CROOKSTON,
Minn. – Global business professional and entrepreneur Danny Briere will be a
featured guest speaker on Tuesday, September 19, at noon in the Peterson
Classroom, Heritage Hall, at the University of Minnesota Crookston. The event
is free and open to the public. Parking in Lot G near the Kiehle Building is
encouraged and no parking permits are required.
Briere,
a serial entrepreneur, started his own firms and has been involved in advising
over 200 organizations in the telecommunications and Internet space. His focus
is on leading edge technologies and trends, with a special interest in
alternative energy, social networking, social enterprise, education, and kids.
He
has also been involved in helping drive entrepreneurship across universities,
towns, regions, and states. Briere is CEO of the STEMIE Coalition, a national
umbrella organization over dozens of invention and entrepreneurship education
programs, and chairman of the National Invention Convention and
Entrepreneurship Expo Organizing Committee. These celebrate youth inventor and
entrepreneurs across the U.S. and push invention and entrepreneurship programs
into more K-12 schools in America.
Briere
has lived and worked globally in more than three dozen countries, including
long range stints in Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. he
worked with Steve Case (Founder, AOL) and Scott Case (Founder, Priceline) under
Obama’s Startup America Partnership to lead job growth and startup initiatives
in Connecticut as the head of Startup Connecticut, and worked with the State of
Connecticut and University of Connecticut on entrepreneurship and innovation
programming, working with a number of non-profits, and helping advise and
launch new companies in the mobile, social networking, and education spaces.
