tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263379142011-07-15T12:42:51.908-07:00<a href="http://www.smartbrief.com">SmartBrief</a> is covering the 2006 Milken Institute Global Conference live from Los Angeles.SmartBrief, Inc.noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26337914.post-1146243452234109512006-04-28T09:55:00.000-07:002006-04-28T10:01:09.493-07:00

I left my first Milken conference impressed and intellectually whipped. I have attended some great events in my lifetime; few rival Milken in terms of planning and execution. I sat with the senior economist for Deutsche Bank at lunch on Tuesday; this was his fifth conference. "The problems discussed are pretty depressing," he said. "But everyone around here is so optimistic and happy. I

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David Heber, author of "What Color is Your Diet?" moderated the session "The Coming Health Renaissance and the Role of Nutrition," which focused on how the marketplace is responding to the obesity epidemic and consumer demands for healthier choices. As Heber said, "It will take consumers voting with their pocketbooks to change the food supply."Brian Cornell of Safeway gave the view from the

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Since 1901, a special group of individuals converge in the city of Stockholm, Sweden to receive acknowledgement for their achievements in literature, economics, medicine, physics, chemistry, and peace. Three individuals recognized by the Nobel Foundation for their accomplishments in physics and chemistry joined moderator Mike Milken for a lunchtime discussion on the most pressing current policy

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Let's start with a stat: 67% fourth graders in the capitol city of the most powerful nation on earth cannot read. Frightened yet? How about the fact that Only 17% of 12th-graders scored at or above the "proficient" level? Me upon hearing this news. "The Future of Education: Effective Solutions to the Challenges Facing America's Public Schools," six luminaries in the education field discussed the

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If there wasn’t enough to worry about already, do baby boomers need to add an impending crash in stock and bond prices to the list? Didn’t former Vice President Al Gore’s talk at last year's Global Conference and upcoming film on global warming scare us enough? In the panel “Baby Boom or Baby Bomb?” panelists Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Mike Milken

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Here's an assignment--grab a pen and a piece of paper and draw a scientist. All done? Let me guess--you probably drew a crazy looking guy in a white lab coat and pocket protector who is undoubtedly brandishing a test tube or beaker that is spouting flames. The problem is, you wouldn't be alone--in fact, this is the image that more than 80% of children in grades 4 through 7 would draw. However,

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The last session I attended yesterday was the most engaging and lively yet. Featuring a mix of K-12 educators, college profs and luminary thinkers and doers, "Blogs, Wikis, MMORPGs, and YASNS: Shaking Up Traditional Education" even inspired some authentic divergence of opinion, something of a rarity at the Conference. The passion, no doubt, stems from what's at stake: our kids and how they

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The Milken Institute Global Conference is covering its share of "weighty" issues this week but this one offers a slightly different take on the term."There's a handful of women gathered in front of an empty table inside the AOL Cyber Pavilion. One of them is clutching a small ivory colored book to her chest talking to the woman next to her. '...going to the market, getting fresh fruit, just

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How can medical research funders feel confident they are making a wise investment? One way is to optimize the management and run things more like a business, offered Roy Doumani of the California NanoSystems Institute. Benchmarks and a willingness to stop a project when it is not working were also cited.How can investors build off existing research advances? Can we trust the published

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Historically, film financing was about big personalities, high worth individual investors, huge risk and low returns. And as Sandy Climan put it, "The creative guys sneered at the suits." In this afternoon's standing room only (we are in eyeshot of the Hollywood sign, after all) session The New Value Chain: The Link Between Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley, dealmakers discussed how

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This afternoon, Alvin Toffler discussed the major theories underlying his newest book, "Revolutionary Wealth." Toffler is an incredibly smart Author and Futurist. Click here to check out his company.Toffler taught the audience the meaning of his term, "prosumers," and how they are fundamentally changing our economy. Prosumers are producers and consumers. For instance, when you go to the ATM,

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What drives entrepreneurs in China, especially when the risks and difficulties appear to be so numerous? "The New Elite: opportunism and Challenges faced by Chinese Entrepreneurs" brought several successful entrepreneurs' experiences in China to the session. Oddly enough the moderator started the session off with a list of questions that would not be addressed by the panelists. Unfortunately the

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There are a plethora of issues that should have me deeply concerned, according to this afternoon's session, "Global Risk: What Should Be Keeping You Up at Night." Pandemic influenza (or bird flu in layman's terms), bio-terrorism, Iran's muscle-flexing in the Middle East and steeply rising oil prices top the list of concerns. I was convinced I'd need a lifelong prescription to ambien.Strangely

