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Collaboration 3.0: Partnering for More than Money
Caitlin McLean, Steve Woodhead, Kerry Stever, Natalie Revelle, Efrat Peled, Rick Leach
The Milken Institute convened leaders from Chevron, Aris, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Arison Investments, and World Food Program USA to examine how public-private partnerships are reshaping infrastructure, health, and energy sectors amid shrinking public budgets. These panelists detailed strategies ranging from Aris's IP sourcing for tuberculosis vaccines to the Gates Foundation's volume guarantees that de-risk private market entry, while Chevron and Arison emphasized leveraging corporate expertise to solve systemic issues like water leakage and STEM education gaps. Collectively, the discussion highlighted a strategic shift from traditional philanthropy to sustainable, scalable business models that address long-term development goals through rigorous metrics and cross-sector collaboration.
- Milken Institute1h 23m
Lunch Panel - Gary Becker and Mike Milken on the Marketplace of Ideas
Gary Becker, Mike Milken, Skip Reimer
Governor Brown's absence due to recent surgery necessitated venue reallocations for the Business of Sports panel while the Milken Institute recognized key partners and outlined a 2011–2012 global conference calendar. Nobel laureate Gary Becker utilized the forum to advance arguments for small government, universal economic principles, and structural reforms in education and retirement, specifically advocating for a $50,000 visa fee to reverse brain drain and a raise in retirement age to address demographic shifts. The panel concluded by resolving historical debates on capital structure and highlighting global trends where market liberalization in China and India has reclaimed historical economic dominance despite the failure of centrally planned systems.
- Milken Institute1h 9m
Leaders on Leadership: An Intimate Conversation
Mike Milken, Howard Marks, Janet Napolitano, Steve Wynn
Nearly 1,000 women convened at a marathon-style global conference where leaders like Janet Napolitano, Steve Wynn, and Howard Marks addressed themes of strategic risk, transparent authority, and second-level thinking across 160 sessions. The event highlighted how decisive actions, such as CVS Caremark's removal of cigarettes or Wynn's irreversible capital commitments, require balancing immediate financial pressures against long-term organizational missions. By synthesizing historical parallels with modern investment principles, the gathering framed bold leadership as the deliberate choice to accept calculated risks to secure sustainable economic and societal growth.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Pan-African Business
Jonathan Berman, Ahmed, Baron, Phillips, Padre, General, Paul Hicks
A pan-African economic forum highlighted that the continent's 1 billion-person market is driven by regional blocs and a demographic shift of Western-educated returnees rather than a homogeneous unit. Speakers emphasized that overcoming structural barriers like high logistics costs and capital mismatches requires patient, long-term investment horizons and localized operational strategies to leverage the region's emerging energy and manufacturing sectors. The event concluded by calling for enhanced US engagement through credit enhancement mechanisms to diversify funding sources beyond existing European, Asian, and Chinese dominance.
- Milken Institute59 min
Theory to Practice: A New Generation Transforms Impact Investing
Dave Chen, Nicole Chavez, Laura Bremmerkines, April Mendez, Alex Friedman
Co-hosted by the Milken Institute and Morgan Stanley, the 2023 Sustainable Investing Challenge narrowed 39 global business schools to four finalists who presented impact investing strategies evaluated by hundreds of industry professionals. The winning team, a joint submission from Yale's School of Forestry and Business School, proposed the Fresh Coast Forest Fund to generate 6–11% returns by planting hybrid poplar tree farms on 5 million acres of U.S. brownfields for phytoremediation. The 10-year project targets $50 million in initial capital to remediate soil at 80–90% lower costs than traditional methods while producing timber and carbon credit revenue, with the team currently seeking mentors and strategic investors to launch a pilot site.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Art 360: Passion, Wealth and the Business of Art
Michael Govan, Linda Resnick, Larry Gagosian, Maurice Marciano, Gabriel Kreiman, Linda Barron, David Rockefeller Jr.
