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ALL WEEK
Paepcke, Doerr-Hosier Center, Koch Building
Mercedes-Benz USA Maroon Bells Outings
6:00 AM AND 6:15 AM, JUNE 29 AND JULY 2
Sign up at Underwriter Registration in Paepcke
Test drive incredibly smart cars from Mercedes-Benz USA
DAILY FROM 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Paepcke Parking Lot
Go see remarkable data visualization in Legacy’s Interactive Exhibit
DAILY FROM 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Koch Building, Stranahan Room
Need to chill? Thomson Reuters Lounge
DAILY FROM 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Doerr-Hosier Center
Thomson Reuters Knowledge Exchanges
THE NEW PROFESSIONAL 10:30 AM, JUNE 28
CRACKING THE GENETIC CODE 12:00 PM, JUNE 29
INFORMATION’S BEAUTIFUL FUTURE 1:15 PM, JULY 2
ESA/Microsoft Xbox Active Demo
Stop by to experience the future with Playful Learning and Xbox SmartGlass.
DAILY FROM 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Kresge Building, Hines Lobby
PepsiCo Café
Featuring talks, demonstrations, and snacks throughout the week
DAILY FROM 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
PepsiCo Tent, in the Mayer Courtyard
U.S. Trust Legacy Pavilion
Offers business access, food, and beverages
DAILY FROM 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Legacy Pavilion, at the Resnick-Malek Health Center
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OPENING DAY WEDNESDAY JUNE
27
We are pleased to welcome our distinguished Chinese artists and delegates as the
US-China Forum on the Arts and Culture hosts discussions at the Aspen Ideas Festival
through June 30.
MAY WE SUGGEST…
THREE AT 3:00 PM
■ The Rational Middle
■ What Fascinates Us about Each Other
■ What Is a Life Worth?
EAT. MEET. SIP. Don’t miss the welcome reception in Doerr-Hosier
immediately following Festival Opening.
VISIT OUR BOOKSTORE in Paepcke, open all week
from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
TAKE NOTE
Our schedule is somewhat dynamic, but here’s how we will
keep you posted on changes:
■ Mobile apps and on aspenideas.org
■ Daily Update, handed out at morning plenary sessions
■ Screens in Paepcke, Doerr-Hosier, and Koch buildings
■ Daily e-mail update
■ Spoken announcements
Mercedes Benz USA is offering 6:00 AM outings to the Maroon Bells
tomorrow morning—plan your schedule now
Tickets for Aspen Exchanges are available in the Ticket Gallery in
the Paepcke building from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
TONIGHT
FILM City of Life and Death, 8:00 PM
“Rivers of Ice” with David Breashears, 8:00 PM
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WEDNESDAY JUNE
27
EVENING SESSIONS
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM REGISTRATION
Paepcke Lobby
ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL PREVIEWS
1:00 - 1:40 PM US-CHINA
Flying Tigers
Film Screening
7:30 PM AMERICA
Can We Afford to Be Healthy?
Joe Klein, David Leonhardt
MODERATOR Suzanne Malveaux
Belly Up Aspen*
Underwritten by Legacy
Paepcke Auditorium
2:00 - 2:40 PM US-CHINA
Flying Tigers
Film Screening
Paepcke Auditorium
8:00 PM OUR PLANET
“Rivers of Ice”: Vanishing Glaciers of the
Greater Himalaya
David Breashears
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room*
3:00 - 4:30 PM OUR PLANET
Exploring the Rational Middle: How Do We
Stay There in the Natural Gas Debate?
Russ Ford, Gregory Kallenberg,
Richard Newell, Alexis Karolides
MODERATOR Alexis Madrigal
US-CHINA
City of Life and Death: A Film and
Discussion (Language: Chinese with
English subtitles)
Lu Chuan
INTERVIEWER Melissa Chiu
Paepcke Auditorium
Paepcke Auditorium*
Underwritten by Shell
US-CHINA What Fascinates Us about Each Other?
Vishakha Desai, Li Xiaolin, Orville Schell,
Hu Shuli, Wu Tong, Damian Woetzel
Greenwald Pavilion
VALUES
8:30 PM ECONOMY
Can We Solve the Debt Crisis?
Simon Johnson, Vin Weber
MODERATOR Kai Ryssdal
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
Underwritten by GE
What Is a Life Worth?
Kenneth Feinberg
INTERVIEWER Steve Clemons
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
5:00 - 7:30 PM FESTIVAL OPENING AND WELCOME
Festival Opening and Welcome
Walter Isaacson, David Bradley
Greenwald Pavilion
What’s the Big Idea?
