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Social Epidemiology: Public Health + Social Movements | Future of Health Summit 2023
Richard Ditizio, John Feinblatt, Robin Koval, Jesse Milan Jr.
This panel explores how US life expectancy trends are being eroded by social determinants of health, drawing strategic parallels between the successful tobacco control movement and current efforts to curb gun violence and HIV-related disparities. Speakers detail how grassroots coalitions like Everytown and Moms Demand Action shifted political calculus through litigation, corporate pressure, and state-level strategies to bypass federal gridlock and pierce industry legal fortresses. The discussion concludes by outlining future interventions, including product safety innovation, the "tobacco end game" to eliminate social license, and the critical role of corporate investment and social media responsibility in addressing commercial determinants of health.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis: An Update | Milken Institute Future of Health Summit 2022
Elisabeth Rosenthal, Georges C. Benjamin, Kris Brown, Babak Sarani, Mallory Williams, Bob Axarani
This panel discussion analyzes the surge of gun violence as the leading cause of death for U.S. youth and the healthcare trauma experienced by medical providers and communities. Experts detail how legislative victories like the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act are insufficient against systemic barriers, including a predatory firearm industry and Supreme Court rulings that undermine public safety measures. Looking forward, advocates hope to replicate the success of the anti-smoking movement by shifting social norms among younger generations and implementing multi-sector strategies that combine strict policy enforcement with public health interventions.
- Milken Institute58 min
Beyond Gridlock: The Future of Gun Violence Prevention | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Richard Ditizio, Ellen S. Alberding, Ralph Clark, Shereef Elnahal, Nicole Hockley, Francis Suarez, Christopher Griffith
A diverse panel of experts convened to address the escalating crisis of gun violence in the United States, where firearm thefts in Tennessee have surged 700% and gun violence now exceeds automobile accidents as the leading cause of death for children. The discussion highlighted multi-faceted intervention strategies, including ShotSpotter technology for rapid response, electronic gun locks to prevent veteran suicides, and Miami's holistic ecosystem approach that reduced homicides by 86% over four decades. By rejecting single-solution narratives, the group advocated for a collaborative framework combining federal prosecution, red flag laws, and private sector innovation to reframe gun violence as a solvable public health emergency.
- Milken Institute39 min
Game Changers: Innovation and Evolution in Sports | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Heather Brooks Karatz, Michele Kang, Marc Lasry, Candace Parker, Ryan Spoon, Masai Ujiri
Candice Parker, Michelle Kwan, and Masai Ujiri joined Mark Lautner and Ryan Smith to analyze the shifting sports investment landscape, highlighting Parker's transition into ownership and Kwan's multi-club valuation strategy for women's leagues. The panel identified a critical capital shortage in team acquisitions while forecasting a 400% valuation surge in women's sports driven by undervaluation and a global demographic shift toward Africa. These speakers outlined a five to ten-year roadmap for capturing subsequent media deal cycles and expanding digital engagement, positioning ownership expertise as the essential differentiator for future market success.
- Milken Institute51 min
Latin America's Technological Renaissance: Leading the Global Digital Wave | Global Conference 2024
Oscar Decotelli, Juan Jose Galnares, Florian Hagenbuch, Caroline Merin, Scott Sobel, Leonardo Vieira
The event analyzes a $600 billion value gap in Latin America's technology sector while highlighting a valuation arbitrage where the region generates superior exits despite lower GDP representation compared to India. Leading figures from firms such as Canary, Valor Capital Group, and CLIP, alongside startup founders from Leona Health and Future Cow, discuss strategic shifts driven by nearshoring, AI application layer innovation, and a pivot toward early profitability. Speakers further detail how resilient local talent and proactive regulatory frameworks are dismantling legacy barriers in payments and healthcare to attract significant global capital.
