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HOWARD TULLMAN JOINS LISA DENT ON WGN RADIO TO DISCUSS EILEEN BURKE AND CHICAGO CRIME

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Saturday, May 05, 2018

Kaplan Institute Executive Director Howard Tullman Speaks at City Club on The Factory of the Future

Howard Tullman

The Factory of the Future: From Ideas to Invoices

Thursday, Jun 7, 2018
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Location

Maggiano's Banquets
111 W. Grand Avenue
Chicago, IL 60654
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Speaker

Howard Tullman

Howard A. Tullman is the Executive Director of the brand-new Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship which is now being built on the campus of Illinois Tech (IIT). The 70,000 square foot state-of-the-art Kaplan Institute facility (which is the University’s first new academic building in 40 years) will provide training and programs for all undergraduate and graduate students in the innovative design, development, and delivery of new products and services as well as courses specifically focused on entrepreneurship. This “factory of the future” will help eager and entrepreneurial KI students and graduates use the tools and technologies of tomorrow to turn their ideas into invoices.

Tullman has been a serial entrepreneur, educator, venture investor and author for more than 50 years in Chicago and the founder of over a dozen successful high-tech businesses. He is the former CEO of 1871 in Chicago and, with his incredible team, grew 1871 into the Number 1 university-affiliated startup incubator in the world over the last 4 years. Prior to that role, he was the President and CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint College and Kendall College and the CEO of Experiencia. He is the General Managing Partner of two early-stage venture capital funds which invest primarily in Chicago-based technology businesses and he serves on the boards of a number of rapidly-growing Chicago companies including Snapsheet, Keeper Security, Dibit and Dumbstruck. In his spare time, he writes a weekly column on entrepreneurship for INC. Magazine.

Friday, December 22, 2017

1871 CEO Howard Tullman Speaks at City Club

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Outgoing 1871 CEO Howard Tullman adopts wait-and-see approach to net neutrality

Outgoing 1871 CEO Howard Tullman speaks at the City Club of Chicago on Dec. 19, 2017.

Kim Janssen Chicago Tribune

Outgoing 1871 CEO Howard Tullman took a victory lap with a speech at the City Club of Chicago on Tuesday — but if Chicago’s techies were expecting their fast-talking champion to fire a parting shot at the FCC’s decision to rescind net neutrality rules, they were mistaken.

Tullman, who announced his decision in August to step down after four years at the helm of the startup tech hub, was asked by an audience member how 1871 could mitigate against any harm caused by the decision to scrap Obama-era regulations that treat broadband internet service like a utility and prevent broadband providers from discriminating between websites.

But he seemed to surprise his interrogator by sitting on the fence on the partisan issue.

“I was just at a meeting in New York with about 300 technologists and CEOs, and about half the room was on either side of this conversation, so we don’t know,” Tullman said.

“I don’t think it’s really a black-and-white situation. … Honestly, net neutrality is fairly new — we got along without those kinds of regulations for the first 20 years of the internet, so I think it’s an open question. We’ll just have to see how things develop.”

Asked what he plans for his next act, the 72-year-old entrepreneur was coy, joking that he has been telling pals he will be “getting into inflatable pool furniture” to shut them up.

Despite his efforts to winnow his enormous art collection (200 pieces were recently auctioned off, and he plans to sell more), he admitted to Chicago Inc. that he hasn’t been able to stop buying paintings.

And his wife, big-time PAWS supporter Judy Tullman, said she hasn’t given up on her plan to get Mayor Rahm Emanuel to adopt a dog.

While the Emanuels “are not animal people, I never give up,” Judy Tullman said, adding that she plans to keep working on Chicago’s first lady, Amy Rule.