Entrepreneurship

Management of Technology Innovation Program Finals

Friday, December 2nd, 2016 saw the culmination of hard work students enrolled in MTI had put in all semester as groups presented their pitches to Naeem Zafar, serial entrepreneur and director of the MTI Program, Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu, Director and Chief Scientist of SCET, and a panel of prominent VCs and mentors at SCET. Over…

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Berkeley Invited by Australia and New Zealand to Advance Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Sutardja Center Chief Scientist Ikhlaq Sidhu was invited to keynote the national Growing Entrepreneurs Summit in New Zealand where he met with members of government and academia to discuss lessons learned at Berkeley on how to accelerate research-based innovation and how to teach entrepreneurship. As part of the sequence of workshop events, Prof. Sidhu also…

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How Math Can Improve Democracy Around the World

Last Wednesday, Karel Janeček, stepped foot onto the Berkeley campus to give a talk regarding his Democracy 2.1 initiatives. Janeček, a well-known Czech mathematician, made his first mark in the financial world in 1994 when he co-founded RSJ Algorithmic Trading. It is now one of the world’s largest financial derivative firms, making Janeček the first…

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AI Chatbot Collider Challenges Students To Push The Boundaries Of Human Computer Interaction

  Last week the Sutardja Center kicked off the AI Collider challenge for Berkeley students interested in working on the latest trend in human computer interaction — conversational interfaces or as they are popularly known, chatbots. Students participating in the collider competition will identify issues that prevent existing chatbots from being engaging and work on…

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The Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Winners Announced

It has been an amazing week of collision of Berkeley students and global entrepreneurs, mentors, and academics at our Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship bootcamp. At the bootcamp students develop ideas from scratch or gain advice, mentorship, and scholarship to help them advance a pre-existing idea. Students from engineering, business, and social science joined the week-long event to…

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Sutardja CET Alums at Byte Foods Use ‘Smart Refrigerators’ to Serve Fresh, Healthy Food at Businesses

Byte Foods, a company co-founded by Lee Mokri and Haas EWMBA student Megan Mokri, uses internet-connected ‘smart refrigerators’ to serve fresh, healthy meals, snacks and drinks on-site at businesses throughout the Bay Area. From Blue Bottle iced coffee to Urban Remedy salads and juices, employees have nutritious food just steps from their desk and employers…

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In February, Sidhu participated in the 2015 Innovative Development through Entrepreneurship Accelerator (IDEA) Symposium and Workshop, in Cebu City

New collaboration at the Center will help Philippine universities develop their unique method of entrepreneurship

The Berkeley Method has travelled to the Philippines thanks to a new program between the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology and the Philippine Development Foundation.

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