Category: Digital

The Millennium Alliance Has Partnered With 30+ Of Interbrand’s Top Global Brands

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NEW YORK – November 3, 2021 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers, has had the privilege of working with a number of the most prestigious organizations throughout its nearly 8-year existence. Recently, Interbrand announced a list of their Top 100 Global Brands, 31 of which are companies that Millennium has partnered with, including:

  • Microsoft
  • IBM
  • AXA
  • Panasonic
  • Coca Cola
  • JP Morgan
  • Mastercard
  • HSBC
  • Toyota
  • UPS
  • Starbucks
  • 3M
  • McDonald’s
  • American Express
  • L’Oréal
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Disney
  • GE
  • Ford
  • Zoom
  • Nike
  • Visa
  • Citi
  • Sephora
  • Facebook
  • Sony
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Cisco
  • PayPal
  • eBay

 

 

 

 

 

“What has always set Millennium apart from other organizations in our space, has been the close-knit relationships that we have been able to cultivate with the world’s leading brands. We take the responsibility of providing a tremendous level of value to each partner that we work with very seriously, and our entire team is humbled to have had the opportunity to collaborate with so many of the brands that have broken down a lot of different barriers.”

– Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

To see even more of the powerful partners that Millennium is working with, check out their packed calendar of assemblies and digital transformation online community for the remainder of this year and through 2022.

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact info@mill-all.com.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online thinktank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was recently featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with offices in Austin, TX.

Building upon its award-winning conference and executive education businesses, today, The Millennium Alliance continues to stay connected with its C-Suite Members and partners through intimate In-Person and Virtual Assemblies, industry-leading Executive Education Opportunities, and by providing exclusive industry insights from the nation’s leading academics, business leaders, and technology providers via our 50+ annual events and The Digital Diary Content Platform, as well as the rapidly growing #MillenniumLive Podcast Series.

The Millennium Alliance Announces Two Key Promotions & Plans To Launch Five New Brands in 2022

Posted on by Emily French

NEW YORK – October 7, 2021 – Coming off the best year in its nearly eight-year history, The Millennium Alliance has formalized their plans to add five powerful new brands to its growing portfolio of C-Suite Assemblies in 2022. These latest additions come as a direct result of Millennium’s commitment to expanding their available offerings to its members and customers and include:

  • Benefits Leadership Transformation Assembly: Taking place biannually in April and October, this event is designed to address the unique pain points of today’s C-Suite benefits leaders.
  • Transformational CHRO Assembly: Taking place biannually in April and October, this event is designed to address the evolving CHRO role to help them to navigate the challenges of tomorrow that HR professionals will encounter in the years to come.
  • Transformational CISO Canada Assembly: Taking place annually in June, this event is designed to accommodate Millennium’s Canadian members by delivering them with the same high-level networking and educational opportunities as the North American CISO events.
  • Transformational CISO Mid-Market Assembly: Taking place annually in March, this event is designed specifically for the mid-market sized cybersecurity organizations and will be co-located with Millennium’s flagship CISO Assembly.
  • Customer Experience Transformation Assembly: Taking place biannually in June and October, this event is designed to be a co-located event to accompany the Transformational CMO and Retail Assemblies, giving marketing and retail members the opportunity to define what an enhanced customer experience should look like for their customers in 2022 and beyond. 

In addition to launching these new brands, Millennium has filled two key roles within the organization’s Senior Management Team this week. The first being, Salvatore Papa, who has been with Millennium for 5 years, and was announced as Millennium’s new Chief Revenue Officer, and the second being Gabrielle Polce, who has been a top performer on the sales team at Millennium for the past four years and has moved into the role of VP of Sales.

“There has never been a more exciting time for Millennium. We’ve been incredibly fortunate to have had our best year in company history amidst a global pandemic, which would never have been possible without the Leadership Team we have in place. It’s great to see members of our team like Gabie and Sal who have been instrumental to our success as a company, continuing to grow alongside Millennium. Now with us being able to expand our portfolio of Assemblies, we feel a responsibility to reinvest in our partners and members who have put their trust in us over the course of the past 18 months. Our latest brands will allow us to better serve our customers and build off of some of our most successful programs. This has been something that Millennium has been evaluating for quite some time, which is why it is so satisfying to see these new launches coming to fruition.”

– Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

With 2021 shaping up to be a banner year for the organization, Millennium has set its sights on following up with an even bigger year in 2022. To achieve these expectations, their plan is to keep the focus on building up its internal teams, and strategically expand its portfolio of events, in an effort to better serve its thousands of members across North America and now in Canada.

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact info@mill-all.com.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online thinktank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was recently featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with offices in Austin, TX.

Building upon its award-winning conference and executive education businesses, today, The Millennium Alliance continues to stay connected with its C-Suite Members and partners through intimate Virtual Assemblies, industry-leading Executive Education Opportunities, and by providing exclusive industry insights from the nation’s leading academics, business leaders, and technology providers via our 40+ annual events and The Digital Diary Content Platform, as well as the rapidly growing #MillenniumLive Podcast Series.

CIO Trailblazer, Stuart McGuigan, Keynotes Our Upcoming Assembly!

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Digital transformation never stops for the C-Suite, and we’re honored to have one of the most impactful CIOs of our time kicking off the discussion at our Digital Enterprise CIO, Data & FSI Transformation Virtual Assembly taking place on June 15-16, 2021. Keynote Speaker Stuart McGuigan will start the event with a keynote address tackling the topic of digital transformation for today’s technology leaders. 

McGuigan is an industry leader with a background as the Former CIO for the US Department of State, Johnson & Johnson, CVS Caremark and Liberty Mutual. In his most recent position as the CIO of the US Department of State, he left behind a legacy of spearheading the department’s digital transformation journey during the COVID-19 crisis. His areas of focus include business transformation, creating agile cloud environments, enterprise architecture and cybersecurity management. If you’re interested in learning from Stuart McGuigan’s experiences, go here to request an invite for our June Virtual Assembly!

About Stuart McGuigan

During the last administration, Stuart McGuigan was the CIO for the U.S. Department of State, a member of the Senior Executive Service, and the Assistant-Secretary level head of the Bureau of Information Resource Management on. As Chief Information Officer (CIO), he established technology strategic direction and provided oversight for $ 2.4B of technology programs across the Department of State.

Mr. McGuigan joined the Department of State from Johnson & Johnson where he was responsible for global Information Technology strategy and operations for an organization with 130,000 employees at over 170 overseas and domestic locations. With an established reputation for rapidly aligning technology innovation with global business needs, Mr. McGuigan brings over 33 year of industry background including experience as Senior Vice President and CIO of CVS Caremark, Senior Vice President and CIO of Liberty Mutual, and Senior Vice President of Information Services for Medco Health Solutions.

Mr. McGuigan earned a Master of Science and Master of Philosophy degrees in the Cognitive Science program at Yale University and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Fairfield University. In 2018, Mr. McGuigan was inducted into www.CIO.com’s CIO Hall of Fame, and he is the recipient of the “Lifetime Contribution Award” from NASSCOM—India’s top not-for-profit IT organization, enabling India’s growth of its $154 billion dollar IT-Business Process Management (BPM) industry.

Suzette Kent to Keynote Our Upcoming Digital Enterprise & Data Assembly

Posted on by Elizabeth Radziul

On February 10th, 2021, our Digital Enterprise CIO & Data Transformation Virtual Assembly kicks off with our featured keynote, Suzette Kent. Kent is a technology and digital transformation expert with a special focus on data & AI. She historically broke barriers by becoming the first female to be appointed as the Federal CIO of the US Government. Today, Kent consults global leaders in the private sector across all industries. If you’re interested in hearing Suzette Kent’s keynote address on February 10th, contact us at info@mill-all.com to RSVP for the virtual assembly.

About Suzette Kent

Suzette Kent is a global transformation executive who for the last 2 and half years served as the Federal Chief Information Officer for the United States. Appointed by the President in January of 2017, she is the first female to hold this role and the 4th person to serve in this capacity. Her career has ranged from Partner in Consulting Firms, Accenture and EY, President of Consulting at a payments software company, and Managing Director at JP Morgan. She has worked with clients around the world, across industries and in public and private sector. In returning to private sector, her focal areas are data, AI, digital transformation and development of the technical workforce needed today and for the future in the US.  

