Wondering what our speakers will address this year at the Aspen Ideas Festival and Aspen Ideas: Health? Our preview of Ideas continues with a focus on three (of nearly 20) program tracks. With the Festival coming up soon, our Ideas previews will continue through the month of May. Watch for more!

How can artificial intelligence transform the provider-patient relationship? Eric Topol, author of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, describes how AI can improve health outcomes, but also raise ethical questions. What's the best way to take advantage of the benefits of AI while also mitigating data security breaches and embedded biases?

How do patients build movements and make progress in fighting their disease? Tania Simoncelli, director of policy for science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, sits down with real patients — Brian Wallach, co-founder of I AM ALS, Kathy Giusti, founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, and Nasha Fitter, co-founder of FOXG1 Research Foundation. What hardships and successes did they encounter in their fight for more research, funding, and awareness?

Pushing the Limits of Human Performance (Festival 1)

Have humans reached our potential for peak performance, or is the best yet to come? We look at the delicate interplay between mind and body when athletes accomplish superhuman feats, such as Colin O’Brady's 54-day unsupported solo trek across Antarctica and Hilaree Nelson's ski descents in the Himalaya. Sports psychologist Michael Gervais and genetics researcher Megan Roche break down how uber-athletes surpass perceived physical limits in extraordinary ways.

NBA Superstars Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers and DeMar DeRozan of the San Antonio Spurs share personal stories of mental health challenges at the elite level of their sport.

Can DNA data help athletes avoid injury? Stuart Kim, a leading researcher on the genetics of injury, shares insights from tests of professional athletes and long distance runners.

In Search of Meaning (Festival 2)

Though death is every bit as much a part of life as birth, we pretend it isn’t there. Perhaps it’s time that changed. In a sneak peak of the soon-to be-released HBO documentary "Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America," filmmakers Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz tackle this final taboo. They sit down to discuss end of life options and how we might design more meaningful deaths.

In a time of deep anxiety, disconnectedness, and political polarization, people need a place to come together in civic community — meeting face-to-face to reflect on what it means to be a contributing member of civic life. Citizen University's "Civic Saturday" gathers together friends and strangers to nurture a spirit of shared purpose. The event takes place in 30 cities, and it's coming to Aspen Ideas! Festival attendees will join together to build civic fellowship to create new joyful and communal traditions.

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Aspen Ideas Health: June 20 - 23
Aspen Ideas Festival: June 23 - 29
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