On July 1, Rich Lyons became the 12th chancellor for the University of California, Berkeley. This was especially exciting for the campus’s innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) community, as Lyons’ previous role was the campus chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer. During his tenure in that role, Berkeley I&E experienced incredible growth, Read more…
After winning Collider Cup XIV last May, Playvision founders Ender Aguilar, Anish Gupta and Mark Zogby are envisioning the next steps for their company. Their product, which uses computer vision to track and compile data for football sports plays, is gathering interest as the field of sports technology gains momentum. Read more…
For over a decade, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at UC Berkeley has hosted the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP), which has helped more than 1,000 technical professionals hone their leadership skills and bring an innovative spirit to their firms. On February 28, Marc Tarpenning (B.A. Computer Read more…
This year, sports technology has taken UC Berkeley by storm. Three out of the five winning teams at SCET’s entrepreneurship showcase, Collider Cup XIV, came from the “Sports Tech and the Entrepreneurship of Sports” course last semester. Playvision, whose technology analyzes football plays for athlete training, took home the overall Read more…
Photo courtesy of Rashmi Varma. Rashmi Varma joined Berkeley’s entrepreneurial community after taking a SCET class in her first year as a master’s student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Since then, she has continued to share her passion for healthcare access in vulnerable communities and advocated for interdisciplinary Read more…
This spring, a fresh cohort of SCET students graduated from UC Berkeley, already forging new paths into the entrepreneurial world. Part of these learners’ impressive backgrounds was forged with the help of knowledge and collaboration from SCET’s course, ENGIN 183 Product Management. Instructed by AI product leader Derek Chan, Product Read more…
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Developing entrepreneurship skills isn’t about flipping through a textbook – it requires immersive, hands-on learning. The Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship has been designed by SCET to do just that. Through a series of interdisciplinary courses that combine theory and business models with real-world tests and activities, the Berkeley Method brings Read more…
University of California, Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) faculty, students, and alumni encouraged innovative global leadership at the 2024 Asian Leadership Conference (ALC) which took place in Seoul, South Korea on May 22 and May 23. The goal of ALC is to bring together world leaders from Read more…
Thomas Laporte joined the SCET community in the spring of 2022 after participating in the Le Bridge Startup Fellows Program, hosted by Berkeley in collaboration with Emlyon Business School, where Laporte received his master’s degree in management. Here, Laporte met his future co-founders and set the foundation for HyLight, a Read more…