| Week | Tu/Th | In-Class Activity | Project Phase |
| 1 | 8/27/2015 | Group Exercise: Meet & Greet: Engineers Select Classmates Guest Speaker : Aaron Simkins, Paradigm Mtuity, Inc | TEAM: Vivisection/ideation SELF: vBlog & Group Blog |
| 2 | 9/1/2015 | Plenary session: BMoE (Course Structure and Administration) Lecture: The Berkeley Method/Entrepreneurship | TEAM: Group Project ‐ Do Research & Analysis |
| 3 | 9/3/2015 | Lecture: Leveraging Open Innovation. Game: TBD Guest Speaker:
| SELF: Rejection Therapy Ex |
| 4 | 9/8/2015 | Plenary session: Team Formation (video) ‐ Groups finalized | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 5 | 9/10/2015 | Lecture: Nations, Cities, Communities & Ecosystems. Game: TBD Guest Speaker: Param Singh, CEO, IoTracks Inc. Advisor to: Chief Innovation Officer to the City of San Francisco and IoT startups Room: S489 | TEAM: Ideation Exercise |
| 6 | 9/15/2015 | Plenary session: Opportunity Recognition (Ikhlaq ‐ Live) | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 7 | 9/17/2015 | How do organizations Manage Innovation? Room: Helzel Board Room | TEAM: Ideation Exercise |
| 8 | 9/22/2015 | Plenary session: Voice of Industry (about importance of team) POTENTIAL: MARK COOP on Failure | TEAM: Group Project ‐ Analysis of Data Collected |
| 9 | 9/24/2015 | How do you measure Innovation? Guest Speaker: Munish Khetrapal, Managing Director – Smart Cities and IOT, CISCO | TEAM: Story Board Ex |
| 10 | 9/29/2015 | Plenary session: Product marketing / Product Market Fit / Value | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 11 | 10/1/2015 | Work in groups Guest Speaker: P.K. Agarwal, CEO of TiE Global, Former CTO of California
| TEAM: Customer Needs |
| 12 | 10/6/2015 | Plenary session: Lean Startup: Market and Customer Discovery | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 13 | 10/8/2015 | Work in groups Guest Speakers: Dr. Isher Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Board of Governors, India Council for Research International Economic Relations Brad Buss, CFO, SolarCity | TEAM: Solution Discovery |
| 14 | 10/13/2015 | Plenary session: GUEST LECTURE: Voice of the Practitioner (LILY or NIXIE) | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 15 | 10/15/2015 | Mid‐Point Review with Smart City consultants | TEAM: Tech. Prototype Req |
| 16 | 10/20/2015 | Plenary session: Revenue Models: Gigi Wang? | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 17 | 10/22/2015 | Pre‐Presentation to City Officials & Corporate Executives for input –MIDTERM | MIDTERM |
| 18 | 10/27/2015 | Plenary session: GO TO MARKET and Marketing and Distribution | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 19 | 10/29/2015 | Teams: Incorporating external ideas. Guest Speaker: Ashok Venkatesan, Consul General at Consulate General of India, San Francisco | TEAM: Pivot/Mockup/BM |
| 20 | 11/3/2015 | Plenary session: Financials | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 21 | 11/5/2015 | Individual group meetings with Prof. Darwin for final prep. | TEAM: Pivot/Mockup/BM |
| 22 | 11/10/2015 | Plenary session: Art of the Pitch ‐‐ story telling/Communicating via visual diagrams/Prepping for VCs | TEAM: Work on Group Proj ‐ Finishing Touches |
| 23 | 11/12/2015 | CapStone Presentation to Peers for feedback. Game: TBD | TEAM: Pivot/Mockup/BM |
| 24 | 11/17/2015 | Plenary session: Science of the Pitch | TEAM: Work on Group Proj |
| 25 | 11/19/2015 | Group Presentations to Peers for feedback | TEAM: Video ‐intro to Prod. |
| 26 | 11/24/2015 | Plenary session: GUEST LECTURE: Voice of the Practitioner | TEAM: Fine‐tuning |
| 27 | 11/26/2015 | Thanksgiving | |
| 28 | 12/1/2015 | Plenary session: Pay it Forward: Your responsibilities of being an ethical entrepreneur | TEAM: Submit Tech Prototype for evaluation |
| 29 | 12/3/2015 | Solomon Darwin’s Last Class & Takeways | SELF: Your Final Blogs |
| 30 | 12/5/2015 | Challenge Lab Presentations |
| Travel in India Jan 3‐ 14 Final Presentation to Chief Minister’s Cabinet ‐ Jan 9th | Final Deliverable |
Note: Sightseeing excursions and cultural activities while in India are also planned (TBD). Students are required to participate in all group activities from Jan 3‐14, 2016 and not make independent plans on their own to successfully complete the course.