Latest Interviews
Showing 91–105 of 2,089 transcripts.
Clear all filters- Milken Institute43 min
Powering Economic Opportunities: Energy at the Core | Future of Finance 2026
Leslie Kaufman, Benton Arnett, Rachel Halfaker, Stephen Propper, Nidhi Thakar
Driven by surging AI data center demand and corporate carbon-free procurement commitments, the U.S. energy sector is pivoting toward flexible nuclear power models and advanced grid modernization to address critical reliability and affordability gaps. Independent developers and community lenders are leveraging innovative financing structures alongside artificial intelligence to accelerate permitting and scale distributed energy resources despite persistent regulatory bottlenecks. Concurrently, geopolitical shifts and targeted federal incentives are fueling investment in onshored supply chains and transmission infrastructure, positioning clean firm technologies as essential components of national energy security.
- Milken Institute25 min
Building Economic Prosperity: Conversation with US Senator Angela Alsobrooks | Future of Finance
Angela Alsobrooks, Rachel Reilly
Freshman Senator Alison Brooks leverages her executive background to champion bipartisan legislation like the Genius Act and the Tariffs Transparency Act, addressing digital asset regulation and economic uncertainty. Her agenda targets generational wealth through housing reforms, targeted small business tax credits, and sustained funding for Maryland's HBCUs. By bridging ideological divides to overcome gridlock, Brooks aims to mitigate structural barriers to economic mobility for the sandwich generation and future workforce.
- Milken Institute29 min
Conversation with DFC CEO Ben Black and EXIM Bank President John Jovanovic | Future of Finance 2026
Ben Black, John Jovanovic, Matthew Aleshire
John Yovanovitch of the Export-Import Bank and Ben of the Development Finance Corporation are leading a coordinated push to reindustrialize the U.S. economy by deploying over $160 billion in authorized capital to secure supply chains and counter Chinese influence. Their agencies are prioritizing strategic sectors such as critical minerals, energy, and advanced mobility while removing investment barriers in high-income allies to mobilize private capital globally. This bipartisan initiative aims to create domestic manufacturing jobs and establish long-term market stability by exporting American financial services alongside physical infrastructure projects.
- Milken Institute59 min
AI and the Future of Digital Transformation | Future of Finance 2026
Nicole Valentine, Jo Jagadish, Karen Kornbluh, Eric Mandl, Igor Tulchinsky, Kip Wainscott
This panel convened finance executives, policymakers, and technology leaders to assess the economic, security, and workforce implications of the next industrial revolution in artificial intelligence. Experts projected multi-trillion dollar market growth and highlighted tangible enterprise gains, such as JPMorgan Chase's $1 billion in fraud savings and TD Bank's rapid AI tool adoption, while warning of existential threats to professional services and national security if human oversight is removed. The discussion concluded that while historical tech shifts ultimately expand workforces, robust legislative guardrails and new standard-setting bodies are urgently needed to balance rapid innovation with public trust and global competitiveness.
- Milken Institute20 min
American Dream Investing: Conversation with HUD Secretary Scott Turner | Future of Finance 2026
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a rule change mandating work requirements for able-bodied public housing recipients, aiming to assist 79,000 families in achieving self-sufficiency while generating a projected $501 million income increase. Under Secretary Benson's leadership, the agency is simultaneously streamlining regulations by removing federal zoning overreach to empower local jurisdictions and revitalizing the Opportunity Zones program, which has already facilitated $100 billion in private investment and lifted 1 million people from poverty. These initiatives reflect a strategic shift toward leveraging private sector innovation and emphasizing personal responsibility to address root causes of homelessness and expand housing affordability.
