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Clear all filters- Y Combinator59 min
Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana
Former cybersecurity engineer turned television writer Sam Esmail, leveraging his real-world hacking experience to ensure technical authenticity in the series *Mr. Robot*, transitioned from corporate security to Hollywood by funding an unpaid entry with a three-year savings runway. His personal history of exploiting a school AS/400 system directly inspired the character Elliot Alderson, while his rigorous production methodology involves practical, pre-scripted animations and historical software verification to avoid syntax errors. Beyond the screen, this collaboration extended to complex Alternate Reality Games that integrated real-world puzzles and community engagement, blending the creator's expertise in network security with narrative demands to demystify technology for a global audience.
- Milken Institute1h 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.
- Milken Institute1h 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.
- Milken Institute1h 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.
- Milken Institute59 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.
- Milken Institute55 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.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
China's Trade-Off: The Outlook on Investment
Kevin Lu, Wei Sun Christianson, Kenneth Gaw, Richard Hu, Weijian Shan, Jing Ulrich
Leading financial executives from Partners Group, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan convened to analyze the shifting dynamics of Chinese foreign direct investment, noting a 2017 policy reversal that incentivizes capital inflows despite persistent barriers in financial ownership and exit mechanisms. Panelists discussed how structural challenges, including succession issues in the private sector and tightening geopolitical scrutiny on outbound deals, are reshaping investment strategies toward sectors like technology and consumer finance. Strategic forecasts predict China's transformation into the world's largest consumer market by 2040, driven by a growing middle class and a shift in elite talent from engineering to finance.
- Y Combinator49 min
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt
Ryan Hoover secured Y Combinator investment by validating Product Hunt through manual outreach and email lists before engineering resources were committed, eventually launching the platform as a global hub for product discovery. The company is now shifting its strategy to monetize by introducing the "Ship" paid tool for creators while expanding its angel fund "Weekend Fun" to invest in remote work and voice technology. Operating a distributed team of 17 across nine time zones, Product Hunt focuses on asynchronous collaboration and strategic pivots like dropping podcast discovery to align with its core product recommendation model.
- Milken Institute57 min
Advancing the Frontier: Innovations in Health
Jeremy Lim, Goh Boon Cher, Russell Gruen, Kabir Narang, Prashant Tandon
A panel of healthcare leaders, including 1MG founder Prashant Tandon and surgical expert Russell Gruen, addressed Asia's critical access crisis caused by infrastructure deficits and prohibitive drug costs. The group proposed that technological innovation, specifically AI-driven triage and prefabricated medical units, offers a more scalable solution than traditional infrastructure expansion to serve populations lacking insurance. Furthermore, the discussion highlighted how regulatory sandboxes and consumer transparency apps are dismantling pricing barriers while shifting the healthcare model toward preventative care and digital leapfrogging.
- Milken Institute1h 5m
Cybersecurity: Anticipating the Next Trojan Horse
Yun-Hee Kim, David Koh, Matthew P. Moynahan, Rafal Rohozinski, Silvino Schlickmann Jr.
A panel of cybersecurity experts and officials warned that critical infrastructure faces escalating threats from insider attacks, IoT vulnerabilities, and AI-driven criminal syndicates exacerbated by jurisdictional gaps and a global demographic surge in internet users. Speakers argued that traditional perimeter security and technical patching have failed to address systemic issues, citing breaches like Equifax and highlighting the urgent need for a regulatory shift from compliance to active cyber risk management at the C-suite level. In response, Singapore is advancing an omnibus bill to redefine critical information infrastructure and mandate threat intelligence sharing, aiming to counteract market failures and the commoditization of cybercrime while addressing the fundamental architectural flaws of the modern internet.
- Milken Institute52 min
Open for Business: Myanmar's Great Comeback
Staci Warden, Azeem Azimuddin, Serge Pun, Sean Turnell
A panel of economists and investors assessed Myanmar's rapid economic stabilization, noting a 6.9% GDP growth rate and the new NLD government's success in halving the budget deficit while lowering inflation. Focusing on a 27-year median age workforce and 90% mobile penetration, the discussion highlighted labor-intensive manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism as primary drivers for the required $10–20 billion in infrastructure investment. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's personal oversight of the economy provided a signal of accountability, though panelists cautioned that bureaucratic execution capacity remains a critical challenge alongside necessary regulatory reforms.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
The Blockchain: It's Not All About the Money
Staci Warden, Leanne Kemp, Greg Li, Sopnendu Mohanty, David Treat, Zia Zaman
At a Milken Institute panel moderated by industry leaders from JPMorgan and Accenture, representatives from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and major corporations outlined how blockchain replaces fragmented databases with shared, immutable ledgers to drive regulatory experimentation and supply chain transparency. The discussion detailed concrete implementations including Singapore's domestic digital currency pilot, Georgia's national land titling migration, and Everledger's diamond provenance tracking, while addressing critical challenges such as data quality, quantum threats, and the necessity of re-architecting legacy systems. Looking forward, experts predict that within a decade, this technology will automate financial reconciliation and digitize identity and health records, fundamentally shifting the economic efficiency of global asset management and clearing settlements.
- Milken Institute56 min
The Asian Phenotype: An Unmet Medical Need?
Benjamin Seet, John Connolly, Laurent Metz, Arthur Mark Richards, Patrick Tan
Experts highlight that distinct genetic, environmental, and anatomical factors create a unique Asian phenotype, driving divergent disease patterns such as higher cardiovascular risks at lower BMI thresholds and specific cancer profiles like biliary tract malignancies. These biological differences have spurred regulatory shifts in Asia toward homegrown standards for advanced therapies while prompting medical device and pharmaceutical companies to develop localized solutions, including smaller implants and tailored dosing regimens. The ongoing transition to personalized medicine relies on integrating granular real-world data and cultural context to address these population-specific needs effectively.
- Milken Institute1h 6m
Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative: Financing Asia's Needs
William Lee, Paul Gruenwald, Gerald Keefe, Lincoln Leong, Joachim von Amsberg, Faisal Syed
Addressing the trillions of dollars in infrastructure financing gaps across Asia, this panel discusses the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's strategy to mobilize private capital through innovative project selection and cross-border connectivity. By leveraging value-capture models like MTR's rail-property approach and structured financial products such as maturity transformation, multilateral institutions aim to de-risk long-term investments for global institutional investors. The discussion concludes that shifting from bank-dominated lending to a market-based system requires robust public-private partnerships, regulatory certainty, and the allocation of specific risks to ensure sustainable economic development.
- Milken Institute58 min
A Window of Opportunity: Unlocking India's Potential
Reuben Abraham, Sharad Bajpai, V. Bunty Bohra, Vikram Limaye, Ashu Suyash, Bunty, James Crabtree
A high-level economic panel analyzed India's recent 5.7% GDP growth and 3.3% inflation while highlighting structural drivers like the JAM Trinity digitization, shifting household savings, and improved banking balance sheets. Despite these optimistic fundamentals, experts warned that stagnant job creation, state-level fiscal deficits, and policy execution gaps pose significant risks to achieving the 8-9% growth targets necessary for a young demographic. The discussion concluded that sustained global engagement depends on resolving legal bottlenecks and aligning federal reforms with the central government's seven-year investment horizon.