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SCET and AWS partnership launching Dreamer Package; $1000 in free stackable, non-dilutive, credits for student founders
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley is partnering with Amazon AWS to bring the Dreamer Package through the AWS Activate program to SCET students. This special package will allow new companies a runway to validate and grow their company. Students can now receive $1000 in free AWS Activate credits, which for…
Register now for Collider Cup XI
Join us to see pitches from the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s top venture projects from the Fall 2022 semester. UC Berkeley’s brightest students will showcase their latest innovations for solving some of the world’s most challenging problems. Get ready for the Collider Cup, UC Berkeley’s premier technology entrepreneurship showcase, hosted by the Sutardja…
Tech top dogs discuss workplace diversity at ELPP panel
Samantha Walravens, author of the acclaimed book Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech, hosted a panel of industry leaders on June 4 to discuss diversity initiatives in the technology industry. The panel took place at Silicon Valley Bank’s Kellogg Auditorium in Santa Clara as part of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program, or…
How to ‘Startup’ with Michael Seibel: CEO of Y Combinator
On February 20th, Michael Seibel came to speak to the A. Richard Newton Series course about his journey with Y Combinator (YC), a leading startup accelerator, and what entrepreneurs can do to be successful at YC today. Seibel was the co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv for four years and later became the CEO of Socialcam….
Beyond the Molecule and Beyond the Device: Machine Learning and the Future of Healthcare
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” – Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Facebook Hammerbacher’s Lament Are we fated to suffer Hammerbacher’s Lament, with our best minds, and our best data, solely serving the gods of commerce? What of serving mankind’s existential needs in an area as fundamental…
Google Drones, Chipotle Burritos, College Students & SCET’s BMOE
It’s been two years since Amazon’s Jeff Bezos exclaimed that Amazon would soon deliver packages by drones, and that though the concept of it ‘seem like science fiction,’ it actually isn’t. What was first believed to be a publicity stunt to get Christmas shoppers in 2014 to think about Amazon is now reality, with the…