Our Sponsors

Omidyar Network

http://www.omidyar.net/home/

Omidyar Network seeks out investments that are "of the people, by the people, for the people" so that every individual can discover their own power to make good things happen. The purposefully broad scope is somewhat narrowed through the common characteristics we look for in investments such as openness, transparency, collaboration, de-centralization, a level playing field, and potential self-sustainability. Since June 2004, we've funded many different focus areas: Microfinance, Bottom-up Media, Open Source, Intellectual Property, Voting, Software, and Transparency in Government. *How* we work is as important as the work itself. We employ collaborative and networked approaches because we believe there's truth in the adage "none of us is as smart as all of us". Our focus on an effective process vs. a specific desired outcome could be summed up as "try, learn, do."

ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California)

http://www.asuc.org/

The Associated Students of the Berkeley campus of the University of California, as an autonomous constituency of the university community, provides a student government committed to effective student participation in all areas of student concern. Through independent action and in concert with other constituencies of the university community, the ASUC participates in the formation and the improvement of educational programs, protects full freedom of assembly and expression in the university community, articulates and represents the student interest in the governance of the campus, provides services and coordinates activities for students, and advances the common interests and concerns of students.

BCLT (Berkeley Center for Law and Technology)

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/

The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is to foster beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business, science and technology.

BCLBE (Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy)

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/bclbe/

The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) is the hub of Boalt Hall's cutting-edge research and teaching on the impact of law on business and the U.S. and global economies. BCLBE’s research activities encompass traditional areas of business law (including tax law), as well as Boalt's internationally esteemed Law and Economics Program. Its focus ranges from transactions to theory, from the problems of business organizations to the fundamental issues of national and global economies, and from general issues of competition and corporate governance to concentrated attention on specific industry sectors and geographic regions.

BIE (Berkeley Institute of the Environment)

http://bie.berkeley.edu/

The Berkeley Institute of the Environment strives to establish the University of California at Berkeley as the premier teaching and research institution for environmental science, technology, management and policy. UC Berkeley has some 100 individual undergraduate and graduate programs with foci in the environment, making it a top environmental research center.

The Blum Center for Developing Economies

http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/blum-center-developing-economies

The Blum Center for Developing Economies was established at UC Berkeley in March 2006 to improve the well-being of the three billion people in the world who live on less than two dollars a day. Its mission is to increase the well-being of poor people in developing countries by designing, adapting and disseminating scalable and sustainable technologies and systems and by educating and inspiring a new generation of global citizens. The Blum Center addresses the needs of the poor in developing countries by leveraging the University of California’s knowledge and expertise and preparing students with the theoretical understanding, applied skills and experiential learning that enable them to become agents of change in the struggle against global poverty.

BNNI (Berkeley Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Institute)

http://nano.berkeley.edu/welcome/welcome.html

The Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute (BNNI) is the umbrella organization for expanding and coordinating Berkeley research and educational activities in nanoscale science and engineering, The campus has identified nanoscale science and engineering as a top priority and has allocated seven additional faculty positions that will be recruited by interdisciplinary search committees. This is in addition to the significant number of new faculty in nanoscale science and engineering that are being recruited by departments.

Boalt Hall School of Law

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/

The University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law (“Boalt Hall”) is consistently regarded both as one of the top 10 law schools and one of the top public law schools in the country. Boalt Hall’s renowned faculty includes recipients of 15 Fulbright and 20 Guggenheim fellowships as well as authors of leading casebooks used worldwide. Boalt is particularly strong in the fields of intellectual property, environmental, and international law, with specialized curricular programs in Business, Law and Economics, Comparative Legal Studies, Environmental Law, International Legal Studies, Law and Technology, and Social Justice.

CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society)

http://www.citris-uc.org/

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society was established to sponsor collaborative information technology research that will ultimately provide solutions to grand-challenge social and commercial problems affecting the quality of life of all Californians. The set of applications include energy efficiency, transportation, environmental monitoring, seismic safety, education, cultural research and health care.

COINS (Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems)

http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/

The Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) is an interdisciplinary home for research and education/outreach in nanomechanical systems established by the National Science Foundation. We are an exceptional team of scientists and engineers from four institutions: UC Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford and UC Merced, interacting closely with partners from national laboratories (Sandia and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) and from industry (HP, Nanosys, IBM, GE, Intel, Honeywell, and ChevronTexaco). Our administrative host on the UC Berkeley campus is the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute (BNNI). Our multifaceted research focuses on molecular and nanoscale mechanichcs at the interface of hard and soft matter.

Center for Responsible Business

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness/

Launched in 2003, the vision of the Center for Responsible Business is to create a more sustainable, ethical, and socially responsible society by establishing the Haas School of Business as the preeminent educational institution for research, teaching, experiential learning, and community outreach in areas of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

CommerceNet

http://www.commerce.net

Founded in 1994, CommerceNet has been a trusted intermediary conducting industry-wide research and programs that have advanced the commercial use of the Internet. CommerceNet has had a direct role in pioneering some of the industry's first milestones including secure transactions and XML messaging. CommerceNet also founded the Open Network for Commerce Exchange (ONCE), the world's largest business-to-business online trading community.

