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May 2, 2024
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Bold ideas from the world's brightest minds. Packed with visionary leaders and inspiring thinkers whose ideas and actions are shaping our collective future, the 2024 speaker lineup is truly exceptional.
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Aspen Ideas Festival
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Joining the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival (June 23 - 29) are nearly 300 tech and media innovators, artists, policymakers, scientists, activists, and global thought leaders, including:
Artist and activist John Legend will speak about transforming the justice system.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky will talk about designing artificial intelligence for our lives.
Discover the mysteries of the ocean with award-winning photographers and SeaLegacy co-founders Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier.
Oscar-winning director and composer Kris Bowers will join Juilliard School President Damian Woetzel for an evening of performance, conversation, and serious hope.
Poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon will reflect on how they’re pressing individuals and society to step beyond the confines of culture and embrace a curious life.
Sherrilyn Ifill, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, will discuss the 14th amendment with Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
Bestselling author Michael Lewis will discuss his latest book, "Going Infinite," about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman Fried.
Developmental psychologist and director at the Mount Sinai Parenting Center Aliza Pressman will teach us lessons on modern parenting and raising good humans.
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and bestselling author Charles Duhigg reveals the secrets of good conversations and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.
GOOD+ Founder and President Jessica Seinfeld will discuss maintaining family ties during incarceration.
Former New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet will talk about beating back misinformation in our digital age.
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Aspen Ideas: Health
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Taking the stage at Aspen Ideas: Health (June 20 - 23) will be over 150 trailblazing leaders and innovators who are shaping the future of health, medicine, and science, including:
Nobel Laureate and CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna will share her vision for the future of genome editing and how the technology will be used to treat human diseases, address food insecurity, and respond to climate change.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy will provide insights about how we can live more socially connected lives in order to improve our individual and collective well-being.
USAID’s Atul Gawande will give us an inside look at the agency’s work to advance the equitable delivery of public health approaches around the world.
U.S. Senator John Fetterman will join wife and Freestore 15104 Founder Gisele Barreto Fetterman for a candid conversation about his stroke and battle with depression, her role as a caregiver, and their joint mission of improving access to health care services for all families.
Christy Turlington Burns, Founder of Every Mother Counts, will share her perspective on the need to better support moms around the globe – from improving maternal health to advancing caregiving policies.
Gregory Jackson, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and Megan Ranney, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, will discuss how taking a public health approach to firearm injuries is saving lives.
Rick Doblin, President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, will explain how expanded research, policy changes, and culture shifts are bringing psychedelic-assisted therapy into the mainstream.
- Microsoft Research President Peter Lee and bioethicist Jodi Halpern will debate the benefits, limitations, and risks of integrating today’s AI advancements into health care.
Keep checking our website — our speaker lists grow daily!
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