A New Standard for Global Location Intelligence with Dataplor

Contributed by Dataplor

Location intelligence has evolved into a critical layer of business intelligence. Organizations across industries now rely on an understanding of where places exist, how people move through the physical world, and the ensuing market structure to guide decisions on growth, investment, risk, and operations. What has changed is not the importance of location data, but the scale, speed, and complexity at which decisions are now made.

Historically, many organizations relied on static maps, limited datasets, or narrowly scoped analytics tools to answer location based questions. These approaches were often sufficient for single-country analysis, periodic planning cycles, or highly technical teams. Today, those same approaches break down in the face of global expansion, rapid market shifts, tighter margins, and increased regulatory scrutiny.

Download the whitepaper here to explore how leading organizations are redefining location intelligence to drive smarter, faster, and more scalable business decisions.

About Dataplor

Dataplor is a global location intelligence provider delivering precise, verified data on 370M+ places and 15K+ brands across 250+ countries and territories. Our datasets offer point-of-interest (POI) information, foot traffic trends, brand attributes, polygons, and trade areas at scale.

Serving financial services, commercial real estate, third party logistics, mapping, as well as retail, consumer packaged goods, and quick service restaurants, our granular, consistent data is leveraged by clients to analyze markets, assess commercial activity, understand consumer behavior, and support data-driven investments.

To learn more, visit www.dataplor.com

Access to Care: The Foundation of Patient Trust and Health System Viability with Alluvium Health

Contributed by Alluvium

53% of patients struggle just to contact a provider’s office. 35% can’t navigate referrals. Access fragmentation is eroding trust before care even begins. Our partners at Alluvium Health’s Paul Huelskamp explains why access to care is the foundation of patient loyalty and system viability—and shares how leading health systems are fixing it.

Read the full piece in Fierce Healthcare.

About Alluvium Health

Alluvium is the enterprise access and capacity performance platform for complex health systems. Alluvium’s solutions address access fragmentation created by M&A, disparate data environments, and point-solution sprawl by turning disconnected access workflows into a single system that can be actively managed.

For more information, visit alluviumhealth.com.

How to Reduce Your Fleet Size by 15-20% While Maintaining Full Capacity with Ugowork

Contributed by Ugowork

Most operations are paying for a fleet that’s 25% larger than what’s actually running. That’s $12-15K per truck per year, invisible on a standard P&L.

Our partners at UgoWork build the cloud-connected lithium-ion batteries that close that visibility gap. They surface kWh utilization, charging efficiency and battery-health data at the truck and shift level, so fleet decisions stop running on assumptions.

David Mucciacciaro, Stephan Dumont and JF Marchand will be at our Digital Supply Chain Transformation Assembly in Houston, June 3-4, ready to talk fleet ROI with the supply chain leaders working through the same math.

Read their complete guide to data-driven MHE fleet management ahead of the event.

Also make sure to attend JF Marchand’s workshop, The Cost of Standing Still: How Connected MHE Data Is Redefining Fleet Economics. JF will dig into the math of a Tier-1 3PL’s fleet right sizing and energy management strategy, leading to a projected $21.8M saving through 2030.

Thursday, June 4 at 9:55 AM, Houston. Worth the 30 minutes if you manage MHE budgets. Request an invite here.

About UgoWork

UgoWork is on a mission to eliminate energy waste in the material handling industry. They engineer smart lithium-ion forklift batteries and charging infrastructure for the real-world demands of high-throughput warehouses. Beyond hardware, Ugowork addresses every energy challenge—power consumption, grid constraints, asset life, and large-scale fleet transitions. Vertically integrated from manufacturing to deployment, service, and training, they deliver plug-and-play integration with your fleet and facility systems. UL Listed and OEM-approved, their solutions are safe and the easiest to use. From Québec, Canada, Ugowork powers some of the largest S&P 500 and Fortune 500 operations across North America—making lift-truck energy one less thing to worry about.

To learn more, visit ugowork.com.

IEEPA TARIFF REFUNDS with RSK

Eric Stenson, Chief Executive Officer of RSK and founder of the IEEPA Managed Recovery Program, will be a featured speaker at the Digital Supply Chain Transformation Assembly on June 3rd, 2026 – 3:35 p.m. at the JW Marriott Houston by The Galleria. With more than 20 years of experience in recovery administration, government-related claims management, and complex financial recovery strategies, Stenson has helped support recovery-related initiatives involving more than 7,500 businesses nationwide and over $3.5 billion in refunds, rebates, tax credits, incentives, and recovery programs across the United States. His work has supported companies across manufacturing, retail, wholesale distribution, logistics, automotive, consumer products, healthcare, construction, technology, energy, and international trade industries, helping organizations navigate highly complex operational and financial recovery matters.

