders of Perimeter

Karin C. Cooke - Director, Kaiser Permanente International

Alexandra Burbey and Xiaowan Chu - Investors at G-Squared and ICONIQ Growth

Bill Reichert - Partner, Pegasus Ventures

Sean O’Sullivan - Founder/General Partner at SOSV Ventures

Mai (Ngoc) Nguyen - CEO, Optoceutics

Margaret Crotty - CEO & President, JSI and World Education

Tyler Kyser - Oakland Program Director at Causa Justa Just Cause

Dan Lynch - VC and Angel Investor

Kimberlie Le - CEO / Co-Founder at Prime Roots

Jerry Luk - Cofounder, Firework and Presdo and creator LinkedIn Mobile

Linda Yu - Partner, Vision Fund, Softbank. After working in both investment banking and private equity, Linda finished her MBA at Stanford and joined Softbank

Badri Kothmandaraman - CEO, Enphase (Energy), harnessing the power of the sun

Tsu-Jae King Liu - UC Berkeley College of Engineering

Robin Hauser - Screening of $AVVY with filmmaker and Cal grad Robin Hauser and panel of leaders in finance and education

Shomit Ghose - Cal grad and SCET instructor, Partner, Onset Ventures

Mar Hershenson - Partner, Pear Ventures

Matt Hershenson - Founding Partner, Playground Global and Danger

Neeka and Leila Mashouf - Cofounders, Rubi Laboratories

Alex & Ariel Hirsch - Disney Channel’s Hit Show Gravity Falls (‘12 - ‘16) creator Alex Hirsch, with his muse and sister Ariel Hirsch

Alvin Wang Graylin - China President, HTC

Kyle Yang - Former Newton Series Student now at Oppenheimer

Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard - Tesla and NuvoMedia cofounders

Shervin Pishevar - Top-ranked VC investor with early stakes in companies like Warby Parker, Airbnb, Slack, Robinhood, and Uber

Jessica Mah - Founder, Indinero and Inc’s 30 under 30

Dave Gilboa - Co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker

Rich Lyons - UC Berkeley’s Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer

Leigh Steinberg - The legendary sports agent

Jerry Luk - Cofounder, Firework and Presdo and creator of LinkedIn Mobile

Linda Yu - Partner, Vision Fund, Softbank. After working in both investment banking and private equity, Linda finished her MBA at Stanford and joined Softbank

Badri Kothmandaraman - CEO, Enphase (Energy), harnessing the power of the sun

Tsu-Jae King Liu - UC Berkeley College of Engineering

Robin Hauser - Screening of $AVVY with filmmaker and Cal grad Robin Hauser and panel of leaders in finance and education

Shomit Ghose - Cal grad and SCET instructor, Partner, Onset Ventures

Lars Moravy - VP, Vehicle Engineering, Tesla

Surbhi Sarna - Group Partner, Y Combinator

Sean Linehan - CEO and Co-founder, Placement.com

Vinay Ramesh - Co-founder & COO, Wildfire

Dr. Helen Kim - Co-founder and CEO, NanoSemi

Daniel Mouen Makoua - Co-founder & Managing Director, Zulu Forest Sciences

Connie Chen, MD - Co-Founder, Vida Health & COO, Lyra Health

Dan Hammer - UC Berkeley Professor & Founder and Partner, Earthrise Media & Climate Fellow and Senior Advisor, X

Ben Wanzo - Entrepreneur, Partner & Co-founder, ESO Ventures

Patrick Lee - Co-founder, Rotten Tomatoes

Rob Solomon - Board Director, GoFundMe.org

Diane Dwyer - Journalist & Instructor, Haas School of Business

Gioia De Cari - Artist, mathematician, and creator of the award-winning hit show "Truth Values", a serious exploration of the world of elite mathematics and the challenges women face in math and science

Rishi Modi - Cal grad

Helen Kim - Co-founder and CEO, NanoSemi, developing cutting-edge research into products used in smartphones, Wi-Fi, base stations, satellites, and test and measurement industries. Our linearization solution sets a new standard for lowest size and power at the ultimate performance of wireless radio

Chris Yeh - Entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and coauthor with Reid Hoffman, Blitz Scaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

Dr. Sylvia Earle - Internationally renowned oceanographer and TIME Magazine’s First Hero of the Planet

Dr. Liz Taylor - President, DOER Marine

William Bao Bean - General Partner, SOSV and Managing Director, Chinaccelerator and MOX

