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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
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...
Common is an award-winning artist, actor, and activist. His social justice and advocacy work focuses on mass incarceration, mental health, and voting, and he launched a nonpro...
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...
Mary C. Daly is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, appointed in October 2018 and serving on the Federal Open Market Committee. She joined the Bank...
Cut Through the Noise
Imagine some of the most inspired and innovative speakers gathered in a single place.