During the session, “IEEPA Tariff Refunds – RSK,” attendees will gain executive-level insight into the operational and financial challenges businesses face following IEEPA tariff refund rulings. Stenson will discuss how companies can identify tariff exposure, evaluate recoverable amounts, navigate CBP, ACE, and CAPE processes, and manage vendor, customer, and pass-through recovery issues through a structured and defensible framework. Under his leadership, RSK has built a specialized operating platform focused on recovery, claims, tax, and legal administration for complex, documentation-heavy matters requiring precision, scale, and operational discipline.

Learn more about our Digital Supply Chain Transformation Assembly and request your invitation here.

About RSK

RSK helps organizations manage recovery, claims, tax, legal-operations, insurance, collections, and payment workflows where the record matters, the process matters, and execution cannot be improvised.

The organization was built for programs that require disciplined administration, including fragmented records, multiple parties, regulated processes, client communications, financial tracking, deadlines, documentation, and reporting. Its role is to bring structure, technology, and operational leverage to work that would otherwise be difficult to scale.

Learn more at RSK.com

Mission-Ready Identity: The New Standard of Defense in the AI Era with CLEAR

Contributed by CLEAR

Perimeters have dissolved, AI-powered attacks are scaling faster than controls, and static identity data is creating blind spots—driving operational and financial risk in places you can’t see until it’s too late. The question every leader now has to answer is simple: when it matters most, who can you actually trust right now?

The New Standard Starts Now

This executive summit brings together security, fraud, operations, and business leaders from across industries to reframe identity from a static “system of record” to mission-ready infrastructure.

Our partners at CLEAR will explore how moving beyond canonical identity to real-time, high-assurance verification—with a human in the loop—becomes the new standard of defense against cybersecurity threats.

Understand the intersection between cybersecurity and zero trust, where identity is the front line
See how leading organizations are addressing fraud, waste, and abuse by strengthening identity at every critical touchpoint
Explore how emerging technologies—from agentic AI to digital identity ecosystems—are reshaping how trust is established

Learn more and request your invitation today.

About CLEAR

CLEAR is a security identity company making experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With over 33 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR’s identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether you are in the airport, at the stadium, or on your phone, CLEAR connects you to the things that make you, you. CLEAR+ helps you speed through airport security, while CLEAR1 is our enterprise product that powers trusted identity solutions for businesses across healthcare, travel, and financial services. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Austin, TX and Washington D.C., CLEAR’s mission is to strengthen security and create frictionless experiences.

To learn more, visit clearme.com.

Ignite GTM: Alex Sobol on Building Trust, Pipeline, and Real Enterprise Relationships

Contributed by Team Ignite Ventures

Enterprise sales has a distribution problem.

Not a product problem.
Not even really a pricing problem.

A distribution problem.

Most B2B companies today — from early-stage startups to public software giants — are competing for the attention of the exact same Fortune 500 executives using the exact same playbook:

cold email
LinkedIn outreach
webinars
giant trade shows
automated sequences
“personalized” AI messaging

And according to Alex Sobol, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Millennium Alliance, it’s producing less and less actual access.

That insight became the foundation for one of the most quietly successful enterprise networking businesses in the market.

Listen to the full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and You Tube Music.

About Team Ignite Ventures

Team Ignite is an early-stage venture capital fund backing ambitious founders in B2B SaaS, Marketplaces, Fintech, and AI.

Founded by Brian Bell in 2020, Team Ignite has grown into a high-velocity fund that co-invests alongside — and often before — Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Greylock, 20VC, Techstars, and other top-tier firms.

The team brings a blend of operating experience from Microsoft, AWS, and LinkedIn, paired with multiple startup exits. This gives Team Ignite the strategic depth to support founders from first build to breakout scale.

Team Ignite actively partners across core domains including Product, Growth, Talent, Go-To-Market, Fintech, and AI — helping founders navigate the hardest parts of company-building with firsthand insight and targeted support.

Startups in the portfolio are plugged into a community of thousands of LPs, operators, and mentors — a collective that offers not just capital, but time, introductions, and executional expertise.

At Team Ignite, venture capital is viewed as a team sport. And the team has been built to win.

Learn more at www.teamignite.vc

Theodore Darko, CISO at KBC Bank, Recognized with the Cyber Resilience Award!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Theodore Darko, CISO at KBC Bank, received the Cyber Resilience Award at our Transformational CISO Assembly, held May 6-7 at The Omni, Fort Lauderdale.

See the full list of winners and learn how you could be our next nominee—visit our Awards Page!

About Theodore Darko

Theodore Darko is a Senior Information Security leader and CISO with 20+ years of experience advancing cybersecurity strategy, enterprise risk management, and regulatory compliance across global financial institutions, including leadership roles at KBC Bank in New York. I build and mature security programs that strengthen resilience, meet regulatory expectations, and deliver measurable business value.

Key achievements include reducing infrastructure risk by 30–40% through secure cloud transformation, achieving zero high‑risk audit findings, improving incident response efficiency by over 35%, and cutting phishing‑related risk by more than 40%.

