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The Aspen Ideas Festival brings brilliant leaders and thinkers from around the globe to discuss the ideas that will shape tomorrow and help us understand today.
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Aspen Ideas to Go is a show about big ideas that will open your mind. Featuring compelling conversations with the world’s top thinkers and doers from a diverse range of disciplines, Aspen Ideas to Go gives you front-row access to the Aspen Ideas Festival and other events presented by the Aspen Institute. The views and opinions of the speakers in the podcast do not necessar...
The Aspen Ideas Festival will be held June 25 – July 1, 2025. Join us on our art-filled campus in Aspen, Colorado.
We come together the last week in June to reflect on the meaning and conditions of human flourishing. We do not seek simple answers to complex questions. We do seek a dialogue conscious of our sameness and differences, our pluralism and our common purposes. Our dialogue is an act of faith in one another.
Young people in America are struggling. The causes are varied and may not be entirely clear, but the results are unfortunately unmistakable. Many of our youth feel lonely, isolated or depressed and struggle to see a future where they can buy a house, have a family or feel connected to their community. The two panelists in this talk from the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival bring...
Join big thinkers and innovative doers at Aspen Ideas: Health 2023 (June 21-24)!
When people and ideas meet in the right atmosphere, something magical happens. At Aspen Ideas, we cultivate that magic.
Aspen Ideas: Health has partnered with the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower to offer continuing education credits for healthcare providers, dietitians, and social workers who attend our 2025 event.
By creating a forum to share knowledge and experience, Aspen Ideas: Health offers a unique opportunity to turn ideas into action and carve pathways toward better health for all. Join us!
Scientific and clinical advances, political upheaval, natural and manmade disasters, even a radical new idea can all spark seismic change. Attracting hope and mistrust in equal measure, such shake-ups can force us to challenge assumptions, question cultural norms, and contemplate the impact on our families, communities, and planet. Aspen Ideas: Health 2025 brings together...
Aspen Ideas: Climate is designed to offer the public a chance to interact, learn, and collaborate with thinkers and do-ers whose actions are critical to addressing our collective future around the realities of a changing climate.
New technologies have always led to changes in society, though not always as quickly or drastically as people feared. Could artificial intelligence be different? Instead of letting a new AI reality unfold amid helpless hand-wringing, what if we tried to learn from the past? In this talk recorded at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival, a panel of thoughtful technology experts fro...
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Save the dates! The Aspen Ideas Festival will return June 23 - 29, 2024.
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