Mitchell Baker - Executive Chairwoman & CEO, Mozilla Foundation & Mozilla Corporation

Kevin Chou - Founder, Rally and co-founder, Kabam & Executive Chairman, Gen.G

Mike Li - Cofounder, Rally, Kabam, Gen.G

Aelisa Carr - Co-Founder, RePicture

Lynn Mayo - Co-Founder, RePicture

Aaron Levie - Co-founder & CEO, Box

Rich Lyons - UC Berkeley Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer

Nanxi Liu - Co-founder & CEO, Enplug

Jessica Mah - Co-founder & CEO, inDinero

Sai Venkataraman - Co-founder & CEO, Security Advisor

Andy Horwitz - VP, Business Development Netskope and former VP, Crowdstrike

Dr. Christine Ho - Co-founder & CEO, Imprint Energy

Tsu-Jae King Liu - Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering

Edris Bemanian - CEO, Engage3

Sabya Das - Partner, Moneta Ventures

Evan Variano - Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Lars Moravy - VP, Vehicle Engineering, Tesla

Dr. Jennifer Chayes - UC Berkeley Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data, Science, and Society & Dean of the School of Information

Adam Cheyer - Co-founder of Siri, Change.org, Viv Labs, and Sentient

Patrick O. Brown - CEO and Founder, Impossible Foods

Ricardo San Martin - Inventor, Professor, and Director, UC Berkeley Alt. Meat Lab

Marla Beck - Founder, Bluemercury

Rich Lyons - Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer & Former Dean, Haas School, UC Berkeley

Janine Sickmeyer - Founder, NextChapter & Modern Attorney and Author, Let's Start Up

Gavin Wood - Founder, Ethereum & Creator, PolkaDot

Eric Schmidt - Co-Founder of Schmidt Futures and Former CEO of Google

Jessica Mah - Cofounder & CEO, inDinero

Arvind Raghunathan - Founder, Roc360 & Haus Lending

Shafi Goldwasser - Director of the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley and Turing Award Recipient

Kelly Palmer - Author, The Expertise Economy & Former Chief Learning Officer, LinkedIn

Prakash Janakiraman - Cofounder & Chief Architect, NextDoor

Ricardo San Martin - Inventor, Professor, and Director, UC Berkeley Alt Meat Lab

Rich Lyons - Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer & Former Dean, Haas School, UC Berkeley

Shafi Goldwasser - Director of the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley and Turing Award Recipient

Helen Lee Kupp - Head of Product Strategy & Partnerships, Future Forum, Slack

Maddy Cimino - Program Manager, Future Forum, Slack

Padmasree Warrior - Founder and CEO, Fable

Rathi Murthy - CTO, Verizon Media and former CTO, Gap

Ashar Aziz - Founder, FireEye security software and SkyElectric

Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis - CEO & CTO, Cofounders, Cockroach Labs

Ryan Peterson - CEO, Flexport

Kira Makagon - Serial entrepreneur and Chief Innovation Officer, RingCentral

Daniel Mouen-Makoua - Cal grad, global investor, agri-investor and I-House Alumni of the year ('13)

Brian Spears - Cofounder, New Age Meats

Dean Tsu-Jae Liu - Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering

Trinidad Hermida - Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Niantic, Inc.

Alka Roy - Founder, Responsible Innovation Project

Dr. Jennifer Chayes - UC Berkeley Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data, Science, and Society & Dean of the School of Information

Courtney Chow - Investor, Battery Ventures & Boardmember, EVCA

Connor Landgraf - Cofounder & CEO, Eko Devices

Aviv Gilboa - Chief of Staff to CEO, Ring/Amazon

Peter Mattis - CTO & Cofounder, Cockroach Labs

Marilee Shaffer - Cofounder, Urban Legend Winery

Dave Gilboa - Founder, FireEye security software and SkyElectric

Michael Seibel - CEO and Partner, Y Combinator

Scott Kucirek - CEO, OCHO Candy & Cofounder, ZipRealty

Renee Wurth, PhD - Research Scientist, Flux

Tracy Young - CEO & Cofounder, PlanGrid

Shilpa Shah - Cofounder, Cuyana

Sean Foote - Cofounder & Managing Director, Co=Creation=Capital and Cosmopolitan Capital

Jim Cavalieri - Office of Chairman and Co-CEO, Salesforce

Surbhi Sarna - Cal grad, founder, nVision medical device company dedicated to filling the void in women's health innovation. Acquired by Boston Scientific for $275M.