- Milken Institute27 min
Conversation with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig | Future of Finance 2026
Paul Atkins, Michael Selig, Michael Piwowar
SEC Chairman Atkins and CFTC Chairman Selig are dismantling a fragmented regulatory landscape by establishing a joint taxonomy and "truce" to clearly distinguish tokenized securities from digital commodities while preventing duplicative enforcement. The agencies are simultaneously modernizing capital formation through disclosure streamlining, approving perpetual crypto futures, and accelerating on-chain settlement to reverse declining IPO trends. These collaborative initiatives aim to provide statutory durability in a post-Loper Bright environment by fostering a single primary regulator framework that retains global liquidity and innovation.
- Milken Institute47 min
How Can Philanthropy Address Complex Climate Crises? | Asia Summit 2025
Melissa Stevens, Anindya Novyan Bakrie, Jamie Choi, Boon Heong Ng, Chavalit Frederick Tsao
This event convened climate leaders and philanthropists to address the critical urgency of narrowing the decade-long window for irreversible climate action while highlighting the severe underfunding of adaptation in vulnerable regions. Through case studies like Temasek's low-carbon rice initiatives and strategies for aligning Indonesia's renewable energy goals with smallholder economics, speakers emphasized philanthropy's role as de-risking capital to crowd in government and private sector investment. The dialogue concluded with a strategic pivot toward an "Asia-led" decade of climate action, urging a shift from isolated charity to coordinated, community-rooted systems that leverage local values to unlock scalable solutions and robust carbon markets.
- Milken Institute43 min
Demystifying Korea and Japan: Parallel Paths and Practical Partnerships | Asia Summit 2025
Avril Hong, Chee Kong Choun, James Kim, Kenji Kobayashi, John-Paul (Jaeho) Yun
Amidst shared demographic challenges and intense competition from China, Japanese and South Korean firms are forging strategic alliances to leverage complementary strengths in manufacturing and soft power. These cross-border partnerships prioritize deploying AI within localized vertical industries rather than competing in foundational models, while simultaneously pursuing M&A consolidation and expansion into the US, ASEAN, and European markets to secure global capital and growth. Private sector leaders are driving this transformation to bypass domestic stagnation, aiming to monetize decades of accumulated industrial data and establish a unified front against US and Chinese tech dominance.
- Milken Institute54 min
China's Innovative Renaissance: Global Ambitions, New Momentum | Asia Summit 2025
Robin Hu, David He, Jui Tan, Danny Tang
The event analyzes China's shifting consumer landscapes, where cultural reconnection and female empowerment are fueling global growth for brands like Pop Mart and Lao Pu Gold alongside a massive capital shift from real estate to discretionary spending. Simultaneously, it details the nation's strategic pivots in deep tech, highlighting how Chinese AI firms leverage superior engineering and open-source leadership to achieve high performance with fewer GPUs despite hardware bottlenecks. The presentation concludes by outlining an investment framework for 2030 that prioritizes companies with deep R&D, wide portfolios, and global ambitions, while predicting AI, robotics, and esports as the primary drivers of future market expansion.
- Milken Institute44 min
Global Real Estate: Repricing Risk, Rethinking Strategy | Asia Summit 2025
Curtis S. Chin, Michelle Martin, Stuart Crow, Goodwin Gaw, Kishore Moorjani, Hsueh Ling Ng
Global real estate capital is rapidly migrating from traditional office space to invisible infrastructure like data centers and battery storage, driven by AI compute demands and supply chain regionalization strategies. While distress in the office sector and record interest rates are forcing asset re-purposing and wealth consolidation, innovative financing models including private credit and tokenization are unlocking new liquidity for investors. Market experts highlight specific opportunities in Asia-Pacific hubs, Hong Kong's gateway role, and the residential living sector as the primary engines for future yield and resilience amidst shifting geopolitical and technological landscapes.
