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Millennium Live | A Digital Diary Podcast


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    Episode 189 | Better Leaders. Better Companies. Better World.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2023 32:34


    Today, we face challenges exponentially more complex than anything we faced in the past.It was the perfect time to welcome Jonathan Kirschner, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AIIR Consulting to the #millenniumlive podcast, to learn how to build better leaders, better teams, a better company, and a brighter future. AIIR Consulting is the premier provider of tech-enabled leadership solutions and is setting the standard in next-generation leadership development, executive coaching, and team effectiveness. Dr. Kirschner shares he's telling leaders to mitigate the effects of working in times of uncertainty, how coaching is such an effective tool for helping leaders build new skills, and what leaders need to do to remain effective.

    Episode 188 | Real-time AI for Event and Risk Detection

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2023 22:21


    Millennium Live is delighted to chat with a real-time AI platform detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from within publicly available data and used for social good. Dataminr is recognized as one of the world's leading AI businesses. The company's clients are the first to know about high-impact events and emerging risks so they can mitigate and manage crises more effectively to solve real-world problems. Joining the #MillenniumLive podcast is Dataminr's President of Government, Dana Barnes, who discusses what makes Dataminr unique. Dana also talks through his background in cybersecurity having experience at Palo Alto and over twelve years at Microsoft.

    Episode 187 | Leverage a New Level of Data

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2023 15:44


    Brand growth requires brand intelligence, and Cynthia Sener, Chief Revenue Officer at Chatmeter shares why on the first Millennium Live episode of 2023. Chatmeter is turning casual buyers into life-long, loyal brand champions by perfecting the customer journey online and in-store. In this episode, Cynthia talks through some key points around Deep Listening, and how it's driving customer experience (CX) agility to increase customer loyalty and growth for multi-location enterprises. Chatmeter delivers data-driven, all-in-one reputation and local SEO management solutions designed to help multi-location brands optimize online visibility, reputation, and CX strategy at scale across the globe. Cynthia brings nearly 25 years of experience to Chatmeter with a background in local SEO, product development, strategic marketing, revenue generation and sales. Sener's customer-centric approach to driving business value, growth and revenue will support Chatmeter's expansion into new verticals. She perviously has held leadership roles at data centric organizations such as Rio SEO, Acxiom, Hanley Wood and Constellation Software.

    Episode 186 | Amplifying Your Ability To Help Others

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2022 20:37


    The Millennium Live podcast kicks off this week with a hot topic from last weeks Healthcare Payer & Provider Assembly. Connie Phelps, Area vp of payer specialists at Nuance joins the pod for a discussion on 2023 Trends in Member Engagement and how Nuance is amplifying your ability to help others. Members expect all their interactions with their health plan to be personalized and meaningful and we know that much of the member data can be disjointed, and Connie covers all the great ways Nuance keeps members engaged and the role of digital in keeping people engaged in their health. From one of the first voice recognition systems to the most advanced ambient clinical intelligence ever introduced, Nuance has played a foundational role in the emergence of conversational AI.

    Episode 185 | IT solutions that Meet You Where You Are

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 30:11


    Companion Data Services provides leading IT solutions and managed services. We operate multiple geographically disperse data centers, which host applications and process billions of transactions, supporting state, federal and commercial business. The #MillenniumLive podcast spoke with Suzanne Fuller, Vice President & Chief Solutions Officer, at CDS. Suzanne discusses value of having a single data repository that synchronizes data in real-time, the focus on secure hosting and managed services, and the “digital payer ecosystem”. Tune in to this episode to learn how CDS provides secure and innovative IT solutions to meet you where you are.

    Episode 184 | SAP on Hyperscale Cloud

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2022


    To kick off the week with a solution that is engineering the best SAP on cloud experience to clients across a variety of industries including, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Hospitality, and more. Eamonn O'Neill​, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, joins #millenniumlive to explain the enormous benefits of the Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP), purpose-built to modernize and automate SAP systems on Cloud. Eamonn also discusses top challenges, biggest time-saving automations, and IT flexibility that comes with operating SAP in the Cloud. Lemongrass's mission is to help large Enterprises achieve the best operating experience of SAP on hyperscale Cloud through a transformation to a digitally enabled, highly automated service delivery model that empowers the greatest level of agility and innovation.

    Episode 183 | Enterprise Integration: Redesigned.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2022 21:17


    To complete our week of networking at the Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Assembly in Denver, we had the pleasure to chat with Tam Ayers, Field CTO, North America at Digibee. Digibee enables organizations to build flexible, highly scalable integration architecture. Their platform allows enterprises to compete and excel in today's rapidly changing digital environment. On this episode of #millenniumlive Tam discusses the importance of a connected enterprise, how low-code impact developer productivity, and keeping technology as up to date as possible. He also shares some interesting findings in Digibee's state of enterprise integration report, launched this year. Tam is an entrepreneur and tech leader. He's spent more than a decade focusing on technical solutions and human-centric design. After achieving his B.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Tam put his skills to work at ServiceNow and TruNorth Global before joining Digibee.

