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Showing posts with label ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Tech Titan Howard Tullman to Lead New Innovation Institute at IIT
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Former 1871 CEO Howard Tullman on Tuesday was named the first executive director of the Kaplan Institute at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He begins his new position May 1.
“The beauty of this is, I had a staff of 30 at 1871 and we supported several thousand people a day and 500 companies,” Tullman said. “The difference here is that you have a whole university, and we’re sort of an enhancement and a supplement to that rather than having to start from zero.”
In October 2018, the Kaplan Institute will open in a new two-story building designed by John Ronan Architects. It will be the first new academic building on campus since the 1970s.
And there’s another change in store for IIT.
“One of the really special aspects of the new facility is that we’re moving the Design School from downtown back to the campus,” Tullman said. “So we’ll have in one place design, architecture, engineering, technology and entrepreneurship, all of those components. So that’ll be a very rich set of resources to draw from in terms of building this new idea.”
According to IIT, the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship will be “a hub for discovery, innovation, and business creation, giving students the skills and experience needed to make their innovations viable for the market.”
IIT identified goals for Tullman as leader of the Kaplan Center:
• Ensuring all undergraduate students acquire superior innovation and entrepreneurship skills and experience.
• Building strong partnerships with external organizations and entrepreneurs.
• Helping recruit creative students interested in STEM fields
• Providing tools and skills for students to solve complex and significant challenges.
“I feel like very few people even understand how substantial IIT was for so many years. It was really one of the ranked engineering schools in the country, and it’s hard to keep up to pace if you haven’t been able to expand and grow and do everything,” Tullman said. “We see the Kaplan Institute as really formative and an anchor for the next generation of new tech employees.”
Tullman announced in 2017 he was stepping down as CEO of the tech hub 1871. Prior to 1871, he co-founded Tribeca Flashpoint College and was president of Kendall College. He’s a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s ChicagoNEXT council, the Illinois Arts Council, and the advisory council for the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Tullman will give the commencement speech at IIT on May 12, 2018.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Former 1871 CEO Howard Tullman named first director of Illinois Tech innovation institute
Former 1871 CEO Howard Tullman named first director of Illinois Tech innovation institute
Dawn RhodesContact ReporterChicago Tribune
If Chicago is to compete for the likes of Amazon’s second headquarters, it’s going to need to develop its technology talent.
It’s with that idea in mind that the Chicago entrepreneur Howard Tullman, former CEO of the 1871 tech hub, has been appointed to lead a new innovation center at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Tullman is the first executive director of the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship, university officials announced in a news release Monday. He begins the new position May 1.
Kaplan, an Illinois Tech alumnus and board member, and his wife donated $11 million to create the center, scheduled to open this fall.
In launching an institute that focuses on teaching innovation, Tullman said the goal is to train students beyond their technical education to focus also upon ingenuity. The Kaplan Institute also would better prepare students for work at Illinois Tech’s existing tech incubator, launched in 2006, which focuses more on product design, Tullman said.
“Innovation is the process of making things better,” Tullman said. “Every company desperately needs ongoing innovation.”
The move comes as city and state leaders try to position the Chicago area as an ideal location for international corporations, including trying to woo Apple and Amazon to locate their second headquarters here.
“I want (Illinois Tech) to be a go-to place when Amazon and all these people do their calculations,” Tullman said. “They couldn’t have been clearer that talent was a major concern.”
drhodes@chicagotribune.com
Monday, April 16, 2018
Howard Tullman Talks About Becoming Executive Director of the new Kaplan Institute at Illinois Tech on Tasty Trade Bootstrapping in America
Despite having been "retired" for only a few weeks, Howard is back in the tastytrade studio to discuss his latest plans to make Chicago an entrepreneurial hub. Tune in as he walks through the Kaplan Institute and what it will mean for students and the city of Chicago's tech scene. Then, get his take on the hiring process in startups and the top mistakes he sees when companies begin to expand. Howard Tullman, former CEO of renowned startup hub, “1871” and visionary, lecturer, educator, writer, art collector, brings his unique view of the business world to the tastytrade audience. Watch and listen to “What I’m Thinking” and find out what’s next in today’s world.