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Bloomberg news has been interviewing attendees at the Milken Conference for their views on everything from economics to education. SmartBrief's news video service has this Bloomberg interview with Eli Broad, a Milken Conference panelist, philanthropist and founder-chairman of KB Home and AIG Retirement Services. Broad discusses philanthropic efforts to assist educators.Watch the videoSource:

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China's environment is suffering from the consequences of its rapid growth, and the session "China and the Environment: The Real cost of Growth" brought together very disparate opinions on the future of China's environmental health, the United States' responsibility for China's environment and the state of the growing grassroots environmental movement.In China both water and air quality are poor

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A discussion of the global research market in the “Medical Research Goes Global” panel began with Steve Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Co pointing out that even the smallest player in the biotech and research arena is now global. The challenges of global medical research are increasingly complex. One challenge is that one size doesn’t fit all, and currently medicines are not yet differentiated for

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Earlier in the Global Conference, we heard about research going global and the importance of funding for innovative research. In the session entitled "The Power of Computing: How Technology is Transforming Medical Research and the Discovery of Cures," panelists discussed how large-scale computing can, will, and is being used to foster data sharing and processing to accelerate the discovery of new

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Blogging Milken is offering video podcasts from the conference.

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Tom Waston, reporting on the conference for onPhilanthrophy, considers the effect of charitable giving on efforts to provide health care:"Can we peg the importance of charitable giving in extending health care to those who don't have, here in the U.S., and in the developing world?I'm not so sure. It's certain that the advancement of medicine is increasingly a global phenomenon. But the competing

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Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey or the healthy House salad? How many times have you faced this challenging dinner conundrum? In the panel entitled "Nutrition and Health: Separating Fact from Fiction," leading medical researchers presented practical information that undoubtedly convinced meeting participants to put down the ice cream spoon and pick up that salad fork.Good nutrition is a life-long

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A fundamental change in how we think about business is afoot. Moving from a hierarchical, company-centric model to a fluid, network-centric business model was the theme of this morning's panel "The Changing Nature of Corporations: Succeeding in a Flat World." Bottom line: open networks drive costs down while increasing the quality and speed of innovation. As laid out so eloquently by Tom

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How will two of the worlds largest and fastest growing economies, those of China and India, reconcile their differences and will they be able to exist in a mutually beneficial relationship? The panelists of "Asia: A New Global Order in the Making" sought to address such a questions about these two Asian juggernauts, but became bogged down in discussions on the political and economic landscape of

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Despite blanket affirmations that the U.S. economy is very strong, panelists in this morning's session, "U.S. Overview: Will the Economy Stay on Top," agree there are numerous problems facing America. Among the myriad changes we must make to ensure continued economic growth, health care, education and policy reform top the list. "The world is making a quantum leap forward, and America doesn't

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The theme of how to ensure that non-profits and philanthropies run as efficiently as possible came up throughout “The New Philanthropists and the Future of Medical Research Funding” panel. “Many foundations were started by entrepreneurs who were transformative in what they accomplished. Their hands, in some cases, actually changed civilization,” offered Carl Schramm, President and CEO of the

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David Weinberger, an author and Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is musing on his blog about the topics he may bring up as a member of today's panel: "Blogs, Wikis, MMORPGs, and YASNS: Shaking Up Traditional Education."Here's a sampling:"What are our students learning from the success of Wikipedia? We hope they're learning that they can't be passive recipients

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Five of the industry's best and brightest gathered yesterday afternoon for the roundtable "How do I get more From My Marketing." Moderator Wes Nichols laid out the premise: our current marketing model is broken. We are about to witness a shift in marketing from subjectivity to objectivity. No revelations came out of the session, but the conversation did yield a few nuggets of marketing wisdom:1

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What can the pharmaceutical industry do to spur innovation and fill the pipeline? Is the drug pipeline broken? Fostering Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry gathered pharmaceutical company executives and medical research experts in a roundtable discussion that tackled the tough questions about if and why the pharmaceutical industry seems to be in a rut of late. Would new external,

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As technology improves, consumers are getting used to -- and demanding – access to content they want when then want it: anytime, anywhere. In Monday morning’s session Media Convergence and the Revolution in Marketing and Brand Building, media moguls Edgar Bronfman Jr., of Warner Music Group and Mike Kelly of AOL Media Networks discussed their companies’ changing strategies and how consumer choice

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History buffs know that there were three pandemics in the 20th Century (1918, 1957 and 1968) and the experts gathered agreed we were due for another, hence the title of the session, "Not If But When: The Economic Impact of the Coming Flu Pandemic." Noting that "pandemics are like earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis" - only worse because of their global nature - Michael Osterholm of the