    Episode 182 | Put Your Data To Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 19:37


    In a world of diverse data that is constantly changing, Datorios solves the challenge of building data pipelines and makes it a simple and enjoyable task. On this #millenniumlive episode dedicated to Millennium's DATA Transformation Assembly, we're talking with Asaf (Pizzer) Cohen, CRO & Co-Founder at Datorios and Ex-Deputy Commander Unit 8200, discusses how Datorios is on a mission to shorten the data-to-value cycle. Pizzer talks through the effortless streaming and event-driven data pipeline development with the all-in-one environment that glues real-time data stack essentials at scale, and by using Datorios' capabilities, the time it takes to build data pipelines can be reduced dramatically and at a fraction of the current costs.

    Episode 181 | Like A Survey, But Better

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2022 37:26


    What if you could hear from all your employees at once, and leverage their expertise into a strategy you could use? With the world's first and only anti-bias enterprise discussion management platform, the actual human perspective can be scaled into high-quality data to solve the most critical business problems. Thousands of leaders are gaining insights and bringing millions of people together in the business, public, and education sectors using ThoughtExchange. #MillenniumLive invited Dave MacLeod, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at ThoughtExchange and Arun Chidambaram, People Analytics, GE Healthcare. During this episode, the two discuss the value ThoughtExchange brought to GE Healthcare, and how using ThoughtExchange impacts productivity and empowerleadership decisions, now and in the future!

    Episode 180 | Behind Every Great Idea is a Human Truth

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2022 23:24


    Visier is the recognized global leader in people analytics and on-demand answers for people-powered business Visier reveals the fundamental questions and actionable insights to help business and employees win together. Paul Rubenstein heads the People and Culture department at Visier and joins the #millenniumlive podcast to answer organizations most pressing HR questions to solve the most urgent workforce challenges. On this episode Paul discusses the ways People Data is changing the way we manage, employees future expectations, and what's next in DEIB.

    Episode 179 | Make Ordinary Customer Experiences Extraordinary

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 27:24


    #MillenniumLive welcomes Mark Smith, VP of Digital Engagement Solutions at CSG. By channeling the power of all, CSG makes ordinary customer and employee experiences extraordinary. CSG is with you and your customers every step of the way, and at every stage of the customer lifecycle. They consult on customer needs, design a front-facing customer experience and deliver the back-end systems to back it up and CX consultancy to continue fine-tuning and improving interactions and operations. Mark discusses ways to improve customer experience, the best way to centralize enterprise data, and how important executing journeys in real time. 

    Episode 178 | Dr. Jonathan Gruber

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2022 49:25


    Alex's next guest on the #MillenniumLive podcast series is Dr. Jonathan Gruber, Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992 (30 years). He is also the Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the former President of the American Society of Health Economists. A member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Econometric Society. He has published more than 175 research articles, has edited six research volumes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy, a leading undergraduate text, Health Care Reform, a graphic novel, and Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revived Economic Growth and the American Dream (with Simon Johnson). In 2006 Dr. Gruber received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under. During the 1997-1998 academic year, he was on leave as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department. And from 2003-2006 he was a key architect of Massachusetts' ambitious health reform effort (aka Romneycare), and became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for that effort. During 2009-2010 he served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration and worked with both the Administration and Congress to help craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). In 2011 he was named “One of the Top 25 Most Innovative and Practical Thinkers of Our Time” by Slate Magazine. In both 2006 and 2012 he was rated as one of the top 100 most powerful people in health care in the United States by Modern Healthcare Magazine.

    Episode 177 | Let's Secure the Future with Rapid7

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2022 11:37 Transcription Available


    What if security was an opportunity and not an obstacle? On this cybersecurity-focused episode of the Millennium Live podcast, Andre Cuenin, Chief Revenue Officer at Rapid7, believes in simplifying the complex through shared visibility, analytics, and automation that unite teams around the challenges and successes of cybersecurity. Andre shares some valuable insights into what makes Rapid7 solutions and strategic expertise give you everything you need to stay ahead of attackers and out of the news. Learn how the Insight Platform can transform your security program and make sure you're getting the right security outcomes!

