At CITRIS Foundry, our founders are inventing the future. Walk into our brand-new entrepreneurship center on campus and you’ll see them working at the frontiers of gene editing, artificial intelligence, programmable hardware, energy systems, and other deep technologies. For the past twelve months, the Fall...
Reposted from Berkeley News By Brett Israel | Media Relations | March 7, 2017 The UC Berkeley campus has a new innovation hub that is the result of a partnership between Enel, a multinational power company, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society...
Reposted from California Magazine. By Bill Snyder How’s this for a modern take on the venerable office vending machine? You swipe your credit or debit card, open a fridge-like glass door, and choose from an array of fresh entrees and snacks. If you want a receipt, the machine...
Reposted from the Huffington Post, By Camille Crittendon | Deputy Director, CITRIS Participation by women in scientific research is rising — women now outnumber men majoring in biological sciences and the percentage of women awarded doctoral degrees in life sciences grew from 15 percent in 1969 to 52 percent in 2009. Yet...
Join us for a screening and discussion of the new documentary, She Started It, on February 8th. Did you know? 96% of venture capitalists are men (1). Women still account for less than 10% of founders for high growth firms (2) and earn only 12.9% of computer science...
Tuesday, October 25, 12PM-4PM Sutardja Dai Hall Atrium RSVP at https://entrepreneursexpofall2016.eventbrite.com...
Re-posted from the Daily Cal website By Elaina Provencio | Staff With free food, caffeine and 36 hours to unleash their creativity in code and hardware, more than 2,000 participants gathered in the bellows of Memorial Stadium this weekend for Cal Hacks’ 2015 hackathon. Participants made the second annual hackathon at UC Berkeley...
We're excited to announce that Dr. Rikky Muller, co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies, Inc. (CITRIS Foundry Spring '13), has been recognized as an Honoree of MIT Technology Review's annual list of Global Innovators Under 35 for her work in the field of Engineering and Medicine. Rikky, who was part of...
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Kvamme Atrium (3rd Floor), Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 The Foundry at CITRIS is hosting a Demo Day to celebrate the graduation of our Spring 2014 cohort! The Demo Day will serve as an opportunity for all 4 teams to share short...
February 20th-22nd, 2015 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Come hack the Android InWatch Z SmartWatch to develop innovative and fun applications for wearable devices. Each participating team will be loaned an InWatch Z Smartwatch to hack and develop a unique project over the course of a weekend. The #CampusInWatch Hackathon...