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Leadership in a Multigenerational Workforce: Bridging the Gap to Drive Impact
Patsy Doerr, Amy Friedrich, Julie Sweet, Eric Termuende, Aniela Unguresan, Ahu Yildirmaz, Patsy Shudo-Doer, Ariella Ungerson, Scott Heathman, Angela Shi, Jasmine
Moderated by Thomson Reuters VP Patsy Shudo-Doer, a panel of corporate leaders including Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and Generation Y co-founder Eric Tremondi addressed the unique challenges of managing a five-generational workforce while integrating diversity into core business strategy. The discussion highlighted critical trends such as the 2025 projection that women and millennials will control 70% of financial decisions, the widening gap in leadership aspirations among millennial women, and the shifting definition of stability from company loyalty to personal brand security. Participants concluded that organizations must abandon rigid generational stereotypes in favor of adaptive models like the "lattice" career path and radical transparency to successfully close skills gaps and secure talent in an increasingly competitive labor market.
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Hybrid and Next-Generation Warfare: The Future of Conflict
Matthew Spence, Henry Crumpton, Geoffrey Ling, Pippa Malmgren, Yasuhide Nakayama, Juan Carlos Pinzón
This analysis asserts that modern warfare requires balancing technological precision with human intelligence to preserve empathy while addressing volatile threats from biotechnology and neuro-integration. It further identifies economic drivers like food insecurity and infrastructure financing as primary catalysts for geopolitical aggression, particularly in Asia, where hypersonic weapons and asymmetric non-state actors have compressed decision-making timelines. Ultimately, the discussion concludes that successful counterinsurgency and future security depend on integrated logistics, community empowerment, and viewing artificial intelligence as a symbiotic tool rather than a standalone solution.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Brazil: The Country of the Future?
Cate Ambrose, Flavia Buarque de Almeida, Renato Lulia-Jacob, Mario Mesquita, Piero Minardi, Tom Tull
Amidst a severe economic crisis triggered by the collapse of commodity prices and the Lava Jato corruption scandal, Brazil is preparing for the imminent impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and a potential transition to Michel Temer's reformist administration. While short-term volatility persists due to fiscal emergencies and a liquidity crunch, global institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds are actively deploying capital into distressed debt and high-growth sectors like healthcare and agribusiness. The incoming government faces an urgent mandate to implement structural fiscal and political reforms within months to restore investor confidence and unlock a projected three-to-four-year recovery.
- Milken Institute58 min
Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?
Alexandra Suich, Guruduth Banavar, Michael Ferro, Stuart Russell, David M. Siegel, Shivon Zilis
A panel of experts frames the current AI revolution as being in its early stages, emphasizing the shift from sci-fi fantasies of sentient robots to practical "narrow AI" that augments human intelligence across diverse sectors like healthcare, agriculture, and transportation. While highlighting transformative benefits such as expanded medical diagnostics and automated labor, the discussion underscores immediate risks including white-collar job displacement, the weaponization of autonomous systems, and the complex ethical challenge of encoding human values into machine decision-making. Looking toward the next decade, the consensus predicts universal cognitive assistants and significant advancements in personalized medicine and road safety, contingent on establishing new legal and safety frameworks to manage the societal impacts of this widespread automation.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Widening Access to Capital in Developing Markets
Staci Warden, Afsaneh Beschloss, Ermias Eshetu, Claver Gatete, Hua Jingdong, Jingdong Hua, Ruben Brigadier, Miguel, Matthew Reese
The Milken Institute's Center for Financial Markets convened with IFC leaders and East African officials to analyze how regional integration and local currency bond issuance can bridge the capital access gap in developing economies. Case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia highlighted how structural reforms, such as harmonized regulations and mandatory commodity exchanges, are mobilizing domestic savings and enabling large-scale infrastructure financing. The dialogue concluded with the announcement of a joint IFC and George Washington University program designed to train African capital market officials in implementing these critical financial infrastructure reforms.
