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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit17 min
Wes Cummins, Founder & CEO of Applied Digital: Ellendale’s Purpose Built AI Factory in North Dakota
Applied Digital is expanding its high-power density data center operations by securing a 400-megawatt contract with CoreWeave to construct a North Dakota campus utilizing stranded wind energy and designed for AI workloads. The company transitioned from Bitcoin mining to Tier 3 semiconductor-grade infrastructure after spending $5 billion on this project to ensure "five nines" reliability and extreme cooling standards for hyperscalers. With approximately 3% ownership by NVIDIA, the firm is capitalizing on the shortage of available power sites in the U.S. heartland while planning future phases that will integrate gas assets and explore nuclear options like small modular reactors.
- RAISE Summit17 min
RAISE 2025 : Fireside Chat with Amit Bendov, CEO & Co Founder of Gong
Amit Bendov, Brian Bauman, Amit Bhandav
Founded by Amit Bhandav to solve CRM data gaps, Gong.io leverages autonomous AI to capture sales communication and transform enterprise productivity from manual entry to instant, context-aware insights. Operating on a maturity scale between assisted and near-autonomous levels, the platform currently handles high-volume administrative tasks while preserving human judgment for high-liability decisions. As enterprise leaders demand integrated AI for revenue generation, Gong drives adoption by eliminating briefing bottlenecks for Fortune 500 clients while fostering a unique culture that prioritizes employee personal branding and deep client relationships.
- RAISE Summit17 min
Alex Laubscher, CTO of Windsurf: Engineering at the Speed of Change
Alex Laubscher, Dimitris Bontolos
Windsurf has transitioned from a basic coding tool to an AI agentic IDE, rapidly evolving to enable enterprises to write approximately 90% of their code while tackling complex legacy systems through advanced retrieval and memory capabilities. The platform supports this high-velocity adaptation by integrating design files, reducing project iteration times from months to days as seen with partners like Ferrovial, and targeting a 99% productivity increase in software engineering. To secure global enterprise adoption, the company recently established a Frankfurt data center to guarantee GDPR and FedRAMP compliance, ensuring data sovereignty for clients in sensitive sectors while preparing to scale from 100 to hundreds of large European organizations.
- All-In Podcast29 min
Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
Eric Schmidt, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt outlines a strategic framework where the immediate AI revolution remains underhyped and distinct from the imminent arrival of autonomous agents, while warning that Western nations must counter China's aggressive pivot toward open-weight models and advanced robotics. Schmidt anticipates a future military doctrine defined by millions of AI-driven drones that create high-deterrence stalemates rather than traditional combat, driven by the obsolescence of fixed military infrastructure. Simultaneously, he emphasizes that US geopolitical resilience depends on leveraging domestic capital markets and releasing smaller open-source models to maintain control over handheld device proliferation amidst global demographic declines.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Latin America: A New Era of Opportunity | Global Conference 2025
Carlos Diaz-Rosillo, Cate Ambrose, Iván Duque Márquez, Ilan Goldfajn, Guillermo Lasso
Moderated by Carlos Diaz-Rosillo, former Latin American heads of state Ilan Goldfajn, Ivan Duque, and Guillermo Lasso joined global finance leader Kate Ambrose to analyze shifting U.S.-hemisphere dynamics against China's growing economic dominance. The panelists identified nearshoring, critical mineral reserves, and fintech innovation as key economic drivers while warning that unresolved security issues and artificial intelligence displacement threaten regional stability and employment. They urged the United States to actively deploy development finance tools and align regulatory frameworks to capitalize on these opportunities and counter Beijing's Belt and Road influence.
- Milken Institute45 min
Disaster Preparedness and Community Resilience | Global Conference 2025
Raj Kumar, Christoph Gorder, Louis A. Gritzo, Donald Howard, Vanessa Kerry, Michelle Nunn, DAN GALPIN
Industry leaders and humanitarian officials warn that escalating climate disasters and drastic foreign aid cuts necessitate a strategic pivot from reactive emergency response to proactive public-private resilience investments. By leveraging technology for rapid housing solutions and engineering for risk reduction, experts demonstrate how preventing damage yields billions in savings while addressing critical workforce shortages in reconstruction. The consensus emphasizes that future security and economic stability depend on community-led planning, direct investment in high-risk regions, and treating climate adaptation as a core driver of operational continuity rather than a peripheral cost.
