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Schedule
Browse hundreds of sessions and see what our speakers will be discussing. Our schedule spans the 10 days of the Festival, from the beginning of Aspen Ideas: Health to end of Festival 2.
How to Attend
From where to pick up your pass and how to get around the Institute’s campus and Aspen, to where to eat and what to wear, discover how to make the most of your experience at the Aspen Ideas Festival and Aspen Ideas: Health.
Things to Do
Should you need a nature break from the big ideas shared at the Festival, venture off campus and explore Aspen’s backyard! Check the Festival schedule for outdoor opportunities like yoga, birdwatching, and guided walks. Or, lace up your hiking boots and explore the natural environment on your own.
Join brilliant minds and change makers in Aspen for our 15th annual Festival.
Featured speakers
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and teaches at Amherst College and is the author of several books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is His...
Valerie Jarrett is a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and media company ATTN: and a Senior Distinguished Fellow at University of Chicago Law School. Her memoir is Findin...
Fatima Goss Graves is president and CEO of National Women’s Law Center, where she’s served for more than a decade, previously as senior vice president for program and vice pre...
Cari Champion is co-anchor of the noon, coast-to-coast edition of “SportsCenter,” ESPN’s flagship daily sports news studio show. She also hosts “Be Honest with Cari Champion,”...
Cut Through the Noise
Imagine some of the most inspired and innovative speakers gathered in a single place.
2019 Festival
Tracks
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Can design change people’s behavior? Our culture? Our lives?
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Have humans reached our potential for peak performance?
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Where do emotions come from? Are they hardwired at birth?
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Our national conversation is increasingly defined by deep divisions.
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For many, growth equals economic progress. But how should we define progress?
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International order, as we’ve known it for more than 70 years, is in flux.
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The ancient artform of storytelling is being reimagined across all platforms.
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What are we doing here? Is there a higher purpose to the lives we lead?
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What defines modern American conservatism and who are today’s standard-bearers?
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The recent UN report urging swift and dramatic action to curb the rise of the planet’s temperature.