Digital Enterprise Innovation Starts Here

Digital Transformation involves ongoing exploration by today’s leaders, and our best advice is to not trek the journey alone. Our Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Virtual Assembly coming this February is set to be a groundbreaking opportunity for leaders to virtually connect on the current trends & challenges the industry is facing amid COVID-19. Our assemblies are virtual for the time being, but you can still expect the same high-level discussion & networking as a Millennium onsite experience.

We know what you’re thinking…

This isn’t Your Run-of-the-Mill Zoom Conference.

Our Founders, like many C-Suite executives today, became disillusioned by the slew of technology webinars, summits and events on the market today that promised “world class networking” opportunities with leading industry decision-makers. In reality, they found that these events had antiquated & impersonal discussion topics, and quite frankly, it seemed like just about anyone could attend the event.

We’re serious about executive education. Our assembly agendas are data-driven and curated from our industry-expert Advisory Board, a group of 26 industry movers and shakers with a proven record of digitally transforming organizations from the ground-up. Our topics of discussion reflect the most poignant & relevant challenges the industry is facing at the time of the assembly. Our goal is to change the way leaders look at executive education, and you won’t find this level of content, discussion, and networking anywhere else. We’re on the journey to digitally transform the technology industry with you.

Welcome Our Keynote Speaker, Renee Wynn!

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As our Digital Enterprise CIO, FSI and Data Transformation Virtual Assembly rapidly approaches, we are thrilled to announce our Keynote Speaker, Renee Wynn, Former CIO of NASA. With 30 years of federal service under her belt, Renee is sure to kick off this exciting virtual event with a truly unforgettable keynote! Click here to RSVP for free access to the virtual program.

About Renee Wynn:

Renee P. Wynn recently retired as the NASA Chief Information Officer. Wynn joined NASA in July 2015 as Deputy Chief Information Officer and became the Chief Information Officer in September 2015. She came to NASA from the Environmental Protection Agency where she had served as the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Environmental Information and Chief Information Officer since July 2013. Ms. Wynn had 30 years of federal service and 25 of those years were with EPA. Ms. Wynn had worked in the federal CIO world since 2011 and has been able to bring her experience working on environmental policy, budget formulation and analysis plus program management to her role as CIO.
Ms. Wynn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from DePauw University, Indiana.

Rhonda Vetere, CIO & Global Technology Executive to Keynote Upcoming Digital Enterprise Transformation East

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Rhonda Vetere to Keynote Upcoming Digital Enterprise Transformation East

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Rhonda Vetere, CIO, Global Technology Executive and Author, Grit & Grind, will be the Keynote Speaker at The Digital Enterprise Transformation East Assembly taking place at The Ballantyne Hotel in Charlotte, NC from March 19-20, 2019.

About Rhonda Vetere:

Rhonda Vetere is a seasoned C-Suite technology executive who has worked across industries in global technology. A change agent for digital transformation, she has led the way for growth with more than 23 mergers and acquisitions at companies.

A passionate leader in technology across industries, Rhonda has worked in global executive positions at Estée Lauder Companies, AIG, HP Enterprise Services, Barclays / Lehman, Bank One / JPMorgan Chase, CompuServe, UUNET, MCI, and Worldcom. She has lived and worked internationally – in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Mumbai, and across India – and has managed teams of more than 20,000 people. As an industry expert and influencer, Vetere has been a keynote speaker and panelist at many conferences and events, including World Economic Forum/Davos, WIT (Women in Technology) Connect, Microsoft Global CIO Summit, Dell EMC World, and the U.S. Vice Presidential Candidate Debate.

Rhonda has been recognized with for her leadership and influence, notably with a 2017 Stevie Award for Excellence in Transforming Business and as a multi-year Top 100 CIO/CTO Executive Leader in STEM by STEMconnector.

Grit & Grind is Vetere’s second book – she is also the co-author of an HP special edition book, Enterprise Service Management for Dummies.

An avid sports fan and real-world corporate athlete, Rhonda stays focused and sharp by competing in marathons and triathlons on a regular basis – over 70 events thus far, including triathlons, half-marathons, marathons, and IRONMAN 70.3 mile triathlons. She recently ran 55 miles in the Serengeti as part of a girls and women’s empowerment fundraiser: the first women-only run of its kind.

