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

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.

Healthcare Innovator, Dr. Richard Park, Keynotes Our Upcoming Assembly!

2021 has been marked a transformative year for healthcare providers and payers, and The Millennium Alliance is honored to close out the year with a final Healthcare Providers & Payers Virtual Assembly featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Richard Park, CEO of Rendr, Co-Founder of Ascend Capital Partners, & Founder of CityMD. As a trailblazer in primary care transformation, proponent of health equity, and pioneer of the new face of urgent care, Dr. Park is one of the most influential voices in the industry. Early in his career, Park identified patients’ desire for convenient and consolidated treatment – he sought out to become the best, most inclusive urgent care provider with CityMD, the largest urgent care provider with more than 135 locations in New Jersey & New York until its merger with Summit Medical Group for $3 billion.

In his Keynote Address on December 1st, Park will share with us lessons learned from his experiences, projections on what’s to come in healthcare’s future, and insights on how to transform healthcare systems. This session will also close out with an open Q/A segment for all registered attendees. Interested in joining this session? Go here to request an invite to the Assembly.

About Richard Park

Richard Park, MD is a health care investor, entrepreneur, and board-certified emergency medicine physician. He is currently CEO of Rendr, a primary care driven, multi-specialty physician group managing an Asian patient population of approximately 100,0000 in New York City. He is also the co-founder of Ascend Capital Partners, a middle market growth private equity fund investing in healthcare service providers. In 2010, he founded and led CityMD to become the largest urgent care provider in the New York City Tri-State area and merged it with Summit Medical Group for a deal valued at $3 billion.

#MillenniumLive on Customers’ Shopping Journey with Slickdeals

#MillenniumLive is delighted to have the only shopping platform powered by millions of real shoppers on this week’s episode. Josh Meyers, CEO at Slickdeals, joins us to discuss how customers’ shopping journey has evolved, the ways Slickdeals works with brands to drive growth & engagement, and insights on how they’re staying “sticky” with consumers. Meyers also shares the details behind how they drive excitement, drive urgency, and the content that is driving these behaviors.

Watch the video interview below, or listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About Slickdeals

Engage savvy shoppers at every point in their buying journey.

Missed the Digital Enterprise & Data Transformation Assembly? We’ve Got You Covered!

Last week, data and technology’s leading CIOs, academics, and thought leaders came together for our Digital Enterprise CIO & Data Transformation Assembly to discuss digital transformation and the future of IT. In case you were unable to join us, check out our event highlights below!

Opening Keynote Address

Day one kicked off with an opening keynote featuring James Rinaldi, Chief Information Technology Advisor at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on the future of IT. Rinaldi shared with us the capabilities that JPL is known for – such as their ingenuity and launching rockets to Mars. They are planning to visit Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter, hoping to develop technology that can go through the crust of the moon and see a view of the substances it contains. The mission behind what JPL is doing, and a core principle Rinaldi stands behind is: we have to build the technology in order get the data we desire. He moved on to discuss the future of IT and what it means. As we approach a “post-digital transformation era”, he projects that new organizational models will be needed, job roles & functions will evolve, and natural language processing will change communication forever. Technology is already advancing this year, with blockchains being used for inventories, intelligent RPAs increasing in demand, and quantum computing influencing our networking and cybersecurity. Hybrid and remote work models are changing the way leaders manage and train their teams, and with that in mind, he closes with two critical questions for the audience: How do you inspire the workforce? How do you lead?

Workshop Discussions

On Digital Transformation with AI: “AI isn’t easy” says Mayur Shintre, Principal Architect at Google Cloud. Identifying the right solutions to your business problems is a challenge. The scarcity of machine learning expertise, and the issue of scattered and “difficult to use” data exacerbates the problem.