Selected Festival Speakers
Greenwald Pavilion
OPENING RECEPTION
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING
Doerr-Hosier Center
*tickets required
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THURSDAY JUNE
28
MAY WE SUGGEST…
YOGA at 7:00 AM in Anderson Park
MERCEDES BENZ USA MAROON BELLS OUTING
Tomorrow, June 29 at 6:00 AM and 6:15 AM
Don’t miss your chance to see the most-photographed spot
in Colorado. Sign up at Underwriter Registration in Paepcke.
CEO SERIES: INTRODUCING THE BEST OF AMERICAN BUSINESS
■ Keith Banks of U.S. Trust on investing 8:00 AM
■ Dave Cote of Honeywell on American competiveness, 8:00 AM
■ Doug McMillon of Walmart on global markets, 12:00 PM
FUN AT FOUR O’CLOCK
■ Tour “Coal + Ice” art exhibit with mountaineer and photographer
David Breashears and Asia Society’s Orville Schell
■ Check out the book signings!
■ Body Break Yoga in Anderson Park
5 PM SPECIAL SESSION
Concussions in Football: an important discussion followed by
a screening of American Man
TONIGHT
MUSIC Gershwin Celebration: Rhapsody in Blue and more
with conductor Robert Spano, tickets available for purchase in the
Ticket Gallery in Paepcke, 7:30 PM
ASPEN EXCHANGES, 7:30 PM
■ Athletes on the ultimate legacy: David Breashears, Jim Brown,
and Michelle Kwan
■ Hearts, Minds, and the 2012 Election
FILM Finding North, 8:00 PM
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THURSDAY JUNE
28
7:00 AM BODY BREAK YOGA
10:30 - 11:40 AM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Anderson Park
DEMOCRACY
Arab Spring: 18 Months Later,
What’s Ahead for Democracy?
Nicholas Burns, David Rothkopf,
Toni Verstandig
MODERATOR Hala Gorani
7:45 - 8:45 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
TECHNOLOGY
Where Is Knowledge?
David Weinberger
INTERVIEWER John Seely Brown
Greenwald Pavilion
Limelight Hotel*
ECONOMY
VALUES
Knowledge Exchange: the New Professional
Reid Hoffman, Mark Penn, Susan Peters,
Deirdre Stanley
MODERATOR Heidi Moore
Our Moral Imagination
Jane Shaw
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
Underwritten by Thomson Reuters
8:00 - 8:50 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
ECONOMY
ARTS
Investing in the Markets:
Safe or Uncertain?
Keith Banks
MODERATOR William E. Mayer
Culture and Conflict
Pierre Dulaine, Merlijn Twaalfhoven
MODERATOR Damian Woetzel
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
Kresge Building, Hines Room
ECONOMY
OUR PLANET
CEO Series: An American Competitiveness
Agenda with Honeywell CEO
Dave Cote
INTERVIEWER Chrystia Freeland
The Geography of Progress: What Do Cities
Look Like in a World of Seven Billion?
Richard Florida
Paepcke Auditorium
ECONOMY
Paepcke Auditorium
Can We Compete?
Marco Annunziata, Fred P. Hochberg,
Christopher M. Hyzy
MODERATOR Maria Bartiromo
9:00 - 10:10 AM PLENARY SESSIONS
OUR PLANET
The Population Challenge
Dennis Dimick, Helene D. Gayle
MODERATOR Joel Achenbach
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
SPORTS
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
with support from United States Agency
for International Development
Competition: What’s Fair Today?
Jim Brown, William E. Mayer, Craig Robinson
MODERATOR Jeremy Schaap
DEMOCRACY
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
Will the European Union Survive?
Richard Haass, Simon Johnson,
Beppe Severgnini
MODERATOR Clive Crook
SCIENCE
Artificial Intelligence: Radically Disrupting
Genetic Science
Ross D. King
Greenwald Pavilion
TECHNOLOGY
Will College Learning be
Transformed by Technology
Andrew Ng, Joanne Weiss
INTERVIEWER Rehema Ellis
Paepcke Auditorium
Koch Building, Lauder Room
11:00 AM
TRANSPORTATION STARTS FROM
DOERR-HOSIER CENTER AND PAEPCKE
AUDITORIUM TO OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS
(Please note early departure for
“Talk of the Nation” event)
*tickets required
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THURSDAY JUNE
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM LUNCH SESSION OFF CAMPUS
AMERICA
NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Doors open, lunch served
12:00 - 2:00 PM LIVE SHOW
Hour 1: Exporting Democracy
Ender: What Do We Believe and Why?
