Milken Institute
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- 30 min
A Conversation with Saweetie: Harnessing Philanthropy to Build Financial Futures | Asia Summit 2025
Saweetie, Diamonté "Saweetie" Harper, Richard Lui
Multi-platinum rapper and entrepreneur Sweetie discusses her trajectory from baking cookies as a child to securing high-profile partnerships with brands like McDonald's and Calvin Klein while maintaining an authentic leadership style. She details the founding of the I See Baby Foundation, which aims to instill financial literacy in underrepresented youth by leveraging her personal financial lessons and her grandmother's advice. The conversation concludes with her strategic vision to build a decade-long infrastructure that teaches communities how to live educated, self-determined lives through a diverse, women-led team.
- 29 min
Singapore Defence Minister & Coordinating Minister for Public Services, Chan Chun Sing | Asia Summit
Chan Chun Sing, Laura Deal Lacey
Amidst global economic stagnation and rising political fragmentation mirroring the pre-World War II era, this event examines strategies to counteract protectionism through deliberate cooperation between governments and the private sector. Singapore's leaders outline four enduring competitive advantages—long-term policy consistency, progressive rule of law, strategic partnerships, and the SkillsFuture initiative—to demonstrate how investment in human capital can maintain social cohesion. The presentation concludes with a call for industry leaders to advocate for integrated global rules and prioritize workforce upskilling, ensuring that technological progress translates into shared prosperity rather than nativist backlash.
- 47 min
The State of Global Capital Markets and the Future of Finance | Asia Summit 2025
Richard Lui, David Chua, Michael Goosay, Hisham Hamdan, Noriko Honda Chen
A panel of investment experts analyzed the diverging returns between emerging and developed markets, highlighting Asia's undervalued status despite its dominance in global GDP and growth. The discussion identified a strategic shift toward a "third wave" centered on India and Japan, driven by regulatory reforms, demographic trends, and the need for active management to overcome state-owned enterprise inefficiencies. Participants concluded that navigating liquidity risks, deglobalization, and the AI boom requires skilled investors to capitalize on structural transitions while balancing commercial returns with evolving social mandates.
- 1h 1m
Latin America: A New Era of Opportunity | Global Conference 2025
Carlos Diaz-Rosillo, Cate Ambrose, Iván Duque Márquez, Ilan Goldfajn, Guillermo Lasso
Moderated by Carlos Diaz-Rosillo, former Latin American heads of state Ilan Goldfajn, Ivan Duque, and Guillermo Lasso joined global finance leader Kate Ambrose to analyze shifting U.S.-hemisphere dynamics against China's growing economic dominance. The panelists identified nearshoring, critical mineral reserves, and fintech innovation as key economic drivers while warning that unresolved security issues and artificial intelligence displacement threaten regional stability and employment. They urged the United States to actively deploy development finance tools and align regulatory frameworks to capitalize on these opportunities and counter Beijing's Belt and Road influence.
- 45 min
Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience | Global Conference 2025
Raj Kumar, Christoph Gorder, Louis A. Gritzo, Donald Howard, Vanessa Kerry, Michelle Nunn, DAN GALPIN
Industry leaders and humanitarian officials warn that escalating climate disasters and drastic foreign aid cuts necessitate a strategic pivot from reactive emergency response to proactive public-private resilience investments. By leveraging technology for rapid housing solutions and engineering for risk reduction, experts demonstrate how preventing damage yields billions in savings while addressing critical workforce shortages in reconstruction. The consensus emphasizes that future security and economic stability depend on community-led planning, direct investment in high-risk regions, and treating climate adaptation as a core driver of operational continuity rather than a peripheral cost.
- 59 min
Critical Minerals, Critical Risks: Securing Supply Chains | Global Conference 2025
Daniel Yergin, Frank Fannon, Nicholas Myers, Kei Onishi, Vandita Pant, Nick Myers
Driven by surging demand from AI infrastructure and electrification, the global market faces a critical supply gap that requires doubling copper production by the mid-2030s. While China currently dominates rare earth output and smelting capabilities, emerging U.S. ventures like Phoenix Tailings are leveraging zero-emission technologies to process industrial waste and secure supply chains. Strategic investments from major automakers and corporate venture arms are accelerating domestic refining and exploration, yet the sector remains constrained by decades-long permitting cycles and a massive infrastructure funding deficit.
- 1h 0m
Transforming Food for a Healthier Future | Global Conference 2025
Holly Freishtat, Alice Hm Chen, Sarah Mastrorocco, Ashley Tyrner-Dolce, Aaron Wiese
Industry leaders from Centene, Hy-Vee, FarmboxRx, and Instacart are redefining healthcare strategy by treating food as a primary preventive tool rather than a mere treatment, leveraging data to prove that medically tailored nutrition significantly reduces chronic disease costs. This shift is driven by evidence that 50% of U.S. adults suffer from preventable diet-related conditions, prompting payers and retailers to integrate food access into care management despite regulatory ambiguities surrounding "healthy" food definitions under changing SNAP and Medicare Advantage rules. As the sector targets a 2035 vision of seamless access, stakeholders are balancing urgent clinical outcomes with the complex logistics of scaling personalized nutrition interventions across fragmented state policies.
