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…

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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…

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