The ISU Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship recently announced that Rebecca Taylor, Senior Adviser, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Office of Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Department of State, will speak as part of the 2011 Reiman Entrepreneur Speaker Series.

Taylor has been an adviser for several software and hardware technology start-up companies in the last 20 years. She started her own company in 1991 and previously worked as a software design engineer at Fisher Controls, which is now Emerson.

Taylor founded the Austin Technology Council and stays active in the technology community in Austin, Texas where she lives.

She earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science fro Iowa State and went on to receive a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Texas.

Her lecture, titled “The Tao of Entrepreneurship,” will discuss leadership, public service and innovation and will be at 11:30 a.m. March 29 in the Sun Room at the Memorial Union.

Seating is limited and registration for the event is available at isupjcenter.org.