CommerceNet was founded by renowned Internet commerce pioneer and visionary Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum. Dr. Tenenbaum's vision was to transform the Internet into the "CommerceNet," which he views as an open network of businesses exchanging services with each other. He established CommerceNet to serve as a unique business forum that fosters worldwide collaboration and advances the rapid and real-time exchange of business information over the Internet.

Dean of College of Engineering

http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/

UC Berkeley College of Engineering: Engineering has been an integral part of the University of California since it was chartered on March 23, 1868. The College now has seven academic departments and an array of interdisciplinary programs. UC Berkeley is the No. 1 engineering and information technology (IT) university in the world, according to rankings published on Dec. 10, 2004 by the Times Higher Education Supplement.

Dean of Biological Sciences

http://ls.berkeley.edu/bio/index.html#academic_departments

The Division of Biological Sciences encompasses a breadth of disciplines spanning all levels of organization and encompassing diverse organisms. With about 112 full-time faculty in two departments, the Division offers a variety of programs that allow students to focus their major to prepare for future careers in professional fields such as health sciences, veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental science, and academia.

Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

http://evcp.chance.berkeley.edu/biography.htm

The responsibilities of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost are broad in scope and encompass two domains.

The "Executive Vice Chancellor" (EVC) serves as the Chancellor's leading senior executive responsible for day-to-day campus operations; convenes as appropriate Vice-Chancellors and other senior administrators to address issues that cut across divisional lines; manages the campuswide budget process, including in-year operating budget allocations and capital finances; and leads strategic campus initiatives as may be determined in close collaboration with the Chancellor.

The "Provost" serves as the chief academic officer of the Berkeley campus and has principal responsibility for the planning, development, implementation, assessment and improvement of all academic programs, policies and supporting infrastructure including facilities and information technology. The Provost has responsibility for ensuring Berkeley's academic preeminence through planning for faculty recruitment, retention and renewal as well as through rigorous review of faculty appointments, tenure and promotion for Berkeley's 1,700 faculty. The Provost also has overall responsibility for the planning, quality and delivery of education provided to Berkeley's 23,500 undergraduate students and 10,000 graduate students. These activities are carried out in consultation and cooperation with the Academic Senate under Berkeley's shared governance model.

Fulcrum Funds, LLC

http://www.fulcrumfund.com/main.htm

Fulcrum Funds, LLC is a San Francisco based private equity firm founded in 2003 with the distinguishing strategy of focusing on the social impact of its portfolio companies, while simultaneously pursuing above-market financial returns for its limited partners.
Fulcrum targets early stage investments in companies that address significant improvements in healthcare, and in particular, have provisions to address disadvantaged or otherwise disabled individuals and conditions or diseases that adversely impact human productivity, quality of life or access to healthcare.

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute)

http://www.itri.org.tw/eng/index.jsp

The Industrial Technology Research Institute - ITRI - is a non-profit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical service. It was founded in 1973 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to attend to the technological needs of Taiwan's industrial development. ITRI has played a vital role in the transformation of the economy from an agriculture-based model to an industrial one. By year 2001 it has grown to a 6000 people operation, and serves as the technical center for industry and an unofficial arm of the government's industrial policies in Taiwan. Backed by its broad research scope and close industrial ties, ITRI is becoming an increasingly active member in the global industrial R&D community.

Arati Prabhakar

http://www.sawnet.org/whoswho/?Prabhakar+Arati

Arati Prabhakar is currently a venture capitalist. From 1993-1997 she was director of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, appointed by President William Clinton. Previously, she served for seven years at the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), of which two years were as the Director of the Microelectronics Technology Office.

She was born in New Delhi, India. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University (1979), and her M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1980) and Ph.D. in Applied Physics (1984) from the California Institute of Technology. She is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Sevin Rosen Funds

http://www.srfunds.com/flash.html

Although technologies and markets have changed dramatically during the last two decades, the investment principles upon which Sevin Rosen Funds was founded in 1981 have not. At the core of all our ventures are technology and ideas that have the potential to effect fundamental changes in the marketplace.

Sun Microsystems

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/index.jsp

Since 1982, Sun has brought together the world's brightest technical minds to solve the world's biggest technical problems. Our vision of "Everyone and everything participating on the network" means that when people are networked, they share, they interact, and solve problems.

Vice Chancellor for Research

http://research.chance.berkeley.edu/page.cfm?id=100

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has overall managerial responsibility for Berkeley's research enterprise. It seeks to maintain a research environment that fosters creativity, collaboration and community. Its specific goals are to provide effective support for campus-wide research efforts; to advocate for research needs and resources; and to maximize the benefits of Berkeley's research to the scholarly community, and to the quality of life in the local community, the state, and the nation.
In support of these goals, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research:

• Supervises over 50 Research Units, 6 Museums, and 7 Field Stations
• Administers the flow of research funding to the Berkeley campus
• Oversees the compliance of campus research with federal, state and university regulations
• Facilitates relations between University researchers and private industry for the benefit of society

Pat Windham

http://www.cherry.gatech.edu/sim/module/windham.htm

Pat Windham served as a Democratic Senior Professional Staff Member for the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate from 1984 through 1998. Windham also worked for Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC), Ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee and assisted other Democrats on the Commerce Committee, including Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Ranking Democrat on the Science Subcommittee.