In order to be successful in a digital transformation with AI Mayur recommends a few tips:

Hire academics for machine learning roles as the explainability for ML models is deeply mathematical
It’s best to adopt a platform that gives you building blocks, instead of building it from the ground up
Implement the fair framework: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable
Be aware of the bias that can creep into AI models, the data part of AI model development is key

Next-Gen UX: Jason Gislason, CDO at Chevron Phillips Chemical shares insight on overcoming challenges to gain a competitive advantage. Jason starts his session by defining digital transformation – it demands revolutionary changes to key organizational components that will allow for the creation of new value streams. He adds that digitizing existing functions and processes is not enough to truly transform a company. He provides some tips on how to build a digital-ready culture to promote deep change in the organization:

Speed & agility: move fast and iterate, rather than waiting to have all the answers
Innovation: maximize impact through constant innovation
Collaboration: collaborate across functions to create synergy
Autonomy: allow your team high levels of discretion to do what needs to be done

He closes out the session with an important question to think about, “If your performance metrics remain the same before and after the so-called transformation, have you truly transformed?”

Digital Transformation: Widely Discussed but Poorly Understood: Derek Peterson, CTO at Boingo Wireless discusses the importance of optimizing and personalizing data to create value in a digital transformation. Connectivity is even more important today, as COVID-19 has accelerated digital strategies across all industries. He discusses the technology strategic vision follows the S.M.A.R.T model:

Secure Multi-platform Analytics-driven Responsive Tiered

It’s all about creating connective touch points for the consumer along their journey by using technology to build those experiences for the consumer.

Digital Enterprise & Data Keynote Fireside Chat

“2021’s New Normal: Adapting in the Face of Evolving Workforce Conditions”

Phil Fasano, CEO of Bay Advisors, and Monica Khurana, CTO at Dodge & Cox kick off a fireside chat on ransomware from a technology leader’s perspective. They shared their experiences and insights on ransomware, incident response plans, and zero trust.

Some key takeaways:

Implement table-top excercises and get comfortable with crisis management to prepare for a ransomware attack
Think about potential points of entry into your company, even on your personal devices
Practice, practice, practice – it enables you to work through the stress of an attack
Adopt the mentality that it’s not if you get attack, but when you will
Formulate an IT risk management committee, because accountability and transparency is critical to your shareholders
Have all your controls and protections in place, and track your digital footprints
Network segmentation and building zero trust is important as we live in a very high connected ecosystem

Data Governance – Embedded, Invisible, and Agile! Santosh Kudva, CDO at GE Gas Power uncovers the importance of data governance. Data governance allows teams to efficiently and effectively deliver outcomes, and keeps your organization safe. Kudva adds that governance isn’t a bureaucracy, but it is invisible. Your framework has to be comprehensive and integrated to become a Business Innovation Enabler. The IT objectives in data governance are cybersecurity, access governance, data lifecycle management, change management, portfolio management, cloud ops governance, data loss prevention, financial management, design governance, and regulatory governance. Kudva closes his session with this bit of advice: the concept of data governance is a perfect balance between being invisible and agile.

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Don’t miss out on the next Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Assembly. Go here to request an invite for the November 17-18 Assembly!

Listen to #MillenniumLive on Amazon Music!

2021 has been a year of milestones for our #MillenniumLive podcast – we released on Spotify, recorded our 100th episode, and we were joined by some of the most influential guests to date. Now we’re thrilled to announce that #MillenniumLive is available for listening on Amazon Music! Haven’t listened to our podcast before? Here’s the low-down…

The #MillenniumLive podcast brings together thought leaders, academics, and innovators in the C-Suite that are digitally transforming various industries. Our areas of focus include Healthcare, Cybersecurity, Marketing, Retail, and Financial Services (DeFi, too!) We also have our Co-Founder Alex Sobol hosting a special series on Life & Leadership, where he discusses the road to success with industry elites. Interested in learning about the latest technology impacting your industry, or hearing about the strategies that C-Suite leaders are leveraging today? In the mood to listen to the real-life stories of leaderships amid COVID-19? Then #MillenniumLive is a must-listen for you!

Check out some of our most popular episodes:

Episode 130: Life & Leadership with John Felker, Former Assistant Director for Integrated Operations, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Listen here!
Episode 129: Healthcare’s Future: Building Back Better with Jack O’Brien, Healthcare Analyst & Host of the HealthLeaders Finance Podcast. Listen here!
Episode 120: Craig Brommers & David Sable: Transformational Retail Strategies During COVID-19. Listen here!
Episode 114: Life & Leadership with Stephen Klasko, President, Thomas Jefferson University and CEO, Jefferson Health. Listen here!
Episode 108: Howard Krieger, CEO, unFederalReserve on Decentralized Finance. Listen here!

