Milken Institute
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- 35 min
A Conversation with FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb outlines a multifaceted regulatory strategy addressing the opioid epidemic, tobacco addiction, and the aftermath of Hurricane María on Puerto Rico's critical medical manufacturing sector. He emphasizes adapting regulatory frameworks for emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and digital health tools while prioritizing the prevention of medical misinformation and product shortages. The discussion highlights a shift toward reducing review cycles, de-risking early-stage development, and utilizing post-market surveillance to balance safety with innovation.
- 1h 2m
Women Leading a Wellness Revolution
Joyce Chang, Nancy Brinker, Alexia Brue, Donna Karan, Melanie Whelan
Moderated by Joyce Chang, a panel of industry leaders including Donna Karan, Nancy Brinker, Alexia Brew, and Melanie Whalen convened to redefine the wellness movement as a collaborative force driven by community accountability and shared impact. The discussion highlighted distinct strategies for systemic change, from SoulCycle's peer-driven transformation model and Well and Good's democratization of health journalism to Susan G. Komen's focus on closing care access gaps and Urban Zen's integration of holistic care within commercial and healthcare frameworks. Ultimately, the group agreed that the future of wellness relies on shifting resources from reactive "sick care" to preventative lifestyle solutions supported by clean data and scalable community networks.
- 34 min
A Conversation with PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi, Michael Milken, Andrew, Mike
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi transformed the beverage and snack giant through "Performance with Purpose," a strategy that integrated social and environmental sustainability into core operations while shifting the revenue portfolio toward healthier product lines. This cultural overhaul was driven by scientific leadership under Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Mahmood Khan and reinforced by tying executive compensation to specific nutritional and environmental goals. Nooyi further extended the company's impact by forging partnerships with healthcare institutions to improve access for underserved veterans and advocating for systemic policy changes to address chronic disease and nutritional equity.
- 1h 1m
Innovators Improving Access: Creating Healthier Links in the Food Chain
Kevin Boylan, Matt Barnard, Lee Anne Grant, Dariush Mozaffarian, Sam Polk, Josh Stevens, Simone Friedman, Jeffrey Davis, Ambassador Compson
Leading entrepreneurs from Everytable, Plenty, Day2, and Brandless, alongside Tufts University Dean Dr. Dari Mozaffarian, convened to debate scalable solutions for a U.S. food system that drives 70% of annual deaths through diet-related chronic disease. The panelists presented contrasting strategies ranging from Everytable's dual-tier pricing and Plenty's water-efficient vertical farming to Day2's machine learning-driven personalized nutrition, while challenging the federal government's $46-to-one research funding disparity between nutrition and pharmaceuticals. Ultimately, the discussion highlighted a critical pivot toward integrating healthy food into healthcare infrastructure and expanding global operations to address the 1,400 daily cardiovascular and diabetes deaths attributed to dietary factors.
- 54 min
A State of Emergency: Integrative Approaches to Addiction and the Opioid Epidemic
David Beier, Jerome Adams, Terry McAuliffe, Lori McFarling, Tom Moriarty, Nora Volkow, Tammy Wincup
A federal and state coalition deployed 14,000 officials alongside private sector partners like CVS and Discovery Education to address the opioid crisis through prevention economics, educational outreach, and prescription limits that reduced Virginia's over-prescriptions by one-third. Initiatives including a new data-sharing compact among 46 governors and the Surgeon General's social capital report aim to leverage granular prescription analytics and community resilience to cut costs associated with incarceration and unemployment. These coordinated efforts target the multifactorial nature of the epidemic by embedding science-based prevention in classrooms, enforcing seven-day prescription caps, and expanding safe disposal programs to recover from 64,000 overdose deaths recorded in 2016.
- 46 min
The Future of Health: A New World of Collaboration
Michael Milken, Francis Collins, Lynn Goldman, Bob Hugin
The National Institutes of Health, alongside corporate leaders like Celgene and academic institutions such as GW School of Public Health, is driving a decade-long strategic shift toward cross-sector collaboration to address mounting global health crises including opioid addiction, rising obesity-related cancers, and antimicrobial resistance. Key initiatives such as the Accelerating Medicines Partnership and the "All of Us" research program are deploying hundreds of millions in combined public and private funding to accelerate therapeutic discovery, leverage genomic data, and implement preventive structural interventions. This coordinated effort aims to reverse declining U.S. life expectancy trends and reduce the $4 trillion annual economic burden of chronic disease by aligning industry innovation cycles with public health objectives.
- 1h 1m
Boundless Potential: How Unlocking Big Data Can Change Health
Dan Diamond, Murray Aitken, Aneesh Chopra, Martin J. Murphy, Robin Thurston
Industry leaders from Quintiles IMS, Helix, and the Obama administration convened to evaluate big data's transition from hype to a tangible reality that is currently constrained by fragmented data, misaligned financial incentives, and a cultural gap in healthcare adoption. The panel highlighted Project Data Sphere, which has grown into the world's largest open-access cancer trial database to enable synthetic control arms that could halve trial timelines and improve survival rates for small cell lung cancer. Looking forward, experts discussed how lowering sequencing costs, blockchain privacy tools, and shifting toward value-based payment models aim to overcome current silos and empower consumers to drive precision public health initiatives.
- 1h 38m
A Conversation with Ray Dalio and Michael Milken
Ray Dalio outlines his journey from a 1960s caddie to the architect of Bridgewater's "idea meritocracy," a philosophy forged after a costly 1982 sovereign debt mistake forced him to prioritize objective disagreement over ego. Drawing on historical cycles like the 1974 market crash and 1937 recession, Dalio warns of current parallels in wealth disparity and pension funding gaps while critiquing Bitcoin as a speculative bubble despite China's engineering strengths. His analysis concludes that future economic resilience depends on radical transparency, automation-ready skills, and recognizing that sustainable wealth is a byproduct of value creation rather than an end goal.
