Aspen Ideas Festival Announces Inspiring Leaders and Thinkers for 20th Year Celebrating Bright Minds for Dark Times
17 April 2024 - 5:32AM
Aspen, CO, April 16, 2024 – The Aspen Ideas
Festival, the Aspen Institute’s flagship summer convening presented
in partnership with NBCUniversal News Group, announces new speakers
appearing as part of a bold lineup of global thought leaders, tech
and media innovators, artists, authors, policymakers,
entrepreneurs, scientists, and explainers of now. Passes
are on sale and press registration is open now.
Below are some of the 300+ speakers and moderators appearing at
the Festival. Many more will be announced in the coming weeks.
- Former Secretary of State John Kerry, most
recently President Biden’s climate envoy, shares candid thoughts
about global inaction on the climate crisis, along with
Anne Finucane, chairwomen of Rubicon Carbon.
- Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella in
conversation with Tina Brown about leading in the
AI era.
- Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers
talks with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin about AI’s
impact on the economy.
- Iconic baseball All-Star and entrepreneur Alex
Rodriguez on the boom in sports investing, along with
David Rubenstein, Carlyle Group co-founder and new
owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
- California Congresswomen Katie Porter, E. Jean
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan, and New York
University Law Professor Melissa Murray assess the
status of women in post-Roe America, moderated by Katie
Couric.
- Fannie Mae CEO Priscilla Almodovar speaks with
CNBC’s Sharon Epperson on the state of the U.S.
housing market.
- Admiral William McRaven, who just received the
$50 million Courage and Creativity Award from Jeff Bezos, discusses
leadership in times of crisis with groundbreaking former Pepsi CEO
Indra Nooyi and Ford Foundation President
Darren Walker.
- Iranian-American journalist and courageous human rights
campaigner Masih Alinejad on how women are
fighting for their freedom in Iran.
- Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson deep dives
into the threat of a China-U.S. crisis over Taiwan with former
Trump Deputy National Security advisor Matt
Pottinger and three leading China scholars.
Additional headliners will be announced here.
NBCUniversal News Group anchors and correspondents from across
NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News NOW and Telemundo, will moderate
conversations throughout the Festival.
Attendees will find the Festival reimagined for 2024. The action
will stay on the revitalized Aspen Meadows campus into the evening,
with new nighttime programming, entertainment, and dining. From
sunrise to sundown, the festival will explore critical issues
and uncover ideas that spark conversation and debate, with
attendees gaining exceptional opportunities to interact in a
uniquely intimate setting with people shaping the world. Explore
this year’s themes.
Underwriters for the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival are Allstate,
Amazon, BP, Comcast, Edward Jones, Meta, Mount Sinai Health System,
Prudential Financial, Reuters, Viant Technology, the Walton Family
Foundation, and Wells Fargo.
For more information on the Aspen Ideas Festival, please
visit www.aspenideas.org. View this release online here.
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Jon Purves
The Aspen Institute
jon.purves@aspeninstitute.org