Melissa Grady Dias, CMO at Cadillac Keynotes Our Transformational CMO, Retail and Customer Experience Assembly!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce CMO at Cadillac will keynote our Transformational CMO, Retail and Customer Experience Assembly at the Palmer House in Chicago June 6-7th!

Interested in joining this Assembly? Click here to request an invite.

About Melissa Grady Dias

Melissa is a results-driven marketing leader that has the ability to bring together her strong analytical skills with creative execution to deliver exceptional programs that continually exceed expectations with continual optimization. She has a strong background in segmentation, analytics, optimization, creative testing, and cross-channel testing – including email, direct, and digital programs. Melissa became the Global CMO of Cadillac in September 2019. At Cadillac, she leads strategic marketing for the brand on a global perspective and recently was recognized by Forbes as one of “The 50 Most Influential CMOs in the World.” Prior to joining Cadillac, Melissa was SVP of Performance Marketing, Digital, and E-commerce of Jackson Hewitt, where she was accountable for all demand-driving activities and the application of a digital media program across several thousand locations. Grady spent a few years at Metlife prior to Jackson Hewitt leading the digital acquisition on the global marketing team. During her time at Metlife, she was able to lead digital strategy for the U.S. market and acquisition programs for several lines of business which resulted in resulting in over $125M in revenue.

7 Critical Considerations for Evaluating Infrastructure Monitoring Platforms with Galileo

Contributed by Galileo

Let’s get one thing out of the way up front: no single tool will magically solve all your problems or be suitable for every organization. Every situation is different, and every team’s needs are unique (at least somewhat).

Therefore, the key is to know what to look for to figure out what’s best for you.

Inside the Buyers’ Guide:

A Unified, Relational View
Perspective Scalability
The Hybrid IT Question
Open Integration
Data, Insights, and Reactive vs. Proactive
Discovery Automation
Customization & Manageability

While no one can tell you which tool is best (especially vendors!), this eBook can help you figure it out for yourself. Ready?

Read Galileo’s Full Guide here.

About Galileo

Galileo is more than a monitoring tool. With Galileo, IT teams can increase uptime, pinpoint usage trends, forecast demands, right-size environments and accurately plan for the future.

The reliability of your infrastructure takes on a new level of importance with today’s data-intensive workloads. Through Galileo, organizations can streamline support and develop realistic roadmaps for growth and transformation through data visualization, trending and tagging capabilities. Intuitive multi-vendor monitoring for servers, storage, systems, database, SAN, networking and cloud allows users to anticipate and adapt to usage needs and avoid bottlenecks.

To learn more about Galileo, visit galileosuite.com.

It’s That Time of Year…Welcome to Millennium Madness!

It’s that time of year…

And we’re thrilled to introduce our very first MILLENNIUM MADNESS bracket. We’ve hand-selected an elite group of 8 former guests from the #MillenniumLive podcast series to go head-to-head in the competition of the year.

Now through April 3, visit our LinkedIn page to vote for who you’d like to see return for another episode.

Let’s meet the contenders:

Ben Rhodes, Author of The World As It Is and Former Deputy National Security Advisor
Stephen Klasko, Former President of Thomas Jefferson University & Former CEO of Jefferson Health
Olivia Troye, Former White House Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Advisor
David Shulkin, Former Ninth Secretary in the US Department of Veterans Affairs
Terry Szuplat, Former Speechwriter for President Barack Obama
Cynthia Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO at Bell + Ivy
Suzette Kent, Former CIO of the US Government
John Felker, Former Assistant Director for Integrated Operations, CISA for the Department of Homeland Security

Need a refresher on these industry change-makers? Click on any guest above to listen to their #MillenniumLive episode.

Good luck to all and let the madness begin!

The Total Economic Impact Of Digibee’s Enterprise Integration Platform As A Service

Contributed by Digibee

Digibee makes integration faster, simpler, and more affordable.

According to Forrester Research, Digibee customers benefit from:

Improved time to value
Improved developer efficiency
Ease of platform use and reuse
Lower upfront and long-term costs
Fewer disruptions and decreased risk

Why spend more for inferior results? Digibee isn’t just an eiPaaS provider – we’re an integration partner.

Download the Forrester TEI Report here to see why Digibee is different.