    Episode 176 | Dr. Nirit Pisano

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2022 45:16 Transcription Available


    A licensed psychologist, this #MillenniumLive guest has spent the past 20 years studying human emotions and behavior through the lens of clinical and developmental psychology. Dr. Nirit Pisano, Chief Psychology Officer at Cognovi Labs, advises the team on the emotional processes underlying individual affective expressions and collective behavioral trends. Nirit joins the podcast to share some fascinating stories of her life and career. Nirit received her B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University, graduating Summa Cum Laude with Highest Thesis Honors, and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University. She completed her clinical training at Bellevue Hospital, Jacobi Medical Center, and Bronx Psychiatric Center, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Pace University's Counseling Center.  Nirit currently works in private practice with a psychoanalytic lens and a specialization in trauma. She has published a book on intergenerational Holocaust trauma as well as a number of related chapters in edited psychological volumes, and has presented her research at interdisciplinary conferences in the United States and abroad.

    Episode 175 | Bright: Build Secure Apps & APIs. Fast

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 23:56 Transcription Available


    This week's #millenniumlive episode kicks off a week of cybersecurity at Millennium and no better way than to talk through a modern dynamic application security testing platform! Bright lets developers and AppSec teams find and fix vulnerabilities from development to production without slowing them down. Gadi Bashvitz, Co-founder & CEO at Bright, joins the podcast to share why security teams and developers trust and love this product! Gadi explains what makes the Bright solution different from other Application Security solutions out there, the ways organizations have addressed this problem before utilizing Bright, and how there is much talk about Shifting Left and developer focussed security testing, that finding the right time for organizations to integrate this tool is critical.

    Episode 174 | Get A Grip On Your SaaS Security

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2022 11:42 Transcription Available


    This week's episode welcomes a company pioneering endpoint-centric SaaS security. Lior Yaari CEO & Co-Founder of Grip, joins the podcast to discuss how Grip empowers security teams to safeguard business-led IT and modern work. Each SaaS app is an attack path, and most SaaS apps are outside of anyone's view. Grip unifies the SaaS attack surface and applies universal protection for any app, any user, on any device, in any location, at any time. Grip was founded to bring much-needed innovation to SaaS security, and Lior further explains Grip's mission to not compromise (secure SaaS across 100% of applications across devices and users), Make it simple (don't require incremental expertise or resourcing), make it cost effective, with no marketing fluff. What is special about Grip is its elite team elite leadership, period. Lior co-founded the company along with Idan Fast, CTO and Alon Shenkler, VP R&D.

    Episode 173 | Terry Szuplat

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 57:18 Transcription Available


    "When giving a good speech, one must always be telling a story." This episode of the #MillenniumLive podcast proves that words can have a large impact. Terry Szuplat is a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and has some thoughtful insight into the days spent writing for the President. In this exclusive interview with Alex, Terry explores speechwriting and shares some of his defining moments during the Obama administration. Terry offers 25 years of experience providing leaders in government, business, philanthropy, and entertainment with strategic communications and speechwriting support to inspire audiences in the United States and around the world. One of President Barack Obama's longest-serving speechwriters, from 2009 to 2017, Terry helped craft nearly 500 speeches on global security, international economics, U.S. foreign and defense policy, entrepreneurship, development, and human rights.  As a Special Assistant to the President, and Senior Director of Speechwriting at the National Security Council staff, he joined President Obama on visits to more than 40 countries. While serving as the deputy director of the White House Speechwriting Office in the West Wing during President Obama's second term, Terry helped oversee and edit the work of a team of speechwriters, assisted with State of the Union addresses, and produced innovative content to reach new audiences through social media. Since leaving the White House, Terry's personal essays have appeared in leading publications.  In “The Endless Recovery From the Endless War,” he chronicled the story of Army Ranger Cory Remsburg, which former President Barack Obama called “a moving portrait…[and] an honest tribute to all those wounded warriors and families who give so much to our country.” Terry's commentaries have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Fox News, POLITICO Magazine, CTV News, CBC News, Minnesota Public Radio, the Dole Institute of Politics, the Better Angels podcast, and the Bipodisan podcast. He has discussed the role of presidential rhetoric in American politics with students at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, the United States Military Academy at West Point, Georgetown University, Northwestern University, The George Washington University, American University, the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, the University of California in Los Angeles, and the Summer School of Rhetoric in Finland. Before the White House, Terry worked as a freelance consultant for seven years providing speechwriting support to corporate, political, and philanthropic clients.  He served on the speechwriting team at the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions. At the age of 25, Terry was appointed Director of Speechwriting to Secretary of Defense William Cohen, managing a staff of four writers from 1998 to 2001 and earning the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.  A professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2001 to 2002, he previously served on the staff of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, chaired by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, from 1995 to 1997. Terry was a member of the Biden for President National Finance Committee and an advisor to National Security Action, dedicated to restoring principled American leadership at home and abroad.  He serves as a board member of Legacies of War, which advocates for the removal of unexploded U.S. bombs from Laos.  A graduate of American University, he grew up in Falmouth, Massachusetts and now lives outside Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children.

