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New Rules: Open Banking, FinTech, and Big Tech
James Mackintosh, Louise Beaumont, Elena Lieskovska, Gavin Littlejohn, Ajay Vij, Eric Kilsterman
UK regulators initiated open banking to dismantle incumbent bank monopolies and drive the shift toward hyper-personalized, predictive financial services that address historical market undersupply. While global adoption varies, with the US leading in legacy aggregators and India leveraging biometric identity for leapfrogging, the framework's success hinges on resolving API standardization gaps and clarifying liability models where banks absorb payment initiation risks. Future growth depends on integrating diverse data sectors like healthcare and energy to deliver tangible consumer value, ensuring that emerging fintechs and non-bank providers can compete on experience rather than legacy infrastructure.
- Milken Institute54 min
Addressing the Gender Disparity Problem in the Modern Workplace
Richard Ditizio, Charlotte de Metz, Marianna Fotaki, Charlie Geffen, Loula Lefkaritis
This event analyzes systemic barriers hindering women's advancement, ranging from exclusionary infrastructure and the "leaky pipeline" in the financial sector to persistent pay gaps and unconscious bias. Speakers contrast traditional "macho" leadership stereotypes with a shift toward authentic management styles and emphasize the urgent need to move beyond mentorship to active sponsorship and anonymized hiring practices. Despite the established business case for diversity, the consensus calls for immediate accountability measures, including mandatory quotas and early educational interventions, to transform discussion into concrete organizational change.
- Milken Institute49 min
Shaping the Workforce of the Future: Academia and Employer Partnerships
Kevin Klowden, Eloy Ortiz Oakley, Soraya M. Coley, Jay Banfield, Manoli Ratnatunga
The 2018 State Technology and Science Index reports California maintains a fourth-place overall ranking despite significant challenges in human capital investment, where high living costs are driving a net outflow of bachelor's degree holders while attracting only those with advanced degrees. To address this divergence between job creation and local workforce readiness, the Milken Institute and academic leaders recommend shifting educational models toward competency-based learning, dismantling unnecessary credential barriers, and investing in infrastructure to retain skilled talent. Panelists highlighted specific initiatives, such as Cal Poly Pomona's social mobility improvements and community college partnerships with major employers, that aim to align curricula with industry needs and provide continuous reskilling pathways for a rapidly evolving economy.
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The Future of Workforce in California: Industry Trends and Employment Pipelines
Jane Oates, Elise Stribos, Jeanie Wade, Ryan Craig, Diane Helfrey, Jessica Koo Kim
This summit addressed the critical displacement of traditional manufacturing roles by automation and the urgent need to bridge the digital skills gap across California's Los Angeles Basin workforce ecosystem. Industry leaders from E-Velocity and Northrop Grumman, alongside experts like Ryan Craig, highlighted successful intermediation models and strategic partnerships that align K-12, community college, and corporate curriculum with real-time labor market demands. The event concluded with consensus that the obsolete "40-year degree" model must be replaced by continuous upskilling, apprenticeship pathways, and inclusive hiring practices to sustain economic mobility in the 21st century.
- Milken Institute47 min
Cast of 'Crazy Rich Asians' Talk of Movie's Impact on Pop Culture
Michelle Yeoh, John Chu, Kevin Kwan, John Phanon
Produced outside the traditional studio system by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, *Crazy Rich Asians* defied early executive skepticism to achieve over $170 million in global box office revenue while securing key cast members like Michelle Yeoh and Jon M. Chu. The film leverages strategic partnerships to navigate international markets and aims to establish a sustainable industry precedent where Asian-led stories are viewed as viable investments rather than niche experiments. By normalizing diverse representation and fostering co-productions, the project positions itself as a cultural tipping point expected to influence future Hollywood financing and global storytelling dynamics.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem
Ryan Shadrick Wilson, Dan Barber, Bill Cassidy, Michael Milken, Walter Robb
A speaker delivered a fragmented session marked by technical failures, personal distress, and incoherent repetition rather than substantive policy or data. While alluding to a crisis and a potential future project, the speaker failed to provide specific details on events in New Orleans and New York or confirm any definitive outcomes. The presentation concluded without offering actionable information, instead highlighting the speaker's physical exhaustion and an inability to address the questions posed.
- Milken Institute48 min
Building Mental Health Resilience at Each Stage of Life
Melissa Stevens, Cynthia Germanotta, Joshua Gordon, Howard Spivak, Nora Super, Jennifer Velez
A comprehensive panel of researchers, clinicians, and patients addressed the U.S. mental health crisis as a "wicked problem," highlighting that social determinants account for 70% of health outcomes while genetic and early-life stress factors significantly influence biological aging and resilience. The discussion underscored the urgent need to bridge the massive care gap for youth through digital therapeutics, collaborative care models, and policy reforms that integrate non-clinical support with traditional treatment to mitigate a $400 billion annual economic drag. Experts called for a systemic shift toward preventative strategies and stigma reduction, arguing that treating mental illness with the same biological equivalence as chronic physical conditions is essential for improving functional wellness across all life stages.
- Milken Institute29 min
A Conversation with Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
Francis Collins, Meg Tirrell, Richard Ditizio, Synim Rivers
The event highlights a critical gender and racial leadership gap in healthcare, where women comprise half the workforce but hold only 3% of CEO roles, prompting organizations like Horizon Pharma to sign diversity pledges and adopt business resource groups to drive financial and clinical innovation. Parallel to these corporate initiatives, the NIH's "All of Us" research program and the Brain Initiative are launching large-scale, data-driven efforts to individualize medicine and accelerate cures for Alzheimer's and other neurological conditions by mapping billions of neurons and enrolling a diverse cohort of one million participants. These combined strategies aim to transform healthcare from a one-size-fits-all model into a precision-based system supported by robust funding, emerging gene therapies for sickle cell disease, and immunotherapy breakthroughs for metastatic cancers.