About The Digital Enterprise Transformation East Assembly:

Copy of DET_FSI.pngThanks to the success of our Digital Enterprise Transformation Assembly series, in 2019 The Millennium Alliance in partnership with our Advisory Board, we are adding more events to the list! This exclusive Assembly will bring industry experts and the best solution providers to our Senior Members based on the East Coast.

As more and more businesses look to digital technology and strategies to transform their business, CIOs know that data and information technology have never been more important. Understanding the convergence of mobile, social, and cloud is the first critical step for organizations looking to create opportunities and stay ahead of the competition

Phil Fasano, CEO of Bay Advisors and Former Global CIO To Keynote Upcoming Digital Enterprise Transformation Assembly

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Phil Fasano To Keynote Upcoming Digital Enterprise Transformation Assembly

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Phil Fasano, CEO of Bay Advisors and Former Global CIO will be our Keynote Speaker at The Digital Enterprise Transformation Assembly taking place at The Mandarin Oriental in Miami, FL from June 25-26, 2019.

About Phil Fasano:

Philip Fasano is a visionary thought leader, award-winning corporate executive and Fortune 500 board level business strategy expert who brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services, technology, insurance and healthcare industries. He is widely respected as an expert on technology innovation, risk management, financial growth and oversight, corporate governance, cybersecurity, and public policy, among others.

Currently serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Bay Advisors LLC, a strategic advisory firm he founded, Fasano is considered an influential voice in the push to evolve how companies create, market and use technologies to transform future growth and profitability, customer engagement and sales, internal and external operations, and ultimately to provide products and services that productively transform our world. Current advisory clients include Virtual Rehab, Open Data Group, Zenefits, NeoEyed, Espressive, Semefone, Microstrategy, Emirates Airlines and Genpact.

In addition, Fasano is working directly to fill advisory or board roles within the portfolios at numerous venture capitalist fund and private equity firms, including SymphonyAI, Wing, Sierra Ventures and others. He also serves on the boards of the New York Institute of Technology, New York Academy of Medicine, OpenData Group, and Fornetex. Fasano is a sought-after award-winning media spokesperson who has been interviewed and quoted by numerous prestigious national media, including Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The New York Times, CIO Magazine, US News and World Report, InfoWorld, San Francisco Business Times, The Denver Post, Modern Healthcare, Technology Week,Healthcare Executive, ComputerWorld and TedMed, among many others.

Prior to founding his new consultancy, Fasano served as the first Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Executive Vice President (EVP) at the Fortune 500 global insurance company American International Group (AIG). At AIG, he worked as a part of the Executive Leadership Team and led AIG Technologies as Chairman of the Board of Directors. In these roles, he guided global technology strategy, capabilities and operations for more than 65,000 employees within 120 countries, including the USA, UK, Japan, as well as many in continental Europe, among others. Fasano also served in many other key leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies. Prior to AIG, he served as CIO and EVP at Kaiser Permanente (KP), the largest managed care organization in the United States. At Kaiser, his role had COO responsibilities in addition to IT, successfully drive the turnaround of technology capabilities and overseeing all central operations, including marketing, strategy, company vision and innovation.

Described as the “Steve Jobs of Healthcare,” Fasano is the author of Transforming Health Care: The Financial Impact of Technology, Electronic Tools, and Data Mining (2013, John Wiley & Sons), a futurist perspective on how technology is transforming the healthcare industry and what it will mean for future investors and entrepreneurs. Before joining KP, Fasano served as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Business Information Officer at Capital One, CIO and SVP at J. P. Morgan Chase, CIO and EVP at Deutsche Financial Services, and Managing Director of Global Trading and Private Banking at Bankers Trust, to name a few. During his career, Fasano served on many Boards (member or peer) for innovative companies and organizations, including Cisco Systems, Oracle, Sprint, Hewlett-Packard Company, CIO Strategy Exchange, Infoblox, NCIRE: The Veteran’s Health Research Institute, Diamond Exchange and McKinsey & Company.

Under Fasano’s leadership, Kaiser’s IT initiatives received numerous awards, including upwards of ten Continuous Availability Awards from Uptime Institute (a globally recognized advisory organization), four consecutive years from Computerworld for 100 Best Places to Work in IT and Top 12 Green-IT Organizations, and a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Davies Award, (the top award for healthcare IT excellence across all aspects of care delivery). While at AIG, Fasano was awarded the CIO 100 Award for IT innovation that drives business results and the ACORD Case Study Award, an internationally recognized insurance industry award for a business process improvement in data governance, standards, and data risk. Fasano was inducted to the CIO Hall of Fame, the summer of 2017.

