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AI Leadership: Perspectives from Academia and Venture on the Future of AI

By Sienna Lam | February 9, 2026

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Rapid advancements in AI will continue to transform the ways in which we work and live. To understand the scope of its impact is complex, requiring an understanding of multiple perspectives that transcend both practice and research. As we continue to push the frontier of AI capabilities, it is critical to shape its trajectory with…

Innovation and Engineering Leadership with Marc Tarpenning, Co-Founder, Tesla Inc.

By Sienna Lam | July 25, 2024

Marc Tarpenning lectures in front of a classroom during a session of the UC Berkeley Engineering Leadership Professional Programs on Leadership

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 Science ‘85), co-founder of Tesla…

SCET Professional Programs holds emerging technologies workshop for NTU alumni

By Mary Kelly | October 21, 2022

From left to rigiht: Jerry Luk, Co-Founder and President of Firework; Linda Yu, partner Soft Bank Vision Fund; and Victoria Howell, Director of SCET Professional Programs.

In early October, the SCET Professional Programs hosted an in-person custom program at UC Berkeley for alumni from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Framed within the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship model, the program looked closely at important new venture trends among researchers here at UC Berkeley, and among Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs. UC Berkeley…