Daniel Mouen-Makoua - Cal grad, global investor and I-House Alumni of the year (’13)

Jerry Luk - Cal grad, creator of LinkedIn mobile, cofounder of Edmodo and Firework, fastest growing video platform

Marilee Shaffer - “Food & Wine” Cal grad, cofounder of Urban Legend Winery in conversation with Brian Spears

Brian Spears - Cofounder, New Age Meats in conversation with Marilee Shaffer

Richard Din - Cal grad, cofounder, Caviar, shared economy delivery service

Charlie Giancarlo - Chairman & CEO, Pure Storage

Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen - Founder & CEO, Openwater

Han-Shen (Han) Yuan - Senior VP Engineering, Upwork

Marc Tarpenning - Cofounder, Tesla Motors

Chris Larsen and Alison McCauley - Chairman, Ripple Labs; Author & CEO, @unblockedfuture

Ana Arriola - GM and partner, Microsoft AI + Research & Search. Former design executive at Facebook, Samsung, Apple, Sony, and Theranos

April Underwood - Cal grad, founder, #Angels and former Chief Product Officer, Slack. Named one of Fortune’s “40 Under 40”

David Barrett - Founder and CEO, Expensify

Alan Gunshor - Serial entrepreneur (launched five start-ups and new businesses at Netscape, Oracle, and Microsoft)

Dr. Shafi Goldwasser - Director, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and AM Turing Award Laureate

Mike Schroepfer - CTO, Facebook in conversation with Tsu Jae King Liu, UC Berkeley’s Dean of Engineering

Chris Ategeka - Founder & CEO, UCOT Inc.

Yoky Matsuoka - VP, Google

Vivienne Ming - Founder & Chairperson, Socos Labs

Austin Gilbert - Director of Recruiting, Eaze

Jennifer Doudna - Biochemist, professor, UC Berkeley and creator, CRISPR

Claire Hough - VP Engineering, Apollo GraphQL

Scott Kupor - Managing Director, Andreessen Horowitz & Author, Secrets of Sand Hill Road

Michelle Meng-Hsiung Kiang - Cofounder & CEO, Chirp Microsystems Inc.

Nicole Johnson and Kiel Murray - Founder & CEO, NicJohn Media; Screenwriter, Development Executive with Pixar, Disney, and Stonehouse Pictures

Alison McCauley - Social scientist, emerging technology consultant and author

Tsu-Jae King Liu - UC Berkeley's Dean of Engineering

Olivia Wang - VP, head of US, Zhenfund and Forbes VC 30 Under 30

Shelly Glennon - Partner, Area 120, Google’s experimental start-up incubator

Bruce Aidells and Joanna Rees - Chef, author, and founder of Aidells Sausage Company; Former SF mayoral candidate and Managing Partner, West

Tony Xu - Cofounder & CEO, DoorDash

Nicole Patrice De Member and Ryan Panchadsaram - Founder, INDAIS; Entrepreneur, former US Deputy Director of Technology and partner, Kleiner

Tae Hea Nahm - Founder of Airspace and Managing Director, Storm Ventures

Steven Lam - Cofounder, GoGoVan

Adam Cheyer - Cofounder of Viv Labs and Siri Inc.