How Retail Brands Can Cut Through the AI Vendor Noise with Alex Sobol

Contributed by Total Retail

By Alex Sobol, Co-Founder at The Millennium Alliance

As you read this, business leaders across virtually every industry are dealing with the exact same problem: a deluge of sales calls, cold emails, and sketchy LinkedIn pitches from artificial intelligence vendors vying for even a sliver of your attention. For executives in the retail space it can feel like every platform, tool, and quirky startup is promising to boost your bottom line with the help of AI. There are plenty to choose from, and the challenge has moved from finding AI solutions to figuring out which ones are even worth your time to consider.

I’ve seen plenty from both sides of the vendor-retailer relationship — from great SaaS products that struggle to find footing to executives who are paralyzed at the thought of choosing, and especially choosing wrong. What I’ve seen consistently is that retailers that rush into AI partnerships without a clear framework to vet the options routinely end up with expensive pilot programs that never scale. The ones that approach vendor selection with discipline? They tend to get real results.

Read the full article & discover what that discipline looks like in practice here.

About Total Retail

Total Retail is the go-to source for executives looking for the latest news and analysis on the retail industry.

We offer a daily newsletter (Total Retail Report), content-rich website, virtual (e.g., Virtual Exchanges, webinars) and in-person events (Total Retail Tech, Total Retail Roundtables), comprehensive research reports, podcast channels (Total Retail Talks, Total Retail Tech Insights), and video content. This content serves to provide retail executives with the information they need to do their jobs more effectively.

In addition to Total Retail’s content offerings, we aim to help build community within the retail industry. Our in-person and virtual events provide attendees the opportunity to network with their peers, gain industry insight, and improve their careers and the businesses they work for.

For more information, visit www.mytotalretail.com

The Millennium Alliance Appoints Former Adweek Executive Eric Hayden Shakun as Chief Financial Officer to Accelerate Next Phase of Growth

New York, NY — May 11, 2026 — The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce the appointment of Eric Hayden Shakun as its new Chief Financial Officer. A seasoned B2B information and media ecosystem executive, Shakun brings a wealth of experience in driving financial strategy, corporate development, and operational excellence to help steer The Millennium Alliance through its next phase of rapid expansion.

Shakun joins The Millennium Alliance following his successful tenure as Chief Financial Officer at Adweek, where he was instrumental in transforming the iconic media brand, optimizing its industry-leading events, and building investment-grade information platforms serving the marketing community. With an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a proven track record of aligning big-picture vision with actionable financial strategies, Shakun has consistently served as a trusted advisor to CEOs and Boards of Directors across the B2B information landscape.

Prior to Adweek, Shakun held key financial and operational leadership roles, including COO of Euromoney’s Specialist Information division and COO of TheStreet’s Institutional Services platforms BoardEx and The Deal. His unique ability to balance long-term strategic vision with tactical flexibility makes him uniquely suited to lead The Millennium Alliance’s financial operations.

“With its industry-leading platform for C-Suite connectivity, The Millennium Alliance is perfectly positioned for its next stage of evolution. I am excited to work alongside our executive team and BV Investment Partners to capitalize on this momentum. “My focus will be on driving strategic growth and operational excellence that further strengthens The Millennium Alliance’s position as the leading platform for corporate executive education and peer-to-peer engagement.”

In his new role, Shakun will oversee all financial operations, capital allocation, and corporate development strategies, working closely with the executive team to optimize investments in high-ROI channels, expand the organization’s footprint across new high-value markets, and enhance the overall value delivered to Millennium’s Enterprise C-Suite community.

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

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE

Founded in 2014, The Millennium Alliance is a premier technology and business advisory firm dedicated to transforming the digital enterprise. By bridging the gap between enterprise C-Suite leaders and their technology partners, we’ve become a global leader in corporate-level executive education and peer-to-peer engagement.

We provide unparalleled access to the enterprise technology community through a combination of premium digital properties and high-impact, in-person experiences, helping organizations of all sizes effectively engage this influential audience.

Our Impact & Reach

We provide senior executives with tangible, real-world learning through a mix of curated in-person experiences and a supporting multimedia ecosystem, including:

High-Impact Events: Exclusive multi-day global Assemblies, ABM-focused community dinners, and one-day city sessions designed to foster meaningful connections, actionable insights, and peer-to-peer collaboration
Digital Leadership: Robust online platforms and premium digital properties
Elite Research: Collaborative projects with world-renowned academic institutions and think tanks

A Global Community
Now one of the world’s fastest-growing platforms for the Enterprise C-Suite, the Alliance serves organizations of all sizes across the private and public sectors. Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with European operations in the heart of London, we continue to evolve as an international hub for the innovation and technology community.

Meet Our Partners at Alluvium: What They’ve Been Building Toward

Contributed by Alluvium

Most health systems are flying blind on access. Our partners at Alluvium are fixing that. With nearly a decade of deployment experience at HCA, CommonSpirit, and other complex systems, they’ve built the platform that manages access like revenue cycle: visible, measurable, actionable. CEO Jake McCarley explains the evolution.

Learn more here.

About Alluvium Health

For more information, visit alluviumhealth.com.