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. The course features a selection of highly accomplished industry speakers, including Cal alumni, who share their unique insights on industry developments, leadership, and innovation accumulated through experience in their careers. The lecture series serves as a discovery course for topics at the intersection of technology innovation and entrepreneurship and is a requirement for two of the tracks to complete the SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.
This class is a great introductory class for students interested in learning more about technology entrepreneurship and innovation. SCET classes welcome students from all majors and levels.
Beginning in Spring 2021, the A. Richard Newton Lecture series became an official Berkeley Changemaker® course. Berkeley Changemaker® is a way to help engineers, humanists, and scientists on campus understand their passion and have the ability to create change and have agency in the world. The A. Richard Newton Series course helps students understand how to pursue their interests and execute them by learning from distinguished innovators.
Note: Starting Fall 2022, all SCET classes will be offered under Engineering course numbers. Prior to Fall 2022, this course was listed under INDENG 95/195/295.
Attendance at the first 3 classes is mandatory in order to be enrolled off the waitlist.
Instructor
Victoria Howell
Victoria Howell is director, Professional Programs and associate instructor for 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.
Spring 2025 Speaker Lineup
01.21
Victoria Howell
Instructor and Director, Professional Programs, Sutardja Center. Topic: Course Orientation - What to Expect and What is Expected
Online (1st 300 students can join online/rest to watch video asynchronously using bcourse Media Gallery)
Zoom Link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96159667962
01.28
Scott Buchanan
CMO at Stacklok and master of storytelling. Former experience includes CMO at Forter; Marketing VP at VMware; integral in Tintri IPO, Maketing Strategy at Medallia; and Microsoft experience in China.
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
02.04
Laura I. Gómez (Cal grad)
CEO and cofounder
Cepanoa Health. 2x founder (Atipica and Cepanoa);
Healthcare Advocate, Cofounder Project Include and
former head of localization/product at Twitter
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
02.11
Aviv Gilboa (Cal grad)
President at Skylight. Former Head of Product Growth at Ring/Amazon and VC at Kleiner Perkins
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
02.18
Kyle Lui (Cal grad)
Founder of two startup, ChoicePass, acquired by Salesforce and XcelDx (acquired by BD). Kyle began his career as a private equity investor at Pantheon and Clearwater Capital, based in San Francisco andsubsequently Hong Kong.
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
02.25
Merrie Williamson
Executive Vice President & Chief Customer and Revenue Officer at Equinix. 20 years of experience in helping companies evolve with roles at Microsoft and Intel.
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
03.04
Lisa Choi Owens (Cal grad)
Senior Advisor and former CRO and Director at TED
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
03.11
Shawn Villaron
VP and General Manager, PowerPoint, & Site Leader, Microsoft Bay Area Region
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
03.18
Cal International Student Start-up
App/Pitch and Cohort Connection.
@5:00pm PST
Via Zoom
04.01
For all 283 students and those focused on Video as final assignment. Will involve assigning groups - attendance
@5:00pm PST
Via Zoom (mandatory)
04.15
Jingcho Yang (Cal grad)
CEO and founder Bukit Vista, Pioneering a New Era of Hospitality
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
04.22
Class to Work on Video Project
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
04.29
Prof. Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity founder + CEO Perplexity.ai in conversation with Prof. Pieter Abbeel
Prof. Pieter Abbeel
Prof UC Berkeley, Amazon Scholar, founder Covariant.ai
@5:00pm PST
Stanley Room 105
About A. 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."
A. Richard Newton
Featured Video Of The Month
Adam Cheyer - Co-founder of Siri, Change.org, Viv Labs, and Sentient
In this Spring 2021 A. Richard Newton Series Distinguished Innovator Lecture, Adam Cheyer, co-founder of Siri, Change.org, Viv Labs, and Sentient, does magic tricks to show students how to make magical prototypes, and tells the story of the founding of Siri.
Archive
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
Matt Carlson - Cal Grad, Chief Marketing Officer at Stacklok
Pedro David Espinoza - Cal Grad, CEO at Profunda Health
Jerry Luk - Cal Grad, President at Skylight. Former Head of Product Growth at Ring/Amazon and VC at Kleiner Perkins
Yael Zheng - Cal Grad, General Partner at Bling Capital
Carl Bass - Maker! Advisor, Boardmember, Entrepreneur. Former CEO, Autodesk Source
Ashish Kakran - Cal Grad, Executive Vice President & Chief Customer and Revenue Officer at Equinix.
Shantanu Narayan - CEO Adobe
Ben Ling - Founder, Bling Capital
Yoky Matsuoka - CTO, Google
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