Hour 2: Making Work Work
Ender: The Stories Behind Photographs
Robert Kagan, Moby,
Mark Penn, Richard A. Pildes,
Shankar Vedantam, Ben Waber
MODERATOR Neal Conan
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
12:00 - 1:00 PM ECONOMY
White House Burning: The Founding
Fathers, Our National Debt, and
Why It Matters to You
Simon Johnson
INTERVIEWER Chrystia Freeland
Limelight Hotel*
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM LUNCH ON CAMPUS
Marble Garden Tent
Doerr-Hosier Center
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
Koch Tent
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
OUR PLANET
CEO Series: The Role of Business in
Addressing the Nine Billion
C. Douglas McMillon
INTERVIEWER James Fallows
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
ECONOMY
The Road to Freedom
Arthur C. Brooks
INTERVIEWER Clive Crook
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1:15 - 2:25 PM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
OUR PLANET
How Will We Feed Nine Billion of Us?
Lauren Bush, Tom Daschle,
Helene D. Gayle, Beth Sauerhaft
MODERATOR Dan Glickman
Greenwald Pavilion
with support from United States Agency
for International Development
TECHNOLOGY
Visualizing Our Future through the
Lens of Big Data
David McConville, Ed Parsons, Kenji Williams
MODERATOR Linda Tischler
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
SPORTS
College Sports at a Crossroads:
Entertainment or Education?
Taylor Branch, Joe Nocera,
Wallace Renfro, Craig Robinson
MODERATOR Tom Farrey
Paepcke Auditorium
AMERICA
US and Mexico
Ricardo Salinas
INTERVIEWER Walter Isaacson
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
US-CHINA
Telling Our Stories through Film
Fan Lixin, Philip Kennicott,
Lu Chuan, Louie Psihoyos
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
VALUES
Confucianism: If Not a Religion,
What Is It?
Annping Chin
INTERVIEWER Orville Schell
Koch Building, Lauder Room
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
US-CHINA
The Messages of our Music
Elliot Goldenthal, Wu Tong
MODERATOR Alan Fletcher
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
*tickets required
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THURSDAY JUNE
28
2:40 - 3:40 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
5:30 - 6:30 PM SPEAKER SALON
AMERICA
US-CHINA
Congress’s Fall from Grace:
Can We Reverse It?
Tom Daschle, Mickey Edwards, Dan Glickman,
Jane Harman, Vin Weber
MODERATOR Ron Brownstein
Telling a Good Story
James Fallows, Hu Shuli, Liu Xin
MODERATOR Orville Schell
Paepcke Auditorium
INSPIRING INNOVATORS
Limelight Hotel*
EVENING SESSIONS
Ideas for the Future: Art, Media, and Race
Gustavo Arellano, Adam Lerner,
Amanda Michel, Matt Thompson
MODERATORS Alexis Madrigal, Sarah Rich
7:30 PM AMERICA
Hearts, Minds, and the 2012 Election
E.J. Dionne, Mickey Edwards, Debra Lee,
Mark Penn, Mark Preston, Harry Shearer
MODERATOR Ron Brownstein
Belly Up Aspen*
Underwritten by Southern Company
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
4:00 - 4:50 PM THE FOUR O’CLOCK HOUR
SPORTS
Collective Impact: Communities Moving the
Needle on Big Challenges
Melody Barnes
INTERVIEWER Elliot Gerson
What is a Legacy Worth? Leaving an Impact
Beyond the Game
David Breashears, Jim Brown, Michelle Kwan
MODERATOR Chris Heilmann
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room*
Underwritten by U.S. Trust
BOOK SIGNINGS
Robert Kagan, David Weinberger
Special Event: A Gershwin Celebration
Paepcke Tent
Benedict Music Tent†
Presented by Aspen Music Festival and School
US-CHINA
“Coal + Ice,” Art Exhibit Tour
David Breashears, Orville Schell
Doerr-Hosier Center, Resnick Art Gallery
5:00 - 6:00 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
VALUES
The Character Code
David Brooks
Greenwald Pavilion
ECONOMY
Can the Federal Reserve Stimulate
the Economy?