    Episode 172 | Addiction Treatment for Organizations

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2022 23:28 Transcription Available


    #MillenniumLive welcomes a company with a mission to empower people to overcome addictions by combining technology, healthcare, and design. Quit Genius is the world's first digital clinic delivering personalized addiction treatment for your workplace, which includes dynamic solutions for tobacco, vaping, alcohol, and opioid addictions, 100% virtually. Joining us on the podcast is Dr. Yusuf Sherwani, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, who says the goal is nothing short of helping 100 million people overcome their substance addictions by 2030. In this episode, we explore how Quit Genius serves employers, individuals, providers, & health plans, how their substance care differs from traditional treatment, and the ways Quit Genius works with an employers' other programs to optimize all benefits available.

    Episode 171 | Chester Elton

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2022 48:38 Transcription Available


    This week on Millennium Live, we're delighted to welcome Chester Elton, co-author of multiple award-winning bestselling leadership books including All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and Anxiety at Work. Elton's work is supported by research with more than a million working adults, revealing the proven secrets behind high-performance cultures and teams. Elton is co-founder of The Culture Works, a global training company, and has spent two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees in organizational strategy, vision, and values. In this episode, Chester talks about how modern offices are changing, how leaders can adapt to these changes and his love for the New Jersey Devils.

    Episode 170 | Gary Noesner

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 53:16 Transcription Available


    #MillenniumLive is extremely honored to have retired Chief, FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit, Gary Noesner, who was the first person to hold that position. Gary spent thirty years working for the FBI. His book, Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator, recounts some of the many crisis situations he negotiated including right-wing militia standoffs, airplane hijackings, religious zealot sieges, terrorist embassy takeovers, and over 120 overseas kidnapping cases involving American citizens. Gary's most notable experience was negotiating with David Koresh in Waco, where his involvement as a negotiator in this crisis would change the FBI forever. Millennium Alliance Co-Founder, Alex Sobol, asks Gary about his upbrining and early years of his life, his process of negotiating with Koresh, and his thoughts on the world today.  Gary will be keynoting the Transformational CISO Assembly at the Four Season Denver, November 2nd.

    Episode 169 | Rethink Behavioral Health Together

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2022 15:33 Transcription Available


    We're excited to continue welcome enterprise platforms and technology solutions that make a difference. Rethink First is on a mission to empower individuals and organizations to reach their potential by providing them with the behavioral health tools, solutions, and support they need to build healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. Whether it's the learning goal of a student, outcome of a patient, meditation routine of an employee, or growth strategy of a clinic, our Rethink is here to bridge the behavioral health gap between need and exceed. Rethink First's cloud-based enterprise software platforms and evidence-based protocols are transforming society's understanding of behavioral health and wellness by creating communities of support and helping everyone reach their fullest potential. Joining #millenniumlive is Jamie Pagliaro, Executive Vice President & Chief Learning Officer. Jamie is passionate about building communities that optimize care and support the personal well-being of their members, so Rethink has been an ideal place to work and learn. Throughout his career, Jamie has been at the forefront of developing innovative products and services to enhance outcomes for individuals with autism and those who support them.

    Episode 168 | Behavioral Intelligence at Scale

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 6:43 Transcription Available


    Businesses are finding it harder to protect themselves from attackers that result in monetary and reputational losses. The Deduce Collective Intelligence Platform uses a combination of aggregate historical user data, identity risk intelligence, and proactive alerting to deliver a robust identity and authentication solution to protect businesses at scale. The Deduce team wants businesses to have the insights they need to protect themselves and their users from identity fraud and reduce online friction. Deduce makes it easy for our customers to access this wealth of shared identity intelligence via no-code integration with leading CIAM and IDV platforms. Andy Sheldon, VP Marketing joins #millenniumlive to discuss the powerful tools and business impacts of integrating Deduce. Andy is an experienced brand builder, pipeline generator, and proven leader whose career has included marketing leadership roles with Agari, Conga, Unifi Software, Visibleworld, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and more.

    Episode 167 | Using Technology to Create a Frictionless Healthcare Consumer Experience

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 16:21 Transcription Available


    Most people can agree that a large number of hospitals and healthcare organizations are lagging when it relates to the healthcare consumer experience. Most people would also agree that better patient engagement drives better outcomes. Mercury Healthcare is the only technology-enabled engagement company that creates seamless patient experiences through data-driven insights and empowers organizations to intelligently engage consumers through strategic solutions. Manish Goel, Chief Technology Officer at Mercury Healthcare, joins #MillenniumLive to tackle how healthcare organizations can utilize technology to develop strategies for growth, revenue generation, and to create a seamless consumer experience.  Prior to Mercury Healthcare, Manish served as Global Head, Technology Solutions for Envision Pharma Group where he oversaw the development and support of the entire Envision solution portfolio. Previously, Manish oversaw the development and implementation of various technology offerings at companies including IQVIA and Oracle. Manish received his PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow, India and his BE of Mechanical Engineering from VJTI in Mumbai, India.

