#MillenniumLive Real-time AI for Event and Risk Detection with Dataminr

On this week’s #MillenniumLive, we’re delighted to chat with a real-time AI platform that detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from within publicly available data and used for social good. Dataminr is recognized as one of the world’s leading AI businesses. The company’s clients are the first to know about high-impact events and emerging risks so they can mitigate and manage crises more effectively to solve real-world problems. We had the pleasure to chat with Dataminr’s President of Government, Dana Barnes, who discusses what makes Dataminr unique. Dana also talks through his background in cybersecurity having experience at Palo Alto and over twelve years at Microsoft.

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About Dataminr

Dataminr is recognized as one of the world’s leading AI businesses. Their clients are the first to know about high-impact events and emerging risks so they can mitigate and manage crises more effectively. Dataminr solutions are relied on 24/7 by hundreds of clients in over 100 countries to help them solve real-world problems. Dataminr is one of New York’s top private technology companies, with employees across seven global offices on three continents.

Learn more at https://www.dataminr.com/

Spotlight on Gabie Polce, Our New SVP of Sales!

Our team has been hard at work welcoming the biggest and brightest innovators across industries in-person at our events nationwide over the last few months – if you’re reading this, you might even be one of them. As we charge into the new year, however, we’d like to take a moment to recognize a tremendous talent right here at home in our New York office. We can’t think of anyone more deserving of her promotion than Gabie Polce, who takes on a new role as our Senior Vice President of Sales this month.

After kickstarting her career in events through roles with the City of Albany and Rensselaer County, Gabie became an integral part of Millennium in 2017, when she joined our team as an Account Executive. Over the last 5 and a half years, she’s grown into a trusted co-worker, manager, mentor, and friend to those who are lucky enough to know and work alongside her.

New York City wasn’t always her end game – read on to find out why – but we can’t imagine it without her. We’re proud to have her tenacity and spirit leading the charge here and can’t wait to see the great things she’ll accomplish in the SVP role.

We sat down with Gabie to learn about her career journey, legacy at Millennium, and secrets to success.

How did you get started in the industry?
Gabie: I got started in this industry 5 and a half years ago when a guy who used to manage here at the time befriended me at Red Lion (A bar on Bleeker – We all went [there] after the holiday party this year) and told me I should work at Millennium. At the time I was living in Albany working for a nonprofit, and thought my next move would be Boston. I decided maybe NYC was for me so I uprooted everything, and haven’t left. I guess that guy was pretty good at sales.

How has your role evolved over time since you’ve been here?
Gabie: I started as an AE [Account Executive] because at the time, we didn’t have an SDR [Sales Development Representative] department. From there, I was a submanager under [Chief Revenue Officer] Sal, then I got to officially help build out the SDR division & manage it, then I got to manage my own sales team, and now I do a little bit of it all 🙂

What is one thing that you wish people knew about your job?
Gabie: In addition to closing deals, I also am in charge of the Sales Board and its upkeep – which I take very seriously (please disregard the drama with the movement of the board towards the end of last year – direct all questions on that to Rob Davis).

What are you most proud of in your career so far and why?
Gabie: I am most proud of how the SDR division has evolved. Adding that part to Millennium has been crucial in our growth, and watching young sales people come in and transition quickly into successful AEs is super rewarding.

What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?
Gabie: As long as you work hard and work smart, opportunities will come. Take every possible opportunity that you can to grow. Also – MINI GOALS EVERY DAY > ONE BIG GOAL! CHOP EM UP!

Connect with Gabie on LinkedIn to follow her career journey and congratulate her on her new role.

10 Essentials for Effective Recognition Programs: How To Do Employee Recognition Well in The New Workplace

Contributed by O.C. Tanner

In times of great change in the workplace, consistent recognition can help employees feel connected, fulfilled, and empowered to do their best work. It increases their sense of belonging and makes them want to stay. A consistent flow of employee recognition creates a workplace culture and community where people thrive.

How can companies maximize the impact of their recognition efforts? Here are 10 essential strategies for effective recognition programs:

Offer Tools That Are Easier to Use

Incorporate recognition tools into the fabric of your employees’ everyday experience and their flow of work. Use technology integrations like those in Culture Cloud so employees can easily and quickly give recognition when they see great work happening in the apps they use every day: while sending emails in Outlook, chatting on Slack or Teams, or working in Chrome. Embed training into your recognition tools so employees know how to create meaningful experiences when recognizing one another.

See how Capital One integrates recognition into its technology and culture.

Download the full article here

About O.C. Tanner

O.C. Tanner helps organizations inspire and appreciate great work. Thousands of clients globally use our cloud-based technology, tools, and awards to provide meaningful recognition for their employees.

To learn more about O.C. Tanner visit www.octanner.com.