Naomi Davidson - Founder of Trybe.ai

Joey Zwillinger - Cofounder of Allbirds

Jini Kim - CEO, Nuna

Alder Yarrow - Founder of Vinography and Chief Customer Experience Officer, CIBO

Bob Tinker - Cofounder and former CEO, MobileIron

Tanya Holland - Founder, chef, and author of Brown Sugar Kitchen

Ikhlaq Sidhu - Founder, SCET

Shou Chen - General Partner, Agile VC

Mike Olson - Founder, CSO & Chairman, Cloudera

Matt Hershenson - Cofounder, Playground Global

Aashi Vel - Cofounder & Co-CEO, Traveling Spoon

Jessica Mah - Cofounder & CEO, InDinero

Ryan Panchadsaram - Partner, Kleiner Perkins

Marissa Mayer - Former CEO, Yahoo

Phil Kaminsky - Associate Dean of College of Engineering

Judy Estrin - Internet Pioneer

Arjun Dev Arora - Partner, 500 Startups

Ikhlaq Sidhu - Founder, SCET

Shou Chen - General Partner, Agile VC

Mike Olson - Founder, CSO & Chairman, Cloudera

Matt Hershenson - Cofounder, Playground Global

Aashi Vel - Cofounder & Co-CEO, Traveling Spoon

Jessica Mah - Cofounder & CEO, InDinero

Ryan Panchadsaram - Partner, Kleiner Perkins

Marissa Mayer - Former CEO, Yahoo

Phil Kaminsky - Associate Dean of College of Engineering

Judy Estrin - Internet Pioneer

Arjun Dev Arora - Partner, 500 Startups

Komal Ahmad - Founder and CEO, Copia. Social

Alan Amron - Entrepreneur and inventor of press-on memo

Jason Creadore - Cofounder, Civil Maps. Artificial Intelligence

Amit Kumar, Padmini Pyapali & Jeff Huang - Partner, Accel and featuring/Facebook/Uber

Amy Herr - Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

Ama Marston - Global strategy and leadership expert and author, Transformative Resilience

Ikhlaq Sidhu - Founding director and chief scientist, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, and IEOR Emerging Industry Professor

David Friedberg - Founder, The Climate Corporation, Founder and Chairman, Metromile & Founder and Chairman, eatsa

Brienne Ghafourifar & Alston Ghafourifar - Co-founder Entefy (featured in She Started It documentary) on Digital Interaction

Ikhlaq Sidhu - Cofounder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Chris Bregler - Academy Award-winning senior staff scientist, Google

Pejman Nozad - Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC

Mar Hershenson - Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC

Jim Cai - CTO and Cofounder of Slyce

Doreen Bloch - CEO and Founder of Poshly

Laura Gomez - CEO and Founder of Atipica

Pauline Shuen - Former Cisco Executive and Founder of Level Chinese

Elaine Lin Hering - Senior Consultant, Triad Consulting

Tom Dinwoodie - CTO and Founder of SunPower Corporation Systems

Stephen Torres - Founder of Sunible and CEO, MyDomino

Paul Alivisatos - Former UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

Hugo Giralt Echevarria - CEO and Founding Partner, Propelland

Charvi Shetty - CEO and Cofounder of Knox Medical Diagnostics

Cyril Ebersweiller - Managing director and Founder of HAX Accelerator

John Battelle - CEO and Editor in Chief, NewCo

Heather Hiles - CEO and Founder of Pathbrite

Ben Horowitz - Cofounder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Michael Franklin - Siebel Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Ryan Gilbert - CEO and Cofounder of Better Finance

Vivienne Ming - Chairman and Cofounder of Socos Labs

Tim Brady - Cofounder of Imagine K12 (merged with Y Combinator)

Kun Gao - CEO and Cofounder of CrunchyRoll

Jeff Chu - CEO and Cofounder of Glowlink Communications Technology Inc.

Andrew Krioukov - Cofounder of Building Robotics

Stephen Dawson-Haggerty - Cofounder of Building Robotics

Vik Singh - CEO and Cofounder of Infer

Razmig Hovaghimian - CEO and Founder of Pixel Labs

Elaine Lin Hering - Senior Consultant, Triad Consulting

Laura Gomez - CEO and Founder of Atipica

Mai Le - Sr. Director of Engineering, Yahoo!

Robin Hauser Reynolds - Director and Producer, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

Michele Titolo - Lead Software Engineer, Capital One and Advisor, Women Who Code

Cedric Brown - Chief of Community Engagement, Kapor Center

Diane Greene - Founder & Former CEO, VMware

Alex Stamos - CSO, Facebook

Christine Tsai & Nav Athwal - Founding Partner, 500 Startups; CEO, RealtyShares

Dr. Ion Stoica - Cofounder & CEO, Databricks

Jessica Mah - Cofounder & CEO, inDinero

Dr. Amit Narayan - Founder & CEO, AutoGrid

Premal Buch - President & CEO, Robin Systems

Dr. Laura Stachel - Cofounder & Executive Director, WE CARE Solar

VC Panel Discussion - Delta Prize Demo Day

Vineet Nayar - Former CEO, HCL Technologies

Ted Hoff - Intel Fellow

John Doerr - Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Vinod Dham - Founding Managing Director, IndoUS Venture Partners

