View from the Top
Lisa Davis: Economic Decarbonization
Berkeley Engineering is a nexus of innovation largely because of our strong connections with the most creative minds in Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. The View from the Top lecture series spotlights thought leaders in technology, industry and education, bringing them onto campus to share the latest developments and ideas with our academic community.
Previous speakers:
Kishore Seendripu (M.S.'92 MSE, Ph.D.'96 EECS), founder, CEO, president and chairman, MaxLinear, Inc.
"An accidental entrepreneur: My journey from Berkeley to Wall Street"
March 20, 2018 |
Lisa Davis, Member of the Managing Board Siemens AG
Economic Decarbonization – Breaking up Old Energy Chains by Creating an Integrated System
September 28, 2017
More from Lisa Davis: Become part of a new energy system
Daniel Rasky, chief & senior scientist, Space Portal Office, NASA Ames Research Center
Lessons Learned from Disrupting the Civilian Aerospace Industry
April 5, 2017
Martin Anstice, president & CEO, Lam Research
Innovation-Driven Leadership - Sustaining a High-Performing Organization
March 8, 2017
Renu Thomas, executive vice president, Media Operations, Engineering and IT, Disney|ABC Television Group
Breaking Barriers and Leading Change
September 8, 2016
David Patterson, professor, EECS
My Last Lecture: How to Be a Bad Professor
May 6, 2016
Simon Segars, chief executive officer, ARM Holdings
The Changing Face of Computing, from Servers to Sensors
September 23, 2015
Gary Guthart, president & CEO, Intuitive Surgical
Robotics in Soft Tissue Surgery: Current State & Future Directions
March 3, 2015
Dr. Arati Prabhakar, director, Defense Advances Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
"Breakthrough Technologies to Shape Our Future"
February 13, 2015
Eicke E. Weber, director, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
The Global Energy Transformation – a Challenge for Science, Technology and Politics
August 29, 2014
Richard K. Miller, president, Olin College of Engineering
From the Ground Up: Rethinking Engineering Education
March 4, 2014
Thomas Siebel, founder, chairman and CEO, C3 Energy
New Business Formation
February 7, 2014
Jack Dorsey, CEO, Square, and founder, Twitter
Punk, Dropout, Massage Therapist @jack
October 3, 2013
Harry Shum, corporate vice president for search product development, Microsoft
Bing Dialog Model: Intent, Knowledge and User Interaction
March 8, 2013
Seiuemon Inaba, founder and honorary chairman, FANUC Corporation
Advancing Manufacturing and Innovation
Dr. Inaba receiving the Chancellor's Citation
September 12, 2012
Arun Majumdar, former director, Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
A New Industrial Revolution for a Sustainable Energy Future
August 30, 2012
William F. Banholzer, executive vice president and CTO, Dow Chemical
The Future of Alternative Feedstocks and Biofuels
February 16, 2012
Janet Napolitano, secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Securing Cyberspace: Our Shared Responsibility
April 25, 2011
Leslie E. Robertson, partner, Leslie E. Robertson Associates
"A Conversation with Leslie E. Robertson"
April 11, 2011
Yet-Ming Chiang, Kyocera Professor of Ceramics, Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
“A Conversation with Yet-Ming Chiang”
March 31, 2011
Coleman Fung, founder and chairman, OpenLink Financial
Preparing Engineers for Leadership
November 19, 2010
Mike Delaney, vice president of engineering, Boeing
“Engineering Leadership in a Global Enterprise”
September 16, 2010
Craig Barrett, chairman of the board, Intel
The Business of Innovation
April 21, 2009
Richard Kerris, chief technology officer, Lucasfilm
The Past, the Present, and a Peek at the Future for Technology at Lucasfilm
April 7, 2009
T. Gary Rogers, chairman of the board, Levi Strauss & Co.
Lessons Learned since Berkeley Engineering
March 19, 2009
Alfred Spector, vice president of research and special initiatives, Google
Innovation at Google
January 27, 2009
Arun Sarin, chief executive (retired), Vodafone
Leadership in a Changing World
November 19, 2008
James Truchard, president and co-founder, National Instruments
Founding and Growing into a Billion Dollar Technology-Driven Company
November 6, 2008
Judy Estrin, chief executive officer, JLabs
Sustainable Innovation
October 30, 2008
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer, Microsoft
Shaping the Future with Technology
October 9, 2008
Sanjay Mehrotra, president and COO, SanDisk
A Conversation with Sanjay Mehrotra
September 17, 2008
Tony Stelliga, chairman and CEO, Quellan Inc., and founder, Softcom
Engineering Your Roadmap to Success: Trends, Thoughts and Lessons Learned in the Engineering World
March 18, 2008
Kirk Hachigian, chairman, president and CEO, Cooper Industries
A Conversation with Kirk Hachigian
November 9, 2007
Bruce Chizen, CEO, Adobe Systems Inc.
“A Conversation with Bruce Chizen”
November 1, 2006
Stephanie DiMarco, founder and CEO, Advent Software
“Lessons on Long-Term Success in the Software Business”
April 19, 2006
Ken Behring, real estate developer, philanthropist and founder, Wheelchair Foundation and the WaterLeaders Foundation
“From Wheelchairs to Water: Help for the Developing World”
February 1, 2006
Barry Lam, founder, chairman and CEO, Quanta Computer
“A Conversation with Barry Lam”
November 16, 2005
Gary Fitzmire, vice president of engineering and information systems, Boeing
“Innovation at Boeing: Now and into the Future”
October 4, 2005
Floyd Kvamme, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
“Nanotechnology: A Washington Perspective”
September 14, 2005
Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm
“Not Just Talk: 3G CDMA”
September 7, 2005