#MillenniumLive Leverage a New Level of Data

Brand growth requires brand intelligence, and Cynthia Sener, Chief Revenue Officer at Chatmeter shares why on the first Millennium Live episode of 2023. Chatmeter is turning casual buyers into life-long, loyal brand champions by perfecting the customer journey online and in-store. In this episode, Cynthia talks through some key points around Deep Listening, and how it’s driving customer experience (CX) agility to increase customer loyalty and growth for multi-location enterprises. Chatmeter delivers data-driven, all-in-one reputation and local SEO management solutions designed to help multi-location brands optimize online visibility, reputation, and CX strategy at scale across the globe. Cynthia brings nearly 25 years of experience to Chatmeter with a background in local SEO, product development, strategic marketing, revenue generation and sales. Sener’s customer-centric approach to driving business value, growth and revenue will support Chatmeter’s expansion into new verticals. She perviously has held leadership roles at data centric organizations such as Rio SEO, Acxiom, Hanley Wood and Constellation Software.

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About ChatMeter

Chatmeter is a local SEO platform that helps enterprise retail brands and agencies managing multiple locations increase their revenue. Since being the first Local Reputation platform in 2009, we now analyze and improve over 1,900,000 storefronts for their reviews, rankings, listings, pages, and social media presence.

We help retailers make a distinct impact in their revenue by identifying several areas in their online presence that drives customers to choose their stores over competitors. We take this a step further by offering the only integrated local visibility rank tracker. This makes it easy for you to measure ROI using the most complete local presence management platform in the world.

The benefit for our clients is complete online presence management simplified into a single dashboard. We also power a white-label reputation management dashboard for many agencies across the U.S.

Some customers include Caliber Collision, Commerce Bank, AMITA Health, Lincoln Property Management, A&W Restaurants, Tender Greens, Dickey’s BBQ, Pet Valu, and Sherwin-Williams Company.

Learn more at https://www.chatmeter.com/

The Millennium Alliance Opens 2023 With Big Sponsor Commitments For Their Award-Winning Assemblies Including Google, AWS, Mastercard, Verizon, and 3M

NEW YORK – January 6, 2023 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for Senior-Level Executives and Business Transformers, on the heels of an incredibly successful 2022, has started off this year by securing commitments from some of the leading global organizations. These household brand names include Google, AWS, Mastercard, Verizon, and 3M. Upon announcing their return to a portfolio of entirely in-person assemblies, the response from partners has been overwhelmingly positive, which has resulted in an unprecedented demand for sponsorship opportunities.

“Our team has always prided itself on collaborating with many of the world’s most innovative and successful brands. Our obsession with understanding our partner’s unique needs and desire to over-deliver for them has allowed us throughout the past 9 years to forge tight-knit relationships with so many outstanding organizations. We’re excited to continue to expand our amazing network of partners while continuing to provide a tremendous level of value to our current partners.” – 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 in-person assemblies and digital transformation online community for the remainder of this year and through 2024.

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.

How to Make the Most of Your Next Security Audit

Contributed by Cyolo

The cybersecurity landscape has shifted at a tectonic scale over the past few years. As we approach 2023, the world is finally settling into something resembling normalcy.

For the first time since 2019, your end-of-year audit can fully assess the vulnerabilities created by the triage-heavy pandemic years.

Between legacy applications, over-permissioned vendors, and remote workers, the results of this year’s audit may be rough. But take heart. This year, your audit is not your finish line — it will serve as your baseline for moving forward. It’s also the perfect opportunity to outline mid- and long-term objectives for your security program.

This is the year to right-size the technology and processes that kept your organization afloat, refocusing them into contributors to strategy, business agility, and innovation, rather than barriers to advancement.

A New Lens for a New Landscape

The way businesses operate today could hardly be more different than the way thy ran just three years ago.

The digitization of business processes has increased your organization’s attack surface more than ever.
People have become the new network perimeter. Identity-based access control will be key to shoring up your security posture, especially for remote workers and third-party vendors.
Today’s rate of innovation and systems complexity has widened the gap of modernization between new and legacy tools, creating higher-stakes vulnerabilities.
An intense regulatory environment is only growing more rigorous, making compliance harder to achieve and driving the need to accommodate existing and emerging standards.
Cybersecurity insurers are increasing due diligence, requiring security basics like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Single Sign-On (SSO). Companies that cannot comply face drastically higher premiums, if not outright denial of coverage.

Evaluating your security controls and posture the same way you did in 2019 won’t give you the clarity you need to make the most impactful decisions moving forward.

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About Cyolo

Cyolo’s unified platform securely connects local and mobile users to the tools and data they need, in the organizational network, cloud or IoT environments and even offline networks, regardless of where they are or what device they are using.

Cyolo provides users access to all the assets they need including, applications, resources, workstations, servers and files, without granting risky network access to information assets.

To learn more about Cyolo visit https://cyolo.io/

Gary Sorrentino, Global CIO at Zoom Keynotes our Digital Enterprise CIO & Data Transformation Assembly!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce Gary Sorrentino, Global CIO at Zoom will keynote our Digital Enterprise CIO & Data Transformation Assembly April 11-12 at The Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas!