- 42 min
A New Era of Military Technology | Global Conference 2025
Rick Newman, Jeff Cole, Matt Markel, Mariam Sorond
This Milken Institute panel brought together defense technology startups Hidden Level, Epirus, and NextNav to demonstrate how agile, non-traditional contractors are closing critical warfare gaps left by legacy primes. Highlighting specific operational successes, the session detailed Hidden Level's passive radar for rapid drone detection, Epirus's high-power microwave systems for cost-effective kinetic disruption, and NextNav's 5G-based terrestrial positioning as a GPS alternative. Executives and strategists concluded that leveraging rapid-acquisition pathways like OTAs is essential to overcoming bureaucratic inertia while securing US technological resilience against global threats.
- 28 min
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz | Global Conference 2025
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz has launched a strategic overhaul targeting an $80 billion annual savings by combating fraud, consolidating fragmented IT systems, and addressing lifestyle-driven chronic illness through the "Make America Healthy Again" initiative. The administration is restructuring federal incentives to support governors, deploying AI for real-time health notifications, and terminating wasteful contractors to fix systemic inefficiencies that currently cost the nation billions in duplicate payments and fraud. Oz warns that without these immediate structural interventions and a shift toward individual health responsibility, the Medicare and Medicaid system faces the risk of catastrophic collapse.
- 52 min
Next Tech Frontier: How Latin America Does It Best | Global Conference 2025
Rodrigo Bettini, Julio Vasconcellos, Roberto Campos Neto, Cesar Carvalho, Maya Dadoo, Scott Sobel, Cesar Gonzalez
Despite receiving a fraction of the venture capital allocated to other emerging markets, Latin American startups are generating superior global-scale outcomes through a unique combination of resilient talent, supportive public sector innovation, and venture funds outperforming global indices. Key success stories like WellHub and Worky illustrate how founders are leveraging regulatory tailwinds, such as Brazil's PIX system and Mexico's labor law reforms, to build defensible moats and achieve rapid international expansion. This trajectory is further accelerated by the Central Bank of Brazil's push for tokenization and Open Finance, which are dismantling legacy barriers and positioning the region as a future hub for programmable financial infrastructure and cross-border capital efficiency.
- 16 min
Conversation with Venezuelan Democratic Movement Leader María Corina Machado | Global Conference
María Corina Machado, Sara Eisen
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado frames the Maduro regime as a global criminal hub that threatens hemispheric security while outlining a strategy to restore a trillion-dollar economy through immediate U.S. partnership and debt restructuring. She asserts that her coalition won a historic election by 70 percent and is prepared to assume power to dismantle drug trafficking networks, re-establish financial ties with the IMF, and serve as a protective shield for the Americas. Machado emphasizes that this transition relies on aligning with a law enforcement approach to isolate the regime and leverage Venezuelan natural resources to rebuild the nation within days of taking office.
- 1h 1m
Leading the Charge: CEOs Navigating Business Transformation | Global Conference 2025
Sara Eisen, Joaquin Duato, Robbert Rietbroek, Janet Truncale, Igor Tulchinsky, Robin Vince
Executives from BNY, J&J, Primo Brands, EY, and WorldQuant discuss navigating macroeconomic volatility while accelerating AI integration across drug discovery, financial services, and supply chains. These leaders highlight a strategic pivot toward workforce upskilling, with major organizations reporting over 90% employee adoption of AI tools to shift labor from routine tasks to high-value innovation. Simultaneously, the panel addresses how tariffs, M&A activity, and sustainability goals are reshaping long-term corporate strategies, emphasizing domestic manufacturing and cultural resilience as critical components of future growth.
- 36 min
Coming In from the Cold: Espionage in Today's Geopolitics | Global Conference 2025
Simon Radford, Darrell Blocker, Anthony Camerino, Christo Grozev, Katherine Mulhern, Jill Popelka, Nick Schifrin, Alyssa
A panel of intelligence experts and security leaders detailed Russia's structural advantage in leveraging privatized, competitive state violence, contrasting this with Western reliance on defensive measures and open-source investigations to counteract such malign operations. The discussion highlighted how adversaries exploit digital footprints, social engineering, and internal employee threats to compromise corporate executives, necessitating a dual security strategy that combines attack-centric defenses with business-centric anomaly detection. Furthermore, the speakers advocated for closing Western financial loopholes to halt illicit capital flows from Africa and Asia, arguing that recovering these stolen assets offers a sustainable alternative to foreign aid for stabilizing global economies.
- 1h 0m
Accelerating a Healthier Future Through AI | Global Conference 2025
Gina Carithers, Jesse Ehrenfeld, Tom Hale, Kate Sasser, Johnese Spisso
A panel of experts from the AMA, UCLA Health, Tempus AI, and Aura discusses how artificial intelligence is accelerating the adoption of tools like ambient scribes and genomic analysis to address critical primary care shortages and administrative burdens. These leaders detail successful implementations at scale, noting that while automated workflows and continuous patient monitoring are improving clinical accuracy and reducing provider burnout, significant hurdles remain regarding interoperability and fragmented prior authorization systems. Looking forward, the group envisions a regulatory landscape that scales with risk, enabling AI to support personalized, data-driven care models that include digital twins and citizen science while maintaining strict safety protocols for high-stakes medical decisions.
- 44 min
Author Talk: Deepak Chopra, "Digital Dharma" | Global Conference 2025
Deepak Chopra, accompanied by his daughter Mallika Chopra, presents his new work *Digital Dharma*, framing artificial intelligence as a modern oracle that bridges biological evolution with a transcendental "cognitive revolution." The event outlines seven core principles for leveraging AI as a spiritual guide and health coach, while predicting a future where personalized medicine and gene editing redefine human longevity through a "digi-ceutical" era. The session culminates in the launch of a personalized multilingual AI platform and concludes with a meditation on shifting identity from the transient physical self to timeless awareness.