NOTE: Registration is not required! But it helps us to ensure a comfortable room.

Memorial Union Pima Auditorium MU230 Thursday Nov. 19th 8pm - 9pm

***ALSO: Meet and Greet with Entrepreneurs@ASU and Troy at Bison Witches in celebration of "Global Entrepreneurship Week"from 6pm to 7:30pm!****

Head HERE to RSVP! (not required of course)

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Troy will be presenting "The Big Idea", a keynote usually reserved for large audiences that he has agreed to share with the ASU community. The purpose of this presentation will be to present a wide range of distinctly unique successful ventures to get YOU to think outside the box as to show how anyone has the potential to create the next big idea.

Also in this presentation will be Troy's "Top Ten" lessons he learned from interacting with some of the most successful entrepreneurs on planet earth. Don't miss this amazing event and come join the club members of Entrepreneurs@ASU and Troy beforehand at Bison Witches from 6:00PM to 7:30PM.

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Speaker Bio

Troy D. Byrd has a wealth of experience, expertise, and contacts in the entrepreneurial field and is known around the country for his leadership in creating innovative programs for entrepreneurs which have featured distinguished leaders such asTed Turner, Steve Wozniak – co-founder of Apple, Kenneth Cole, Jack Welch, and CEOs of J.Crew, Kinkos, and Jet Blue Airways to name a few.  Troy co-founded the Bryant University Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) and in less than a year took GEP from inception to national rankings by Entrepreneur magazine. In 2003, Troy was recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy and Congress as 1 of 50 Research Advocates of the Year for his 139-page study on college entrepreneurship. In 2004, Troy partnered with Brown University to create to the Entrepreneurial Extravaganza voted the Best Collegiate Entrepreneurial Event in 2004 by the Kauffman Foundation. Troy is also the creator of the worlds’ largest student venture pitch competition and was the pitch coach to the 2004, 2005, and 2006 CEO Grand Champions.

In addition to being a TEDster, he is also a former Pat Tillman Foundation Mentor and Sam Walton Fellow. Troy serves on numerous boards and provides consulting to new venture start-ups, emerging-growth companies, non-profits, and to entrepreneurial initiatives at more than a dozen universities nationwide including: Princeton, Harvard Business School, Brown University, Columbia University, University of Florida, among others.He most recently helped create the Singularity University hosted at NASA and funded in part by Google co-founder Larry Page.

Troy is an expert at personally coaching people to master "The Killer Pitch." Over the past several years he has witnessed several thousand pitches in all sorts of formats. He has been featured as a guest presenter at the Harvard Business School, Princeton, Brown, Stanford  the Web 2.0 Expo among many other professional gatherings.