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ASEAN: Energizing Asia's Growth
Adam Schwarz, Dino Patti Djalal, Henry Nguyen, Serge Pun, Cesar Purisima, Ravi Thakran, Adam Shores
Key figures from LVMH, IDG Ventures, and the Philippines Department of Finance convened to analyze ASEAN's emergence as a distinct global economic bloc with top-five profitability rankings despite significant internal fragmentation risks. The discussion highlighted Vietnam's role as a primary production hub under "China-plus-one" strategies and detailed specific reform agendas in Indonesia and Myanmar aimed at modernizing infrastructure and boosting manufacturing value chains. Experts concluded that while the region faces geopolitical tensions and low public awareness of the ASEAN Economic Community, its 400 million projected middle-class consumers by 2020 present a substantial opportunity for growth if nations prioritize regional integration and public-private partnerships over territorial disputes.
- Milken Institute1h 14m
Sustaining the New 'Golden Age' of Medical Research
Margaret Anderson, Francis Collins, Kathy Giusti, Michael Milken, Kevin Yoder, Elias Zerhouni
At the 19th annual Milken Institute Global Conference, leaders including Kathy Hudson, Elias Zerhouni, and Francis Collins convened to address systemic inefficiencies in biomedical research while celebrating unprecedented therapeutic breakthroughs. The panelists emphasized that stagnant NIH funding and a 16% grant success rate threaten the scientific pipeline, yet initiatives like the Precision Medicine Initiative and Accelerating Medicine Partnerships are introducing parallel processing and open data models to accelerate cures. By reframing research as a national security priority and integrating artificial intelligence, these experts argue that coordinated public-private ecosystems can overcome current bottlenecks to deliver transformative medical advancements.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
College to Career
Jeffrey Selingo, Michael Bennet, Steven Knapp, Jessica Rosenworcel, Eric Spiegel, Igor Tulchinsky
This event analyzes the collapse of the traditional four-year degree model, highlighting how socioeconomic disparities and rigid funding structures leave millions of students underemployed or trapped in "some credit, no degree" scenarios. Industry leaders and policymakers propose restructuring education through German-style apprenticeships, digital micro-credentials, and outcome-based funding to bridge the widening gap between curricula and the evolving digital workforce. Key figures including Senator Bennett and representatives from Siemens and the FCC advocate for systemic reforms that prioritize career readiness, standardize alternative pathways, and align federal incentives with proven return-on-investment programs.
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Investing in America: Transforming the Tax Code, Tackling the Debt
Ben White, Maya MacGuineas, David Perdue, Mark Warner, Mark Weinberger
Panelists warn that the U.S. federal debt has reached post-World War II highs, with mandatory spending consuming 70% of the budget and interest costs poised to exceed $1 trillion annually without structural reform. Despite dire projections from the Congressional Budget Office, 2016 presidential candidates on both sides have proposed tax cuts or spending expansions lacking credible offsetting mechanisms, driven by political gridlock and a broken federal budget process. Experts advocate for a "grand bargain" model similar to Simpson-Bowles, urging immediate action on international tax reform and entitlement adjustments to preserve the dollar's status as the global reserve currency.
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Tech vs. Talk: Is Technology Changing Human Relationships?
Alex Witt, Genevieve Bell, Linda Burch, Sherry Turkle, Sam Yagan
Hosted by Alex Witt at the Milken Institute Global Conference, panelists including Sherry Turkle, Genevieve Bell, and Sam Yagan examined how smartphone proliferation erodes empathy, disrupts family dynamics, and alters the landscape of romantic relationships. Experts highlighted a sharp decline in human connection metrics alongside rising anxiety over the "always-on" culture, noting that children are increasingly driving the establishment of new social boundaries regarding device use. The discussion concluded with a call for intentional design and parental modeling to preserve the friction necessary for deep human interaction while navigating the inevitable evolution of technology.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Nuclear Fusion: Has Its Time Finally Arrived?