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In opening the panel "Too Small? Too cheap? Too slow? Is this the way to build the national health information network?" Greg Simon, President of FasterCures asked panelists to offer their perspectives on whether we were moving quickly enough in adopting electronic medical records (EMRs). The reviews were decidedly mixed, and many of the complicated nuances of this area were raised. Stephen

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“The future will look no more like the past than a butterfly looks like a caterpillar.” – Andrew von Eschenbach Joe Hogan of GE Healthcare opened the session "The Future of Health Care” with an overview of the state of healthcare today. Despite “so much effort, so much passion and so much money,” Hogan gave an overall grade of “could be so much better.” With pressures on the system in the form

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Attention to, and reform of, the education system in the United States is necessary if we are to continue to compete in the global economy, according to a panel discussion today titled “Ensuring America’s Success in Education.” Children and young adults in the U.S. continue to under-perform compared to their peers in other nations. According to Susan Sclafani, who moderated the panel, the

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Thankfully, we can all breathe a sigh of relief – America remains very competitive vis-à-vis other countries, according to this afternoon’s panel titled “Preserving America’s Global Competitiveness.” However, there was consensus among the panelists that the U.S. needs to make a number of reforms in order to remain a competitive country. Education reform tops the list. We need more children

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With terrorist attacks growing in both intensity and frequency, this morning's session "The Economic Impact of Terrorism" elaborated on the many ways these attacks have far reaching effects on GDP, human and physical capital, interregional trade, and foreign investment.Former US Senator Gary Hart lead the charge boldly taking the position that terrorist acts are not acts of war, but are crimes

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With electronic sales booming, the problem of how to dispose of electronics, especially because of the toxic material used in their manufacture, is one with dire environmental consequences. The panel "Electronic Waste: A New Industry for a Growing Problem" discussed California's SB-20 electronic waste recycling program along with the difficulties other jurisdictions and other recycling strategies

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Leverage: Tom Watson, from Changing Our World, a philanthropic services company, reports from a conference panel considering how leverage can drive philanthropic efforts. "They called the panel 'The New Philanthropists and the Future of Medical Research Funding,' but they could have saved some ink in the program here at the Milken Institute's Global Conference. They could have just called it '

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There are at least two three other bloggers covering the Milken Institute Global Conference. Take a look at Blogging Milken, elearnspace and mamamusings. I'll stop counting now since I suspect the list will grow quite a bit.Update: PaidContent.org's Rafat Ali is at the conference and weighs in with observations from a panel on "Media Convergence." He's also found a new catch phrase coined by

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How can we foster more innovation in the quest to accelerate medical solutions? In the Innovation in Medicine and Health Care: Past, Present and Promise panel, Greg Simon, President of FasterCures asked how the elements of innovation related to being able to do things faster, better, and cheaper.Ray Thurston, Founder and CEO of Sonicair talked about how at the Translational Genomics Research

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Opening the special workshop examining health and aging, moderator Mike Milken proclaimed that, "Today is not a day of aging, but rather a day of getting younger." In the session entitled "Longevity, Biological Age and an Aging Population," panelists presented information pertaining to the most pressing issues in dealing with the aging of the Baby Boomer generation, namely America's economic

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Use it or lose it Dr. Gary Small, Director of the UCLA Center on Aging, reprised last year’s popular mini "Memory Boot Camp" during a lively lunchtime talk, "Aging and Mental Function: How do we forget? How do we remember?" with guidance on how to keep your brain young through lifestyle changes and mental aerobics. (He had his own family case study: his grandmother-in-law, Grandma Ollie, who

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A recent column by David Leonhardt in The New York Times on the potential outsourcing of radiology work to doctors in India is worth reading if you're planning on attending Tuesday's Milken Institute Global Conference session covering the "opportunities and pitfalls of doing medical research in developing economies.""For now, the practical effect on radiology is small. At its highest levels, the

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Attention to, and reform of, the education system in the United States is necessary if we are to continue to compete in the global economy, according to a panel discussion today titled “Ensuring America’s Success in Education.” Children and young adults in the U.S. continue to under-perform compared to their peers in other nations. According to Susan Sclafani, who moderated the panel, the

Phil Ricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11851003033269852653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26337914.post-1145635446782955272006-04-21T09:00:00.001-07:002006-04-24T12:07:11.066-07:00

"Now in its ninth year, the Milken Institute Global Conference has become one of the premier events in North America, bringing together more than 2,500 leaders in business, government, philanthropy, journalism and academics from 50 countries."The Milken Institute, FasterCures and SmartBrief will be covering important developments in healthcare, media, economics and a range of other issues from

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