- Milken Institute34 min
A Conversation with Scott Gottlieb, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Scott Gottlieb, Tanisha Carino, Michael Milken
The FDA is implementing a comprehensive strategic shift to accelerate drug approvals through digital health integration, organizational restructuring within the Office of New Drugs, and a transition to risk-based, post-market regulation for digital tools and manufacturing. This initiative aims to increase review productivity by 20%, publish hundreds of new guidances, and release detailed approval memos within 48 hours to enhance transparency while addressing pipeline disparities in rare versus common diseases. Concurrently, the agency prioritizes tobacco control through modified risk products and fosters market competition to lower drug costs, with Commissioner Gottlieb warning that ossified reimbursement models for novel therapies threaten future innovation if not adapted.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Brain Health for Longevity: What Works? What Doesn't?
Nora Super, Alvaro Fernandez, Sarah Lock, David Perlmutter, Alfred Sandrock, Brian Van Buren, Jeff Wilkinson, Dr. Mark Hyman, Joe Maroon, Mark Fisher
Amidst a rapidly aging U.S. population where one in five residents will be over 65 by 2030, this event examines the convergence of biological mechanisms like autophagy and clinical breakthroughs to address the $716 trillion economic impact of cognitive decline. Panelists discuss a critical shift from late-stage treatment to early prevention, detailing how multimodal interventions—including sleep optimization, vascular health management, and disease-modifying therapies in the DIAN trial—can delay dementia onset by five to ten years. The discussion further emphasizes the necessity of overcoming diagnostic stigma and equity gaps to integrate neurotechnology and community support systems into a comprehensive public health strategy for brain longevity.
- Milken Institute57 min
Reimagining Medicare for Longer Lives
Joanne Kenen, Efrem Castillo, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Terry Fulmer, Darilyn Moyer, John, Saira, Corinne Purtill
This panel discussion analyzes the structural misalignment between the US healthcare system's acute-care origins and the modern demographic reality of an aging population living longer with chronic conditions. While bipartisan legislation and private sector innovations in Medicare Advantage are successfully shifting incentives toward value-based care and addressing social determinants, implementation is severely hindered by astronomical administrative burdens and fragmented health IT interoperability. Participants conclude that future progress requires integrating social services into medical models and leveraging private sector experimentation to streamline the transition away from volume-based reimbursement.
- Milken Institute24 min
A Conversation with Ben Carson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson applies a data-driven, surgical approach to dismantling bureaucratic hurdles and redefining the American Dream through integrated housing and workforce initiatives. Under his leadership, the agency has halved veteran homelessness via the HUD-VASH program and launched Envision Centers to consolidate resources for single parents, while prioritizing preventive health measures to mitigate lead exposure, mold-related asthma, and fall risks in aging communities. Looking toward 2025, the Secretary forecasts a strategic shift toward private-sector capital in Opportunity Zones and holistic community redevelopment models to ensure long-term fiscal sustainability amid a shifting demographic landscape.
- Milken Institute38 min
The Stories We Tell Panel Discussion
Tracey Woon, Drue Kataoka, Frank Luntz, Jay Shetty, Drew
UBS-hosted panelists Frank Vassiliadis, Drew Shindler, and Jay explored the intersection of storytelling, technology, and mindfulness to address modern societal challenges ranging from cross-cultural values to the rise of "fake news." The speakers argued that true influence requires deep introspection and honest self-awareness, contrasting passive digital consumption with the critical engagement fostered by arts-integrated education and genuine social impact. Concluding with a guided meditation, the session emphasized that internal peace and parental modeling are essential foundations for navigating a media landscape increasingly dominated by superficial metrics.
- Milken Institute18 min
CreditEase Founder Ning Tang at MIGlobal
At the Milken Institute's 21st Annual Global Conference, Credit Ease CEO Nian Tang outlined his company's strategic pivot from China's pioneering P2P lending sector into a global fintech leader facilitating over $1 trillion in transactions. Tang detailed how the firm is leveraging mobile technology and robust investor education to bridge China's credit infrastructure gaps, shifting market behavior from speculation toward long-term wealth management and professional asset allocation. By combining deep financial expertise with advanced technology, Credit Ease aims to serve underserved small businesses and democratize financial advisory services for the Chinese middle class while navigating an increasingly rigorous regulatory landscape.
- Milken Institute55 min
Opening Remarks and Keynote
Diane Helfrey, Michael Klowden, Dan Schnur, Toni Atkins, John Chiang
Hosted by the Milken Institute and Sacramento Bee director Dan Schnur, this conference convened key figures such as State Treasurer John Chung and Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins to launch a sustained dialogue on California's critical challenges in housing, workforce development, and climate finance. The event highlighted the urgent need for cross-sector collaboration to bridge the "missing middle" housing gap, address a projected 2030 labor shortage, and mobilize a record $1.75 billion JPMorgan Chase investment alongside a new state Green Bond Pledge. Attendees acknowledged a deep public trust deficit that can only be resolved by uniting public, private, and nonprofit leaders to implement innovative financing mechanisms and streamline legislative priorities for the state's future.