Katie Fehrenbacher, Michl Binderbauer, Michel Laberge, Thomas McGuire, Dennis Whyte, Tom McGuire
A strategic shift is underway where private startups, academic spin-offs, and companies like Tri Alpha Energy and General Fusion are leveraging advanced computing and superconducting materials to accelerate commercial fusion development against the slow, costly timeline of traditional government projects like ITER. These entities are prioritizing compact, modular designs and rapid prototyping cycles to achieve net energy gain within a decade, effectively trading higher initial physics risks for lower capital costs and faster iteration speeds. This public-private triad aims to transform fusion from a long-term scientific curiosity into an immediate engineering reality that addresses the surging global energy demand by 2040.
- Milken Institute1h 8m
Global Capital Markets: Deflation or Stabilization?
Thomas Finke, Afsaneh Beschloss, Mohamed El-Erian, David Harding, Joseph Hooley, Steven Tananbaum, Tom Fink, Jay Holey
Panelists including Jay Holey, Mohammed Al-Arain, and Steve Tannenbaum analyzed the global economy's structural slowdown and the divergent trajectories of advanced and emerging markets, noting that while central banks face policy limits, emerging economies retain fiscal capacity for growth. The discussion highlighted China's critical transition from an export-led model to a consumption-driven one, alongside the disruptive impact of fintech and digital platforms on traditional productivity metrics and banking infrastructure. Despite near-term political uncertainties like Brexit and anti-establishment movements, experts identified specific investment opportunities in distressed credit, quasi-sovereign bonds, and sectors combining digital innovation with unique content.
- Milken Institute58 min
Thematic Investing and Portfolio Strategies: Betting on the Megatrends
Stephen Foley, Victor Chu, Taimur Hyat, Catherine Keating, Rebecca Patterson, Mike Ramsay, Timer Hyatt
Global megatrends in aging demographics, rapid urbanization, and geopolitical shifts toward a Chinese-led economy are fundamentally reshaping capital flows and demanding a transition to lower-carbon energy systems. Industry experts identify private markets, long-term infrastructure, and cross-asset task forces as critical vehicles for capturing value in healthcare, automation, and cybersecurity while navigating the risks of de-globalization and premature market entry. Successful execution requires patient capital with horizons extending five to twenty-five years, emphasizing rigorous due diligence to distinguish viable commercial solutions from speculative bubbles in emerging and developed sectors alike.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Bringing 21st Century Medicine to America's Veterans
Jonathan Simons, Matthew Collier, Magali Haas, Matthew Rettig, Mark Simon
The Department of Veterans Affairs has established a Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships to shift from isolated operations to a collaborative model leveraging its $169 billion budget and unique longitudinal data assets. By partnering with entities like Cohen Veterans Bioscience and private biotech firms, the agency is accelerating research on traumatic brain injury, suicide prevention, and precision oncology, evidenced by successful treatments for advanced prostate cancer patients. These initiatives aim to de-risk clinical trials, improve patient access to novel therapies, and transform the VA into a premier engine for precision medicine by overcoming historical cultural barriers to external collaboration.
- Milken Institute55 min
Leaders of Companies that are Changing the World
Josh Barro, John Mackey, Strive Masiyiwa, Blake Mycoskie, Kristin Groos Richmond
John Mackey, Strive Masiwa, Blake Mycoskie, and Kristen Grues-Richmond convened to argue that stakeholder synergy and shareholder value are simultaneous goals rather than tradeoffs, exemplified by Whole Foods' Conscious Capitalism framework, TOMS' supply-chain pivot, and Revolution Foods' employee equity model. The panel detailed how these leaders utilize B Corporation certification and localized operations to achieve cost parity with public programs while navigating the regulatory complexities of public versus private market status. Ultimately, the discussion concluded that aligning business missions with societal needs drives long-term profitability and talent retention, urging companies to prioritize customer storytelling over traditional paid media to verify their impact.