- Milken Institute48 min
Illuminating Success Stories on HBCU Campuses | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Troy Duffie, Michael Ellison, Darlene Goins, T.D Jakes, Michael Lomax, Gregory Vincent
Leading philanthropic organizations and financial institutions, including UNCF, Wells Fargo, and the T.D. Jakes Foundation, launched a strategic partnership to deploy up to $1 billion in capital for historically Black colleges and universities to address urgent challenges in STEM education and AI-driven workforce displacement. This initiative funds diverse interventions ranging from a $370 million pooled endowment and new technical programs at schools like Talladega College to the Milken Institute HBCU Fellowship, which places fellows in internships with major corporations like Apple and JPMorgan Chase. By prioritizing entrepreneurship instruction, direct institutional funding, and digital infrastructure through the HBCU Virtual platform, the coalition aims to secure economic mobility for non-traditional students and counteract systemic barriers in higher education.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
China’s Investment Outlook: Optimism or Caution? | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Susan Li, Shenglin Ben, Goodwin Gaw, Fred Hu, Weijian Shan, Lu Zhang, Kevin Rudd
A panel of experts characterizes the current U.S.-China relationship as toxic and downward-spiraling, with Biden and Trump administrations jointly enforcing a hawkish stance that risks global recession if a Taiwan Strait conflict materializes. Despite these geopolitical tensions, investors are capitalizing on China's undervalued stock market and property sector corrections, leveraging the country's significant monetary policy space to support private sector confidence rather than direct stimulus. The discussion concludes that while a "China Plus One" strategy will persist for decades, the most effective path forward involves U.S. policymakers avoiding zero-sum thinking and recognizing that global technological advancement requires engagement with Chinese counterparts in sectors like AI and climate tech.
- RAISE Summit24 min
Venture Capital Investing in AI | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Antoine Blondeau, James Wise, Alexandre Momeni, Dr. Charles Roberts, Nicolas Granatino
Paris has rapidly displaced London as Europe's primary AI hub, yet investors now prioritize product-first founders who solve specific customer ROI problems over high-risk foundational model builders. The strategy is shifting toward securing competitive moats through proprietary data, particularly in biotech where clinical trial scale and regulatory frameworks offer stronger defensibility than internet-hoovered information. Despite Europe's regulatory advantages, the ecosystem faces critical hurdles including a lack of corporate early adoption, a defense tech capital gap, and the need for startups to adopt a bi-continental mindset to overcome high inference costs and impending market saturation.
- RAISE Summit31 min
'Enterprise AI Safeguards Defining Safety and Enhancing Trust, Governance in the Age of GenAI' |
Johan Rahl, Philippe Béraud, Sacha Rubel, Sean, Ludwig Perron
Moderated by a focus on synthesizing complex regulations into practical standards, a panel of leaders from France, Singapore, Microsoft, AWS, and Google discussed the necessity of aligning private sector innovation with government oversight to ensure responsible AI development. Participants emphasized that effective governance requires risk-based frameworks and technical feasibility to resolve tensions between open-source transparency and security, ultimately aiming to prevent disinformation, malicious use, and the digital divide while fostering public trust. The consensus highlighted that operationalizing abstract principles like explainability through multistakeholder collaboration is essential to drive investment and widespread adoption of AI technologies.
- RAISE Summit24 min
'AI VCs with more than money' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Marten Mickos, Bernard Liautaud, Antoine Blondeau
HackerOne CEO Martin Mikos moderated a panel with investors Antoine Blondeau and Bernard Liotto to analyze the chaotic yet transformative nature of the current AI explosion, which Blondeau describes as a "giant accident" that requires a pivot from feature-based startups to full-scale outcome-oriented businesses. Both investors emphasized that while adoption speeds are compressing, successful AI ventures must balance immediate operational agility with five-year strategic planning to leverage high-margin automation and secure leadership teams with a rebellious obsession for quality. The discussion concluded that the sector is rapidly evolving toward hyper-efficient companies generating massive revenue with fewer than 100 employees, warning that only founders who build enduring businesses rather than transient widgets will survive the market's volatility.
