#MillenniumLive: Identity Security for the AI Era: Zero Trust and Enterprise Resilience with Saviynt

Identity security is evolving faster than ever — driven by AI, hybrid environments, and the growing complexity of digital ecosystems. In this episode, we sit down with Henrique Teixeira, Senior VP of Strategy at Saviynt, to explore how enterprises can build smarter, more resilient identity programs for the AI era.

Henrique shares expert insights on:

🔹 The current state of identity security and what’s driving change

🔹 How AI is transforming risk management and data governance

🔹 Why high-quality identity data is essential for success

🔹 How to reframe identity as a proactive risk reduction strategy

🔹 The future of Zero Trust in hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Whether you’re a CISO, IT leader, or part of a team transforming the digital enterprise, this conversation offers a clear roadmap to strengthen your organization’s identity foundation, and prepare for what’s next.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

About Saviynt

At Saviynt, we are pioneers in intelligent identity security solutions, dedicated to empowering enterprises to safeguard their digital environments. We aim to transform IGA by delivering innovative, cloud-first solutions that ensure security, compliance, & risk management across diverse IT landscapes, including multi-cloud, hybrid, & on-premises environments.

For more information, visit www.saviynt.com

Research Report: The State of Job & Skills Data Governance 2026 – by JDXpert

Contributed by JDXpert

HR teams don’t have a skills data problem—they have a governance problem.

Our research with 227 senior HR leaders reveals a striking paradox: even organizations with the highest skills coverage are preparing major governance overhauls.

Why? Because coverage alone isn’t delivering clarity, consistency, or trust in decisions.

This 44-page report uncovers what’s really breaking job and skills data—and the operating model that finally fixes it.

Download the Research Report

About JDXpert

We help companies get their job information in order. Because without an organized system to manage job data, companies waste thousands of dollars per employee per year and struggle executing big initiatives like pay equity, job leveling, AI readiness or M&A.

JDXpert transforms this chaotic job information into a strategic advantage for HR. We are the clear choice for companies serious about architecting, organizing and optimizing job information.

Temi Adebambo, GM & Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft Gaming Recognized as Our 2025 CISO of the Year!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Temi Adebambo, GM & Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft Gaming, was honored as our 2025 CISO of the Year at our Transformational CISO Assembly, held November 18–19 at The Whitley, Atlanta Buckhead!

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

About Temi Adebambo

Temi is an executive cybersecurity leader with two decades of richly diverse experience spanning multiple industry sectors, including Technology, Gaming, Life Sciences, Financial Services, Consumer & Industrial Products. With a proven track record, Temi has spearheaded numerous enterprise-wide technology transformation programs, seamlessly navigating all phases from strategic inception to execution. His adept leadership extends to driving product/platform development and implementation, successfully driving new initiatives and transformation programs from initial planning stages to delivery.

Temi has been instrumental in assisting Fortune 500 corporations with Cloud Security strategy, Security Architecture, Cyber Risk Management, Compliance, and Governance. His expertise spans a spectrum of security domains, encompassing Cloud Security, Application Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Privacy, Threat Detection, and Incident Response. Proficient in Information Technology frameworks such as HITRUST, NIST, FEDRAMP, and ITIL, Temi also demonstrates expertise in compliance standards like PCI DSS, SOC2, and ISO 27001. He holds multiple Cybersecurity and cloud certifications across AWS, GCP, and Azure, showcasing his commitment to continuous learning and excellence. He is a strong communicator and has been actively involved in writing and speaking about cybersecurity for the past decade.

Pawan Verma, CDO at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Recognized as Our 2025 Data Innovator of the Year!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Pawan Verma, CDO, Head of Data Management Office at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, was honored as our 2025 Data Innovator of the Year at our Transformational Data Assembly, held November 20-21 in Atlanta!

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

About Pawan Verma

Pawan is a thought leader in the finance, risk and regulatory data management space. He has executed multiple enterprise-wide data programs, he specializes in establishing and orchestrating initiatives to enhance data management capabilities for mid to large size financial institutions. He has a good mix of working in the industry and with Big 4 consulting firms. He has helped a lot of large institutions enhance their data quality for business process optimization, revenue generation, risk and regulatory compliance. He currently is the Head of Data Management Office at ICBC and is on a journey to overhaul the bank’s data management infrastructure from people, process and technology perspective.

He has demonstrated strategic thinking, developed innovative solutions, and is an effective communicator at all management levels and is a strong team player.

Don Smith, Chief Technology Officer at Santander Consumer USA, Recognized as Our 2025 IT Innovator of the Year!

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Don Smith, Chief Technology Officer at Santander Consumer USA, was honored as our 2025 IT Innovator of the Year at our Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Assembly, held November 20-21 in Atlanta!