About Digibee

Digibee is an eiPaaS Solution that bridges the gap between current systems and new technologies. They help you connect data and platforms that have never been connected before. By leveraging their platform on top of their customer’s legacy systems, Digibee’s ustomers modernize and evolve their data services into modern, API based, microservices architecture, without breaking the bank or taking forever to accomplish their digital transformation efforts. Digibee connects enterprise apps and internet services using its #NOCODEINTEGRATION approach. Digibee enables less technical users to connect its own services to deliver new products to the market. It is as simple as drag and drop!

To learn more visit https://www.digibee.com/

#MillenniumLive: Transformative Healthcare & Journey to Becoming Physician to The President with Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman From Advent Health

On #MillenniumLive this week, we are excited to be joined by a very special guest, Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, Chief Quality & Safety Officer at Advent Health. Dr. Kuhlman joins us to discuss serving as a Navy Physician for 30 years and the former Physician to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. As Physician to the President, Dr. Kuhlman coordinated comprehensive healthcare for the President and the First Family, oversaw medical care for the Vice President (and family), senior White House staff, and Cabinet rank members, was responsible for emergency medical actions and contingency planning of the White House Medical Unit integrated with the Secret Service details. He also provided guidance and advice on all joint service, inter-agency, and international matters for medical contingency planning and operations supporting the continuity of the presidency and an enduring constitutional government with oversight of force protection, population health, and workplace health and safety programs for all workers and guests (EOP, USSS, WHMO) on the White House complex. “No policy, no politics, just trusted medical advice.”

Listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, and Google Podcasts.

About Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman

Dr. Kuhlman is triple board-certified in Aerospace, Family, and Occupational Medicine, in addition, he is board certified in medical management and a Certified Physician Executive by the American Association of Physician Leaders and a certified professional in patient safety. He attended medical school at Loma Linda University and completed his residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He is the author of a book and has a fourteen episode limited series podcast, both by the name of Transformative Healthcare, available on Amazon and select book retailers. Dr. Kuhlman has traveled to over 90 countries reviewing their healthcare resources. His Global Health expertise includes the Certificate in Traveler Health by the International Society of Travel Medicine. He currently serves as chief of quality and safety at AdventHealth, leading system clinical quality, clinical integration, population health, patient safety, clinical transformation and emergency services efforts.

Usher a New Era of Digital Customer Experience For Your Brand with BlastX Consulting

Contributed by BlastX Consulting

How customers perceive and interact with your brand has never been more important. The question is, “Is this your competitive advantage? If not, why not?”

BlastX Consulting helps clients build and deploy end-to-end Customer Experience (CX) strategies. For more than 20 years, they’ve supported leading brands with a “data-first” analytics and insights approach to create sustained brand value and impact. BlastX applies their deep data science and digital optimization acumen to help brands build memorable and meaningful customer interactions across every digital touch point. The business impact of end-to-end Digital Experience Optimization is significant. A few examples of client results achieved include:

1.7X Increase in customer retention
1.9X Return on ad spend
1.6X Boost in customer lifetime value
35% Revenue Growth Rate
242% ROI

To see how Digital Experience Optimization (DXO) can benefit your brand, expand your loyal customer base, and elevate you above the competition, download the complimentary DXO Overview white paper here

About BlastX Consulting

BlastX is the leading consultancy for end-to-end Digital Experience Optimization (DXO) solutions. We believe the sustained success of your brand hinges on delivering an optimized customer experience at every digital touchpoint. BlastX boasts an elite team of seasoned strategists, analysts, and technologists and combines them with proven processes to deliver ongoing value and impact for your brand. Digital Experience Optimization (DXO) from BlastX is a combination of consultancy and processes that gives your brand a sustained competitive advantage. It’s a digital transformation framework that’s field tested with leading companies across the globe. DXO is an end-to-end solution that operates across your MarTech stack. DXO delivers superior personalization by leveraging data and analytics to drive superior experiences for your customers across every digital touchpoint. DXO from BlastX is the most efficient way to create long-term value and impact for your brand.

