Events: Haas
NEW COURSE: Food Innovation Studio Info Session + Ideation Session
Date / Time: Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Location: N540 + N544
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Come learn about an exciting course offering for Fall 2018! This will be a general info session followed by an ideation session as well!
Food Innovation Studio is a 2-unit course at Haas in the Fall. It is dedicated to identifying food industry opportunities, developing innovative solutions, and aligning execution tactics to build mission-driven, disruptive food ventures.
NEW: Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum - How Tech Startups Are Changing The Way We Engage With Food [PAGING ALL FOOD ENTREPRENEURS + ENTHUSIASTS]
Date / Time: Thursday, April 5, 2018, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Andersen Auditorium
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The Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program, with Food@Haas, is celebrating food entrepreneurship! Join us for a panel discussion on how tech startups are changing the way we engage with food with a pre-event expo and tasting in the Bank of America Forum.
Also: we are looking for Student Start-ups in and around food to do 1-minute pitches to the audience. This is a great opportunity to get your start-up some visibility and practice pitching! If you fit this bill - reach out directly to Rhonda Shrader (rhonda_shrader@berkeley.edu)!
Edible Education 101 | Systems Innovation in Food with Kristin Richmond
Date / Time: Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Andersen Auditorium
Live Stream Link
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Speaker bios: Kristin Richmond is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Revolution Foods.
NEW: Strengthening Our Local Farmers Markets
Date / Time: Monday, April 9, 2018, 4:30 - 7:00 PM
Location: Chou Hall
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Light dinner will be served. Strong local food systems require a community's support and sound business sense. Join us at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley to brainstorm and test ideas to increase local food sales at Berkeley farmers markets and our local food system. At the event, we will hear about the challenges currently facing farmers markets and use cross disciplinary teams and dynamic brainstorming techniques to generate actionable solutions. Community members, farmers, farmers market participants, students and other stakeholders are welcome!
Crowdsourced Cooking Classes are back!
Chandni Cataldo’s Lebanese Mezza: Saturday, April 14, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Register here
Note: No refunds will be issued for this event. If you are unable to attend, please find someone to take your spot as a courtesy to the host. If you “Transfer” your ticket – please let your host know.
Career / Academics / Treks
NEW: Zipongo - MBA Food as Medicine - Deadline April 12
This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside the Executive Director to help launch a new nonprofit organization that will commission research and influence policy to make the argument definitive on the role of food as therapy - promoting the use of food over drugs for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Key activities will include, honing the operating functions of the organization, creating a marketing presence (name, brand, website), forming the board, developing key partnerships and raising funding. Full job description and application details can be found in CareerNet.
Career Net Link
NEW: Plenty: Research Partnerships Manager
Plenty is looking for someone with a background in science, ideally plant science or a related field such as biotech, as well as an MBA. The Research Partnerships Manager will develop and manage Plenty’s research and development relationships with key industry, public sector, university and non-profit organizations. Plenty is on a mission to reshape agriculture across the globe, and partnerships with the leading research institutions, think-tanks, and non-profits are critical to achieving this mission.
Application Link
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America: Farmer Justice Fellow in Berkeley & Sacramento
Application Link
Dig Inn MBA Next Crop Program: Dig Inn HQ in New York
Application Link
Contacts
Want to get something on the Food@Haas newsletter (events, job postings, deadlines etc.)? Email our VP Communications (Bree Jenkins) with the event name, date/time, location, registration link, and a short 2-line blurb by Friday nights. It’ll be featured in the following week’s newsletter.
2018 Board
Co-Presidents: Jose Alonso / Shom Gupta
VP Careers: Victoria Williams-Ononye / Greg Schorr
VP Academics: Maryli Cheng / Maggie Fried
VP Finance: Nick Greczyna
VP Communications: Bree Jenkins
VP Social: Julianne Feder
VP Campus Partnerships: Nellie Boonman / Robert Bui
VP Bay Area Partnerships: Joanna Lyons
VP Sustainability: Elaine Hsu
VP Food Entrepreneurship: Aun Hussain
VP CPG: Jacob Koshland
VP Food Tech: Steele Lorenz
VP Investing: Richard Levernier
VP Food Service: Kevin Phan
VP Health / Nutrition: Kate Hancock
VP Desserts: Shweta Joshi
VP Tacos: Naomi Siegel
VP Beyond Dumplings: Sipian Wang
Club Advisor: Will Rosenzweig
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