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2016 CA Summit - If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now: Addressing California's Housing Shortfall
Jonathan Woetzel, Richard Bloom, Carol Galante, Scott Laurie, Aaron Wade
A comprehensive analysis details California's severe housing crisis, characterized by a 50-billion-dollar financial gap and 49th-place national ranking driven by tripled land costs, skyrocketing construction expenses, and restrictive local policies. Regulatory hurdles like unenforced regional housing allocations and NIMBY opposition have stunted supply growth while shifting market leverage toward labor trades and tightening financing requirements. Addressing this structural deficit demands explicit state intervention to standardize impact fees, modernize parking mandates, and accelerate modular construction adoption to align housing output with demographic shifts and economic realities.
- Milken Institute53 min
2016 CA Summit - California Cities: Engines of Growth
Donna Bojarsky, Gray Davis, Stephen Engblom, Miguel Santana, Darrell Steinberg, Ashley Swearengin
Former California Governor Gray Davis joined current and former mayors alongside corporate leaders to analyze the devolution of political power and fiscal responsibility to urban centers amidst a rapidly growing global urban population. The panelists outlined how cities are overcoming federal withdrawal and infrastructure deficits by adopting data-driven governance, performance-based public-private partnerships, and strategic reinvestment in downtown revitalization and transit-oriented development. Ultimately, the discussion emphasized a shift toward resilient, non-partisan leadership that prioritizes specific "top three" agendas and cross-sector collaboration to drive economic growth in both coastal and inland regions.
- Milken Institute57 min
2016 CA Summit - Gains and Pains: The Cost of Providing Californians a Living Wage
Ben Bergman, Ross DeVol, Rusty Hicks, Ken Jacobs, Roxana Tynan
California's mandate to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2023 will directly benefit 6.4 million workers, primarily adults and college-educated breadwinners earning below the bottom 30% of the wage distribution. While experts like Russ Duvall warn of regional cost disparities and potential business relocation, economists such as Ken Jacobs argue that increased consumer spending and reduced turnover will balance higher prices to maintain overall employment levels. The event further underscores that wage hikes alone are insufficient for housing affordability, advocating for integrated solutions like expanded Career Technical Education and updated housing policies to address long-term economic inequality.
- Milken Institute55 min
2016 CA Summit - Enhancing California's Role as a Global Crossroads for Trade and Investment
Michael Klowden, Kevin Klowden, Caroline Brown, Maria Contreras-Sweet, Fred Hochberg, James Villeneuve
A comprehensive overview of California's trade landscape highlights the state's status as a global economic powerhouse where over 40% of U.S. container goods pass, while federal programs like the SBA's STEP and Ex-Im Bank guarantees drive small business export growth with a $17 ROI per dollar invested. The event further details how targeted strategies leveraging immigrant communities and veterans, alongside technical assistance from institutions like Bank of America Merrill Lynch, mitigate financial and logistical risks for emerging exporters. By shifting focus toward clean technology and utilizing bilateral agreements to navigate evolving global dynamics, these initiatives aim to secure California's competitive edge against rivals like China and support the transition from domestic to global market strategies.
- Lex Fridman1h 25m
Foundations of Unsupervised Deep Learning (Ruslan Salakhutdinov, CMU)
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Hugo Larochelle, Andrej Karpathy, Richard Socher, Sherry Moore, Andrew Ng, John Schulman, Pascal Lamblin, Adam Coates, Alex Wiltschko, Quoc Le, Yoshua Bengio, Shubho Sengupta
This presentation details the evolution of unsupervised learning from sparse coding and autoencoders to complex probabilistic frameworks like Restricted Boltzmann Machines, Variational Autoencoders, and Generative Adversarial Networks. It highlights how these non-probabilistic and probabilistic models overcome the scarcity of labeled data by learning hierarchical representations, with GANs notably producing sharper images than VAEs by avoiding explicit density estimation. The discussion further illustrates practical applications ranging from multimodal image-text modeling and semantic vector arithmetic to one-shot learning capabilities.
- Milken Institute58 min
Tapping Into Asia's Longevity Market
Paul Irving, Angelique Chan, Michael Hodin, Anna Hughes, Peter Nicholson
Experts project that global populations over 60 will reach 2.1 billion by mid-century, driven by declining fertility and increased longevity that will fundamentally reshape Asian and Western economies. This demographic surge threatens to double sovereign debt classified as speculative grade unless governments and corporations pivot from 20th-century institutions to innovations in healthcare, caregiving, and age-friendly workplace policies. Strategic shifts by entities like Nestlé and Taikang Life demonstrate how repositioning aging as a market for wellness can transform societal challenges into engines for sustainable economic growth.
- Milken Institute1h 11m
Charting the Way Amid Asia's Game of Thrones
Parag Khanna, Curtis S. Chin, Nina Hachigian, Yasuhide Nakayama, Maria Ressa
Speakers characterized Asia's geopolitical landscape as a high-stakes struggle where China's economic dominance and North Korea's nuclear proliferation challenge US strategic rebalancing efforts in the Pacific. Panelists highlighted how Japan, the US, and ASEAN are coordinating military deterrence and economic integration, such as the TPP, while countering disinformation campaigns that manipulate public opinion in volatile democracies like the Philippines. Ultimately, the discussion underscored a complex equilibrium where multilateral institutions mediate great power competition even as rising inequality fuels support for strongman leadership and shifts regional alliances.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
India's Road to Prosperity: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Reuben Abraham, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajesh Jain, Manish Sabharwal
Discussions on India's economic trajectory highlight a divergence between robust headline growth figures and underlying structural weaknesses in industrial production, banking, and labor formalization. While judicial activism has temporarily compensated for stalled federal reforms and identity politics continues to hinder development narratives, significant challenges in public sector banks and regulatory complexity continue to deter private investment. Experts caution that without addressing state-level disparities and accelerating the transition to a formalized digital economy, the potential demographic dividend faces the risk of stagnation rather than sustained prosperity.
