IE BERKELEY TECH CATALYSTS (IBTC) – Emerging Tech & Innovation Leadership Program & Network

Gateway program to join the Impact Xcelerator’s Tech Catalyst Network
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Program

The IE-Berkeley (CTL) Program is for business  and tech leaders who want to understand emerging technology implications, develop strategic plans, connect with tech ventures/suppliers, and prepare themselves to lead business innovation.

An opportunity to become part of the club of changemakers spanning various industries, academia, and scaling ventures. The program serves as a gateway to unlocking your potential as a leader and offers invaluable insights into the ever-evolving landscape of emerging technologies.

 

 

Program Brochure

Learning

  • Technology Trends: Understand advancements and implications in AI, data, virtual assets, web 3, Metaverse, Clean Tech, and Bio Convergence.
  • Learn to lead innovation-related projects with success. Develop yourself and coach your team for the innovation mindset and behaviors needed to succeed in transformative initiatives.
  • Participate in open innovation to connect with high-profile ventures, suppliers, and potential partners.
  • Integrative, real-life project to accelerate from concept to results, including process, supplier/partner ecosystem, and innovation leadership practice, with direct advising from the IE Dean & Berkeley SCET Founding Director.

Faculty

  • Faculty Lead, Ikhlaq Sidhu, Dean and Professor SciTech, IE, Former Berkeley
Ikhlaq Sidhu

Dean IE Science & Technology

Founding Director of UC Berkeley´s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and creator of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program at UC Berkeley. He holds 61 patents for internet communication technologies. Dr. Sidhu received the IEEE Major Education Innovation Award in 2018. He serves on many advisory boards.

  • Anca Dragan- Award winning UC Berkeley Professor and Director, InterACT Lab
  • Mike “Shrep”- Schroepfer Former CTO, Meta and climate tech investor
  • Edo Segal- Founder and CEO at Touchcast
  • Padma Warrior Founder- Fable.io and former CEO, NIO and former CTO, Motorola and Cisco
  • Pieter Abbiel- Professor, UC Berkeley Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) lab
  • Caleb Boyd- Co-Founder of Molten Industries, 2022 Breakthrough Energy Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30
  • Xiang Bing- Founding Dean, Professor of China Business and Globalization, CKGSB
  • Melanie Matheu- CTO, Founder at Prellis Biologics, Inc.

Program

Kick off: 

Nov. 4th – Nov. 11th ´23

At Silicon Valley at UC Berkeley to understand emerging technology trends.

(ETM) Week - Silicon Valley

Blended Hybrid Program:

Six Sessions, including the Graduation event in Madrid. Every two weeks, 1/2 day, Thursday afternoons. Sessions are online with a Graduation and Clossing Session in Madrid.

Innovation Leadership
Nov. 23rd, 2023

  • Tech Primer 1: ML Basics, Recommendation, Prediction
  • Project and ideation with communication and value proposition.

Adaption and Text AI
Dec. 5th, 2023

  • Tech Primer 2: NLP, Chat GPT, and LLMs
  • Case Netflix: Key Concepts: Transitions from detecting business models to operations. Use of measurements and quantitative technology.
  • Design Principles
  • Catalyst Guest Case/Exercise
  • Project: Choose Teams. Assign low-tech demo

Product Management and Web/AI/Metaverse
Jan. 11th, 2024

  • Tech Primer: Metaverse and Web Interfaces
  • Medtronic Case with aggregate planning vs. agile execution
  • Catalyst Guest case/exercise - NFT
  • Project User feedback and adaptation

Core Competence and Data Business Models
Jan. 25th, 2024

  • Data Business Models w exercise
  • Zappos Case includes a discussion of developing adjacent opportunities
  • Catalyst Guest and exercise - Robotics
  • Project: Venture/supplier research

How to Measure Anything and Science Technology
Feb. 8th, 2024

  • Tech primer: Reinforcement learning and robotics
  • Catalyst Guest case/exercise - bio/energy
  • Project: Low Tech Demo 2.0 and strategy

Graduation In Madrid
Feb. 22-24th, 2024

  • Catalyst Speaker and Exercise
  • Project presentation with innovation leadership aspects
  • Final lecture
  • Presentation of Certifications

About the Week in Silicon Valley - UC Berkeley

Tuition

IE Madrid Eur. 19,000

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