- Milken Institute59 min
Critical Minerals, Critical Risks: Securing Supply Chains | Global Conference 2025
Daniel Yergin, Frank Fannon, Nicholas Myers, Kei Onishi, Vandita Pant, Nick Myers
Driven by surging demand from AI infrastructure and electrification, the global market faces a critical supply gap that requires doubling copper production by the mid-2030s. While China currently dominates rare earth output and smelting capabilities, emerging U.S. ventures like Phoenix Tailings are leveraging zero-emission technologies to process industrial waste and secure supply chains. Strategic investments from major automakers and corporate venture arms are accelerating domestic refining and exploration, yet the sector remains constrained by decades-long permitting cycles and a massive infrastructure funding deficit.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Transforming Food for a Healthier Future | Global Conference 2025
Holly Freishtat, Alice Hm Chen, Sarah Mastrorocco, Ashley Tyrner-Dolce, Aaron Wiese
Industry leaders from Centene, Hy-Vee, FarmboxRx, and Instacart are redefining healthcare strategy by treating food as a primary preventive tool rather than a mere treatment, leveraging data to prove that medically tailored nutrition significantly reduces chronic disease costs. This shift is driven by evidence that 50% of U.S. adults suffer from preventable diet-related conditions, prompting payers and retailers to integrate food access into care management despite regulatory ambiguities surrounding "healthy" food definitions under changing SNAP and Medicare Advantage rules. As the sector targets a 2035 vision of seamless access, stakeholders are balancing urgent clinical outcomes with the complex logistics of scaling personalized nutrition interventions across fragmented state policies.
- Milken Institute42 min
A New Era of Military Technology | Global Conference 2025
Rick Newman, Jeff Cole, Matt Markel, Mariam Sorond
This Milken Institute panel brought together defense technology startups Hidden Level, Epirus, and NextNav to demonstrate how agile, non-traditional contractors are closing critical warfare gaps left by legacy primes. Highlighting specific operational successes, the session detailed Hidden Level's passive radar for rapid drone detection, Epirus's high-power microwave systems for cost-effective kinetic disruption, and NextNav's 5G-based terrestrial positioning as a GPS alternative. Executives and strategists concluded that leveraging rapid-acquisition pathways like OTAs is essential to overcoming bureaucratic inertia while securing US technological resilience against global threats.
- Milken Institute28 min
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.
- Goldman Sachs38 min
Inside the Olympics: Resilience and the Road to LA 2028
David Solomon, Chuck Aoki, Meghan Duggan, Gene Sykes, Nick
The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee highlighted the contrasting yet complementary journeys of Paralympian Chuck Aoki and Olympian Megan Dugan to illustrate the movement's reliance on mental fortitude, community, and a legacy of inspiration. Detailed accounts of their competitive strategies, including the 2018 women's hockey team's visualization tactics and Aoki's resilience against disability, underscore the non-commercial, social enterprise nature of the Olympic and Paralympic movements. Looking toward the future, USOPC Chair Gene Sykes and new CEO Reynolds Hoover are leveraging military-grade planning to orchestrate the record-breaking Los Angeles 2028 Games, aiming to unify diverse global populations while minimizing strain on local infrastructure.
- All-In Podcast21 min
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
Trump, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg, David Sacks
Recent White House initiatives include extensive Oval Office renovations featuring gold accents and historic artwork, alongside infrastructure projects that transformed the Rose Garden patio and approved construction on a new ballroom. Concurrently, economic policies emphasize artificial intelligence energy independence, manufacturing revival through tariffs, and fiscal adjustments that reportedly shift federal projections from deficit to surplus. These developments are coupled with strong military capabilities demonstrated by B2 bomber operations and aggressive market commentary intended to validate recent economic gains.
- RAISE Summit30 min
RAISE Summit 2025: The AI Evolution Open Source, Fast Inference, and the Agentic Revolution
Tony Kim, Thomas Wolf, Rodrigo Liang, Arjun Kharpal
The AI sector is rapidly pivoting from foundational model development to agentic inference and production, driven by a strategic race for full-stack superiority where proprietary models currently retain a six-to-twelve-month performance lead. Enterprises are increasingly adopting open-source alternatives to ensure data privacy and cost efficiency, prompting a hardware shift focused on energy-efficient inference rather than raw training power. While consumer assistants and automated SaaS applications are expected to mature within two years, the industry faces critical bottlenecks regarding gigawatt-scale energy demands and the potential for data security breaches.
- RAISE Summit15 min
Or Lenchner - CEO of BrightData : The Data Awakening Defining the Future of AI
Bright Data, the world's largest web data collection infrastructure provider, successfully defended its scraping practices in high-profile lawsuits against Meta and X, establishing a legal precedent that defines public data as information freely accessible without login barriers. Serving as the primary data source for major AI labs, the company supplies over 40 billion daily website interactions for training Large Language Models while maintaining strict standards against filtering private or paywalled content. Looking ahead, Bright Data predicts a "dual internet" architecture emerging within six to twelve months that accommodates both human users and autonomous AI agents, eventually evolving into a robotics-focused era where these foundational data models enable complex physical automation.