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Clear all filters- Milken Institute42 min
Who Will Win the Scramble for Global Talent? | Asia Summit 2025
Tiffany Ang, David Ha, Ichiro Miyoshi, Manjit Singh, Anupam Trehan
Industry leaders from Sun Life, Cisco, Sakana AI, and Manunouchi Innovation Partners convened to address the convergence of multi-generational workforces and AI-driven disruption in the global talent landscape. Panelists detailed strategic responses to U.S. visa fee hikes and the "war for talent," ranging from Cisco's rotational career pathways to Sakana AI's equity-based compensation for international AI researchers targeting Japan. The discussion highlighted that success in this evolving environment requires balancing deep technical skills with human-centric values, such as organizational purpose and collaborative workflows, to retain Gen Z talent and navigate shifting economic ecosystems.
- Milken Institute45 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.
- Milken Institute42 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.
- RAISE Summit30 min
RAISE Summit 2025: The AI Evolution Open Source, Fast Inference, and the Agentic Revolution
Tony Kim, Thomas Wolf, Rodrigo Liang, Arjun Kharpal
The AI sector is rapidly pivoting from foundational model development to agentic inference and production, driven by a strategic race for full-stack superiority where proprietary models currently retain a six-to-twelve-month performance lead. Enterprises are increasingly adopting open-source alternatives to ensure data privacy and cost efficiency, prompting a hardware shift focused on energy-efficient inference rather than raw training power. While consumer assistants and automated SaaS applications are expected to mature within two years, the industry faces critical bottlenecks regarding gigawatt-scale energy demands and the potential for data security breaches.
- RAISE Summit42 min
RAISE Panel 2025: The AGI Ascent Climbing Toward Superhuman Intelligence
Chase Lockmiller, Ilya, Peter, Sarah, Biang, Dario
A diverse panel of industry leaders and researchers analyzed the trajectory of artificial general intelligence, identifying energy scarcity and data quality as primary constraints while debating the future of centralized versus decentralized model architectures. Discussion highlighted a strategic shift toward massive test-time compute and human-AI collaboration, contrasting fears of cognitive atrophy with the potential for AI to automate outcome-based tasks while preserving process-driven human uniqueness. Experts concluded that regulatory frameworks must evolve alongside technological speed, with the consensus that AGI remains a moving target defined by the symbiotic relationship between human creativity and machine capabilities.
- Milken Institute36 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.
- Milken Institute44 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.
- RAISE Summit37 min
RAISE Summit 2025: AI Infrastructure. Compute is the New Oil
Roman Chermin, Youssef El Manssouri, Shaun O'Meara, Stephen Balaban, Chase Lochmiller, Dylan Patel
The AI infrastructure sector is undergoing a paradigm shift from CPU-centric multi-tenant models to dedicated, high-density GPU environments, prompting NeoCloud providers to leverage rapid deployment speeds and sovereign strategies to challenge hyperscaler dominance. Leaders such as Sorrenti and Nebius are vertically integrating from energy sourcing and data center construction to advanced software virtualization, aiming to address Europe's compute deficit and mitigate enterprise switching barriers through specialized physical infrastructure. While market projections indicate that future revenue will eventually consolidate around model builders and sovereign entities controlling Artificial General Intelligence, the immediate landscape remains defined by a struggle for agility against entrenched ecosystem lock-in.
- Milken Institute42 min
AI and the Economy: Transformation and Disruption | Global Conference 2025
Richard Lui, Roger Ferguson, Mark Minevich, Jason Alan Snyder, Lareina Yee
Experts characterize the current AI landscape as an early-stage "supply shock" comparable to the industrial revolution, where technological advancements in agentic systems and compute far outpace the mere 1% of companies achieving maturity. This rapid acceleration has triggered a geopolitical race led by the US and China while exposing critical infrastructure bottlenecks in energy and skilled labor, necessitating a shift toward "Capitalism 3.0" to address widespread job displacement and ethical governance gaps. Ultimately, the event underscores that realizing the projected $200–300 billion in near-term revenue will require synchronized global collaboration on data standards, nuclear power solutions, and new societal frameworks to manage the transition from generative experimentation to autonomous action.