Richard W. Fisher
INTERVIEWER Maria Bartiromo
8:00 PM AMERICA
Finding North: A Film and Discussion
Dan Glickman, Kristi Jacobson
MODERATOR Corby Kummer
Paepcke Auditorium*
8:30 PM ECONOMY
Entrepreneurship 2012
Noura Al Kaabi, Daniel Epstein,
Arianna Huffington, Michael Lopp,
Joe Muscat
MODERATOR Kevin Delaney
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
Underwritten by Ernst & Young
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
5:00 - 7:00 PM SPORTS
Head Games: Can Football Be Saved
From Itself?
Discussion Followed by a Screening of:
American Man
Jim Brown, Daniel Garza,
Chris Nowinski, Kevin Turner
MODERATOR Tom Farrey
Paepcke Auditorium
*tickets required
†tickets must be purchased
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FRIDAY JUNE
29
MAY WE SUGGEST…
INSIGHTS FROM INNOVATIVE LEADERS AT 8:00 AM
■ Michael Lopp, Palantir Technologies
■ Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers
“MARKETPLACE” LIVE AT 2:00 PM — we’ll give you a ride there
FUN AT FOUR O’CLOCK
■ Kenji Williams’s tribute to Earth: violin performance and imagery
■ Ballroom dancing!
■ Get your books signed
■ Let’s come together to kickstart jobs with Arianna Huffington
TONIGHT
ASPEN TOWN DINE AROUND 6:20 PM
(for more information, see p.170 in the program guide)
MOBY, the artist beyond his music, 7:30 PM at Belly Up
FILM Detropia, 8:00 PM
LATE NIGHT Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his wife Annie on marriage
and the military, 10:00 PM
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FRIDAY JUNE
29
7:00 AM Body Break Yoga
10:30 - 11:40 AM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Anderson Park
7:45 - 8:45 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
TECHNOLOGY
The Kinect Effect and Beyond: Evolving the
Interface between Mankind and Machines
Alexis Madrigal, Marc Whitten
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
Underwritten by ESA
AMERICA
The Real Romney
Michael Kranish
INTERVIEWER Mark Preston
Limelight Hotel*
8:00 - 8:50 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
TECHNOLOGY
CEO Series: The Next Seismic Shift—
Understanding Big Data
Michael Lopp
INTERVIEWER Elliot Gerson
Paepcke Auditorium
AMERICA
Can Teacher Unions Be Partners in
Reforming Schools in the 21st Century?
Randi Weingarten
INTERVIEWER Walter Isaacson
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
9:00 - 10:10 AM PLENARY SESSIONS
AMERICA
Where Should the US Go Next
with its Foreign Policy?
Nicholas Burns, Robert Kagan,
James Steinberg
MODERATOR Jeffrey Goldberg
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
TECHNOLOGY
The Evolution of Design
Tim Brown
INTERVIEWER James Fallows
Paepcke Auditorium
ECONOMY
Reversing the Middle Class Jobs Deficit
Alan B. Krueger
INTERVIEWER Chrystia Freeland
Greenwald Pavilion
TECHNOLOGY
Co-Presented with NBC News’ “Education Nation”
Will Technology Disrupt the Way
We Learn? Part I
Miles Gilburne, Ted Mitchell,
Randi Weingarten, Joanne Weiss
MODERATOR Rehema Ellis
Paepcke Auditorium
US-CHINA
Reimagining Space
Elizabeth Diller, Ou Ning
MODERATOR Philip Kennicott
Koch Building, Lauder Room
OUR PLANET
The Earth in 2050: What Is the Stress
Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water?
Marvin Odum
INTERVIEWER Joel Achenbach
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
AMERICA
America’s Domestic Outlook
Melody Barnes, Vin Weber
MODERATOR Bob Schieffer
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
VALUES
What Is “Values-Based Leadership”?
Leigh G. Hafrey
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
DEMOCRACY
What Should US Foreign Policy
Priorities Be?
