AIF Agenda Thursday

THURSDAY JUNE 30

HP Experience Zone and Business Centers Open 7:45 AM – 6:00 PM, Koch Building and Doerr-Hosier Center

Second Session
June 30–July 3

Registration for the SECOND SESSION from
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Please note: Pass-holders for SECOND
SESSION commence their session at

2:00 PM in the BENEDICT MUSIC TENT (doors open at 1:30 PM).
7:00 AMBODY BREAK YOGA IN ANDERSON PARK
7:45 AMGREEN TECH TO CLEAN TECH
Will Green Tech Take Our Economy
to the Cleaners?
Robert Bryce, Kristina M. Johnson
MODERATOR Eric Pooley

Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
*tickets required
 STATE OF THE UNION
Children in America:
How Will They Win the Future?
Daniel Lurie, Anne Mosle, Stephen Patrick
MODERATOR Alex Kotlowitz

Limelight Lodge*
*tickets required
7:45 –
8:45 AM
BREAKFAST SESSIONS
8:00 AMTHE LEARNING LANDSCAPE
The Race to the Top Revolution:
How It Happened, Why It Matters
Steven Brill, Arne Duncan
Paepcke Auditorium
8:00 AMOUR POST-9/11 WORLD
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of
America’s Secret Campaign
Against al Qaeda
Thom Shanker
INTERVIEWER Jeffrey Goldberg

Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
8:30 – 9:10 AMGREEN TECH TO CLEAN TECH
Green City Index Press Conference
Eric Spiegel, Alison Taylor
Siemens Sustainable Cities Exhibit in the Resnick-Malek Health Center
Underwritten by Siemens
8:00 AMGREEN TECH TO CLEAN TECH
President’s Breakfast: Natural Gas and Our Energy Future—Getting It Right Together
Marvin Odum
INTERVIEWER Joe Nocera

Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
8:00 –
9:00 AM
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Paepcke Tent
9:00 –
10:10 AM
PLENARY SESSIONS
 THE LEARNING LANDSCAPE
That Used to Be Us: How America Lost
Its Way in the World It Invented and
How We Come Back
Thomas L. Friedman
INTERVIEWER Walter Isaacson

Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
 OUR POST-9/11 WORLD
The Post-Bin Laden World
John Negroponte, Thom Shanker,
Shashi Tharoor, Robin Wright
MODERATOR Jeffrey Goldberg

Includes presentation by
Reuters Photographers
Paepcke Auditorium
10:30 –
11:40 AM
CONCURRENT TUTORIALS
 WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
The Geography of Happiness
Carol Graham, Eric Weiner MODERATOR Daniel Gilbert
Greenwald Pavilion
 STATE OF THE UNION
The Changing Role of Religion in America: How Faith Divides and Unites Us
Robert Putnam
Paepcke Auditorium
 FOOD FIGHTS
Food Labels: Fact or Fiction?
Ezekiel Emanuel, Dondeena Bradley, Leslie Dach, Lynda Resnick
MODERATOR Corby Kummer

Koch Building, Lauder Room
 GLOBAL ECONOMICS
Using Charter Cities to Escape from
Development Traps
Paul Romer
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
 OUR POST-9/11 WORLD
Could 9/11 Happen Again?
Michael Chertoff, Jane Harman,
Mike McConnell, Philip Zelikow
MODERATOR Jeffrey Goldberg

Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
 THE LEARNING LANDSCAPE
Cultivating Imagination for a World
of Constant Change
John Seely Brown, Douglas Thomas
MODERATOR Susan Crown

Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
11:40 AMTRANSPORTATION FROM
DOERR-HOSIER CENTER AND
PAEPCKE AUDITORIUM TO
OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS
11:40 AM-
1:00 PM
LUNCH
Marble Garden Tent
Doerr-Hosier Center
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
Koch Tent
12:00 –
1:00 PM
LUNCH SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
 OUR POST-9/11 WORLD
Ten Years After: A TIME/Aspen Ideas
Festival National Survey on How America Has Changed Since 9/11
Donald Baer, Mark Penn, Richard Stengel
MODERATOR Elliot Gerson

Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
 ARTS & CULTURE / MUSIC ON THE EDGE
The Arts and Our Kids
Aaron Dworkin, David Finckel, Wu Han
MODERATOR Damian Woetze

Paepcke Auditorium
 PATRONS AND SCHOLARS LUNCH
Do We Have the Skills to Build Our Future?
Austan Goolsbee, Cheryl Hyman,
Eva Sage-Gavin
MODERATOR Penny Pritzker

An Event for Patron Pass-Holders and Aspen Ideas Festival Scholars
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
12:00 –
1:00 PM
LUNCH SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
 THE LEARNING LANDSCAPE
What Does It Take to Revolutionize
Education in the United States?
Ellen Alberding, Richard Barth, John Danner, Wendy Kopp, Joel Rose
MODERATOR James C. Calaway

Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
*tickets required
 OUR POST-9/11 WORLD
Rock the Casbah: Rage and Revolution
Across the Islamic World
Robin Wright
Limelight Lodge*
*tickets required
 OUR POST-9/11 WORLD
New York Says Thank You
Film Screening
REMARKS BY Scott Rettberg
Belly Up*
*tickets required
1:30 PMDOORS OPEN TO THE
BENEDICT MUSIC TENT
2:00 –
6:15 PM
AN AFTERNOON OF CONVERSATION
PLEASE BE SEATED BY 2:00 PM
ALL PASS-HOLDERS WELCOME
HOST Kitty Boone

Benedict Music Tent
 OPENING REMARKS
David Bradley
 Prospects for Peace
Tzipi Livni, Marwan Muasher
MODERATOR James Bennet
 The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Wes Moore
 We the People: Making a Democracy Work
Stephen Breyer
INTERVIEWER Elliot Gerson
 Leading Design
Deborah Borda, Frank Gehry
MODERATOR Gwen Ifill
 America—The Great Debate
Austan Goolsbee
INTERVIEWER Maria Bartiromo
 Teaching and Learning for
a Global Economy
Arne Duncan
INTERVIEWER Andrea Mitchell
5:30 –
6:30 PM
SPEAKER SALON
 THE LEARNING LANDSCAPE
The Most Popular (and Possibly Most
Important) Trend on College Campuses
Rye Barcott
The Lounge at BB’s Kitchen*
*tickets required
7:30 –
10:00 PM
EVENING SESSIONS
7:30 PMGROWING THE US ECONOMY
Media Roundtable:
The Journalists’ Take on the Economy
Chrystia Freeland, Joe Nocera,
Andrew Ross Sorkin
MODERATOR Kai Ryssdal

Belly Up*
Underwritten by Siemens
*tickets required
8:30 PMARTS & CULTURE
Discovering America Through Its
Arts and Artists
Eames Demetrios, Eric Fischl
MODERATOR Richard Edwards

Baldwin Gallery
8:30 PMWOMEN ON THE RISE
What Drives the Woman Entrepreneur?
Jamie Bechtel, Donna Callejon,
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
MODERATOR Josh Tyrangiel

Limelight Lodge*
*tickets required
Underwritten by W.K. Kellogg Foundation
8:30 PMSOCIAL MEDIA
Connected: An Autoblogography
About Love, Death & Technology
Film Screening and Discussion
Tiffany Shlain
INTERVIEWER Kevin Kelly

Paepcke Auditorium
Underwritten by HP