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Healthcare’s Most Impactful AI? The “Non-contact” Kind
The World Health Organization reports that 45% of member states have less than one physician per 1,000 population. With the Kaiser Family Foundation reporting 27 million Americans lacking health coverage in 2017, access to healthcare is not just an issue in the developing world. These numbers help highlight healthcare’s two idealized goals: We will forever be driving…
Tech Firm Leadership students win ‘paperclip challenge,’ snag photo with Chancellor Carol Christ
Students Fionce Siow, Tammy Chan, Peru Dayani, Mina Nezam-Mafi, Ryan Chiem in the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology’s INDENG 171 – Technology Firm Leadership course proved their entrepreneurial prowess by exchanging paperclips for something priceless: A group photo with UC Berkeley Chancellor Christ. The team participated in a challenge, led by course instructor Dr. Pamela…
Smart Villages: Students Pitch to Chief Minister of Meghalaya
Berkeley students have been tasked with developing digital tech to help impoverished Indian villages.
Amazon, Google, and the Ethics of Data: How Berkeley Students Can Compete with Tech Giants
“Google and Amazon are so disruptive that it’s hard to think of a single company unthreatened by their presence today. If this is where your future competition will come from, how do you guard yourself for combat in this landscape? That’s what Amazoogle is all about…” – Shomit Ghose, Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist Today’s almighty…
SCET Wins Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation Award
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley has won an Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation Award at 2019 The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) conference. Learn more about what led to the award here.
Needfinding, Design Thinking, and Alternative Meat: A Conversation With Anne Fletcher
An edited transcription of some of the questions that came up during Alyssa Plese’s conversation with Anne Fletcher, where they spoke about need-finding, design thinking, and the role they will play in Fletcher’s upcoming challenge lab.
European Innovation Academy students share experiences from their summer in Portugal
Over the summer, Berkeley students attended the European Innovation Academy (EIA) in Cascais, Portugal for an intensive, fast-paced learning experience, where they learned from venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, executives from Silicon Valley companies, and experts from across the globe. For one week prior to the Academy, Berkeley students met in Porto, Portugal to build the…
New ‘Off-the-Record’ Course Aims to Give Entrepreneurs the Chance to Speak More Candidly About their Startup Experience
This fall semester, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley will offer a small, selective course that will focus on some of the less glamorous elements of creating a company. The course will feature a speaker series of entrepreneurs and innovators who will share intimate details of their…
Fall 2019 class combats plastic waste through innovation
Interested in creatively solving the problems of an overly plastic planet? A one to two unit experiential seminar titled “Deplastify the Planet” will be available this fall semester for innovative students to work with companies hoping to solve the issue of plastic waste. Deplastify the Planet, which will be held on Wednesday afternoons in downtown…
It takes a (Blockchain) Village!
Spring Reflections, Fall Futures, and Student Project Highlights Spring of 2019 was the semester of collaboration and joint ventures for our Blockchain Challenge Lab. We expanded the program to include FinTech, and the new material and domain resulted in a number of novel projects, many of which are highlighted below. We saw increased teamwork across…
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