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Event Overview
From sunup to sundown, Aspen Ideas packs hundreds of fascinating discussions into ten days, with more than 3,000 attendees.
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
Bret Stephens is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, writing about foreign policy and domestic politics. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2013 while at The Wal...
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,”...
Rana el Kaliouby is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, an emotion-measurement technology spinoff from MIT Media Lab. A computer scientist and pioneer in artificial emotional int...
Elizabeth Dunn is a professor in the Psychology Department at University of British Columbia, where she conducts original research on happiness. She serves as chief scientist...
Celebrating Ideas since 2005
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.
