Millennium Live | A Leadership & Discovery Podcast The Millennium Alliance

This week on the podcast, The Millennium Alliance welcomes a partner that brings innovation to the forefront to create digital experiences made to resonate. Jay Erickson, one of the founding partners of Modus and Chief Innovation Officer, shares the importance of a human-centered approach to drive digital transformation, generate new ideas, and solve business problems. With over twenty years of experience, he shares stories of some memorable collaborations with some amazing brands like Gibson, USAA and Sesame to create digital experiences that resonate, delight, perform and transform. Jay also dives into his interesting perspective on brand-to-demand marketing, the challenges organizations are facing, and how innovation is anything but buzzword.

At Modus he also heads up the healthcare practice and has worked with clients from Cleveland Clinic, Ascension, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Pfizer, Amgen, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Yale New Haven Health and The American Heart Association. 

Cloud security is such a complicated topic and a crowded space. The Millennium Live podcast welcomes Bryce Hein, Chief Marketing Officer at Sysdig to help cybersecurity leaders ease their transition to the cloud. Sysdig has created a cloud security platform that uses insights from Runtime to help customers consolidate cloud security. Bryce discusses the Gartner CNAPP Market Guide, launched in early spring to give some direction to the cloud security market which recognized Sysdig as a Representative Vendor. Bryce also shares strategic advice for CISOs in their cloud journeys, as well as where technology is going, specifically surrounding the expected release of “Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy Governance, and Incident Disclosure” rules from the SEC. 



Sysdig secures and accelerates cloud innovation. Powered by Runtime Insights, our platform stops threats in real time and reduces vulnerabilities by up to 95%. Our roots are in runtime as the creators of Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection. We apply Runtime Insights across the software lifecycle to prioritize vulnerabilities and instantly detect attacks. From shift left to shield right, customers rely on Sysdig to prevent, detect, and respond at cloud speed.

With a variety of stressors impacting employees today, how can we rethink traditional mental healthcare and offer solutions that have a more sizable impact on employee mental health – all without increasing costs for employers? Headspace Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Dana Udall and Chief Commercial Officer Jodi Bryant discuss how leaders today can take a different approach to employee mental healthcare that can reduce the burden on benefits leaders and result in better engagement and health outcomes for employees.

Dr. Udall is Chief Clinical Officer at Headspace Health, where she oversees coaching, therapy, and psychiatry to ensure clinical excellence in a multidisciplinary, collaborative model. She was previously Chief Clinical Officer of Ginger, and has spent the last 25 years helping individuals and groups make positive and enduring changes in their lives. At the cornerstone of her work is her belief in the power of relationships to help people heal and grow. As a supervisor, administrator, and licensed Psychologist,  Dr. Udall has worked in a wide range of settings, including residential treatment centers, intensive outpatient programs, university counseling centers, and private practice.

Jodi Bryant is Chief Commercial Officer at Headspace Health, where she leads global enterprise sales, enablement, consultant relations and client success. Jodi is a seasoned employee benefits executive with nearly 30 years of experience leading commercial programs at Aetna, a CVS Health Company, Putnam Investments, Mercer and Citistreet. Most recently Jodi served as President of Aetna’s Professional Employer Organization (PEO) business. Prior to this role, she served the company’s Senior Vice President of Sales, Enablement and Consultant Relations, leading the successful integration of bswift, a full-service benefits administration partner, into the Aetna family of products.

Cloud transformation and work from anywhere have changed how security needs to work. Netskope understands these changes and works to protect people and data anywhere they go, no matter what.
Gerry Plaza, Field CTO - Chief Strategy Office at Netskope, joined the Millennium Live podcast to discuss the best way businesses can stay ahead of cloud, data, and network security challenges. In his time as a CTO, Gerry shares ways you're able to work cross-functionally within an organization to help reduce friction and ways he's currently working to promote better digital citizenship at Netskope.

Netskope empowers the largest organizations in the world with the right balance of protection and speed they need to enable business velocity and secure their digital transformation journey.

Gerry’s career trajectory has taken him through every IT functional role of increasing responsibilities, throughout his 25+ years in the IT Industry. This expansive experience has allowed him to build a deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture allowing him to have a positive impact in every functional area of Infrastructure and Operations from 3-Tier Architecture to Hyperconverged, Virtualization, IP & FC Networking, Network Security, Cyber Security, Cloud, IaaS, and everything in-between throughout Design, Engineering and Operations teams.

Digital transformation can be daunting, but with an iterative approach using smarter integration, Digibee can make it easy. Digibee enables organizations to build flexible, highly scalable integration architecture, which truly has a positive impact on an organization's digital transformation journey. Matt Durham, Head of Market Strategy at Digibee, joins the podcast for a transformation conversation on how Digibee's solutions are allowing enterprises to compete and excel in today’s rapidly changing digital environment. 

Every day, the pressure is on for IT teams to keep systems running efficiently to fuel business growth. Millennium Live wraps up the week of Digital Enterprise transformation with Galileo, a technology partner to help you resolve challenging IT issues and promote the growth of your organization. Tim Conley, Galileo Founder & Principal of The ATS Group, joined the podcast to discuss how on-prem and cloud infrastructure is growing in complexity. Most IT teams are paying a hefty price for multiple, redundant monitoring tools that delay incident resolution, contribute to silos within the IT organization, and slow down your business. Tim discusses challenges large data centers are facing today, and how Galileo is helping companies combat the rising cost of going to the cloud. Since 2007, Galileo has saved customers money and time by consolidating technology resources, preventing downtime, and providing end-to-end visibility across your entire IT landscape.