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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz | Global Conference 2025
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz has launched a strategic overhaul targeting an $80 billion annual savings by combating fraud, consolidating fragmented IT systems, and addressing lifestyle-driven chronic illness through the "Make America Healthy Again" initiative. The administration is restructuring federal incentives to support governors, deploying AI for real-time health notifications, and terminating wasteful contractors to fix systemic inefficiencies that currently cost the nation billions in duplicate payments and fraud. Oz warns that without these immediate structural interventions and a shift toward individual health responsibility, the Medicare and Medicaid system faces the risk of catastrophic collapse.
- Milken Institute52 min
Next Tech Frontier: How Latin America Does It Best | Global Conference 2025
Rodrigo Bettini, Julio Vasconcellos, Roberto Campos Neto, Cesar Carvalho, Maya Dadoo, Scott Sobel, Cesar Gonzalez
Despite receiving a fraction of the venture capital allocated to other emerging markets, Latin American startups are generating superior global-scale outcomes through a unique combination of resilient talent, supportive public sector innovation, and venture funds outperforming global indices. Key success stories like WellHub and Worky illustrate how founders are leveraging regulatory tailwinds, such as Brazil's PIX system and Mexico's labor law reforms, to build defensible moats and achieve rapid international expansion. This trajectory is further accelerated by the Central Bank of Brazil's push for tokenization and Open Finance, which are dismantling legacy barriers and positioning the region as a future hub for programmable financial infrastructure and cross-border capital efficiency.
- Milken Institute16 min
Conversation with Venezuelan Democratic Movement Leader María Corina Machado | Global Conference
María Corina Machado, Sara Eisen
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado frames the Maduro regime as a global criminal hub that threatens hemispheric security while outlining a strategy to restore a trillion-dollar economy through immediate U.S. partnership and debt restructuring. She asserts that her coalition won a historic election by 70 percent and is prepared to assume power to dismantle drug trafficking networks, re-establish financial ties with the IMF, and serve as a protective shield for the Americas. Machado emphasizes that this transition relies on aligning with a law enforcement approach to isolate the regime and leverage Venezuelan natural resources to rebuild the nation within days of taking office.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Leading the Charge: CEOs Navigating Business Transformation | Global Conference 2025
Sara Eisen, Joaquin Duato, Robbert Rietbroek, Janet Truncale, Igor Tulchinsky, Robin Vince
Executives from BNY, J&J, Primo Brands, EY, and WorldQuant discuss navigating macroeconomic volatility while accelerating AI integration across drug discovery, financial services, and supply chains. These leaders highlight a strategic pivot toward workforce upskilling, with major organizations reporting over 90% employee adoption of AI tools to shift labor from routine tasks to high-value innovation. Simultaneously, the panel addresses how tariffs, M&A activity, and sustainability goals are reshaping long-term corporate strategies, emphasizing domestic manufacturing and cultural resilience as critical components of future growth.
- 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 Institute1h 0m
Accelerating a Healthier Future Through AI | Global Conference 2025
Gina Carithers, Jesse Ehrenfeld, Tom Hale, Kate Sasser, Johnese Spisso
A panel of experts from the AMA, UCLA Health, Tempus AI, and Aura discusses how artificial intelligence is accelerating the adoption of tools like ambient scribes and genomic analysis to address critical primary care shortages and administrative burdens. These leaders detail successful implementations at scale, noting that while automated workflows and continuous patient monitoring are improving clinical accuracy and reducing provider burnout, significant hurdles remain regarding interoperability and fragmented prior authorization systems. Looking forward, the group envisions a regulatory landscape that scales with risk, enabling AI to support personalized, data-driven care models that include digital twins and citizen science while maintaining strict safety protocols for high-stakes medical decisions.
- 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.
- Milken Institute57 min
Middle Market Private Equity: The Smart Money's Next Move | Global Conference 2025
John L. Bowman, R. David Andrews, Dean Mihas, Molly Murphy, Scott Spielvogel, Andrew Weinberg
Managing nearly $25 trillion, the alternatives industry is pivoting from financial engineering to operational excellence and AI-driven value creation amid an elongated market cycle characterized by suppressed IPO activity and limited M&A supply. Industry leaders are refining differentiation strategies through aggressive AI deployment, specialized management screening by industrial psychologists, and creative exit tactics like recapitalizations to navigate geopolitical volatility and valuation dislocations. As the sector adapts to a future where 98% of finance jobs face AI disruption, general partners are evolving into long-term operating partners to capitalize on the impending $105 trillion wealth transfer while prioritizing earnings quality over gross multiples.