You can find #MillenniumLive on nearly every listening platform. Go here to subscribe! New episodes every week.

#MillenniumLive Episode: Getting Started on your Data Journey with Joe DosSantos from Qlik

This week #MillenniumLive welcomes back Joe DosSantos, the Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Qlik. Joe gives some insight on offensive vs defensive data strategies, the importance of data accessibility, and provides tips on starting your analytics journey. He emphasizes the importance of understanding what your data is, tagging it, organizing it, and making it available to users with the help of automation. Joe notes that businesses need to think of data monetization and value creation in an offensive way as we see Amazon use it, whereas, in the healthcare and banking industries they typically take the more defensive approach. Joe continues with, it’s all about finding the right balance for data and using the data and analytics as a value driver for the company. Qlik’s executive insights center can aid in providing examples of use cases, how customers are using technology to solve problems and how to get started on your data journey.

Watch the video interview below, or listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About Qlik

Qlik helps enterprises around the world move faster, work smarter, and lead the way forward with an end-to-end solution for getting value out of data. Our platform is the only one on the market that allows for open-ended, curiosity-driven exploration, giving everyone – at any skill level – the ability to make real discoveries that lead to real outcomes and transformative changes. And you get the freedom to use our cloud or any cloud you choose.

Want to learn more? Go here for more information!

Experiential Retail: A Post Pandemic Guide

Contributed by our partners at AnyRoad

Brick-and-mortar retailers saw significant reductions in foot traffic last year while e-commerce sales peaked in Q4 2020, but a natural balance is slowly returning as the pandemic subsides and competition among retailers is tougher than ever. As things open up, some brands (such as Home Depot, Williams Sonoma, etc.) that did well during COVID will be looking to maintain their sales volumes – while others that took hits will want to capitalize on reopening as a way to generate more sales.

But no matter how brands fared during COVID, one thing is now certain: retailers can no longer rely on opening new locations as a way to drive store traffic and sales. The pandemic challenged any retailer that “over-expanded” their physical footprint in previous years to right the ship and ensure their remaining stores were properly tailored to their target market.

Shrinking their footprints created opportunities to re-evaluate strategies around product mix, experiences, etc. – so now, post-pandemic, what is the value of a store visit?

Read the full report here

About AnyRoad

Welcome to the experience economy

AnyRoad is the data and insights platform powering leading brands to do smarter, better experiential marketing at scale. Founded in San Francisco in 2013 by Jonathan and Daniel Yaffe, AnyRoad is a leader in a new category of software called Experience Relationship Management (ERM). Over 200 brands including Anheuser-Busch, Honda, and the Golden State Warriors partner with AnyRoad to offer extraordinary experiences and draw insights from data to connect better with customers. AnyRoad is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Rally Ventures, Precursor Ventures, and Marc Benioff. Go here for more information.

Transformational CISO Leader, Rinki Sethi, Keynotes Our November Assembly!

On November 8th, The Millennium Alliance Transformational CISO Assembly kicks off with a keynote address from Rinki Sethi, current Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Twitter. Rinki is an award-winning leader and executive with experience leading and developing innovative online security infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies like IBM, PG&E, Walmart.com, and eBay. She is recognized by CSO Magazine & Executive Women’s Forum with the “One to Watch” award, and in 2010, lead a team at eBay to receive the “Information Security Team of the Year” by SC Magazine.

In her keynote address, Rinki will discuss a variety of topics in cybersecurity including social media, her career shift into the security world, and more. Interested in learning from one of the most influential voices in technology? Go here to request an invitation to the virtual assembly!

About Rinki Sethi

Rinki Sethi is Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Twitter responsible for leading efforts to protect its information and technology assets and advising the company’s continued product innovations in security. Previously Rinki was VP & CISO at Rubrik, Inc., and she has also held positions in online security infrastructure at Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Intuit, eBay, Walmart.com, and PG&E. Sethi also serves as an advisor to several startups, such as LevelOps and Authomize, and cybersecurity organizations, including Women in Cybersecurity.

