Global Entrepreneur/Foreign Policy Voice/Author – Focus of Talk to be on the “Next Silicon Valley” and International Entrepreneurship
(Long Island, NY) Elmira Bayrasli – internationally noted entrepreneur, author, and advocate for giving women a media voice on foreign policy – will speak on replicating the success of Silicon Valley both in the U.S. and internationally, at Farmingdale State College on Thursday, March 31.
The event will be held in Gleeson Hall Room 104, from 10:50 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Sponsored by Farmingdale’s Artists & Lecturers Speaker Series, the talk is open to the public, at no charge.
Bayrasli has spent the last 20 years working on international development, global startups, and foreign policy. She is the author of From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places (Public Affairs, 2015), which examines the growth of innovation beyond Silicon Valley, focusing on talented individuals around the world who have overcome insurmountable obstacles to lead high-growth businesses.
Bayrasli is co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted, an education and media startup dedicated to increasing female foreign policy voices in the written and electronic press; a Visiting Fellow at the New America Foundation; and a Fellow at Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. She worked at the U.S. State Department from 1994 – 2000.
About her lecture, Bayraslisays: “Everyone is eager to replicate Silicon Valley’s success.Silicon Valley has succeeded as a startup hub because of certain conditions. What are those conditions? What is the environment necessary to unleash globally competitive startups?Where and how will the next Silicon Valley will emerge?” She will also discuss the complicated dynamics of entrepreneurship and economic development, and the conditions necessary to create globally-competitive companies and industries in less-likely places.
Farmingdale State College has several programs that encourage student entrepreneurship. The Small Business Development Centerprovides professional business advisement, education, and network resources. The annual DARE competition encourages students to think like entrepreneurs, and provides them with tools and resources to develop their prospective businesses.
The Artists & Lecturers Speaker Series was created to enrichcultural, intellectual, and social life of the campus and the greater community. ALSS sponsors lectures, art exhibits, and performances.
Farmingdale State College prepares students with the education, skills, and critical thinking needed to meet tomorrow’s challenges. As the largest of SUNY’s colleges of technology (with almost 8,700 students), FSC equips students with the resources and knowledge sought by today’s emerging industries. Offering bachelor and associate degrees, FSC will soon offer its first graduate program. At FSC, students learn in small, personalized classes and have abundant opportunities for applied learning—internships, clinical training, and guided research—that provide practical instruction and personal growth. Located an hour east of Manhattan, the campus offers residential halls, a lush 380-acre campus undergoing major renovation, and a highly successful NCAA Division III athletics program with modern facilities to make FSC one of the fastest-growing colleges in the region. In addition, in 2015, 2014 and 2013, FSC was listed one of the best colleges in the North and in 2013 FSC was the only SUNY school (and the only LI school) listed in the LEAST debt category in the section titled Student Debt Load at Graduation for regional colleges in the north. In 2015 UniversityPrimeTime.com again listed FSC the fifth safest college in the nation. Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/farmingdale.