- RAISE Summit40 min
'Architecting the Future The Enterprise Revolution through GenAI' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Florence Verzelen, Victoria Weller, Gilles Babinet, Emilie Sidiqian, David Martineau, Charles-Edouard Bouée
Moderated by Charles-Édouard Boué, a panel of industry leaders including Florence Verzelin and Gilles Babinet analyzed the shift of generative AI from experimental phases to enterprise-scale deployment across sectors like luxury retail, life sciences, and construction. The discussion detailed specific value realization strategies, such as Gucci's tripled e-commerce growth and Dassault Systèmes' code acceleration, while outlining strategic frameworks like Martineau's three-category matrix to guide competitive advantage. Furthermore, experts addressed critical workforce implications, emphasizing the transition from job displacement to employability loss and the necessity of human-in-the-loop oversight to manage hallucinations and sustain innovation pipelines.
- RAISE Summit38 min
'International Perspective on GenAI Views from the Frontiers' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Rodrigo Liang, Patrick Perez, Michael Kratsios, Benjamin Cistecky, Chandra Khatri, Antoine Moyroud, Antoine Moreau
Global investors and governments are aggressively pursuing "sovereign AI" strategies, exemplified by Saudi Arabia's rumored $40 billion fund and the EU's push for a trust hub, to ensure cultural alignment and data control over large language models. Industry leaders like Samba Nova and Criterium are addressing critical technical barriers in low-resource environments by developing custom tokenizers and open-source models that overcome the fragmentation of non-Latin languages. This convergence of geopolitical ambition and technical innovation is expected to reshape the market into a diverse ecosystem of local champions and open science, moving beyond English-centric dominance to serve billions of new users.
- RAISE Summit46 min
'AI Blueprint Deploying GenAI for Enterprise Transformation' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Gabriel Hubert, Biljana Kaitovic, Bruno Zerbib, Laetitia Cailleteau, Philippe Battel, Jérémy Arosh
Moderated by Jérémy Arosh of Capgemini, a roundtable featuring representatives from Dust, Engie, Orange, Oracle, and Accenture explores how generative AI is transforming enterprise operations from specialist tools into universal workforce assets. The discussion details specific implementation strategies, such as Orange's DINO2 platform boosting developer productivity by 40% and Engie's use of AI for predictive safety maintenance, while addressing critical challenges like the EU AI Act compliance and the management of workforce anxiety. Experts conclude that successful adoption requires a cultural shift toward iterative exploration and robust governance frameworks to navigate the transition from deterministic computing to stochastic, high-impact AI systems.
- RAISE Summit39 min
Threads of Tomorrow: GenAI and the Reinvention of Luxury Experience | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Massimo Moretti, Nicolas, Carla, Patrick
Moderated by Massimo Moretti, the "Threads of Tomorrow" panel featured experts Nicola, Carla, and Patrick in discussing how generative AI is redefining the luxury sector through application-layer innovation, sovereign data infrastructure, and new creative workflows. The discourse highlighted critical challenges including GPU capacity bottlenecks and the necessity of new quality auditors, while citing specific art market transformations where AI co-creates value and reshapes ownership dynamics. Looking ahead, the group predicted that AI-driven efficiency will fundamentally alter the work week to just two or three days, positioning Europe as a competitive frontier for creativity-driven growth despite global capital competition.
- RAISE Summit36 min
Building the Impossible: Technical Frontiers in GenAI for Enterprises | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Solène, Baptiste Pannier, Elias, Mathieu Valland, David Begassarian, Romain Guyett
Founders from Adaptive, PhotoRoom, Google Cloud, and Crisp discussed the strategic divergence between building in-house infrastructure for core competitive advantages and leveraging external APIs for validation or non-critical functions. The panel highlighted that while data moats and proprietary RLHF techniques offer defensibility in niche verticals, startups face significant hurdles regarding high GPU costs, senior talent acquisition, and navigating the uncertainty of the EU AI Act. Ultimately, the consensus emphasized that sustainable AI growth requires balancing rapid product iteration with long-term architectural control to avoid market bubbles and regulatory pitfalls.