Dr. Roulac SVSFDRE Program

If you are interested in getting the inside story about how tech innovations, new business models, and value proposition innovations challenge and threaten to obsolete conventional real estate practice. If you are interested in understanding the critical role of how Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Northern California drive the innovation that represents California's 21st century virtual gold rush. If you are interested in comprehending the challenges for emerging and rapidly growing companies to find the right workplace to support recruiting, productivity, and talent retention, then you must be in San Francisco to experience Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate, August 27th to September 1st. But before I tell you why, I need to provide you some essential context. The industry the industrial revolution forgot. That's what the authoritative Fortune magazine in describing real estate reported some years ago. By this statement, Fortune was proclaiming that when it came to modern management practices, real estate lagged far, far behind other industries. But as Nobel Literature laureate Bob Dylan sang in his anthem song "The Times They Are a-Changin'," old-style real estate is under assault. Airbnb threatens hotels, Amazon and the internet lead to closing retail stores, malls are becoming ghost towns. New tech innovations threaten to disrupt conventional real estate business models. But while lots of conventional real estate businesses are threatened by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter labeled "creative destruction" and Harvard Business School strategist Clayton Christensen labeled "disruptive innovation," emerging startup new ventures are changing the world of real estate as you know it. Yet, odds are, you do not know all that you might want to know about these changes. Dr. Stephen Rulak has designed an extraordinary immersive action learning experience, Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate, running from Sunday, August 27th through Friday, September 1st. Why is Dr. Rulak so well positioned to produce Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate? Here is what Business Journal wrote: A thinker among doers, in a niche by itself, A voice of authority. Revolutionized the way people think about the real estate industry. Conceptually ahead of most of the business. Norm Miller, University of San Diego professor, says, pushes for responding to the long-term fundamentals that he describes so well, shaping our world. He's probably 5 to 20 years ahead of most of us in his sensitivities to trends. The Authoritative Professional Services Review. If the real estate-related challenge requires a visionary, is gonna break new ground, or involves a high-stakes decision, Rulak Global is the firm to call. Here's just some of what the program covers: meetings with founders and entrepreneurs of innovative new ventures that are disrupting conventional real estate, tours of and briefings by executives of leading tech innovations such as Airbnb, Google, Salesforce, Twitter, plus venture capitalists, investors, and leading crowdfunding sources. Access to pioneering investment strategy implications of cutting-edge research. Opportunities to be involved in new ventures as investors, collaborators, service providers, interns, and employees. Explores implication of such advanced topics as the integration of innovation technology advances that alter and transform many basic functions, big data and predictive analytics applied to behavioral science and new business models. Last year's program was very well received. Every participant rated it 5 on a 1 to 5 scale. And Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate will be even better this year. Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate is for both students and professionals. Students can earn academic credit through independent study arranged with faculty at their college or university. Professionals can qualify for certificate to feature on their LinkedIn profile and resume. You'll learn with and from an extraordinary group of students, some of the brightest, most impressive undergrads, grads, and PhD students in the world, plus leading entrepreneurs, investors, and real estate pros. This eclectic and diverse participant mix mirrors how people of different backgrounds, skill sets, experiences, and outlooks are drawn to Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Northern California to innovate, to challenge the status quo, to introduce daring new ideas, to invent new technologies, to pioneer new business models, and to make their fortune. There are at least 15 explicit reasons why you will benefit from Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate. Some of them include: 1. Acquire knowledge that can give you the edge over the competition. 2. Discover how Silicon Valley in San Francisco drives innovation to launch new business and create wealth. 3. Track new products, services, business models, and ways of doing business that are changing real estate. 4. Access to insider knowledge that can be invaluable in so many ways. 5. Maybe do a deal that could make all the difference. And 6. Gain insights that can transform your career, business, and investing strategies. Here's what Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schäfers of the International Real Estate Business School at the University of Regensburg, one of the largest and most influential in Europe, wrote after last year's program: Experience was very valuable to me as a professor. We had access in only one week to what would probably have taken us 6 months to schedule, another 6 months to experience, and even then we might probably face issues to get access to these people and companies on our own. Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate is produced by Dr. Stephen Rulak, who was born in San Francisco and is deeply involved in the Northern California innovation ecosystem. Dr. Rulak is active in the startup tech scene, advising startups, entrepreneurs, investors, serving on boards, as well as judging at pitch events. His investment and advisory strategy reflects the implementation of his award-winning research. His portfolio of some 30 startups, which he has invested in and provides strategy advisory services to, exemplifies the themes of the Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate program. His work in the intersection of tech and real estate combines his leading strategy and financing advisory background, experience running global property securities investing strategy, innovative award-winning research and teaching at leading universities, and his talents and track record in advancing innovations that have transformed property. Dr. Rulak is a gifted professor consistently at the top of student ratings. He was the highest rated professor at Schools of Business of the University of California, Berkeley. Joining Dr. Rulak are world-renowned professors, all of whom have outstanding professional and entrepreneurial involvements and accomplishments. Dr. Wolfgang Schäfers is the Chair of Real Estate Management at IREBS. Dr. Margaret McFarland is clinical professor and director of the Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development at University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Dr. Tobias Just is the academic director for executive real estate programs and chair for real estate at IREBS. Silicon Valley San Francisco Disrupts Real Estate is a must-attend action learning experience available at a very affordable affordable price point—$2,500 for students and $4,000 for professionals—with discounted rate for registering and paying prior to July 1st. We look forward to your joining us in San Francisco so that you may experience, observe, engage, and learn how the startup tech world is disrupting real estate, and then apply that insider knowledge to your advantage. To learn more and register for this extraordinary immersive action learning experience, go to tpkscourse.com. That's tpkscourse.com.