    Episode 166 | Reimagine Recognition

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2022 30:38 Transcription Available


    Rewards and recognition are proven to improve morale and boost employee loyalty. That means retention goes up! The process is simple: when people are recognized and rewarded for doing a good job, they are more motivated and more engaged in their work. Awardco makes employee recognition simple and easy so your people feel valued more and more often. We welcome Erika Hunt, Enterprise Sales Executive & Malachi Hopoate, Head of Client Education on #millenniumlive, to discuss how Awardco is helping companies across the globe offer truly rewarding recognition with one, easy software platform. Awardco offers more choices because employee rewards aren't one-size-fits-all. Millennium Live learns all about their reward network, which includes Amazon Business, some unique ways clients use the their platform, and Awardco's most popular offerings. Watch the episode to learn more about how Awardco is making it easy to make employees happy.

    Episode 165 | HIT Insights You Can Trust

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 19:43 Transcription Available


    There have been some remarkable advancements in healthcare in the last decade, but there is always room for continued improvement. This week, #MillenniumLive is delighted to have one of our analyst partners join the podcast, whose mission is to improve the world's healthcare through insights, collaboration, and transparency by amplifying the voice of providers and payers. Adam Gale, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, at KLAS Research offers some spectacular observations on acute & post acute care, behavioral health, as well as predictions for the future and where the industry needs to go.  KLAS has been providing accurate, honest, and impartial insights for the healthcare IT (HIT) industry since 1996. Along with Adam, KLAS was started by Kent Gale, Leonard Black, and Scott Holbrook, with a desire to help providers, and now payers, find transparency in the healthcare IT marketplace. KLAS works to bring data and insights to the market and shine a light on HIT. The scope of their research is constantly expanding to best fit market needs as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated. KLAS finds the hard-to-get HIT data by building strong relationships with both payers and providers in the industry.

    Episode 164 | Fernando Machado

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2022 41:16 Transcription Available


    There are few influential marketers who are always willing to take the leap of faith and use creativity to make great things happen. This episode's guest is one of those few. The Millennium Live Podcast is excited to welcome Fernando Machado, Chief Marketing Officer at Activision Blizzard. Fernando is known for pushing the creative boundaries to drive business growth. Prior to joining Activision Blizzard, Machado served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Restaurant Brands International (RBI), where he oversaw brand and marketing strategy for the group's portfolio of restaurants that include Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons. At RBI, he led campaigns such as “McWhopper,” “Google Home of the Whopper,” “Whopper Detour,” “Stevenage Challenge,” and “Moldy Whopper.”  Before joining RBI, he worked for 18 years at Unilever, managing different brands, including Dove where he led the groundbreaking "Beauty Sketches". Fernando joins Alex Sobol on the podcast to talk about his upbringing in Brazil, his parents' strong emphasis on education, how his career path has taken him to live in many places around the world, and some impressive objectives his team at Activision Blizzard are looking to accomplish in the next few years.  You can follow him on twitter! @fer_machado123

    Episode 163 | Leveraging Social to Solve Problems

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 17:15 Transcription Available


    Whether marketing to patients, consumers, caregivers, or doctors, to go the distance depends on two things: the right map and an experienced co-pilot. Danny Flamberg, Vice President, Strategy - HCP at LiveWorld. Danny is a pioneer in crafting compelling strategies, devising breakthrough messaging and embracing omnichannel thinking. He joined #MillenniumLive to share how LiveWorld helps hospitals and health systems through engagement at the intersection of social & digital. Danny talks through how LiveWorld is addressing patient & caregiver needs with online communities, while motivating and changing behavior through programs that spark an emotional response.

    Episode 162 | Accelerating The Consumer Experience with Data

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2022 22:22 Transcription Available


    #MillenniumLive is joined by the team at Informatica, Chuck Hayes, Customer Insights & Master Data Management Account Executive, Healthcare & Life Sciences and Richard Cramer, Chief Strategist, Healthcare & Life Sciences. Chuck and Richard share their thoughts on the trending topic: healthcare consumer experience, and how Informatica makes moving to "the cloud" an easy experience. Together, Informatica helps empower businesses to realize the transformative power of data. 