- Milken Institute24 min
A Conversation with BTG Chairman, André Esteves | Global Investors' Symposium São Paulo 2025
André Esteves, Christiane Pelajo, Cris
Global market volatility driven by US policy shifts and a K-shaped economic divergence has elevated Brazil's strategic position as a neutral food and data hub leveraging its clean energy matrix. While AI capital expenditures are reshaping the industrial landscape, the speaker projects Brazilian interest rates to fall from 15% to a 7–11% range provided the government implements a 2% of GDP fiscal adjustment to resolve macroeconomic contradictions. Ultimately, the nation's future prosperity hinges on replacing social aid with formal labor incentives and utilizing deep capital markets to fund infrastructure independent of external geopolitical luck.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Reimagining Mental Health: Innovation at the Intersection of Care & Techn | Future of Health 2025
Rhitu Chatterjee, Amir Inamdar, Patrick Joseph Kennedy, Vik Kheterpal, Upali Nanda, Viviane Poupon
A global summit convened by leaders including Amir Nandar, Patrick Kennedy, and Viviane Poupon addresses a $6 trillion economic burden caused by mental health conditions through integrated strategies spanning pharmaceutical innovation, digital equity, and architectural intervention. Participants highlighted breakthrough therapies like Cybin's CYP003, successful biophilic design projects that reduced medication usage by 30%, and digital monitoring initiatives that engaged 81% of bipolar patients to bridge the gap between chronic care and primary prevention. The gathering concluded with a unified call to reframe mental health as "brain health," urging policymakers to establish liability frameworks for AI and social media while leveraging public-private partnerships to scale accessible, preventative care models globally.
- Milken Institute47 min
The Infrastructure Imperative: Mobilizing Capital for a Resilient Economy | GIS São Paulo
Anya Prusa, Tufi Daher, Karen Fang, Laurent Fayollas, Michael Kelly, Tanya, Eliane
Industry leaders and institutional investors gathered to address the $2.1 trillion global clean energy finance landscape, emphasizing the critical need for stable public policies and de-risking instruments to unlock capital for projects ranging from Brazil's TransNordestina railway to Canada's $15 billion Growth Fund. The panel highlighted emerging technologies like advanced geothermal and carbon capture alongside the transformative potential of AI in grid optimization, while noting that demand-side behavior change and Indigenous legal reforms are essential drivers for scaling decarbonization efforts. Ultimately, the discussion concluded that achieving a balance between affordability, security, and sustainability requires overcoming geopolitical supply chain risks and shifting political focus toward concrete project execution in resource-rich but underfunded regions like Africa.
- Milken Institute31 min
Opportunities in Sustainability: Voice of Global Investors | Global Investors' Symposium São Paulo
Patricia Torres, Clara Barby, Tony Lent, Jens Nielsen, Wolfgang Schwerdtle
A recent high-level forum brought together investors from GIC, the World Climate Foundation, and Just Climate to align capital strategies with Brazil's mandate to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 59% to 67% below 2005 levels by 2035, prioritizing land use and agriculture over traditional energy transition. Participants identified a maturing market where average deal sizes are rising to $30 million, yet emphasized that overcoming data gaps and currency risks requires innovative financial instruments like off-take guarantees and specialized intermediaries. The dialogue concluded with a unified call for asset owners to appoint dedicated NBS executives and reallocate 2–3% of assets by 2025 to support scalable nature-based solutions that bridge the gap between venture and infrastructure capital.
- Milken Institute51 min
Movies, Games, Anime: Redefining the Fanverse in the Gen Z Era | Asia Summit 2025
Chong Seow Wei, Maureen Fan, Kun Gao, Patrick Lee, Kevin Lin
Industry leaders Maureen Fan, Kun Kun Gao, Patrick Lee, and Kevin Lin convened to redefine Gen Z fandom as a shift from passive consumption to active co-creation and transmedia immersion. The panelists analyzed how authentic creator-driven pipelines, particularly in Asian entertainment, and platforms like Roblox are reshaping audience power, while noting that AI democratization will necessitate stronger human curation to manage the resulting content explosion. Their discussion concluded that future business success relies on building direct creator-to-audience infrastructure that prioritizes collaborative storytelling and physical live experiences over traditional gatekeeping and isolated adaptation silos.