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

About Gary Sorrentino

Gary Sorrentino currently serves as Global CIO for Zoom Video Communications. A former Managing Director for J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, Gary was the Global Head of Client Cyber Awareness and Education. For over 12 years, Gary was the Chief Technology Officer for J.P. Morgan AWM’s global technology infrastructure initiatives, where he managed its Data Privacy program and was responsible for Infrastructure, Application and End User Technology Production Support. In 2014, he assumed a new role as the lead for their Cybersecurity efforts and developed a firm wide “Protect the Client” Cyber program designed to raise cybersecurity awareness among employees and clients. With almost 40 years of experience in Information Technology, Gary has served in various other IT leadership positions in firms across the financial services industry. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2005, Gary was Head of Global Infrastructure and Head of Technology Efficiencies at Citi Private Bank, where he was responsible for Global Infrastructure Support and strategic technology initiatives. Other roles he has held include Global Technology CFO at Credit Suisse and North America IT Controller at UBS. This past year, Gary was recognized as a Large Enterprise Finalist by the 2022 New York CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards for his outstanding leadership, management effectiveness, and business value created through technology innovation as Global Chief Information Officer at Zoom.

5 Steps to DevOps Success Accelerate Digital Transformation with Salesforce DevOps

Contributed by Gearset

Accelerate project delivery with DevOps

Enterprises worldwide are adopting Salesforce DevOps to increase release velocity, minimize organizational risk and streamline operational spend. In 2022, 85% of companies who implemented DevOps saw increased Salesforce return on investment.

Kick off your DevOps adoption journey with these 5 steps to DevOps Success:

Step 1: Access your requirements and resources

Successful implementations start with knowing your successes and challenges. Start your DevOps adoption with an assessment across two key areas:

Step 2: Start small and scale up

Version control is fundamental to DevOps. It enables you to

Create a ‘single source of truth’ for teams
Optimize efficiency and team collaboration
Maintain an audit trail for every development cycle stage

Step 3: Start Building a DevOps culture

Step 4: Iterate and optimize your processes

Once you’ve established a strong DevOps foundation with version control, you can take iterative steps towards DevOps maturity, with an automated, source-driven release pipeline.

Step 5: Measure and review impact

Review your DevOps progress regularly to assess progress and identify improvements:

Agree key KPIs
Focus on continuous improvement
Measure the impact

Discover how to accelerate project delivery & book a consultation here

About Gearset

Gearset is the complete Salesforce DevOps solution for Admins, Developers, Architects, and Release Managers building on Salesforce. Accelerate project delivery and improve collaboration with:

Metadata deployments
Fully integrated backup and restore
Data deployments and compliance
Continuous integration and version control
Automated release pipeline
Change monitoring and testing
Built on a deep understanding of your Salesforce data and metadata relationships, Gearset is the only solution designed to fully integrate DevOps into your release pipeline.

Founded in 2015 by DevOps experts, Gearset is designed to help every Salesforce team apply DevOps best practices to their development and release process, so they can rapidly and securely deliver higher-quality projects. With inbuilt intelligence that solves the fundamental challenges of Salesforce DevOps, Gearset is a uniquely reliable solution trusted by more than 1000 companies, including McKesson, Accenture and IBM.

To learn more about Gearset visit https://gearset.com/

#MillenniumLive Amplifying Your Ability To Help Others

The #MillenniumLive podcast was honored to speak with Connie Phelps, Area of VP, Payer & PBM Specialists at Nuance last week at our Healthcare Providers & Payers Transformation Assembly. Connie Phelps joins the pod for a discussion on 2023 Trends in Member Engagement and how Nuance is amplifying your ability to help others. Members expect all their interactions with their health plan to be personalized and meaningful and we know that much of the member data can be disjointed, and Connie covers all the great ways Nuance keeps members engaged and the role of digital in keeping people engaged in their health. From one of the first voice recognition systems to the most advanced ambient clinical intelligence ever introduced, Nuance has played a foundational role in the emergence of conversational AI.

Tune in to this episode to learn how Nuance helps bring intelligence to everyday work and life.

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About Nuance

Nuance Communications, Inc. is the pioneer and leader in conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. The company delivers solutions that understand, analyze and respond to human language, amplifying human intelligence. With decades of domain and artificial intelligence expertise, Nuance works with thousands of organizations – in healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, financial services, retail, and more – to create stronger relationships and better experiences for their customers.

#MillenniumLive IT Solutions That Meet You Where You Go

The #MillenniumLive podcast was delighted to speak with Suzanne Fuller, Vice President & Chief Solutions Officer, at Companion Data Services (CDS). CDS provides leading IT solutions and managed services. They operate multiple geographically disperse data centers, which host applications and process billions of transactions, supporting state, federal and commercial business. Suzanne discusses value of having a single data repository that synchronizes data in real-time, the focus on secure hosting and managed services, and the “digital payer ecosystem”.

Tune in to this episode to learn how CDS provides secure and innovative IT solutions to meet you where you are.

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About Companion Data Services

Companion Data Services, LLC (CDS), a privately held company that offers secure systems development and managed hosting services specializing in the health care industry. Their business status, financial strength and operating philosophies provide the flexibility to make long-term business decisions to support their business partners and customers without regard to the quarterly financial pressures of public commercial companies. CDS is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina with offices in Dallas, Texas and Baltimore, Maryland.

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