To learn more visit https://www.blastx.com

The Millennium Alliance Celebrates Nine Years Of Helping To Transform The Digital Enterprise

NEW YORK – March 3, 2023 – This month, The Millennium Alliance is proud to be celebrating its 9th Anniversary. On the heels of an extremely successful year in 2022, Millennium is continuing to reach many new company milestones with each passing year. A few of the key milestones from this past year have included a pivot back to fully hosting in-person programs, cultivating partnerships with some of the most successful global brands, and surpassing a total of $20,000 in charitable donations through its charitable initiative The Millennium Mission.

Since its founding nearly a decade ago, The Millennium Alliance has remained committed to providing its members and technology partners with unparalleled opportunities to network and learn from many of the most successful and innovative business executives. Armed with a versatile portfolio of offerings, including its packed calendar of Two-Day Invite Only Assemblies, a powerful Digital Transformation Online Community, the rapidly growing #MillenniumLive Podcast Series approaching its 200th episode, along with industry-leading Executive Education Opportunities, Millennium has continued to expand its offerings in order to deliver an incredible level of value to its community.

“As I reflect on the past nine years since Rob and I founded Millennium, I am extremely proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish as a company during this time. We certainly wouldn’t be where we are today without the most talented team in the business or without the unwavering support of our amazing members and partners who have stuck by us every step of the way. Each year, we’ve continued to surpass the ambitious growth goals that we’ve set for ourselves as a company. As a result, we’ve set the bar extremely high for ourselves this year as we close in on a full decade as an organization, which I’m confident that we reach by the end of this year.” There’s never been a more exciting time to be a part of Millennium and I am looking forward to what I expect to be our most successful year yet.”
Alex Sobol, Co-Founder, The Millennium Alliance

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 think tank 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.

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 50+ annual events and The Digital Diary Content Platform, as well as the rapidly growing #MillenniumLive Podcast Series.

#MillenniumLive: Optimize Digital Experiences For Seamless Journeys with BlastX Consulting

If you’re a Chief Marketing Officer of a brand, you should know that every interaction is an opportunity to create a positive result. Enterprises that effectively implement best-in-class experience optimization solutions can dramatically improve their ROI and overall business results. This week on the #MillenniumLive podcast we’re joined by Brian Mcintosh, Chief Consulting Officer at Blastx Consulting who shares how to take control of your digital experience. Brian spends much of his time working with CMOs and shares some key themes he’s hearing in these conversations. Brian also talks about how the marketing ecosystem has evolved and the steps CMOs can take to ensure their business is the brand of choice for their markets.

Listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, and Google Podcasts.

About BlastX Consulting

To learn more visit https://www.blastx.com

Stop Losing Sleep Worrying About the Security of Your Air Gapped Environments with Cyolo

Air-gapped may not mean what you think it does.

While the term implies full isolation, business requirements are increasingly driving the need to connect air-gapped environments to the corporate network or to allow remote access into the critical systems.

Download Cyolo’s whitepaper to learn how Industrial Control System (ICS) and other air-gapped environments can meet modern security standards without disruption or change management.

About Cyolo

Too many critical assets and systems remain exposed because traditional secure access solutions are not able to protect the high-risk access scenarios and legacy applications that keep business operations running. Cyolo provides the fastest and most secure Zero Trust Network Access solution to give organizations visibility and access control over the users who leave organizations most exposed to risk, including remote OT operators, third-party workers, and post-M&A employees and applications.

To learn more, visit https://cyolo.io.

Gatha Sadhir, Global CISO at Carnival Corp Keynotes Our Transformational CISO Assembly!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Gatha Sadhir Global CISO at Carnival Corp will Keynote our Transformational CISO Assembly at The Palmer House in Chicago May 16-17th.

Interested in joining this Assembly? Click here to request an invite.

About Gatha Sadhir

Gatha Sadhir is a Global CISO of the world’s largest cruise company representing 9 brands and a fleet of more than 90 ships visiting over 700 ports around the world. Gatha leads the Information Security and Compliance program, as part of a highly talented, passionate, and diverse workforce of people from 150 countries, hosting nearly 13 million annual guests. Not only is she an highly motivated information Security and Technology executive, but she has a proven track record of achieving business objectives through innovation, creativity, operational efficiency, and cost optimization. Gatha is a thought-leader, strategist, and practitioner with diverse experience in Governance, Risk & Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, Application Development, Quality and Process Engineering, DevSecOps, Asset Management and so much more. She is passionate about leading authentically, fostering collaboration and nurturing growth mindsets.