Emerging Tech Management Week is a six-day executive technology management program on the UC Berkeley campus, jointly developed and delivered by CKGSB and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. It is designed for business leaders and investors who need to understand how emerging technologies are developing and where they may create commercial value.
You’ll examine areas including artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain, virtual reality, and augmented cognition. Academic sessions are combined with insights from industry practitioners, Silicon Valley company and venture capital visits, and group projects mentored by technology leaders.
After successfully completing the program, you’ll receive a certificate granted by CKGSB and the UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. You’ll also build connections with professionals from different industries and markets while gaining new perspectives on how technology is developed, evaluated, and applied.
The program begins with an afternoon orientation at Berkeley, followed by a welcome dinner in the evening.
The New AI Competitive Landscape
The morning examines where opportunities are emerging across the AI stack, how companies can build sustainable competitive advantages, and where investment capital is flowing as the market separates real opportunities from hype.
The Investment & Innovation Lens
In the afternoon, you’ll look beyond large language models to the wider generative AI ecosystem, explore emerging technologies reshaping industries, and use strategic frameworks to evaluate AI opportunities and risks.
Site Visits
Spend the day visiting industry-leading companies and innovative organizations across Silicon Valley, with site visits scheduled for both the morning and afternoon.
The day concludes with a group dinner.
Org Design & Build-vs-Buy
The morning focuses on who should own AI deployment inside an organization, the changing roles of IT and AI leadership, and how companies decide what to build internally and what to outsource.
Pilot to Production: Deployment Reality
The afternoon examines what happens when AI moves from experimentation into production, including integration, incentives, scaling across business units, personalization, and organizational challenges.
Site Visits
Spend the morning and afternoon visiting industry-leading companies and innovative organizations in San Francisco, extending the week’s classroom learning into real operating environments.
The Agentic Future & Navigating Uncertainty
The morning explores the business and management implications of agentic AI, including human-AI collaboration, changing operating environments, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Talent, the Human Role & Leading Growth
The final afternoon focuses on how organizations should think about talent, human-AI collaboration, workflow redesign, adaptive organizations, and leadership during rapid technological change.
Emerging Tech Management Week combines classroom sessions at UC Berkeley with site visits across Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Over six days, you’ll examine how AI and other emerging technologies affect competition, investment, organizational design, deployment, and leadership.
Learn directly from academic and industry experts working across AI, robotics, blockchain, virtual reality, augmented cognition, and other emerging technologies. The focus is not only on what the technology can do, but on identifying which developments have real commercial potential and which remain further from practical application.
Visit venture capital firms and technology companies across Silicon Valley to see how they identify opportunities, develop new ideas, assess investments, and bring innovation into their businesses. These visits connect the concepts discussed in class with the decisions being made inside the technology ecosystem.
Work with other participants on group projects supported by Silicon Valley industry leaders. You'll apply innovation frameworks to practical business questions and test your thinking with professionals who have experience developing and scaling technology.
Emerging Tech Management Week is designed for professionals responsible for decisions about technology, innovation, growth, and investment. It is particularly relevant for:
The program is taught in English, and participants are expected to have sufficient English proficiency to take part fully in teaching, discussion, and group work. Mandatory attendance is also part of the program requirements.
In the unlikely event that a program is cancelled, participants will receive a full refund of any tuition paid, or may choose to transfer their enrollment to a future session or another CKGSB open-enrollment program, based on availability.
Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Under his leadership, CKGSB has evolved from a fledgling school to one of the most influential business schools in China with a global reputation since 2002.
Tsu-Jae King Liu is an American academic and engineer who serves as the Dean and the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. Liu is an electrical engineer with extensive expertise and achievements in both academia and the semiconductor industry. At Berkeley, Liu leads a research team that explores the development of novel semiconductor devices, non-volatile memory devices, and M/NEMS technology for ultra-low power circuits. Her team is a part of the Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Center and the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics in Science.
Dr. Chen Hong is Professor of Management Science at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). He is one of the founding faculty members of CKGSB and the Associate Dean for Americas. He is also the director of the Research Department on Clean Energy and Carbon Neutral Development in CKGSB.
Lecturer, Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley; Academic Fellow at Berkeley’s School of Engineering & Berkeley’s Law School and Economics Department
Ikhlaq Sidhu is the Dean of the IE School of Science and Technology in Madrid, and the founding director of UC Berkeley's Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology since 2005. He is the author of the book "Innovation Engineering" and the creator of the ground-breaking Data-X Course at Berkeley. He has been granted over 60 patents in internet communication technologies. Dr. Sidhu developed the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship, a teaching framework used at UC Berkeley as part of the Entrepreneurship & Technology area at the #1 university in the world.
Kenneth Goldberg is a professor and chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Berkeley, with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Art Practice, and the School of Information. Goldberg is credited with developing the first robot with web interface (August 1994). Goldberg was named IEEE Fellow in 2005 for contributions to networked telerobotics and geometric algorithms for automation.
Technology and digital transformation executive and former CTO of H&M Group, with previous senior technology roles at Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola.
Managing Partner at Metamorph Partners and technology entrepreneur with experience building and scaling enterprise software companies.
AI executive and educator, currently Executive in Residence at Across Legal, with previous AI leadership roles at AWS and Meta.
Founder of Beyond Our Edge and former founder and co-chairman of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge.
Managing Partner at Global Class Group and co-author of Global Class, with a focus on international expansion and scaling businesses globally.
Innovation strategist at Keeley Innovations and former co-founder and president of Doblin.
Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group and former President, CEO, and Chairman of MAYA Design.
Visiting Fellow at the James Silberrad Brown Center for Artificial Intelligence at San Diego State University and former Senior Director of Innovation at PayPal.
Partner at Clearvision Ventures and lecturer at UC Berkeley College of Engineering, with a focus on investing in and building technology companies.
Product leader in generative AI with previous roles at TikTok and Adobe Firefly.
CKGSB first received EQUIS accreditation in 2015 and was awarded five-year EQUIS re-accreditation in 2021. The school also received AACSB accreditation in 2021, adding a second major international business education accreditation.
A technical degree or engineering background is not listed as an application requirement. The program is designed for executives, managers, business owners, investors, and government professionals who need to understand emerging technologies from a business and management perspective.
You should have a strong interest in technology and innovation and enough English proficiency to participate fully in sessions and group work.
Group projects allow participants to apply ideas from the program with guidance from Silicon Valley industry leaders. The projects are designed to help you put innovation frameworks into practice rather than limiting learning to lectures and cases.
Any required preparation or pre-reading will be communicated by the program team before the program begins.
Participants who successfully complete the program receive a certificate granted by CKGSB and the UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology.
Emerging Tech Management Week is centered on technology management and the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem. It takes place at UC Berkeley and combines academic teaching with exposure to technology companies, venture capital, and industry practitioners in the Bay Area.
Our China-focused programs place more emphasis on understanding China’s business environment, companies, technology ecosystem, and market development through learning and company exposure in China. If your priority is emerging technology and Silicon Valley, Emerging Tech Management Week offers the more directly focused experience.
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