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A Conversation with John Podesta and Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods | Global Conference 2024
John Podesta, Darren Woods, David Westin
Amidst a record $1.7 trillion surge in clean tech investment and the Inflation Reduction Act's push toward 2030 emissions targets, industry leaders like ExxonMobil's Darren Woods and the Biden administration's John Podesta engaged in a strategic debate over balancing rigorous carbon accounting with urgent climate action. While both sides advocate for an "all of the above" approach involving carbon capture and renewables, they identified critical bottlenecks in permitting, regulatory certainty, and supply chain dependencies on China that threaten project execution. The discussion ultimately emphasized that long-term decarbonization requires scaling diverse energy molecules and establishing fair global trade mechanisms to prevent high-emission manufacturing from undercutting domestic net zero goals.
- Milken Institute31 min
A Conversation with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva | Global Conference 2024
Kristalina Georgieva, Richard Ditizio, Zanny Minton Beddoes
Over 1,000 speakers convened at the 2024 Milken Institute Global Conference under the theme "Shaping a Shared Future" to address critical challenges ranging from supply chain disruptions and cybercrime threats to a historic displacement crisis of 110 million people. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and other key figures analyzed divergent economic trajectories, warning that fiscal deficits and trade fragmentation could trigger a "turbulent" decade unless nations pivot toward productivity-enhancing innovations like green technology and artificial intelligence. The event highlighted both severe US social crises, including gun violence and fentanyl overdoses, and significant global opportunities, such as $500 billion in deployed philanthropic capital and fintech solutions banking millions of unbanked individuals.
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Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
Zach Perret, Simon Khalaf, Angela Strange
Industry experts predict the term "fintech" will vanish within two years as major retailers and non-bank entities adopt embedded finance strategies that already contribute nearly half of their operating margins. Plaid is shifting its infrastructure toward AI-driven identity verification to prevent a potential $10 billion in fraud losses while preparing for a regulatory environment where CFPB rules mandate open data sharing. Simultaneously, the payments landscape is evolving from static card models to dynamic, algorithmic wallet aggregations that enable real-time rewards and sponsor banking expansion across over 100 institutions.
- Milken Institute38 min
Visions for the Future: Leaders Shaping Tomorrow’s Workforce | Global Conference 2024
Maneet Ahuja, Jason Buechel, Debbie Dyson, Lisa Gevelber, Ravin Jesuthasan, Igor Tulchinsky, Robin J. Suthasin, Kathleen Murphy
Industry leaders from major corporations and non-profits are deploying AI-driven strategies and skills-based hiring models to address a bifurcated labor market and the urgent need for workforce resilience. Initiatives such as OneTen and Grow with Google have already created hundreds of thousands of jobs, while companies like Whole Foods and WorldQuant demonstrate that shifting from degree-centric to capability-centric approaches yields significant productivity gains. As organizations move toward "always-on" learning ecosystems, the consensus is that integrating continuous upskilling directly into the workflow is essential for maintaining economic mobility and operational agility.
- Milken Institute31 min
A Conversation with Kerry Washington, Pilar Savone, & Sherrese Soares | Global Conference 2024
Kerry Washington, Pilar Savone, Sherrese Soares, Lisa Ling, Sherrese Clarke Soares, Charisse Clark-Sorres
Amidst a "Wild West" era of industry consolidation and post-strike risk aversion, Harborview Equity Partners and Simpson Street Media are championing a strategic shift that treats diverse storytelling as a financial necessity rather than a political statement. By targeting high-teen returns through cost-efficient, deep-audience investments in genres ranging from Afrobeats to Latinx narratives, these entities prioritize creator ownership and flexible multi-modal distribution over the redundant infrastructure of legacy conglomerates. This approach challenges traditional market dynamics by proving that specific, authentic stories can achieve mass resonance, effectively turning cultural heterogeneity into a primary value driver for mission-driven investors and global audiences.