- 59 min
Wisdom and Worldviews: Perspectives from Asia's Leaders
Karen Davila, Ho Kwon Ping, Serge Pun, Teresita Sy-Coson
Featuring Ho Kwon Ping, Serge Pan, and Tessie Cason, this panel dissects the existential threats of event risk and premature deindustrialization facing Asian businesses amidst U.S. protectionism and rapid regional aging. The discussion highlights sector-specific pivots, such as the hospitality industry's shift to premium tourism and Myanmar's potential to leapfrog infrastructure development, while critiquing the critical misalignment between current educational outputs and the demand for vocational skills. Ultimately, the experts warn against Asian triumphalism, urging corporations to proactively manage automation's social impact and foster resilience through continuous upskilling rather than relying on the inevitable triumph of an "Asian Century."
- 1h 1m
Feeding the Planet: Innovations in Food and Agriculture
Sharanjit Leyl, Jeremy Coller, David Lee, Beverley Postma, Jason Strong
Addressing the projected demand of 2 billion additional people by 2030, a panel of investors and industry leaders including David Lee of Impossible Foods and Jeremy Grantham outlined a dual strategy combining radical plant-based disruption with incremental efficiency gains in existing livestock systems. The discussion highlighted that while biofortification by Harvest Plus offers a 1:17 return on investment to combat malnutrition, the global food revolution depends on achieving cost parity for technologies like heme-based meats and clean meat at scale. Ultimately, the consensus identified $65 trillion in responsible investment capital and a breakdown of institutional silos between finance, health, and agriculture as the necessary catalysts to drive this market-led sustainability transition.
- 1h 2m
Asia's Rising Stars: Leading for 2037
Rahul Malhotra, Allen Law, Quek Kon Hui, Ramon Fernando D. Rufino, Isaiah Schulze
Four prominent Asian business leaders, Con Hui Quek, Alan Law, Raymond Rufino, and Isaiah Schultz, convened to discuss the critical transition from legacy family ownership to professional management structures across real estate, hospitality, and private equity sectors. The panel detailed strategic pivots toward frontier markets in Southeast Asia and developing nations, emphasizing how technology, sustainability initiatives like green building councils, and rigorous merit-based governance are driving regional expansion while avoiding saturated or high-valuation markets like China. By integrating philanthropy with core investment thesis and prioritizing middle-class infrastructure over luxury projects, these figures outlined a roadmap for long-term business longevity and societal impact in a rapidly evolving Asian economy.
- 1h 4m
Business Sustainability: Chasing the Triple Bottom Line
Robin Hu, Achal Agarwal, Sophia Cheng, Hiromichi Mizuno, Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Peter Wayman, Christopher, Mr Lee, Benway Prosser, Andrew Cross
Industry leaders from the Government Pension Investment Fund, Unilever, Cathay Financial Holdings, and Kimberly-Clark convened to discuss the integration of ESG strategies into core business models, citing specific financial wins such as Unilever's $200 million in cost savings and GPIF's $10 billion allocation to sustainable indices. While panels highlighted that sustainability drives brand equity and talent acquisition, they also noted critical challenges regarding the standardization of Social Return on Investment metrics and the tension between short-term shareholder pressure and long-term value creation. The consensus reached was that aligning investors, companies, and consumers on shared values transforms sustainability from a cost center into a primary driver of innovation, risk mitigation, and superior financial returns.
- 1h 2m
Global Cities Roundtable: Economic Dynamics from China to California
Henny Sender, Kevin Klowden, Perry Wong
A panel discussion analyzes urbanization as a critical economic strategy for China, contrasting its infrastructure-led growth model with the bureaucratic and political obstacles hindering modernization in the U.S. and India. The conversation highlights divergent regional trajectories, noting how cities like Guiyang and Shenzhen have successfully reinvented themselves through strategic investment and entrepreneurial flexibility while others face stagnation from structural rigidity or talent outflows. Ultimately, the analysis emphasizes that long-term viability depends on a city's capacity to continuously adapt its industrial base and governance to evolving technological and global market demands.
- 59 min
Japan's Renewal: The Fight to Stay Ahead
Kotaro Tamura, Daisuke Iwase, Takumi Shibata, Keiko Tashiro
A panel of experts analyzed how Japan is leveraging a 4% annualized growth rate and aggressive corporate governance reforms to stabilize its economy amidst heightened North Korean missile threats and strategic US-China tensions. The discussion highlighted how severe labor shortages are driving rapid automation adoption and innovative aging solutions, such as elderly care robotics and policy shifts, which are creating new investment opportunities in fintech and medical technology. Furthermore, the event detailed a tourism boom targeting 40 million visitors that is not only boosting per-capita consumption but also fostering a renewed sense of national confidence while serving as a diplomatic bridge with regional neighbors.
- 55 min
The FinTech Revolution: What's Next?
Dan Murphy, Chen Long, Jonathan Larsen, Simon Loong, Sopnendu Mohanty, Ning Tang
A global fintech shift is underway as Asia leads investment and adoption while traditional banks increasingly collaborate with technology firms through "front-end, back-end" partnerships to address B2B inefficiencies. Strategic priorities are pivoting from consumer retail to complex value chains and R&D-driven innovation, driven by the urgent need to resolve identity friction and serve unbanked populations in emerging markets. Despite robust growth in financial inclusion, industry experts caution that legacy security vulnerabilities and the regulatory challenges surrounding decentralized currencies like Bitcoin remain critical hurdles to long-term maturity.