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

About Don Smith

Don Smith joined Santander Consumer in 2020 with more than 20 years of senior executive experience in Information Technology, most recently serving as Chief Information Officer for Common Securitization Solutions. Throughout his career Don has held numerous CIO, CTO and SVP leadership roles at Black Knight Financial Services, JPMorgan Chase, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Microsoft and Dun & Bradstreet. Don brings a strong strategic and business mindset coupled with a deep understanding of the full spectrum of Information Technology disciplines essential to a safe and sound IT operation under large bank standards.

The Risk Not on the List: How Typological Regulations are Redefining Corporate Compliance with Sayari

Contributed by Sayari

The Risk Not on the List: How Typological Regulations are Redefining Corporate Compliance

Typological controls — controls that restrict entities based on their high-risk characteristics — are gaining traction as regulators move away from watchlists. A response to increasingly sophisticated enforcement evasion efforts, this regulatory shift not only radically expands the risk pool, but also makes risk more challenging to detect, growing compliance workloads while compounding the threat of enforcement.

This report quantifies, analyzes, and visualizes the impact of typological regulations on compliance so that teams can more efficiently and effectively protect against non-obvious sources of regulatory risk.

Download the report to understand:

What proportion of sanctions, forced labor, and export risk is watchlisted vs. typological
What sources of typological risk are most prevalent in each of the above regulatory domains
What new and emerging typological risk frameworks are reinforcing the shift
How corporations and financial institutions are using solutions like Sayari to not only keep pace with existing mandates, but also ensure they are prepared for future typological controls

This report is for anyone looking to understand trends in non-list-based regulation and compliance.

Click here to explore how leading teams are keeping pace with current mandates and preparing for the next wave of typological controls in Sayari’s latest report.

About Sayari

Sayari is a mission-driven company that aims to empower both the public and private sectors with the comprehensive, evidence-based model of global commercial relationships they need to safeguard their economic futures.

From risk to resilience, our platforms enable confident decision-making in regulatory compliance, supply chain management, and complex investigations into global networks and illicit activity.

In 2024, TPG Growth, the firm’s middle market and growth equity platform, made a $228 million strategic majority investment in Sayari.

To learn more, visit sayari.com.

#MillenniumLive: Building a High-Performing Revenue Organization: Data-Backed Insights with Varicent

On this episode of Millennium Live, Curtis Schroeder, one of the leading voices in revenue technology, sales performance management, and the future of commercial operations, joins the podcast! His unconventional career path across academia, technology, and sales. Curtis shares a major focus of Varicent’s Market Spotlight report, which surfaced some staggering insights – and reveals about how companies actually make decisions about growth. From misaligned quotas to the long-term impact of poorly designed incentive plans, Curtis calls out the systemic issues that quietly undermine performance every day. We also dive into his latest research on AI in sales, where he draws a sharp contrast between incremental, seller-level tools and the compounding returns generated by system-level investments. Curtis shares why organizations tend to overinvest in what’s visible, while underinvesting in what truly moves the needle.

Take a listen to this episode that offers data-backed clarity, strategic insights, and a refreshing reframe of what it really means to build a high-performing revenue organization today. A must-listen for revenue leaders, operators, and anyone shaping the future of commercial performance. Subscribe to Millennium Live wherever you enjoy podcasts!

Varicent is a comprehensive SaaS company that supports the entire revenue journey, from results-driven planning and predictability to growth. They are sales performance experts fueling high-performing revenue organizations.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.

About Varicent

Varicent delivers market-leading SaaS software solutions that help revenue leaders drive growth. Its full suite of solutions helps companies worldwide deliver intelligent territory and quota plans, efficient revenue operations, and impactful incentives programs. As a named leader in the sales performance management and revenue performance management space, Varicent enables customers to design, amplify, and optimize their go-to-market strategies to create a connected path to revenue.

For more information, visit www.varicent.com

Align Planning and Store Teams with Optimum Retailing

Contributed by Optimum Retailing

One platform for data, planograms, and action.

Keep the right SKUs front and center — no overstock, no outages, less waste. Our partners at Optimum Retailing optimize demand, space, and inventory to boost device & accessory sales, on-shelf availability, and size-curve fulfillment.

About Optimum Retailing

Closing the Execution Gap in Retail. Retailers face an execution gap: strategies developed at headquarters often falter at the store level due to disconnected processes, inventory fluctuations, and communication challenges. Optimum Retailing closes this gap with a comprehensive platform that gives HQ unmatched visibility and control across all locations while providing store teams the clarity to execute with precision and confidence. Powered by AI, our solution transforms visual merchandising strategies into store-specific planograms that dynamically adjust to real-time inventory, ensuring seamless compliance across every location. Store-level insights flow back to headquarters, informing future planning and optimizing shopability, customer engagement, and fixture performance. The result? Stronger execution. Smarter decisions. Greater profitability. Optimum Retailing. Smarter retail execution.