Nicholas Burns, Richard Haass, Jane Harman
MODERATOR Jeffrey Goldberg
Greenwald Pavilion
DEMOCRACY
US and Democracy
E.J. Dionne, David Rothkopf
MODERATOR Elliot Gerson
Kresge Building, Hines Room
11:00 AM TRANSPORTATION STARTS FROM
DOERR-HOSIER CENTER AND PAEPCKE
AUDITORIUM TO OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS
(Please note early departure for BBC’s
“The Forum” event)
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM LUNCH ON CAMPUS
Marble Garden Tent
Doerr-Hosier Center
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
Koch Tent
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*tickets required
FRIDAY JUNE
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
ECONOMY
The Start-Up of You
Reid Hoffman
INTERVIEWER Joichi Ito
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
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TECHNOLOGY
Will Technology Disrupt the Way
We Learn? Part II
Stacy Childress, John Danner, Karl Wendt
MODERATOR Kathleen McCartney
Greenwald Pavilion
SCIENCE
VALUES
The Aspen Institute/Atlantic
American Values Survey
Donald Baer, James Bennet, Mark Penn
MODERATOR Elliot Gerson
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
ECONOMY
Best Practices in Sustaining a Legacy of
Values across Generations
Chris Heilmann
Limelight Hotel*
Underwritten by U.S. Trust
AMERICA
BBC World Service’s “The Forum”:
America’s Role in the World
David Brooks, Richard Haass,
Anne-Marie Slaughter
MODERATOR Bridget Kendall
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
1:15 - 2:25 PM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
TECHNOLOGY
Digital Disruption in the Arab World
Noura Al Kaabi
INTERVIEWER Linda Tischler
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
VALUES
What Sustains Us?
Diana Eck, Steven Z. Leder,
Elaine Pagels, Jane Shaw
MODERATOR Anna Deavere Smith
Paepcke Auditorium
AMERICA
Requiem for the American Dream?
Unequal Opportunity in America
Robert D. Putnam
Koch Building, Lauder Room
SPORTS
London Calling: What’s Our Olympic Legacy?
Michelle Kwan, Tom McMillen,
Jeremy Schaap
MODERATOR Christine Brennan
Knowledge Exchange:
Cracking the Genetic Code
Brian Fiske, John Quackenbush
MODERATOR Chris Kibarian
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
Underwritten by Thomson Reuters
1:30 PM TRANSPORTATION STARTS FROM
DOERR-HOSIER CENTER AND PAEPCKE
AUDITORIUM FOR “MARKETPLACE” LIVE
2:30 - 4:00 PM SPECIAL AFTERNOON SESSION
ECONOMY
“Marketplace” Live
David Breashears, Tory Burch, Heidi Moore
INTERVIEWER Kai Ryssdal
Belly Up Aspen*
2:40 - 3:40 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
INSPIRING INNOVATORS
Designs for the Future: Kids and Robots,
Superior Medical Devices,
Politics for Everyman
PRESENTING FROM THE
STANFORD D. SCHOOL
Elaine Chang, Kevin Chi, Myung Sun Choi,
Jason Chua, Jacob Frenz, Daniel Hong,
David Janka, Kathayoon Khalil,
Eugene Korsunskiy, Seth Norman,
Aaron Peck, Naama Stauber,
Katherine Steele, Matthew Tilleard
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
ARTS
In Conversation: Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
INTERVIEWER Michael Eisner
Greenwald Pavilion
SPORTS
One-on-One with the President of ESPN:
What’s the Role of Sports in Society?
John Skipper
INTERVIEWER Robert Lipsyte
Paepcke Auditorium
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
*tickets required
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FRIDAY JUNE
29
4:00 - 4:50 PM THE FOUR O’CLOCK HOUR
BOOK SIGNINGS
EVENING SESSIONS
E.J. Dionne, Michael Kranish, Robert Lipsyte,
Charles Murray, Elaine Pagels
Paepcke Tent
Belly Up Aspen*
OUR PLANET
Bella Gaia “Beautiful Earth” Performance
Kenji Williams
7:30 PM ARTS
In Conversation with Moby
Moby
INTERVIEWER Tim Brown
Paepcke Auditorium
ARTS
Ballroom Dancing
Pierre Dulaine
8:00 PM VALUES
NPR On Stage Presents “A Fish Tale”:
Is Lying Okay?
Jon Hamilton, Alix Spiegel,
Shankar Vedantam
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room*
Greenwald Pavilion
ECONOMY
ECONOMY
Detropia: A Film and Discussion
Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
MODERATOR Charlie Firestone
Starting a Movement to Kickstart Jobs
Arianna Huffington, Walter Isaacson
Paepcke Auditorium*
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
Society of Fellows Reception
Koch Tent
5:00 - 6:00 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
OUR PLANET
Advice for the Mega City
Richard M. Daley
MODERATOR Richard Florida
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
DEMOCRACY
Technology and Democracy
Eric Schmidt
INTERVIEWER Jeffrey Goldberg
9:00 PM AMERICA
What Does It Take to Be
an Effective President?
