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Schedule
Get a taste of what a day at the Aspen Ideas Festival is like! Look through our schedule from 2019.
About the Festival
The Aspen Ideas Festival promises to be thought-provoking, meaningful and fun — true to Aspen tradition. Find out more about it's history.
Event Overview
From sunup to sundown, Aspen Ideas packs hundreds of fascinating discussions into ten days, with more than 3,000 attendees.
Featured speakers
David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, since 2003, and the executive director of Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute. Brooks also teach...
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...
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...
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...
Cut Through the Noise
Imagine some of the most inspired and innovative speakers gathered in a single place.