This event detailed the robust economic growth of the Los Angeles art scene, highlighted by LACMA's recent expansion which generated $500 million in economic impact and created 700 jobs. Prominent figures including Linda Resnick, Maurice Marciano, and Larry Gagosian shared strategies on collector psychology, gallery expansion, and the necessity of balancing personal passion with investment potential. Furthermore, the discussion emphasized the critical role of museums in shaping visual culture and addressed the urgent need for improved arts education to counter declining literacy rates while navigating a rapidly globalizing market.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Money Goes Virtual: The Bitcoin Bourse
Gavin Andreessen, Megan Burton, Charlie Lee, Brock Pierce
Representatives from organizations including the Bitcoin Foundation, Coinbase, and CoinX convened to define Bitcoin as a decentralized, trustless ledger that solves the double-spend problem through cryptographic Proof of Work and a strictly capped 21 million coin supply. The panel detailed how this architecture enables global financial inclusion and instant cross-border transfers while addressing critical security concerns, such as the Mount Gox collapse which resulted from corporate governance failures rather than protocol flaws. Looking toward a future with billions of users, speakers predicted that Bitcoin will eventually replace traditional payment rails like SWIFT and become a ubiquitous, deflationary utility similar to the internet.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
The Remarkable Potential of Precision Medicine
Jeff Bluestone, Jerry Brown, Chris Austin, Pradeep, Mike, Stephanie Dosnick, Keith
Led by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and supported by significant global investments, the precision medicine initiative seeks to dismantle siloed research by shifting disease classification from symptoms to shared molecular mechanisms. This strategy leverages rapidly dropping genomic sequencing costs and advanced tools like organ-on-a-chip technology to accelerate drug repurposing and eliminate the 99.9% failure rate of traditional development pipelines. California aims to solidify its role as the global headquarters for this transformation by fostering public-private partnerships that integrate vast health data with agile regulatory frameworks to deliver personalized, preventive therapies.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Lunch Program | The Business of Sports
Mindy Silverstein, Jim Gray, Magic Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, Brian France, Patrice Mosepe
A panel of prominent sports figures including Magic Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, and Brian France discussed the critical intersection of franchise ownership, economic sustainability, and social impact in modern athletics. The conversation highlighted the economic imperatives of social media integration, the urgent need for athlete financial literacy to prevent post-career insolvency, and the ongoing debate over compensating college athletes and managing concussion risks. Furthermore, the group emphasized sports' unique capacity to drive racial reconciliation and inclusivity, citing the 1995 Rugby World Cup and current locker room dynamics as evidence of athletics serving as a catalyst for broader social cohesion.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
If You Cure It, Will They Pay? Placing a Value on Lives
Mary Dwight, Reed Tuckson, Dean Rosen, Greg Alton
A healthcare sector conference examined the critical clash between high-cost breakthrough therapies like Kalydeco and Sovaldi and a reimbursement system ill-equipped to manage upfront expenses for long-term savings. Industry leaders, including representatives from Gilead Sciences and payer organizations, discussed a decisive shift toward value-based models where commercial viability now depends on real-world data proving total cost of care reduction. The event highlighted emerging trends in collaborative guidelines and investment strategies that prioritize cost-effective innovation and shared risk structures to prevent system-wide financial attrition.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
India: Can a New Government Mark a New Beginning?
Sam Gupta, Sanjay Patel, Manjeet Singh, Kamal, Wasim Abu-Jaili, Masood Soheili
Speakers Sam Gupta, Sanjay Patel, and Manjeet Singh analyze India's world-largest election dynamics and demographic dividend to forecast a shift toward pro-reform governance, despite structural hurdles like critical infrastructure gaps and bureaucratic red tape. The panel identifies specific investment vehicles in financial services, digital transformation, and agriculture technology as essential levers to unlock domestic savings and mitigate the existential threat of supply chain failures. While political coalitions may temper radical policy shifts, the consensus emphasizes that immediate infrastructure capitalization is vital to sustain economic relevance for the nation's 850 million voters and massive youth population.
- Milken Institute58 min
Nouriel Roubini and Jason Cummins: Keeping Up with Change
Nouriel Roubini, Jason Cummins, Stephanie Ruhl
Economists Jason Cummins and Nouriel Roubini diverge on the 2015 global economic outlook, with Cummins rating the recovery a solid 6–7/10 while Roubini assigns a cautious 4–5/10 due to looming structural headwinds in China and the Eurozone. The panel details specific risks including China's potential "rough landing" amidst falling credit efficiency, a Federal Reserve facing a dilemma between premature tightening and asset bubbles, and emerging markets grappling with three converging headwinds. Geopolitically, Roubini warns that a Russian escalation could trigger an energy shock capable of derailing the fragile European recovery, whereas Cummins views the Russia-Ukraine conflict as largely contained noise with limited global spillover.
- Milken Institute1h 8m
25 Years After the Berlin Wall: Making Democracy Work in the Rest of Europe
Conrad Kieschel, J.D. Bindenagel, Markus Meckel, Janusz Onoskiewicz, Michael Sedlacek
To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, a panel of historians and policymakers analyzed the Central European revolutions that successfully overturned totalitarian regimes through internal civil society rather than Western intervention. The discussion detailed the divergent economic reforms in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech Republic, while extending the analysis to contemporary challenges such as Ukraine's structural corruption and Russia's strategic narratives. Experts concluded that future stability in the region depends on strengthening the rule of law, securing energy independence, and maintaining a unified transatlantic alliance to counter rising nationalism.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Disruptive FinTech: A Look at Markets in Five Years
John Carney, Doug Atkin, Arjun, Laura Roden, Dave McClure, David Tedden
A diverse panel of venture capitalists and financial executives convened to evaluate the transformative trajectory of digital assets, mobile infrastructure, and alternative lending models across both established and emerging markets. The discussion highlighted a strategic shift from carrier-led payment networks to software platform dominance, while debating the potential of cryptocurrencies as precursors to institutional digital currency adoption despite current valuation skepticism. Speakers projected that regulatory arbitrage and advanced data scoring will soon enable significant disruption in SMB financing and wealth accessibility over the next two to five years, driven by tech giants acquiring fintech capabilities rather than traditional banks building them internally.
- Milken Institute59 min
Why Tomorrow Won't Look Like Today: Things that Will Blow Your Mind
Eric Anderson, John Kelly, Eric David, Richard, Michael, Dr. John Kelly III
Representatives from Planetary Resources, Organovo, and IBM outlined a synergistic future where autonomous asteroid mining provides raw materials, 3D bioprinting creates regenerative medical tissues, and cognitive computing manages the data complexity of both sectors. The panel highlighted specific milestones, including near-term propellant depot launches in 2016, commercial drug-testing liver models, and AI systems designed to personalize cancer treatments. Validated by major investors like Larry Page and Richard Branson, these converging technologies aim to fundamentally transform global resource availability, healthcare outcomes, and the economics of deep-space exploration.