David Gergen, Joe Klein, Michael Kranish,
Andrea Mitchell, George Mitchell
MODERATOR Ron Brownstein
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
Underwritten by DLA Piper
10:00 PM WAR & PEACE
Marriage and Military Lives
Annie McChrystal, Stanley A. McChrystal
MODERATOR Suzanne Malveaux
Aspen Meadows, Hefner Lounge*
Greenwald Pavilion
5:30 - 6:30 PM SPEAKER SALONS
AMERICA
Fair Play and Illusion: Racial Myths From
Obama and Immigrants to College Athletes
Taylor Branch
INTERVIEWER Anna Deavere Smith
Hotel Jerome, Antler Bar*
OUR PLANET
Can We Design Our Way out of Poverty?
Tim Brown, Jocelyn Wyatt
Limelight Hotel*
*tickets required
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SPECIAL EXHIBITS
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO VISIT THESE SPECIAL EXHIBITS AND EVENTS FROM OUR UNDERWRITERS
Charge your mobile devices courtesy of Ernst & Young
ALL WEEK
Paepcke, Doerr-Hosier Center, Koch Building
Mercedes-Benz USA Maroon Bells Outings
6:00 AM AND 6:15 AM JULY 2
Sign up at Underwriter Registration in Paepcke
Test drive incredibly smart cars from Mercedes-Benz USA
DAILY FROM 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Paepcke Parking Lot
Go see remarkable data visualization in Legacy’s Interactive Exhibit
DAILY FROM 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Koch Building, Stranahan Room
Need to chill? Thomson Reuters Lounge
DAILY FROM 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Doerr-Hosier Center
Thomson Reuters Knowledge Exchanges
INFORMATION’S BEAUTIFUL FUTURE 1:15 PM, JULY 2
PepsiCo Café
Featuring talks, demonstrations, and snacks throughout the week
DAILY FROM 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
PepsiCo Tent, in the Mayer Courtyard
U.S. Trust Legacy Pavilion
Offers business access, food, and beverages
DAILY FROM 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Legacy Pavilion, at the Resnick-Malek Health Center
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SATURDAY JUNE
30
MAY WE SUGGEST…
YOGA with celebrity fitness expert Bob Harper
(You know him from “The Biggest Loser”!) 7:00 AM
CEO SERIES: Howard Schultz of Starbucks, 9:00 AM
AFTERNOON OF CONVERSATION: Doors to the tent open at 1:30 PM
IT’S LEMONADE DAY! Enjoy a glass outside the Benedict Music Tent.
Support this experiential learning program that teaches youth how
to start, own and operate their own business.
EAT. MEET. SIP. Don’t miss the Welcome Reception for the Second Session
at the Doerr-Hoiser Center. Come enjoy lots of great food and an
unusual wine experiment designed by MIT’s Media Lab.
TONIGHT
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FILM Last Train Home
IN THE ZONE: What Does Peak Performance Require?
LATE NIGHT In Conversation with Stanley Tucci
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SATURDAY JUNE
30
Second Session
June 30–July 3
VALUES
Registration for the SECOND SESSION from
8:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Please note: Pass-holders for SECOND
SESSION commence their session at
2:00 PM in the BENEDICT MUSIC TENT
(doors open at 1:30 PM).
7:00 AM Body Break Yoga with Bob Harper
Anderson Park
7:45 - 8:45 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
Are We Really Coming Apart?
Charles Murray, Robert D. Putnam
MODERATOR David Gergen
Greenwald Pavilion
AMERICA
Charlie Rose: The Interview
INTERVIEWER Walter Isaacson
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
10:30- 11:40 AM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
ECONOMY
Co-Presented with NBC News’ “Education Nation”
Is College for Everyone?
Jamie Merisotis, Eduardo Padron
MODERATOR Andrea Mitchell
Kresge Building, Hines Room
SPORTS
SPORTS
An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir
Robert Lipsyte
INTERVIEWER Jeremy Schaap
Limelight Hotel*
More Than a Privilege:
Should Sports Be a Right?
Bob Harper, Cheryl Healton
MODERATOR Tom McMillen
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
TECHNOLOGY
The Art and Science of
Human Inventiveness
Jonah Lehrer
INTERVIEWER John Seely Brown
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
8:00 - 8:50 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
WAR & PEACE
The Uncertain Return: How Is the 21st
Century Veteran Doing?
