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PIT Event: 2024 David E. Nelson Memorial Lecture + BCLT Spring Tech Career Fair | Registration Now Open!

Jhazzye Mosley
March 06, 2024

How can we best fulfill the Constitution's mandate to promote the “progress of science and the useful arts”? In this public lecture, Professor Colleen Chien will argue for a shift in our understanding of "progress" to emphasize the importance of a diversity of innovators to the enterprise of innovation. She’ll talk about the “innovator - inventor gap,” the much lower rate at which women and underrepresented innovators become inventors, and steps lawmakers, policymakers, and companies can take to ensure that the best ideas, from all innovators, are considered and developed. The lecture will also highlight the work of the Diversity Pilots Initiative (diversity pilots.org), a partnership among leading academics and companies to foster inclusion in innovation through empirical research methods, including randomized control trials.

Join BCLT for the 2024 David E. Nelson Memorial Lecture. This not-to-be-missed annual event will once again be held at the spectacular University Club, atop the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. CLE will be offered.

Reception to follow.

Date: Wednesday, March 20

Time: 4:30 PM  

University Club

California Memorial Stadium

2227 Piedmont Ave.

Berkeley

Directions and parking

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