    Episode 161 | Igniting The Digital Health Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 26:30 Transcription Available


    There are many vendors that are attempting to improve the efficiency, affordability, and accessibility of healthcare, but there is only one that is bringing together their expertise and passion to assemble the world's most sophisticated health data platform. Drew Schiller, CEO & Co-Founder at Validic, takes us through the mission to improve the quality of human life by building technology that makes personal data actionable. Drew discusses Validic's unique perspective on the role remote patient monitoring plays as part of an organization's digital health strategy, and what distinguishes Validic's integration capacities. Take a dive into this episode of #MillenniumLive to explore the platform-approach to simplifying personal health data.

    Episode 160 | Realize the ROI of Implementing Self-Service Online Triage

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 28:44 Transcription Available


    To kick off the week of The Millennium Alliance Patient Experience & Digital Health Assembly, #MillenniumLive welcomes Adeel Malik, Co-Founder & CEO at Clearstep. There are few health systems in the U.S. that are properly equipped to service patient consumers in a manner that is easiest, safest and most convenient for them. Therefore, enhancing patient experiences and automate care access with clinical AI chat solutions to make it easy for patient consumers to self-navigate to the right care is exactly what Clearstep is all about. Adeel shares that the entire team at Clearstep see a world where everyone gets the right care at the right time, and shares insight into the incredible innovation that empowers patient consumers to triage themselves to the most accurate care and services. To put it simply, their mission is to make healthcare easy for everyone.

    Episode 159 | Modernizing The Patient And Clinician Experience

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2022 29:46 Transcription Available


    We welcome Aaron Patzer on this episode of the Millennium Live podcast, He's the co-founder and CEO of Vital, a modern, intelligent digital health application that is transforming the care experience in hospitals and in emergency departments. Aaron is known for his success with Mint.com and for his ability to use technology to make complex things simple. Aaron shares how Vital has been optimizing user experience with consumer-grade software and artificial intelligence, and how they committed to healthcare excellence, building beautiful user experiences and intelligent software for patients and clinicians.

    Episode 158 | The Fundamental Elements of Cyber Hygiene

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2022 30:00 Transcription Available


    MillenniumLive welcomed Bill Boni, retired former Senior Vice President, Information Security at T-Mobile USA, and Corporate Security Officer at Motorola. Bill is one of the leading information risk management practitioners based in the USA, with broad experience in all aspects of creating, sustaining, and transforming security protection for organizations. Bill is a visionary information security leader with outstanding written and verbal communications skills with direct experience with Federal/state governments, high technology, biotech, aerospace/defense, and banking segments and operations in mainland China. In this episode, Bill discusses how organizations can find the right partners who provide top value in delivering effective risk management within dynamic security environments.

    Episode 157 | Olivia Troye

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2022 47:03 Transcription Available


    This week's episode welcomes a top featured guest on the Millennium Live podcast but is also Keynote Speaker for The Millennium Alliance Transformational CISO Assembly, April 25th-26th. We continue Alex's series with Olivia Troye, an American national security official who worked at the National Counterterrorism Center, the United States Department of Energy, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis. She went on to work in the Office of The Vice President of the United States as the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence and also served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force as Pence's lead staffer on the Task Force. She resigned from the White House in August 2020. Alex has a great conversation with Olivia to talk about growing up in El Paso, Texas, and moving to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania, her time in government, and the current state of politics in the United States. 

    Episode 156 | Illuminate the Reskilling Journey

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 16:21 Transcription Available


    SkyHive provides customers with a capable and future-proof workforce that closes the skills gap with speed and efficiency unleashing human potential for individuals, organizations, and governments. On this episode of #MillenniumLive, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at SkyHive, Sean Hinton, to discuss how companies use SkyHive to incorporate “skills of tomorrow” and how are those skills predicted, the benefits of shifting to a skills-based approach, and ethical AI. 

    Episode 155 | Reinventing Supply Chain Management

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2022 28:16 Transcription Available


    Interos is the operational resilience company, reinventing how companies manage their supply chains and business relationships. We had the pleasure to talk with Stuart Phillips, Product Marketing Director, Cybersecurity to discuss all the attention around supply chain security, greatest threats, and the key issue when it comes to security throughout the supply chain. Stuart shares how organizations can build a holistic approach to security, and has some interesting predictions for what's ahead.

    Episode 154 | The Health and Wealth Connection

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 18:15 Transcription Available


    How many of your employees can stitch together $500 in a crisis? Will money worries impact their physical health? These are tough questions to answer if you don't have a full grasp of the problem. Join Colin Brennan, Chief Customer Officer at Alight Solutions, on #MillenniumLive, as he discusses the link between two of life's biggest stressors: health and financial insecurity. We cover personalized benefit experiences, overall utilization in greater services like healthcare, mental health, & overall wellness. Colin helps us break down how recent events have completely shifted the traditional employer-employee relationship and has jump started the Era of the Employee. Alight Solutions is proving that next level transformation begins with your people. 