Dawn Halfaker, Joe Klein, Paul Rieckhoff
MODERATOR Roger Cressey
Paepcke Auditorium
ARTS
Making Cities Sing
Rocco Landesman, Dennis Scholl,
Darren Walker
MODERATOR Richard Florida
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
9:00 - 10:10 AM PLENARY SESSIONS
ECONOMY
CEO Series: Can Corporate Values Drive
Shareholder Value?
Howard Schultz
INTERVIEWER Joe Nocera
Paepcke Auditorium
*tickets required
AMERICA
Can We Be Energy Independent?
Tom Fanning, Peter Orszag
MODERATOR Andrew Ross Sorkin
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
OUR PLANET
How Can We Create
“Smart” Transportation?
Ray LaHood, Peter Trick
MODERATOR Richard Florida
Koch Building, Lauder Room
VALUES
Will They Trust Us Again?
Berl Bernhardt, Steven Z. Leder,
George Mitchell, Eduardo Padron,
Thomas Wilson
MODERATOR Ron Brownstein
Paepcke Auditorium
ECONOMY
Regulation: Helping or
Hurting the Economy?
Beth Brooke, Glenn Hubbard
MODERATOR Clive Crook
Greenwald Pavilion
TECHNOLOGY
Games, Learning, and Society
Constance Steinkuehler Squire
MODERATOR John Seely Brown
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
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SATURDAY JUNE
30
DEMOCRACY
11:40 AM TRANSPORTATION STARTS FROM
DOERR-HOSIER CENTER AND PAEPCKE
AUDITORIUM TO OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS
In Conversation with Ehud Barak
INTERVIEWER Thomas L. Friedman
ECONOMY
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM LUNCH ON CAMPUS
Why the States are Laboratories for
Economic Reform
Mitch Daniels
INTERVIEWER Charlie Rose
Marble Garden Tent
Doerr-Hosier Center
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
Koch Tent
AMERICA
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
In Conversation with Valerie Jarrett
INTERVIEWER Gwen Ifill
VALUES
Markets and Morals: What Money Can’t Buy
Michael J. Sandel
DEMOCRACY
In Conversation with Pervez Musharraf
INTERVIEWER David Bradley
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
SCIENCE
ECONOMY
Future of Health 2012
David Agus
In Conversation with Lawrence H. Summers
INTERVIEWER Gillian Tett
(Please eat outside the Pavilion)
Greenwald Pavilion
TECHNOLOGY
The Genius of Steve Jobs (An Event for
Patron Passholders and Aspen Ideas
Festival Scholars)
Walter Isaacson, David Rubenstein
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSION OFF CAMPUS
Benedict Music Tent
5:30 - 7:00 PM SECOND SESSION RECEPTION
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING
AN AFTERNOON OF CONVERSATION
SECOND SESSION PASSHOLDERS WELCOME
Doerr-Hosier Center
EVENING SESSIONS
ECONOMY
Six Degrees of Separation: How Do Our
Connections Improve Our Lives?
Anne Mosle, Robert D. Putnam, Mario Small
MODERATOR David Leonhardt
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
with support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Belly Up Aspen*
1:30 PM DOORS OPEN TO
THE BENEDICT MUSIC TENT
Underwritten by PepsiCo
PLEASE BE SEATED BY 2:00 PM
US-CHINA
ALL PASSHOLDERS WELCOME
Last Train Home: A Film and Discussion
Fan Lixin
INTERVIEWER James Fallows
(Language: Chinese, English Subtitles)
HOST Kitty Boone
Benedict Music Tent
SCIENCE
WAR & PEACE
Stanley McChrystal on Leadership
INTERVIEWER Bob Schieffer
8:00 PM SPORTS
In the Zone: What Does Peak
Performance Require?
Bob Harper, Bonnie St. John, Gregory Yep
MODERATOR Jon Frankel
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
2:00 - 5:00 PM AN AFTERNOON OF CONVERSATION
The God Particle
Brian Greene, Rolf-Dieter Heuer
INTERVIEWER Michele Norris
7:30 PM AMERICA
America the Post-Superpower
Meghan O’Sullivan, Bret Stephens,
Dina Temple-Raston
MODERATOR Steve Clemons
Paepcke Auditorium*
10:00 PM ARTS
In Conversation with Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci
INTERVIEWER Jeffrey Goldberg
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
*tickets required
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SUNDAY JULY
1
MAY WE SUGGEST…
YOGA with celebrity fitness expert Bob Harper
(You know him from “The Biggest Loser”!) 7:00 AM
MERCEDES BENZ USA MAROON BELLS OUTING
Tomorrow, July 2, at 6:00 AM and 6:15 AM
Don’t miss your chance to see the most-photographed spot in
Colorado. Sign up at Underwriter Registration in Paepcke.