- Milken Institute53 min
Expanding Solutions to Improve Mental Health | Global Conference 2025
Savannah Sellers, Rebecca O. Bagley, Jonathan Haidt, Bill Ready, Marketa Wills
A panel of experts, including Jonathan Haidt, Bill Reddy, and representatives from the Kennedy Forum and American Academy of Pediatrics, convened to address a global mental health crisis driven by smartphone adoption and addictive platform algorithms. The discussion outlined specific corporate countermeasures, such as Pinterest's age-restricted privacy settings and the "Inspired Internet Pledge," while contrasting them with calls for stricter federal regulations and a mandatory minimum age of 16 for smartphone ownership. Ultimately, the event proposed a multi-faceted strategy combining phone-free schools, industry-wide well-being reporting standards, and improved medical reimbursement rates to mitigate rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide among youth.
- Milken Institute53 min
The AI Rollout: Revolution, Regulation, and Repercussions | Global Conference 2025
Susan Li, Lila Ibrahim, David Levy, Sean Pak, Dmitry Shevelenko
Industry leaders from Google DeepMind, Perplexity, and the legal firm Quinn Emanuel convened to debate the operationalization of AI safety through built-in organizational principles and the necessity of global coordination for cross-border governance. The discussion highlighted divergent strategies for navigating complex intellectual property disputes, where participants argued for fair use precedents while outlining Perplexity's transparency model and addressing U.S. patent law hurdles that threaten to drive capital to jurisdictions like Japan. Concurrently, the panel emphasized U.S. technological leadership secured by rapid innovation speeds, projected massive capital expenditure for infrastructure, and identified a shift from search to agent-driven synthesis in consumer internet behavior.
- Milken Institute21 min
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios | Global Conference
Michael Kratsios, David Trulio
The Office of Science and Technology Policy, under a directive from President Trump to Michael Kratzios, has established a national security mandate to secure unchallenged global technological dominance in artificial intelligence, quantum information science, nuclear energy, and biotechnology. This strategy employs a dual approach of promoting domestic innovation through deregulation and strategic R&D investment while protecting critical assets via strict export controls and research security measures designed to limit rival capabilities. The administration aims to operationalize this vision by aligning federal agencies to adopt American technology standards globally and by delivering a comprehensive AI Action Plan that balances scientific ethics with the urgent need for workforce reskilling.
- Milken Institute58 min
Modern Solutions for Parenting and Work-Life Balance | Global Conference 2025
Alex Witt, Jeanette Betancourt, Becky Kennedy, Alexis Ohanian, Eve Rodsky, Maaren Shah
A panel of five experts, including Reddit co-founder Alexis Rohanian and author Eve Rodsky, convened to address the systemic burnout and declining birth rates plaguing modern dual-income households. The discussion emphasized that parenting requires formal education and structural support, urging a shift from vague "helping" to clear ownership of domestic mental loads and advocating for universal paid leave policies. Consensus emerged that achieving true equity involves men transitioning from assistants to owners of household labor, while society must view child-rearing as a collective responsibility rather than an individual burden.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
"What Faith Means to Me" | Global Conference 2025
Richard Sandler, Sharon Brous, Francis Collins, Michael Dimock, T.D. Jakes
A panel of religious and scientific leaders discussed how the U.S. is experiencing a plateau in religious affiliation alongside a pervasive spiritual identity, noting that pandemic-induced isolation exacerbated health crises and social division. Experts including Dr. Francis Collins, Bishop T.D. Jakes, and Rabbi Sharon Brous debated strategies to bridge the gap between faith and science while advocating for a shift from digital algorithms to authentic, in-person community building. The group concluded that overcoming societal polarization requires active listening, a rejection of misinformation, and a deliberate return to local connections to restore social cohesion.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Private Markets Reimagined | Global Conference 2025
Yup S. Kim, Bennett Goodman, Jacob Kotzubei, Meranda Ling Miao, Donna Milrod, Yann Robard
Industry leaders project private equity assets will expand to represent 25–35% of global equity within five decades, driven by a 19.9x return record over the past 25 years that significantly outpaces public market benchmarks. Panelists from Blackstone, Platinum Equity, and State Street emphasize that sustained alpha relies on long-term governance structures and AI integration, while acknowledging that tokenization and secondary markets are evolving to resolve liquidity constraints. Despite concerns over GP-LP alignment and the commoditization of deal-sourcing skills, experts maintain that sophisticated risk management and structural innovations will secure the asset class's role as a primary engine for long-term value creation.
- 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.