- Milken Institute30 min
Unleashing Creativity: Tech’s Transformation of Modern Music and Media | Global Conference 2024
Usher Raymond IV, Larry Jackson, Lisa Ling
Co-founded by Larry Jackson and Usher, Gamma has rapidly established itself as a $420 million independent music distribution platform that allows artists to retain ownership of their master recordings while leveraging generative AI for real-time revenue forecasting. By partnering with major brands like Skims to bypass traditional streaming models and implementing weekly royalty payments, the company has achieved 60% to 70% year-over-year growth alongside high-profile clients such as Snoop Dogg and Russ. This structural shift supports a broader industry trend where mobile accessibility and direct artist-to-consumer relationships are dismantling the gatekeeping power of major labels.
- Milken Institute42 min
Social Epidemiology: Public Health + Social Movements | Future of Health Summit 2023
Richard Ditizio, John Feinblatt, Robin Koval, Jesse Milan Jr.
This panel explores how US life expectancy trends are being eroded by social determinants of health, drawing strategic parallels between the successful tobacco control movement and current efforts to curb gun violence and HIV-related disparities. Speakers detail how grassroots coalitions like Everytown and Moms Demand Action shifted political calculus through litigation, corporate pressure, and state-level strategies to bypass federal gridlock and pierce industry legal fortresses. The discussion concludes by outlining future interventions, including product safety innovation, the "tobacco end game" to eliminate social license, and the critical role of corporate investment and social media responsibility in addressing commercial determinants of health.
- Milken Institute39 min
Game Changers: Innovation and Evolution in Sports | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Heather Brooks Karatz, Michele Kang, Marc Lasry, Candace Parker, Ryan Spoon, Masai Ujiri
Candice Parker, Michelle Kwan, and Masai Ujiri joined Mark Lautner and Ryan Smith to analyze the shifting sports investment landscape, highlighting Parker's transition into ownership and Kwan's multi-club valuation strategy for women's leagues. The panel identified a critical capital shortage in team acquisitions while forecasting a 400% valuation surge in women's sports driven by undervaluation and a global demographic shift toward Africa. These speakers outlined a five to ten-year roadmap for capturing subsequent media deal cycles and expanding digital engagement, positioning ownership expertise as the essential differentiator for future market success.
- RAISE Summit24 min
Venture Capital Investing in AI | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Antoine Blondeau, James Wise, Alexandre Momeni, Dr. Charles Roberts, Nicolas Granatino
Paris has rapidly displaced London as Europe's primary AI hub, yet investors now prioritize product-first founders who solve specific customer ROI problems over high-risk foundational model builders. The strategy is shifting toward securing competitive moats through proprietary data, particularly in biotech where clinical trial scale and regulatory frameworks offer stronger defensibility than internet-hoovered information. Despite Europe's regulatory advantages, the ecosystem faces critical hurdles including a lack of corporate early adoption, a defense tech capital gap, and the need for startups to adopt a bi-continental mindset to overcome high inference costs and impending market saturation.
- RAISE Summit31 min
'Enterprise AI Safeguards Defining Safety and Enhancing Trust, Governance in the Age of GenAI' |
Johan Rahl, Philippe Béraud, Sacha Rubel, Sean, Ludwig Perron
Moderated by a focus on synthesizing complex regulations into practical standards, a panel of leaders from France, Singapore, Microsoft, AWS, and Google discussed the necessity of aligning private sector innovation with government oversight to ensure responsible AI development. Participants emphasized that effective governance requires risk-based frameworks and technical feasibility to resolve tensions between open-source transparency and security, ultimately aiming to prevent disinformation, malicious use, and the digital divide while fostering public trust. The consensus highlighted that operationalizing abstract principles like explainability through multistakeholder collaboration is essential to drive investment and widespread adoption of AI technologies.
