Bill Gates Guest Lecturer

Bill Gates came to UC Berkeley in late April as part of his college speaking series to give a speech titled “Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference”. The event was limited to an auidence of only 2000, but has been webcasted online.

The link to the webcast can be found here.

In the speech Bill Gates talks about whether or not the world’s brightest students are working on the most challenging and important problems and talks about ways students can use their lives to give back in the most meaningful ways possible and make a real impact.

Event Details:
April 19
11:15 a.m. (doors open at 10:30 a.m.)
Zellerbach Hall
Free. Open to students only.

Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Along with his wife and co-chair, Melinda, they collaborate with the foundation’s grantees and partners to expand opportunity to the world’s most disadvantaged people. They also participate in national and international events and travel extensively to champion the foundation’s primary issues―global health and ensuring that low-income minority students are prepared for college and have the means to attend. As cofounder of Microsoft, Gates led the company to become the worldwide leader in business and personal software, services, and solutions. Today he serves as the company’s chairman and advisor on key development projects. Gates also founded Corbis, which is developing a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe.

This event will be webcast live to a limited audience of 2,000 concurrent viewers. The quality of the signal degrades if more than 2,000 people are viewing it simultaneously. The present