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Speakers participate in a panel discussion during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills in 2022.Photographer: Lauren Justice/Bloomberg

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By Paula Seligson, John Gittelsohn, and Davide Scigliuzzo

May 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC

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May 6, 2024 at 1:03 PM UTC

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The movie-star haven of Beverly Hills is giving way to the luminaries of finance.

The Milken Institute Global Conference, the Davos of the West to the cognoscenti, is kicking off in California Sunday with one of its most high-profile list of speakers in years. Issues as vast as artificial intelligence and conflict in the Middle East are on the agenda.