    Episode 153 | Cloud Security with Ermetic

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2022 23:34 Transcription Available


    #MillenniumLive welcomes Arick Goomanovsky, Co-founder & CBO at Ermetic, to learn how they are leading the way to secure cloud infrastructure. Around the world, organizations of all sizes are using Ermetic to mitigate access risk, secure cloud data, and ensure compliance. Arick shares some valuable insights into the advanced tools of Ermetic's identity-first cloud infrastructure security platform that has led the company to quickly become a pioneer for multi-cloud protection in an easy-to-deploy SaaS solution.

    Episode 152 | Leadership & Discovery

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2022 55:05 Transcription Available


    Welcome to Millennium Live | A Leadership & Discovery Podcast. On Episode 152, we're exploring some meaningful moments on ten episodes that have had a big impact on our audience, and so we're throwing it back this week. We hope you enjoy this compilation from some of our distinguished guests & the stories that shaped their career. Guests (in order): Ben Rhodes, Howard Krieger, David Shulkin, Dr. Stephen Klasko, Dr. Jay Bhatt, Jose Arrieta, Gerri Martin-Flickinger, Barry Klarberg, Karen Hold, and Michael Poutre.

    Episode 151 | Driving The Evolution of Blockchain Infrastructure

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2022 55:35 Transcription Available


    #MillenniumLive is back for a very exciting episode this week, as Alex interviews two guests on the podcast. Alex had a remarkable conversation with Michael Poutre and Ryan Fabian, the Managing Partners at Terraform Capital, to chat about their interesting backgrounds from where they grew up, the story of how they became friends and brought their respective backgrounds in finance in technology together, and overcame serious challenges to create a company that's transforming the industry. Take a listen and learn how Terraform is dedicated to shaping the rapidly transformative growth of blockchain technology and companies involved.

    Episode 150 | Taos

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2022 16:32 Transcription Available


    On this episode of Millennium Live, we welcome a company thats brings the brightest minds together to solve the world's toughest technology challenges. We had the pleasure to hear from Ken Grohe, SVP & Chief Revenue Officer at Taos. An IBM Company, Taos helps today's enterprises and rapidly growing businesses harness the power of the cloud and DevOps with digital transformation and optimization solutions. As an early adopter of public cloud technologies, Taos has forged strong partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft. These partnerships and our expertise in each platform allows us to take an agnostic approach to your cloud journey. No matter the industry or the size of your business, Taos' Cloud Advisors and DevOps Professionals can accelerate your migration to the cloud while lowering your risk. As a Global Leader of Cloud and DevOps, Taos continues to solve what's next in technology, talent, and solutions.

    Episode 149 | Karen Hold

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2022 53:54 Transcription Available


    Transformation can be challenging to business leaders, but taking the time to ask the right questions can produce some incredible results. #MillenniumLive welcomes Karen Hold, Founder & CEO of Experience Labs, to talk about the journey of her career and building a culture of innovation. Her brand strategist & customer experience background has led to her co-authoring her first book: Experiencing Design - The Innovator's Journey, published by Columbia University Press. Karen shares some insightful stories from her impactful year at P&G, working with Folgers brand, and how she's helped some of the most prestigious Fortune 500 brands achieve innovation through design thinking.

    Episode 148 | Barry Klarberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2022 51:13 Transcription Available


    Alex Sobol's interview series kicks off this year for an enjoyable. chat with Barry Klarberg. He is a professional business and wealth manager for athletes, entertainers and high-net-worth individuals. Alex and Barry explore growing up in Rockaway Queens, always being ahead in academics, and life lessons along the way that helped shape Barry into the successful and charismatic businessman he is today. More about Barry Klarberg: He is the Senior Managing Director at MAI Capital Management, formerly the founder and CEO of Monarch Business and Wealth Management, and specializes in providing business and wealth management services. Klarberg has managed several prominent individuals including musician Justin Timberlake, entrepreneur and TV personality Bethenny Frankel, entrepreneur Russell Simmons, DJ and record producer Kaskade, NASCAR champion Kyle Busch, professional tennis player/model Anna Kournikova, NBA All-Star Kyle Lowry, MLB All-Star and Homerun Champion José Bautista, NBA analyst and entrepreneur Jay Williams, MLS All-Star and Captain of the United States men's national soccer team Michael Bradley, and NHL Hall-of-Famer Mark Messier. Barry also holds an ownership stake in three American professional sports franchises including the New York Yankees, New York City FC, and the Las Vegas Golden Nights.