Darian Shirazi - Founder & CEO, Radius

Kathleen Glaub - CEO, Afferent Pharmaceuticals

Jason Wang, Shawn Tsao, Vince Cao, and John Keh - Co-founders, Caviar

Michael Baum - Founder & CEO, Founder.org

Dean Drako - Founder and Board of Directors, Barracuda Networks

Mehdi Maghsoodnia - Serial Entrepreneur

Auren Hoffman - Founder & CEO, Kyber Systems

Ramona Pierson - Cofounder & CEO, Declara

Yoky Matsuoka - CTO, Nest

Juan Pablo Dellarroquelle - Head of Engineering, Medallia

Dr. Jun Wu - Partner, Zpark Ventures

Margret Schmidt - Chief Design Officer, TiVo

Nova Spivack - CEO, Bottlenose

Jeff Rothschild - Ex-VP of Engineering, Facebook

Dadi Perlmutter - Chief Product Officer, Intel

Carl Bass - CEO, Autodesk

Anthony Levandowski - Project Lead, Google Driverless Cars

John Battelle - Journalist, Author, Entrepreneur, and Innovator

Dr. Ram Krishnan - VP, Head of Operations for InvenSense

Eshwar Belani - VP, Product and Biz Dev at Rocket Fuel

Pooja Sankar - Founder & CEO, Piazza

Tony Hsieh - CEO, Zappos

Jason Best - Principal, Crowdfund Capital Advisors

Gurbaksh Ghahal - Founder & CEO, RadiumOne

Sridhar Kota - Former Assistant Director for Advancing Manufacturing, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Craig Mundie - Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft

Leslie Bottorff - Partner, Medical Technology, Onset Venture

Alex Le - CityVille Executive Producer, Zynga

Roger Strauch - Chairman of The Roda Group

Keval Desai - Partner at InterWest

Mike Arrington - Founder, TechCrunch

Jerry Fiddler - Principal, Zygote Ventures; Chairman, Solazyme

Mike Olson - Founder & CEO, Cloudera

Adam Bosworth - Founder & CEO, Keas

Adam Grosser - General Partner, Foundation Capital, Distinguished Innovator.

Chales Huang - Co-Founder, RedOctane

Roger Sippl - Founder, Informix

Charles Giancarlo - Managing Director, Silver Lake

Ben Horowitz - Co-Founder, Andreessen Horowitz

Maurice Gunderson - Senior Partner, CMEA

Matt Caspari - Co-Founder, Aurora Biofuels

Marissa Mayer - VP Search Products and User Experience, Google

Ted Hoff - Inventor of the Microprocessor

Amine Haoui - CEO, Sensys Networks

Nat Goldhaber - Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures

Tom Byers - Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program

Mike Horton - CEO & Co-Founder, Crossbow

Mitchell Kapor - Founder & Founding Chairman, Lotus Development, Mozilla Foundation

Dean Drako - CEO, Barracuda Networks

Charles Huang - Co-Founder, RedOctane

Bambi Francisco - Founder, Vator.tv

James Hong - Founder, Hot or Not

Ram Shriram - Founder, Sherpalo Ventures

John Steuart - Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures

Tony Hsieh - CEO, Zappos.com

John Hanke - Director, Google Earth & Maps

Ann Winblad - Co-Founder, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Peter Fiske - Founder, Rapt Industries

Hartmut Esslinger - Founder & Designer, Frog Design Inc.

Peter Vlastelica - Founder, YardBarker.com

Ian Sobieski, William Payne - Band of Angels Entrepreneur

Judy Estrin - Founder, Packet Design

Titus Brenninkmeijer - Founder, Solgenix, LLC

Stacey Lawson - CET Co-founder & Berkeley Industry Fellow

Greg Gianforte - CEO, and founder, Right Now Technologies (sold to Oracle)

Stephen Pratt - Consulting Head, Infosys

Bruce Richardson - Founder & President, AMR Research

Donna Dubinsky - Chairman, Handspring/Palm

Stephanie DiMarco - Founder & CEO, Advent Software

Keith Krach - Founder & CEO, Ariba

Shomit Ghose - Partner, Onset Ventures

Cynthia Dai - Interim Executive, Dainamic Consulting, Inc

In-Sik Rhee - Co-Founder & Chief Tactician, Opsware

Peter Wolken - General Partner, AVI Management

Pehong Chen - President, CEO, Chairman of the Board, Broadvision Inc.

Chris Rittler - Vice President, Tropos Networks

John Chun - Founder & CEO, Safeweb

Jeff Miller - CEO, Redpoint; Venture Partner, Documentum

Marc Andreessen - Chief Technology Officer, AOL

Aneel Bhusri - Vice Chairman, Greylock Katrina Roche - Chief Marketing Officer, i2 Technologies John Roberts - CEO & Co-Founder, SugarCRM Geoffrey Moore - Author & Managing Director, TCG Advisors