- Milken Institute1h 19m
Fireside Chat with Sir An0drew Witty | Part 2 Fast Forward: A Glimpse Into Asia-Pacific's Future
Sir An0drew Witty, Haslinda Amin, Michael Milken, Raphael Arndt, Jeffrey Jaensubhakij, Hiromichi Mizuno, Mark Tucker, Doug Appel, Michael Sterling, Curtis Chin
Former GSK CEO Sir Andrew Witty outlined the company's strategic expansion into Singapore as a new global hub while detailing major advancements in global health access, including HIV treatment milestones and profit reinvestment in sub-Saharan Africa. Concurrently, a panel of prominent investors analyzed Asia-Pacific economic shifts, highlighting China's transition toward domestic consumption and the structural growth potential of Southeast Asian demographics despite risks of global slowdowns. Witty emphasized the urgent need for future leaders to fundamentally reshape business models, a sentiment echoed by the broader consensus that long-term value lies in navigating regulatory complexities and embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
The Business of Sports and Entertainment
Dong Wang, Sophie Goldschmidt, Robert Rankin, David Shoemaker, Chatri Sityodtong, Jim Small
Asian sports markets are pivoting from traditional B2B licensing to direct B2C engagement, driven by global giants like the NBA and CPH who leverage localized infrastructure and digital tools to tap into a region holding 56% of the world's population. Organizations are capitalizing on this shift through specific innovations such as the NBA's Dongguan academy, One Championship's cultural storytelling, and CPH's strategy of linking stadium profitability to major events like UFC fights and the Olympics. Despite challenges regarding shifting consumer attention toward e-sports and varying league ownership models, the sector forecasts significant expansion fueled by a rising middle class and upcoming host events from 2019 to 2022.
- Milken Institute46 min
The New Japan: Beyond Abenomics
Kotaro Tamura, Motoaki Saito, Masahiko Shibayama, Keiko Tashiro, Adrian Zecha
Recent high-level engagements and government reforms in Japan are targeting critical economic shifts, including the acceptance of foreign labor in caregiving sectors and the mobilization of corporate cash reserves exceeding 125% of GDP. These structural changes aim to reverse demographic decline by leveraging inbound tourism growth and fostering a new venture ecosystem driven by engineers leaving traditional giants. Despite progress in governance compliance, panelists emphasize that deepening cultural openness and addressing language barriers remain essential to unlocking the nation's substantial investment potential in technology and manufacturing.
- Milken Institute56 min
The Digital Age of Finance: Technology's Impact on Asset Management
Ted Lee, Michael DeAddio, Nobel Gulati, Ian Martin, Sanjay Tikku, Jethro Goodchild, Rajesh Jane, Ritesh Maheshwari
Leading financial institutions including Two Sigma, Work1, Columbia Endowment, and State Street are fundamentally reshaping their operations by deploying advanced technology to process exploding data volumes and automate traditional administrative functions. These organizations are diversifying their workforce by recruiting scientists and engineers without prior finance experience while shifting human capital toward high-level problem-solving and analytical roles. The collective strategy aims to move from legacy infrastructure to real-time, data-driven decision-making that separates true market alpha from noise to navigate increasingly complex and fragmented global markets.
- Milken Institute53 min
Real Estate: The Search for Returns Amid Uncertainty
Henny Sender, Johnny Adji, Tokihiko Shimizu, Andy Tan-Chye Guan, Paul Vosper
A panel of investment experts distinguished active real estate value creation from passive asset holding, emphasizing a strategic pivot toward bottom-up analysis of specific hubs like Singapore, New York, and Hong Kong amid restrictive global lending regulations. Speakers detailed how structural shifts in China's consumer economy, Japan's corporate governance reforms, and technology-driven changes in office and residential utilization are reshaping market dynamics. Ultimately, the discussion highlighted that long-term success depends on managing leverage risks, navigating regulatory hurdles, and adapting asset portfolios to demographic transitions and evolving environmental standards.
- Milken Institute1h 8m
Giving Back: How Asia's Philanthropists Are Making an Impact
Heng Wing Chan, Andrew L. Cohen, Debra Black, Binod Chaudhary, P.N.C. Menon, Kris Wiluan, John Wood
The Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy hosted a panel featuring leaders from Room to Read, the Melanoma Research Foundation, and Indofood to advocate shifting philanthropy from simple checkbook donations to strategic, data-driven models focused on measurable social ROI. Moderator Jerome Cohen and panelists emphasized that addressing global challenges, such as Africa's impending infrastructure needs and widespread illiteracy, requires consolidating fragmented NGOs and leveraging private sector resources. The discussion concluded with a consensus that future impact depends on cross-sector collaboration, rigorous performance metrics, and a generational shift toward sustainable wealth distribution rather than accumulation.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
Accelerating Infrastructure: Leveraging Partnerships and Mitigating Risks
Cesar Purisima, Sean Chiao, Donald Kanak, Mahendra Lama, Jordan Schwarz
A high-level summit convened industry leaders, policymakers, and multilateral development bank officials to address the trillion-dollar infrastructure funding gap in the Asia-Pacific region, where projected demand from a growing middle class far outstrips current investment capabilities. Speakers highlighted that while substantial domestic liquidity exists in Japan and ASEAN central banks, institutional barriers, political risks, and fragmented project pipelines prevent capital from flowing into critical sectors like energy, digital connectivity, and climate-resilient transport. The discussion culminated in a consensus on mobilizing domestic pension and insurance funds through standardized frameworks and sovereign risk guarantees to achieve scalable, long-term infrastructure development across South and Southeast Asia.