Rinki has over 20 years of experience as a strategic leader and has received several awards, including the “One to Watch” from CSO Magazine and the Executive Women’s Forum, and the Senior Information Security Practitioner Award from ISC2. She also led an initiative to develop the first set of national cybersecurity badges and curriculum for the Girl Scouts of USA and contributed to the ISACA book, “Creating a Culture of Security.” Rinki holds several recognized security certifications and has a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from UC Davis and an M.S. in Information Security from Capella University.

Sethi’s career began with PG&E as an information security specialist and became really passionate about cybersecurity when Walmart.com hired her two years later as a security engineer. She then spent the following 3 years at eBay as the Chief of Staff & Sr. Manager of Global Fraud, Risk & Security. Intuit hired her as an information security officer for two of their business units as they were going into the public cloud and moving data from TurboTax into AWS. Next, an opportunity to become VP of Information Security at Palo Alto Networks came up and she couldn’t resist the opportunity. After three years with Palo Alto Networks, Rinki left to take the role of VP of Information Security at IBM. After about four months with IBM, however, someone told Sethi about an opportunity at Rubrik and said she’d be a great fit as CISO. A year and a half later, it was mentioned to her that Twitter had been searching for a CISO and so she joined in September 2020 and is her current position as of now!

#MillenniumLive on Data-Driven Brand Experiences with AnyRoad

This week #MillenniumLive is tackling the topic of Experiential Marketing, and how brands are leveraging it to drive loyalty and lifetime value. We’re joined by Jonathan Yaffe, Co-Founder & CEO at AnyRoad, and he shares why we’re moving away from the “things” economy, and onto one more focused on experiences. He emphasizes the importance of data in the new world of experiential marketing, and understanding the relationship between experiences & consumers’ purchase behaviors. Yaffe’s team at AnyRoad allows marketers to accurately measure engagement, ROI, and pull actionable insights, and he shares some of the most impactful use cases of Experiential Marketing done right.

Watch the video interview below, or listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.

About AnyRoad

AnyRoad was founded in San Francisco in 2013 by Jonathan and Daniel Yaffe, and they’re a leader in a new category of software called Experience Relationship Management (ERM). They boast over 200 brands including Anheuser-Busch, Honda, and the Golden State Warriors. Partner with AnyRoad to offer extraordinary experiences and draw insights from data to connect better with customers.

Want to request a demo? Go here for more information!

Shaping the Future: AI for Financial Services

Contributed by Pure Storage

The golden age of AI is here.

Financial institutions face new challenges and new digital-native competitors. AI and machine learning can be the key to generating more revenue, reducing costs, and enhancing customer experience while ensuring data protection and compliance. As a result, an unfettered, gold rush mentality has taken hold as organizations look for countless ways to deploy AI.

But while AI and ML have endless—and lucrative—applications in financial services, the AI opportunity doesn’t come without challenges. Ensuring that actual results match expected outcomes and that investments result in returns is vital. Here are just a few of the challenges you should be aware of as you establish an AI strategy.

Proof of Concept Purgatory One of the most common complaints regarding AI is the difficulty in moving from modeling to ROI. Time and resources are wasted, and the business is deprived of insights, when projects fail to see the light of day. Executives may also become frustrated and disillusioned, leading to valuable AI projects ending up in the scrap heap.
Supporting Data Scientists Without the proper infrastructure, data scientists spend time being data shepherds. Left unaddressed, valuable resources are underutilized and the business is deprived of higher-order insights.
Managing Resources The advent of the public cloud has been a boon to the development of AI opportunities and capabilities. But, if not used wisely, these same resources and tools can quickly lead to spiraling costs without the business outcomes to justify them.

Successfully leveraging AI’s capabilities requires you to address practical barriers and challenges. This means understanding not only your business challenges but identifying the optimal technology for each task and how to deploy it.

In our whitepaper, “Shaping the Future: Artificial Intelligence for Financial Services,” we examine key use cases that hold particular promise for AI in the financial sector and how to address the unique set of challenges.

About Pure Storage

Turn Bottlenecks into Breakthroughs

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