- a16z37 min
Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
A strategic proposal argues that the United States must pivot from a service-based economy to industrial dominance by leveraging embodied AI and robotics to compete with China, citing the historical success of the American System as a model for bootstrapping new manufacturing ecosystems. This transformation aims to resolve deep geographic and economic divides by replacing stagnation-driven populism with rapid productivity growth that lowers costs in essential services like healthcare and housing through deregulation and private-sector innovation. Ultimately, the initiative seeks to form a broad coalition of tech leaders and policymakers to build high-tech "alien dreadnought factories" that restore national security and revive the economic middle class in rural areas.
- Milken Institute21 min
Creating a Cleaner Future | Global Conference 2025
Majid Al Suwaidi, Simon Stiell, Gillian Tett
A high-level panel led by UNFCCC's Simon Steele and World Bank President Ajay Banga analyzes the shift from a 5°C to a 3°C warming trajectory while highlighting the UAE's $30 billion Altera Fund as a critical mechanism to mobilize $250 billion in external capital for the Global South. Speakers including Majid Al-Sawadi argue that despite US policy vacuums and Western political headwinds, global decarbonization remains economically locked in through blended finance structures that leverage concessional and private capital. The consensus affirms that the 1.5°C target remains scientifically viable but necessitates immediate, accelerated action across mitigation, adaptation, and loss-and-damage pillars to address the growing supply-demand gap for clean solutions.
- RAISE Summit27 min
Eric Schmidt & Andrew Feldman: The Race to SuperIntelligence
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Gerrandt asserts that the company's Wafer Scale Engine architecture delivers inference performance nearly two orders of magnitude faster than competitors, driving a market shift from training-dominant to inference-heavy workloads. This hardware acceleration, combined with strategic open-source adoption and co-designed software, has compressed industrialization timelines from decades to five years while exposing critical bottlenecks in global energy infrastructure and data sovereignty. As the industry navigates an uncharted S-curve of explosive growth, geopolitical competition and alignment risks now define the trajectory toward autonomous, on-device AI integration.
- Y Combinator39 min
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era
The event critically examines how AI is collapsing traditional computer science career safety nets and redefining startup economics by shifting capital formation toward direct revenue generation rather than external validation. It argues that competitive advantage now relies on "forward-deployed engineering" and niche domain expertise, urging founders to build value through tangible utility rather than brand narratives or simulated success. Furthermore, the discussion outlines a preparation framework for entrepreneurs emphasizing frugality, co-founder synchronization, and the strategic use of proprietary data to secure moats in specialized markets before the potential obsolescence of human labor renders current wealth accumulation obsolete.
- Milken Institute20 min
Investment, Art, & Cultural Impact: Conversation with Babyface & Sherrese Clarke | Global Conference
Babyface, Sherrese Clarke, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Ayesha Rascoe, Aisha Rasko
Legendary producer Babyface and Harborview CEO Cherise Clark discussed a divergent investment philosophy in the music industry, contrasting Babyface's slow-growth instincts with Harborview's data-driven strategy that targets under-penetrated global markets and specific demographic segments. This approach prioritizes diversified, high-yielding assets across genres like Latinx streaming and legacy heavy metal to achieve double-digit returns while mitigating risk through quantitative analysis rather than personal bias. The panelists concluded that despite technological advancements in streaming and AI, long-term value remains anchored in the irreplaceable human emotion of creative works and the need to view genre labels as commercial rather than artistic barriers.
- Goldman Sachs33 min
Axios’ Jim VandeHei on how to build a modern media company
Jim Vande Hei co-founded Politico and later Axios to fill a critical gap in political and business journalism by leveraging digital speed, a two-tiered revenue model, and a proprietary "smart brevity" style to outperform legacy media. The venture rapidly scaled from a team of three to a diversified enterprise encompassing niche B2B intelligence, local news operations, and an AI-driven communication subsidiary led by co-founder Roy Schwartz. Despite early skepticism from industry veterans, the company established a resilient culture built on aggressive hiring standards, direct feedback mechanisms, and a strategic focus on specialized content to ensure long-term viability in a fragmented media landscape.