Berkeley TECHVocacy: Emerging Tech Advocacy Summit

Join us on Monday, May 13th, for this pioneering event, co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, Haas Business School Entrepreneurship Program, and the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence with support from Berkeley Space Center. Our inaugural TECHVocacy 2024: Emerging Tech Advocacy Summit aims to reboot the advocacy landscape for emerging technologies.

Our innovative summit structure throws away the long-winded panels playbook. We will train emerging tech startup founders, and the advisors/lawyers who represent them, on how to effectively and authentically advocate for themselves to policymakers and the public.  

• 6 curated speakers who will each do a 6-min lightning talk, followed by an expert panel of facilitators who will guide a discussion on what made the speakers effective, and which traps they did not fall into when talking to policymaker and general public audiences.
• Real-time media training demos to showcase the challenges of communicating technical ideas effectively and empathetically.

Our speakers’ experience include government service in the White House, Congress, and federal and state agencies, as well as in-house experience leading public policy efforts at tech companies that have dominated headlines in the past.  Our media trainers have extensive experience as on-camera reporters and prepping senior executives at major multinational tech companies.

This full day in-person only event will be hosted at the Haas Spieker Forum on the UC Berkeley campus.  The event is free, but space is limited. Advance registration is required and will be reviewed by the organizers. 

Interested in being a sponsor? Contact us bclb@law.berkeley.edu.