Events

Join Berkeley Gateway Accelerator and NOVA Robotics Institute for an evening featuring a lightning talk on commercializing robotics, live pitches from early-stage founders, and a judging panel of investors and industry leaders. Stick around to network with founders, researchers, investors, and operators—and see the teams building what’s next in robotics.

The Berkeley Gateway Accelerator Speaker Series puts experienced operators and investors in a small room with the people building what’s next. Every session is invite-only and capped at 20 people, so there is real room for questions, honest conversation, and one-on-one time with the speaker. It’s built for founders, builders, and aspiring entrepreneurs working on deep tech. For our first session, Will will be talking about equity allocation and VC valuation.

Join Quantum Computing at Berkeley, IBM Quantum, and Berkeley Gateway Accelerator for a full day of building, learning, and connecting. ​We're going behind and beyond Qiskit: working within real hardware limits, mitigating errors, and figuring out whether results are actually trustworthy and useful.

Open Circuit: The Founders Exhibit is a museum-style tour of deep and hard tech, where small groups rotate through 12 live, 5-minute founder demos on why their tech matters and how it actually works. Hosted by Laminar, Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, Greentown Labs, and Bakar Labs for Energy & Materials as part of #SFTechWeek.

Join us for a candid fireside chat with neuroscientist and founder Mai Nguyen on how to work with AI without losing your edge. We'll also look at what it takes to build brain-health tech that actually works.

Green tech founders face a specific set of problems — mission vs. margin, patents vs. adoption, funding that doesn't look like anyone else's. Join BGA and Vedder Price for office hours, a panel on getting green tech from lab to market.