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Clear all filters- Milken Institute52 min
Europe in the Post-Brexit Age
Marieluise Beck, Niall Ferguson, Sergei Guriev, Anton Muscatelli, Roland Rudd, Louisa Bojesen, Louisa Borgeson
Hosted by Louisa Borgeson on CNBC, a panel of experts including Neil Ferguson, Anton Muscatelli, and Sergei Guryev analyzed the severe economic risks of Brexit, predicting GDP losses between 1% and 9.5% by 2030 while shifting their consensus from 2016 toward remaining in the single market. The discussion dissected the political drivers of the referendum, contrasting views on whether immigration control or inequality fueled the vote, and featured debates on the potential for populist backlashes and Russian interference in Western democracies. Ultimately, the panelists proposed a transitional European Economic Area model to mitigate immediate collapse and discussed the EU's probable evolution into a multi-tiered structure to accommodate shifting global realities.
- Milken Institute59 min
2016 CA summit - California's Creative Disruption
Paul Kedrosky, Rob Freelen, Eva Ho, Gunnar Lovelace, Dave McClure, Jeff Wong
A panel of California innovators and investors dissected the state's widening economic fissures, contrasting its dominance in venture capital and corporate scale with persistent poverty, gender disparities, and a structural gap in mid-market exit opportunities. Speakers highlighted specific disruptive solutions such as Thrive Market's SNAP advocacy, Defy Ventures' recidivism reduction, and EY's "inclusive capitalism" to demonstrate how private-sector efficiency can address entrenched social and regulatory challenges. The discussion concluded with warnings that without proactive wealth redistribution and localized policy experiments, the cultural asset of the "garage entrepreneur" may be undermined by a reactive populist shift driven by systemic inequality.
- Milken Institute1h 10m
2016 CA Summit - A Hard Sixth: Keeping California Strong in a Competitive Global Economy
Michael Milken, Kevin de León, Scott Minerd, Gabriel Petek, Marcus Thygeson, Mimi Walters
California leverages its status as the world's fifth-largest economy to drive global bioscience innovation and secure over 60% of U.S. venture capital, despite facing acute fiscal volatility and a $74 billion in retiree health liabilities. Key figures including Senator Kevin de Leon and Representative Mimi Walters debated strategies to balance aggressive clean energy investments with necessary corporate tax reforms to reverse manufacturing decline and resident outflows. Future growth hinges on democratizing access to education and early childhood programs while shifting pension portfolios toward infrastructure to sustain the state's demographic precarity and high cost of living.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
2016 CA Summit - Building a Renewable California
Mark Chediak, Caroline Choi, Wade Crowfoot, Robert Greene, Brad Heavner, Maureen Stapleton, Hania Sadat
California is addressing the critical interdependence of its water and energy sectors by dismantling regulatory silos and implementing integrated efficiency programs that link water conservation directly to energy savings. Utilities are deploying advanced pricing models, such as time-of-use rates and pumped hydro storage, to align water consumption with renewable energy availability while managing infrastructure costs amid rising bills. Future strategies prioritize local supply diversification through potable reuse and storage modernization to ensure grid stability and water security against climate change and seismic risks.
- Milken Institute58 min
2016 CA Summit - New Skills at Work: Preparing a 21st Century Entertainment Workforce
Kari Dohn Decker, Jillian Arnold, Chris Erwin, Ze Frank, Matt Horton, Patricia Ramos
The Milken Institute and JPMorgan Chase's "New Skills at Work" initiative convened industry leaders, including executives from BuzzFeed and Big Frame alongside representatives from IATSE and Santa Monica College, to address the creative sector's critical "access gap" and shifting workforce demographics. Participants analyzed the urgent need for data literacy and hybrid technical roles as traditional production cycles collapse into hours, prompting educational institutions to launch new interdisciplinary degrees and targeted certificate programs for underrepresented populations. The discussion concluded with a consensus on the necessity for long-term employer partnerships and paid apprenticeships to sustain a diverse pipeline capable of navigating the convergence of technology and media in Los Angeles.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
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.
- Y Combinator33 min
Reid Hoffman at Startup School SV 2016
Reid Hoffman outlines a framework for navigating the evolution of human cognition through Artificial General Intelligence while establishing foundational strategies for startup success, such as prioritizing network building and flexible persistence. He details critical venture capital mechanics, including the necessity of trusted referrals for funding, the requirement for credible competition narratives, and the specific structural elements of effective pitch decks. Finally, Hoffman argues that achieving dominant market positions requires "blitzscaling" to sacrifice short-term efficiency for rapid growth, supported by a high-performance corporate culture modeled after professional sports teams.
- Bank of America34 min
Spotlight on Issues Affecting Women Entrepreneurs
Carol Roth, Maisha Walker, Erin Andrew, Elizabeth Romero
A joint panel featuring SBA officials and Bank of America representatives highlighted the rapid growth of women-owned businesses, which generate over $1 trillion in annual sales, while addressing persistent barriers such as unequal access to capital and the "glass ceiling." The event detailed strategic initiatives like the SBA's revised underwriting and the "Blink" platform designed to bridge financing gaps, alongside actionable advice on early relationship building with financial institutions and leveraging mentorship networks. Despite historical challenges in federal contracting and supply chain access, the discussion projected continued economic growth driven by women's entrepreneurship and their significant share of U.S. purchasing power.
- 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.