Berkeley Innovation Forum

Fall 2025 Agenda

Past BIF Programs

Registration Information

About BIF

The Berkeley Innovation Forum is a membership organization hosted by Dr. Henry Chesbrough, Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation. Professor Chesbrough has become a world renowned authority on the topic of open innovation, a term that he is credited with inventing. BIF is an exclusive membership group consisting of carefully selected corporate Directors from non-competing firms who are deeply involved in managing innovation within their company. The forum provides its members an ongoing window on innovation challenges confronting companies around the world, and gathers members together to share their solutions and experiences in dealing with these challenges. We also incorporate recent innovation research, from UC Berkeley and other universities. We keep the size of the membership limited in order to promote greater exchange of viewpoints.

Information for Potential Members

The Berkeley Innovation Forum exists to support research on innovation management at the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and serves as a community of innovation-minded companies who are willing to share problems and explore solutions to the challenges of managing innovation.

Benefits of participating in the Berkeley Innovation Forum Membership Program are as follows:

An invitation to BIF Forums [two annual 2-day sessions]
An invitation to quarterly Chief Innovation Officers Roundtables
An invitation to join a LinkedIn BIF Group
Access to a BIF Members Resource Portal. Information from past events, presentations, BIF white papers, research and other open Innovation articles.
Access to Open Innovation articles by Professor Henry Chesbrough and other relevant innovation research coming out of Berkeley.

Annual membership is $15,000.

Solve your Corporate Problems at BIF

The Berkeley Innovation Forum offers an opportunity to have your current innovation challenges framed and addressed by leading experts. UC Berkeley faculty will work closely with you to identify and refine the challenge, then present it to member executives of top organizations.

The solutions proposed at BIF will be carefully evaluated by our faculty. Following the event, a white paper—exclusive to your company—will be created and hosted on our website.

As one of the world’s premier research institutions, UC Berkeley is committed to fostering mutual value creation for both parties.

Unlock Innovative Solutions for Your Corporate Problem at BIF

Collaborate with Experts: Work with UC Berkeley’s leading faculty to frame and refine a key challenge your company is facing.
Executive Brainstorming: Senior executives from top companies will brainstorm and propose actionable solutions.
Mutual Value Creation: BIF is committed to creating long-term value for both your organization and the academic community.
Solutions to your Corporate Problems: Solutions are curated and reviewed by Garwood Center for insights.
White Paper: Receive actionable strategies with a comprehensive white paper hosted on our website