Milken Institute
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Middle Market Private Equity: The Smart Money's Next Move | Global Conference 2025
John L. Bowman, R. David Andrews, Dean Mihas, Molly Murphy, Scott Spielvogel, Andrew Weinberg
Managing nearly $25 trillion, the alternatives industry is pivoting from financial engineering to operational excellence and AI-driven value creation amid an elongated market cycle characterized by suppressed IPO activity and limited M&A supply. Industry leaders are refining differentiation strategies through aggressive AI deployment, specialized management screening by industrial psychologists, and creative exit tactics like recapitalizations to navigate geopolitical volatility and valuation dislocations. As the sector adapts to a future where 98% of finance jobs face AI disruption, general partners are evolving into long-term operating partners to capitalize on the impending $105 trillion wealth transfer while prioritizing earnings quality over gross multiples.
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Expanding Solutions to Improve Mental Health | Global Conference 2025
Savannah Sellers, Rebecca O. Bagley, Jonathan Haidt, Bill Ready, Marketa Wills
A panel of experts, including Jonathan Haidt, Bill Reddy, and representatives from the Kennedy Forum and American Academy of Pediatrics, convened to address a global mental health crisis driven by smartphone adoption and addictive platform algorithms. The discussion outlined specific corporate countermeasures, such as Pinterest's age-restricted privacy settings and the "Inspired Internet Pledge," while contrasting them with calls for stricter federal regulations and a mandatory minimum age of 16 for smartphone ownership. Ultimately, the event proposed a multi-faceted strategy combining phone-free schools, industry-wide well-being reporting standards, and improved medical reimbursement rates to mitigate rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide among youth.
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The AI Rollout: Revolution, Regulation, and Repercussions | Global Conference 2025
Susan Li, Lila Ibrahim, David Levy, Sean Pak, Dmitry Shevelenko
Industry leaders from Google DeepMind, Perplexity, and the legal firm Quinn Emanuel convened to debate the operationalization of AI safety through built-in organizational principles and the necessity of global coordination for cross-border governance. The discussion highlighted divergent strategies for navigating complex intellectual property disputes, where participants argued for fair use precedents while outlining Perplexity's transparency model and addressing U.S. patent law hurdles that threaten to drive capital to jurisdictions like Japan. Concurrently, the panel emphasized U.S. technological leadership secured by rapid innovation speeds, projected massive capital expenditure for infrastructure, and identified a shift from search to agent-driven synthesis in consumer internet behavior.
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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios | Global Conference
Michael Kratsios, David Trulio
The Office of Science and Technology Policy, under a directive from President Trump to Michael Kratzios, has established a national security mandate to secure unchallenged global technological dominance in artificial intelligence, quantum information science, nuclear energy, and biotechnology. This strategy employs a dual approach of promoting domestic innovation through deregulation and strategic R&D investment while protecting critical assets via strict export controls and research security measures designed to limit rival capabilities. The administration aims to operationalize this vision by aligning federal agencies to adopt American technology standards globally and by delivering a comprehensive AI Action Plan that balances scientific ethics with the urgent need for workforce reskilling.