John Pletz: Tullman to lead Illinois Tech's Kaplan Institute
Tullman to lead
Illinois Tech's Kaplan Institute
John Pletz on Tech
April 16, 2018
Howard Tullman
You
knew Howard Tullman wasn't going to sit still for long after leaving 1871. The
veteran entrepreneur who has dabbled in tech and education for several decades,
is heading south to Bronzeville, where he's going to launch a new innovation
and entrepreneurship center at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Tullman, 72, takes over as executive director of
the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship on May
1. The 70,000-square-foot center on the school's main campus will be completed in
October.
"Howard is the perfect person to launch the
Kaplan Institute," said Alan Cramb, president of Illinois Tech.
"We've known Howard for a number of years. A number of trustees said we
should hire him."
Tullman ran 1871, the city's well-known tech incubator
at the Merchandise Mart, for the past four years,
stepping down as CEO earlier this month. He previously launched several tech
companies, including CCC Information Services, before turning around Kendall
College and then launching Tribeca Flashpoint College, a for-profit digital
media school. He's also a longtime investor in tech startups.
"I'm excited," Tullman said of the new
job. "It's a total greenfield."
The institute, which is still under construction,
is named for Ed Kaplan, founder of Zebra Technologies, one of the Chicago
area's early publicly traded technology companies, who got his undergraduate
degree at Illinois Tech. A member of the institute's board, he and his wife donated $11 million to get the project rolling.
Kaplan went on to earn an MBA from the University of Chicago, where he also is launched the school's
business-plan competition, the New Venture Challenge.
Cramb says the Kaplan Institute isn't an
incubator. The university already has one of
those. It will be a 24-hour facility that will house a maker lab and
other services, as well as the school's Institute of Design. "We'll be
happy if companies form, but it's not the primary mission," Cramb said.
"We want to set up a culture that values and encourages creativity, one
that leads to innovation among our students and faculty. We want to make sure
undergrads understand entrepreneurship and innovation and creativity."
Illinois Tech, which has 4,600 graduate students
and 2,700 undergrads, is well-known for its engineering and computer science
programs, as well as its architecture school. "It's an interesting
school," Tullman said in an interview. "It's left-brain,
right-brain."
The aim of the Kaplan Institute is to give
Illinois Tech students a place to design, build and collaborate. Universities
are scrambling to give students training and opportunities in entrepreneurship,
especially in fast-changing professional world in which traditional careers are
less available and less desirable to many students.
It's a homecoming of sorts for Tullman. Although
he got his undergraduate and law degrees from Northwestern University, Tullman
took his first college class, a programming course, at IIT, as it was known
then, in 1963 while he was still in high school. He'll also be a professor and
commencement speaker next month. Tullman's goals extend well beyond the South
Side campus.
"This school has more of these
first-generation success stories than any other place. The trick is: how can
you make them entrepreneurial, as well?" he told me. "If you can be a
pipeline for graduates in engineering and computer science with entrepreneurial
skills—and feed them into corporations here, the city will take another step
forward. It's ridiculous more people don't understand that you have this
resource that turns out amazing graduates. I plan to fix that."
No one ever accused Tullman of thinking small.
Howard A. Tullman Named First Executive Director of Kaplan Institute
Howard A. Tullman
Named First Executive Director of Kaplan Institute
Chicago – April 16, 2018 – Illinois Institute of Technology announced today that Chicago serial entrepreneur
and former 1871 CEO Howard A. Tullman will be the first executive director for
the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship.
Set to open this
fall, the Kaplan Institute will be a hub for discovery, innovation, and
business creation, giving students the skills and experience needed to make
their innovations viable for the market. The institute will be located in a new
two-story, 70,000-square-foot building designed by John Ronan Architects and will
be the first new academic building on Illinois Tech’s main campus in more than
40 years.
“Howard’s
extraordinary success in business and at 1871 makes him the perfect person to
launch the Kaplan Institute,” said Illinois Tech President Alan Cramb. “The
goal of the institute is clear: to bring the promise of entrepreneurship and
innovation to every student at Illinois Tech. Howard will spearhead that effort
and make sure our students have the resources and support needed to invent, create,
and launch new companies.”