Beyond ESG Compliance: AI-Powered Strategies for Proactively De-Risking Your Supply Chains with Sayari

Contributed by Sayari

Beyond ESG Compliance: AI-Powered Strategies for Proactively De-Risking Your Supply Chains

Given the continuously evolving, complex world of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance today, companies are struggling to keep up with the challenges of effective risk management. ESG data can be limited, inaccurate, and incredibly difficult to validate, and supply chain visibility continues to leave critical information gaps. Multinational companies, in particular, face a multitude of frameworks and dynamic regulatory requirements that at times conflict. However, there are approaches that can help organizations address these issues and avoid reputational, operational, and regulatory risk.

On Wednesday, December 3rd at 10am ET, SESAMm Co-founder and CEO Sylvain Forté will join Sayari Solutions Consulting Manager Deanna Javage to discuss some of the key challenges in today’s ESG risk landscape and demonstrate the power of AI-driven insights to mitigate corporate responsibility risk in supply chains.

Key takeaways:

Why a timely response to ESG controversy events is critical for an effective corporate responsibility program, especially amidst regulatory fluctuations
The advantages of AI-powered insights in proactive de-risking
Real-world case studies demonstrating how to uncover hidden ESG risk

This webinar is for corporate compliance professionals, sustainability analysts, supply chain risk managers, and others looking to efficiently mitigate ESG risk.

About Sayari

From risk to resilience, our platforms enable confident decision-making in regulatory compliance, supply chain management, and complex investigations into global networks and illicit activity.

In 2024, TPG Growth, the firm’s middle market and growth equity platform, made a $228 million strategic majority investment in Sayari.

To learn more, visit sayari.com.

The Millennium Alliance Announces 2026 Assemblies Calendar & Launch of Six New Event Tracks

NEW YORK – November 17, 2025 – As the new year approaches, The Millennium Alliance has officially unveiled its 2026 Assemblies Calendar, along with plans to debut six new event brands designed to meet the evolving needs of senior executives across finance, technology, marketing, and procurement. Each new Assembly will deliver a curated environment for strategic dialogue, innovation, and peer-to-peer collaboration among industry leaders:

CFO Payers Transformation Assembly: This Assembly will unite senior finance leaders from across the healthcare payer landscape to explore innovation in cost optimization, regulatory strategy, and value-based care.
CFO Providers Transformation Assembly: Bringing together top financial executives from leading healthcare providers, this event will address operational efficiency, reimbursement challenges, and strategies for long-term fiscal growth in a complex healthcare environment.
Transformational Chief Procurement Officer Assembly: Created for today’s forward-thinking CPOs, this Assembly will focus on how procurement leaders are using data, digital tools, and sustainability initiatives to drive enterprise value and competitive advantage.
Digital Infrastructure Transformation Assembly: Designed for technology and operations executives, this program will examine the next generation of digital infrastructure. From cloud and edge computing to AI and cybersecurity powering enterprise resilience and scalability.
Digital Commerce Transformation Assembly: This Assembly will convene senior executives leading omnichannel, e-commerce, and DTC initiatives to discuss data-driven growth, AI-powered personalization, and the future of digital customer experience.
Transformational Chief Brand & Advertising Officer Assembly: Tailored for senior brand, media, and creative leaders, this event will explore how top advertisers are reimagining storytelling, performance marketing, and audience engagement in an era of rapid digital disruption.

“At Millennium, we’ve built our reputation on never standing still. Innovation and progress are part of our DNA,” said Alex Sobol, Co-Founder of The Millennium Alliance. “Following a landmark year of growth in 2025, we’re excited to expand our portfolio with new event brands that reflect where the market, and our members are headed. Our goal remains the same: to create meaningful spaces where the world’s top executives can connect, learn, and lead the future together.”

With the addition of these new event brands, The Millennium Alliance is building on the extraordinary momentum of 2025 and charting a bold course for an even more impactful 2026 and beyond. This strategic expansion reflects the growing global demand for Millennium’s unique brand of high-impact executive experiences, bringing together an ever-expanding community of members, partners, and thought leaders from across North America and around the world.

Click here to view the Full Assemblies Calendar.

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 world renowned 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 is a three-time honoree of the Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan with an office in London.

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 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 70+ annual events and Digital Diary Content Platform as well as the rapidly growing Millennium Live Podcast Series.