In his spare time, you will find Phil enjoying life with family and good friends. He lives in Virginia and Northern California with his wife, Judy and five adult children.

About The Digital Enterprise Transformational Assembly

DET10 BannerThe Millennium Alliance is thrilled to present our bi-annual Digital Enterprise Transformation Assembly, put together by the industry, for the industry. Join us in Miami, FL.

As more and more businesses look to digital technology and strategies to transform their business, CIOs know that data and information technology have never been more important. Understanding the convergence of mobile, social, and cloud is the first critical step for organizations looking to create opportunities and stay ahead of the competition.

Announcing The Launch Of The New Digital Diary Website

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Announcng The New Digital Diary Website

The day is finally here! Today, The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce the launch of our new Digital Diary Blog website! You may be wondering, is it still the Digital Diary you know and love? YES! However, our new website is for our blog and our blog alone. Gone are the days in which you can get lost in the shuffle on our the Mill-All homepage geared to those attending one of our assemblies this year.

We posted our top blogs from each industry to spark your interest in our new website. In the future, we will be exploring everything from guest blogging opportunities to exclusive interviews with executives or members of your company, all right here! So sit tight as we get ready to provide those options for you to advantage of.

We are currently in the process of switching all of our content from our Millennium Alliance’s blog page to here, so if your favorite blog is missing, do not fret! It will all be on this platform in no time. You can either find our new Digital Diary Blog website here, or you can go to our website and find the URL on our old Digital Diary page.

If you are a C-Level executive, an industry leader, thought leader or an analyst to name a few, we created this website with you in mind. Based on content collected from our Membership, Advisory Board, Thought Leaders, Speakers, and Sponsors, Digital Diary has all you need to know in one, cohesive place. If you are not one of those I listed above, we welcome you! We appreciate the time you have taken to explore our blog, and we hope you are able to take something away from it.

Top Articles Include:

  • Digital Transformation Is Changing The Leadership Role
  • Co-Working Is The Hottest New Retail Concept, All Thanks To WeWork
  • You Want A Revolution, I Want A Revelation
  • Real-Time Push Payments Are Here To Stay In Financial Services
  • Rethinking Business, Branding & Life with Jim Stengel, Digital Retail & Digital Marketing Transformation Assembly Keynote

Digital Diary is our leading content and news platform, so we are excited for the journey that is ahead of us. Interested in coming along the journey? Subscribe to our blog and never miss out on an update! Happy reading!

Click here for the new and improved Digital Diary.

#MillenniumLive

Meet Our Authors:

Freya Smale is Vice President of Marketing, Product and Client Services at The Millennium Alliance, Editor-In-Chief at Digital Diary, contributor for Forbes, Business2Community, and Marketer in New York. Freya writes mostly about digital marketing transformation, and the industries looking to the latest digital technology to transform in 2017. You can find her online @FSmale tweeting about #marketing #leadership #digitaltransformation and the occasional shoutout to the Welsh rugby team. Or connect with her on LinkedIn.

Catherine Hand is the Marketing Coordinator at The Millennium Alliance and Editor of Digital Diary. A recent graduate of Siena College in Albany and New York newbie, Cat assists in the creation and implementation of social media, the event agendas, brochures, E-Books, and frequently write blogs for Digital Diary on topics from all industries from Marketing to Information Technology. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. 

Jenny Schecher is a Client Services Director & Social Media Manager at The Millennium Alliance. Jenny is an avid contributor to our blog, Digital Diary, as well as all social media platforms. When she is not writing about digital transformation and technology, she is working with her team to make visions come to life at our events. (and eating all of NYC’s best food.) Follow her on Instagram: @jennyschecs or find her on LinkedIn!

Cara Bernstein is Manager, Executive Education Partnerships at The Millennium Alliance. She works with Thought Leaders at the Millennium Alliance assemblies and is also a contributor to Digital Diary. Cara writes about different industries preparing for the digital revolution. You can catch Cara on LinkedIn and on twitter @CaraBernstein