Tullman will begin
as executive director on May 1 and will be responsible for leading the Kaplan Institute
to achieve the following goals: ensuring all undergraduate students acquire
superior innovation and entrepreneurship skills and experience; building strong
partnerships with external organizations and entrepreneurs; helping recruit
creative students interested in STEAM fields; and providing the tools and skills
students need to solve complex and significant challenges.
“For more than 120
years, Illinois Tech has been an engine of opportunity here in Chicago and
around the world,” Tullman said. “I took my first computer class at the
university in 1963—more than half a century ago. It’s an honor to join Illinois
Tech as a university professor and as the executive director of the institute as
it sets out to make innovation and entrepreneurial creativity an essential part
of every student’s education. I look forward to building an institute that will
be the first of its kind: an innovation hub that channels the technical
training and the creativity of thousands of Illinois Tech students into the
development of new products, services, and businesses that can change the
world.”
With multiple successful startups to his name, Tullman is
uniquely positioned to launch another center of innovation and entrepreneurship
in Chicago focused on supporting and empowering students about to enter or
re-enter the working world. Over the last 50 years, he has successfully founded
more than a dozen high-tech companies. Most recently, he led Chicago-based 1871,
which was just named the top university-affiliated business incubator in the
world. He is also general managing
partner of Chicago High Tech Investment Partners and G2T3V, LLC, both
Chicago-based early-stage venture capital funds.
“Howard Tullman has dedicated his career to fueling
Chicago’s tech sector and supporting start-ups across our city,” said Mayor
Rahm Emanuel. “In his new role at the Kaplan Institute, Howard will work with
the next generation of entrepreneurs, sharing the skills he has learned
throughout his life and preparing them to take Chicago’s economy to new
heights.”
Before serving at 1871, he most recently was the chairman
and CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint College, which he co-founded in 2007. Tullman is
the former president of Kendall College and the former chairman and CEO of
Experiencia, Inc. Tullman is also a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s ChicagoNEXT council,
the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
Cultural Advisory Council, the Illinois Arts Council and Cook County Board
President Toni Preckwinkle’s New Media Council.
Tullman is a graduate with honors of Northwestern University
(B.A., 1967) and of its School of Law (J.D., 1970), where he also graduated
with honors. He will serve as the commencement speaker for Illinois Tech’s 2017–18
Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12, 2018.
ABOUT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY: Illinois Institute of Technology, also known as Illinois Tech, is a
private, technology-focused research university, located in Chicago, offering
undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, architecture,
business, design, human sciences, applied technology, and law. One of 21
institutions that comprise the Association of Independent Technological
Universities (AITU), Illinois Tech offers exceptional preparation for
professions that require technological sophistication, an innovative mindset,
and an entrepreneurial spirit. Visit www.iit.edu.
Friday, July 07, 2017
1871 CEO Howard Tullman on Tasty Trade
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Published on Jul 7, 2017
Following the Illinois Institute of Technology honoring Howard Tullman for transforming the Chicago tech space, he joins tastytrade's Kristi Ross and Tony Battista to discuss networking and how it has been impacted by the internet. As an avid user of LinkedIn, Howard identifies problems with current networking software and how Artificial Intelligence can be used to help improve these business tools. With better tools, he explains, businesses can improve productivity, recruit better candidates for open positions and also identify future trends in industry.
Tune in for an in-depth discussion on this and topics such as job creation, digital skills & training and the future of the gig economy.
Howard Tullman, CEO of renowned startup hub, “1871” and visionary, lecturer, educator, writer, art collector, brings his unique view of the business world to the tastytrade audience.
You can watch a new Howard Tullman episode live and check out all previous episodes everyday at http://ow.ly/EoyGW!
Howard Tullman, CEO of renowned startup hub, “1871” and visionary, lecturer, educator, writer, art collector, brings his unique view of the business world to the tastytrade audience.
You can watch a new Howard Tullman episode live and check out all previous episodes everyday at http://ow.ly/EoyGW!
Thursday, July 06, 2017
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