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Welcome to the 2009 Global Conference web site. There are numerous ways for you to enjoy the many discussions that took place this year. Below, you may view any of the session videos or interviews with our panelists. To the left, you may view photographs. You may also view slides, summaries and photographs of individual panels by visiting those pages through the Program link.
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 Panel Videos

 Interviews
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
A Conversation With Lado Gurgenidze, Former Prime Minister of Georgia
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
A Conversation With Lynda Resnick: Demystifying the Creative Process
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
A Conversation With Sumner Redstone: If You Could Live Forever, What Would Life Be Like?
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
A Conversation With Vinod Khosla: The Shift to Renewable Energy Requires "Innovation Capitalism"
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Affordable Housing Roundtable
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Alternative Medicine Joins the Mainstream
Wednesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Alternative Public Education Systems: Delivering a High Quality K-12 Education in the 21st Century
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
An Interactive Discussion About Social Networking
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Building a World Without Hunger
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Can Global Finance Survive Nationalization, Regulation and Reform?
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Capital Structure Matters
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
CEO Conversation: Outlook for India With Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan
Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
CEO Conversation: Past, Present and Future of Las Vegas With Steve Wynn
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
CEO Conversation: Steve Cloobeck on the Value of Providing Excellent Service in Difficult Economic Times
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
CEO: How Will It Stop Being a Dirty Word?
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Climate Change: Next Stop, Copenhagen
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Commercial Real Estate: Identifying the Opportunities
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Computing's Next Playground
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Convertible Securities in Today's Market
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Credit Markets
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Developing, Selecting and Training the Next Generation of Leaders
Tuesday 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dinner Panel
A Political Discussion
Monday 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dinner Panel
Athletes for Hope: Sports Philanthropy
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Dispelling Myths: The Real Role of Women in the Middle East
Monday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Doing Business in Russia: Overcoming Repeated Crises
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Early Childhood Education at a Crossroads
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
El Mundo Nuevo: Why the United States and Latin America Need Each Other
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Emerging Domestic Markets: Financing Community Development in Troubled Times
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Energy Efficiency: Tightening Our Energy Belts
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Ensuring the World’s Water Supply
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Entrepreneurship = Recovery: A Formula for Long-Term Economic Growth
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Eyes Still on the Prize: African-American Civil Rights in the Age of Obama
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Financial Literacy: An Issue of American Competitiveness
Monday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Financial Recovery: When and How?
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Financing Israel's Future
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Focusing on the Balance Sheet: A New Approach to Family Wealth Management
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Fostering Change in Africa: Transforming a Continent Through Innovative Business and Philanthropy
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Global Aid Workers: Heroes on the Front Lines
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Global Banking: Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save?
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Global Health: New Business Models
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Global M&A Opportunities in Education
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Global Risk
Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Health Information Technology and the Health-Care Revolution
Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Health Information Technology and the Health-Care Revolution
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Health-Care Reform: Once More Into the Breach
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
High-Skills Immigration Can Help U.S. Economic Recovery
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
How Nonprofits Can Sustain Their Mission in a Down Economy
Monday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
How U.S. States Can Benefit from the Build America Bond Program
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
India's Human Capital: Educating the World's Largest Population of Children
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Infrastructure Projects as Economic Stimulus
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Infusing Technology into Education for Economic Competitiveness
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Innovation Out of Necessity: Incubating Solutions in Israel
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Innovative Funding for Sustainable Fisheries and Oceans
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Institutional Endowments: Finding the Right Formula
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Institutional Investors: It's a Whole New World
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Investing in Green Energy
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Investing in Iraq
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Is It Time to Embrace Nuclear Energy?
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Jump-Starting the Housing Market
Monday 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Late Night
Duke University and U.S. Olympic Coach Mike Krzyzewski on Building Winning Teams
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Life After 80: Always Looking Forward
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Living Longer and Better Through Science, Nutrition and Lifestyle Choices
Monday 12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Lunch Panel
U.S. Overview: When Will Growth Resume?
Tuesday 12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Lunch Panel
A Discussion With Nobel Laureates in Economics: Whither Capitalism?
Tuesday 12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Lunch Panel
A Discussion With Nobel Laureates in Economics: Whither Capitalism?
Wednesday 12:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Lunch Panel
Global Overview
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Market Solutions to Global Climate Change
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Marketing 3.0: Reaching Consumers and Getting Them to Buy
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Measuring Today’s Terrorist Threat
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Moving From Aid to Investment: New Models for Supporting International Development
Wednesday 6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
New Energy in Canada
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Next-Generation Internet Innovations: Changing the Way We Live and Do Business
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Oil and Energy Security
Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
On the Wealth of Nations: Creating Prosperity in a Turbulent World
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Outlook for the Entertainment Industry
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
PACE Finance: Innovative Funding to Accelerate the Retrofitting of America's Buildings for Energy Independence
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Perspectives on the Changing Landscape in Alternative Asset Management
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Philanthropists in the New Economy
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Politics, Economics and Culture: The Language of America
Wednesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Power to the People: Rebuilding the Electrical Grid for the 21st Century