    Episode 147 | Leading The Movement On Care Coordination

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2022 23:15 Transcription Available


    Millennium Live welcomes back a top partner that is leading the movement for intelligent, coordinated care. WellSky continues to innovate and enable caregivers achieve greater outcomes. Joining us this week is Andy Elilert, President of Emerging Markets at Wellsky, to talk about the investment and growth in the payer space. Andy shares how he's focusing on care coordination in the home, the challenges facing providers, payers, and health systems, and the pathway to solve those problems. There's a good reason why Wellsky has become the largest acute, post-acute, and community care technology provider enabling caregivers across the continuum.

    Episode 146 | Fastly

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2022 15:02 Transcription Available


    Fastly is well-known in the tech space for its content delivery network (CDN) and related technology. Millennium Live welcomed Sean Leach, Chief Product Officer at Fastly, to explore more about the evolution as a top security company. Sean discusses some of the most serious security threats organizations face today and where the most critical gaps in organizations' security architectures are found. Learn how Fastly is able to adequately protect attackers from evolving more quickly than the vendors.

    Episode 145 | AKASA

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2022 15:52 Transcription Available


    Millennium Live is back with our first episode of 2022, and we couldn't be more thrilled to host Ben Beadle-Ryby, Co-Founder and Vice President at AKASA. Ben joins our podcast again to talk through their Unified Automation™ technology, a machine learning tool that solves the real challenges of healthcare RCM. Check out the interview on how the innovative team at AKASA is restructuring the foundation of healthcare revenue cycle operations and assisting hospitals & health systems in restoring trust in healthcare.

    Episode 144 | CybelAngel

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2021 9:47 Transcription Available


    #MillenniumLive welcomes Todd Carroll, CISO and Vice President of Cyber Operations at CybelAngel. We take a look at assessing digital risk and how best to manage it, how ransomware continues to be a major threat to many companies and the ways CybelAngel protect clients from ransomware and supply chain attacks.

    Episode 143 | Gerri Martin-Flickinger, Starbucks

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2021 23:35 Transcription Available


    The Millennium Alliance is proud to have our 2021 Digital Enterprise Innovator of the Year, Gerri Martin-Flickinger, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Starbucks. Gerri discusses whats happening at Starbucks, the technology thats leading innovation, and goals for next year. As CTO, Gerri is responsible for technology strategies and teams that enable Starbucks to connect with its customers worldwide.

    Episode 142 | AiAdvertising

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2021 11:16 Transcription Available


    We welcome Kevin Myers, Chief Product & Marketing Officer, at AiAdvertising to Millennium Live! Kevin shares how AiAdvertising and the AiPlatform are solving the problems for today's marketers, the rapidly advancing technology that gives AiA the advantage in the marketplace, and why now is the perfect time to leverage their unique solution.

    Episode 141 | Jose Arrieta

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2021 52:16 Transcription Available


    #MillenniumLive is happy to conitune Alex's series with our keynote speaker this week. Jose Arrieta is the former Chief Information Officer and Interim Chief Data Officer of HHS. He is a respected leader in applying emerging technologies, especially blockchain, ai & machine learning, and process automation. He oversaw $6.3B in IT investments, $800B in grants and $26B in Federal contracts in his last three years at HHS. Jose led the creation & implementation of the largest public health surveillance capability in the U.S. during the pandemic and the first enterprise grade supervised machine learning capability to help more accurately distribute testing supplies and predict hot spots across the United States. Arrieta successfully defended the HHS network against multiple large scale nation state cyber-attacks. He built and led the implementation of the first blockchain based solution for lowering licensing costs and decreasing the timeline of the procurement process in the federal government. He created and teaches the first blockchain course (and crypto currency) at the Johns Hopkins University as well as entrepreneurial finance. When he left government, Jose founded small business called Imagineeer, an IT solutions company that currently is focused on fund raising, blockchain enabled diagnostic development, cyber security solutions and quantum inspired optimization capabilities. He works with Federal customers evaluating and valuing venture backed technology starts ups in the health and national security space. He's launched a technology start-up to enable digital twins with a focus on mental health. Jose lives in San Diego at the moment

    Podcast Episode 140 Kevin - Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2021 24:08 Transcription Available


    Congratulations to Kevin Miller, CMO at The Fresh Market who joins the #MillenniumLive podcast as Marketing Innovator of the Year. In this fireside chat with Cara Bernstein, Kevin talks through the omnichannel approach at The Fresh Market, aligning brand purpose with marketing strategy, and tips on how to become a better marketer.

    Episode 139 | David Schweidel

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2021 39:22 Transcription Available


    David A. Schweidel, Professor of Marketing at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, has conducted extremely interesting research concerning the long term effects of image manipulation on social media. Given its societal impact, there's reasonable concern for social media companies. David chats about potential regulations and how influences could make a difference. David also explores AI when it comes to marketing, a tool he created for SEO content, and talks about how the marketing role will change due to these advances in tech.

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