- RAISE Summit24 min
'AI VCs with more than money' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Marten Mickos, Bernard Liautaud, Antoine Blondeau
HackerOne CEO Martin Mikos moderated a panel with investors Antoine Blondeau and Bernard Liotto to analyze the chaotic yet transformative nature of the current AI explosion, which Blondeau describes as a "giant accident" that requires a pivot from feature-based startups to full-scale outcome-oriented businesses. Both investors emphasized that while adoption speeds are compressing, successful AI ventures must balance immediate operational agility with five-year strategic planning to leverage high-margin automation and secure leadership teams with a rebellious obsession for quality. The discussion concluded that the sector is rapidly evolving toward hyper-efficient companies generating massive revenue with fewer than 100 employees, warning that only founders who build enduring businesses rather than transient widgets will survive the market's volatility.
- RAISE Summit40 min
'Architecting the Future The Enterprise Revolution through GenAI' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Florence Verzelen, Victoria Weller, Gilles Babinet, Emilie Sidiqian, David Martineau, Charles-Edouard Bouée
Moderated by Charles-Édouard Boué, a panel of industry leaders including Florence Verzelin and Gilles Babinet analyzed the shift of generative AI from experimental phases to enterprise-scale deployment across sectors like luxury retail, life sciences, and construction. The discussion detailed specific value realization strategies, such as Gucci's tripled e-commerce growth and Dassault Systèmes' code acceleration, while outlining strategic frameworks like Martineau's three-category matrix to guide competitive advantage. Furthermore, experts addressed critical workforce implications, emphasizing the transition from job displacement to employability loss and the necessity of human-in-the-loop oversight to manage hallucinations and sustain innovation pipelines.
- RAISE Summit38 min
'International Perspective on GenAI Views from the Frontiers' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Rodrigo Liang, Patrick Perez, Michael Kratsios, Benjamin Cistecky, Chandra Khatri, Antoine Moyroud, Antoine Moreau
Global investors and governments are aggressively pursuing "sovereign AI" strategies, exemplified by Saudi Arabia's rumored $40 billion fund and the EU's push for a trust hub, to ensure cultural alignment and data control over large language models. Industry leaders like Samba Nova and Criterium are addressing critical technical barriers in low-resource environments by developing custom tokenizers and open-source models that overcome the fragmentation of non-Latin languages. This convergence of geopolitical ambition and technical innovation is expected to reshape the market into a diverse ecosystem of local champions and open science, moving beyond English-centric dominance to serve billions of new users.
- RAISE Summit39 min
Threads of Tomorrow: GenAI and the Reinvention of Luxury Experience | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Massimo Moretti, Nicolas, Carla, Patrick
Moderated by Massimo Moretti, the "Threads of Tomorrow" panel featured experts Nicola, Carla, and Patrick in discussing how generative AI is redefining the luxury sector through application-layer innovation, sovereign data infrastructure, and new creative workflows. The discourse highlighted critical challenges including GPU capacity bottlenecks and the necessity of new quality auditors, while citing specific art market transformations where AI co-creates value and reshapes ownership dynamics. Looking ahead, the group predicted that AI-driven efficiency will fundamentally alter the work week to just two or three days, positioning Europe as a competitive frontier for creativity-driven growth despite global capital competition.
- RAISE Summit36 min
Building the Impossible: Technical Frontiers in GenAI for Enterprises | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Solène, Baptiste Pannier, Elias, Mathieu Valland, David Begassarian, Romain Guyett
Founders from Adaptive, PhotoRoom, Google Cloud, and Crisp discussed the strategic divergence between building in-house infrastructure for core competitive advantages and leveraging external APIs for validation or non-critical functions. The panel highlighted that while data moats and proprietary RLHF techniques offer defensibility in niche verticals, startups face significant hurdles regarding high GPU costs, senior talent acquisition, and navigating the uncertainty of the EU AI Act. Ultimately, the consensus emphasized that sustainable AI growth requires balancing rapid product iteration with long-term architectural control to avoid market bubbles and regulatory pitfalls.