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Preserving the Past to Build the Future: Antiquities as an Economic Development Resource for Emerging Nations
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Private Equity: Where Risk Meets Opportunity
Tuesday 6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
Private Versus Publicly Held Financial Institutions: Which Are Best Positioned?
Wednesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Reading the Financial Tea Leaves: Indicators to Watch
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Reinventing Asia's Growth Miracle
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Reinvestment from Washington, Recovery in California
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Responsible Investing: Making Informed Investment Decisions
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Retail and the Changing Consumer: Where People Will Spend
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Reverse Oil Shock in the Middle East
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Reviving Israeli-Palestinian Economic Cooperation
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Rx for Failing Schools: High Test, High Tech
Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
SAVE Roundtable: New Energy Initiatives
Wednesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Scaling Up Risk Capital to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Emerging Markets
Wednesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Social Networking in the Political World
Monday 6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
Solutions to the Increasing Cost of Financing College Education
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Sustaining Sustainability
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Taking Control of Restructuring to Drive Successful Turnarounds
Wednesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
TARP: A Look at What Happened From Inside the Treasury Department
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
The Business of Social Networking
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
The Current Restructuring Cycle: Meltdown or Metamorphosis?
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
The End of Export-Driven Development: Searching for China's Next Growth Engine
Monday 6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
The Evolution of Islamic Finance
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
The Forecast for Emerging Markets
Monday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The Future of Health
Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The Future of Hedge Funds: Transparent and Liquid
Tuesday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
The Global Battle for Commodities
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The Mobile Web
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The New Relationship Between Government and Business
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The New University and Its Role in the Economy
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
The Next Generation of Venture Capital: Hot Ideas from Sand Hill Road
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
The Post-Secondary Education Market: Is Online Education Coming of Age?
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets Roundtable
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The Role of Finance in Strengthening the Economy
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The State of Stem Cell Research
Tuesday 6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
The Swine Flu Epidemic: How Serious Is the Threat?
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The U.S.-China Relationship: The Uneasy Ties That Bind
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
The X-Prize Model: Driving Innovation in Health Care
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Transformative Technologies in K-12 Education
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
U.S. Governors Address Challenges Facing Their States
Wednesday 6:30 AM - 7:45 AM
Vistage Breakfast
By invitation only
Monday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Wellness in the Workplace: Obesity and Other Bottom-Line Issues
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
What Are the Real Economics of Quality Health Care?
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
What We've Learned From the Credit Crisis
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
What's the Grand Old Party to Do? The Future of the Conservative Movement
Monday 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Work Force Development: A Differentiator in Hiring and Retaining
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
You Are What You Wear: A Conversation With Dr. Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Hollywood Costume Designer of Indiana Jones and Michael Jackson's Thriller
04/29/2009
Michelle Gass on adapting to "conscientious consumption"
Executive Vice President, Marketing and Category, Starbucks
04/29/2009
Todd Boehly on the "next wave of credit investing"
Managing Partner, Guggenheim Partners LLC
04/29/2009
Kris Gopalakrishnan on India, the recovery and auto emissions
CEO and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
04/29/2009
Phillip Swagel on TARP from behind the scenes
Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
04/29/2009
Scott Minerd on opportunities in credit markets and public-private partnerships
Managing Partner, Guggenheim Partners; CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners Asset Management Inc.
04/29/2009
Matt Kistler on the benefits of sustainability
Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
04/29/2009
Amir Dajani on building the Palestinian master-planned community of Rawabi
Deputy Managing Director, Bayti Real Estate Investment Company
04/28/2009
Joseph Dear on a "course correction" for asset allocation
Chief Investment Officer, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
04/28/2009
Barry Libert on the business of social networking and retaining young workers
Chairman and CEO, Mzinga
04/28/2009
Greg Simon on the swine flu and philanthropyadvisoryservice.org
President, FasterCures
04/28/2009
Chris Ailman on CalSTRS' "tactical" allocation shift and long-term goals
Chief Investment Officer, California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS)
04/28/2009
Michael Klowden on Global Conference and the Institute's latest projects
President and CEO, Milken Institute
04/28/2009
Larry Brilliant on the swine flu risk
President, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund; Philanthropic Advisor to Jeff Skoll and Google
04/27/2009
Jonathan Bloch on investing in clean technology
Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner, GKM Newport; Managing Partner, GKM Ventures
04/27/2009
Steve Forbes on the recovery, government intervention and market transparency
Chairman and CEO, Forbes Inc.
04/27/2009
Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. on Utah's future and the federal stimulus
Governor of Utah
04/27/2009
Mohamed El-Erian on Washington's reaction to the downturn and future regulation
CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO)
04/27/2009
Joshua Ramo on "the new world disorder" and China's challenges
Managing Director, Kissinger Associates; Author, The Age of the Unthinkable
04/27/2009
Douglas Elmendorf on the deficit, entitlements, health care and cap-and-trade
Director, Congressional Budget Office
04/27/2009
Glenn Yago on the banks, credit markets and government regulation
Director, Capital Studies, Milken Institute
04/27/2009
Amory Lovins on energy alternatives and "clean coal"
Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
04/27/2009
Ross DeVol on the economic outlook and housing market solutions
Director, Regional Economics, Milken Institute
04/27/2009
Jim Goodnight on measuring student achievement and technology in schools
CEO, SAS
The 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference drew some 3,000 leaders from the worlds of business and finance, philanthropy, government, health care, education and news media to discuss, debate and deliberate the most difficult challenges facing the world today.

Among them were hundreds of CEOs from the world’s top-tier companies, senior elected and appointed foreign and U.S. government officials, high-level executives in the American and foreign capital markets, global academic experts and leaders in education, health care and philanthropy.

More than 500 speakers participated in the 2009 Global Conference. View our list of speakers.

This year's sessions focused heavily on the financial crisis and the global economy, as well as on government's growing role in business and our lives. Other sessions examine industries, regions of the world, health and medical research, education, energy and climate change, and media. View the 2009 Global Conference program online or download a pdf of the printed version.

The 2010 Global Conference is April 26-28 in Los Angeles.

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