CEO SERIES: INTRODUCING AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS
Shelly Lazarus of Ogilvy & Mather, 8:00 AM
INSPIRING INNOVATORS MIT Media Lab @ Aspen Ideas, 2:40 PM
FUN AT FOUR O’CLOCK
■ Check out the book signings!
TONIGHT
“INTELLIGENCE SQUARED U.S.” DEBATE
No Fracking Way
Oxford-style debate, taped for broadcast, 7:00 PM
FILM Joe Papp in Five Acts, 8:00 PM
#AspenIdeas
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SUNDAY JULY
1
7:00 AM Body Break Yoga with Bob Harper
Anderson Park
7:45 - 8:45 AM BREAKFAST SESSION OFF CAMPUS
THE CHILD
The Tiger Mother Tells All
Amy Chua
INTERVIEWER Lori Gottlieb
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
8:00 - 8:50 AM BREAKFAST SESSION ON CAMPUS
ECONOMY
CEO Series: The Creative Economy
Shelly Lazarus
INTERVIEWER Gillian Tett
Paepcke Auditorium
9:00 - 10:10 AM PLENARY SESSIONS
ECONOMY
Does Maximizing Shareholder Value
Endanger America’s Great Companies?
Thomas Donaldson, Shelly Lazarus,
Howard Schultz, Lynn A. Stout
MODERATOR Gillian Tett
Greenwald Pavilion
THE CHILD
Can Women Have It All?
Anne-Marie Slaughter
INTERVIEWER Katie Couric
Paepcke Auditorium
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM Aspen Ideas Block Party
Select speakers participating
Rio Grande Park
10:30- 11:40 AM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
WAR & PEACE
Does the United States Have a
Responsibility to Protect?
Michael Abramowitz, Stephen L. Carter,
Dele Olojede, Anne-Marie Slaughter
MODERATOR Jeffrey Goldberg
Greenwald Pavilion
ARTS
Radical Creative Spaces
Elizabeth Diller
Paepcke Auditorium
OUR PLANET
Is Water the Next Global Security Threat?
Sylvia Lee, Steven McCormick, Gary White
MODERATOR Joel Achenbach
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
THE CHILD
The Lost Generation?
Peter Edelman, Ann Higdon, Paul Tough
MODERATOR Anne Mosle
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
with support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
11:00 AM TRANSPORTATION STARTS FROM
DOERR-HOSIER CENTER AND PAEPCKE
AUDITORIUM TO OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS
(Please note early departure for BBC’s
“The Forum” event)
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM LUNCH ON CAMPUS
Marble Garden Tent
Doerr-Hosier Center
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
Koch Tent
SCIENCE
Will Technology Make Us Healthier?
Nicholas A. Christakis, Eric Topol
MODERATOR Andrew McAfee
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
THE CHILD
Raising Boys, Engaging Guys and Educating
Men: What Works?
Michael Kimmel, Michael Thompson
MODERATOR Chris Howard
Koch Building, Lauder Room
*tickets required
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SUNDAY JULY
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
ECONOMY
Women Philanthropists: Doing It Differently
Jackie Bezos, Tory Burch, Merle Chambers,
Ann B. Friedman, Laurie Tisch, Monique Villa
MODERATOR Anne Mosle
Greenwald Pavilion
(Please eat outside of Pavilion)
with support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
ECONOMY
Why We Don’t Want Everyone to
Go to Harvard
Ellen Alberding, Eduardo Padron
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
AMERICA
Lessons in Education
Eli Broad, Thomas L. Friedman
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
WAR & PEACE
All In: The Education of
General David Petraeus
Paula Broadwell
INTERVIEWER Michael O’Hanlon
Limelight Hotel*
TECHNOLOGY
BBC World Service’s “The Forum”:
How is Technology Changing the Way
We Live Our Lives?
Michael Gallagher, Joichi Ito, Julie Taymor
MODERATOR Bridget Kendall
Hotel Jerome*
1:15- 2:25 PM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
SCIENCE
Personalized Medicine Is a Myth
Ezekiel Emanuel, Margaret Hamburg,
Eric Topol
MODERATOR Corby Kummer
Kresge Building, Hines Room
DEMOCRACY
What Is Democracy? Does It Work?
David Kennedy, Sanford V. Levinson,
Russell Muirhead
MODERATOR David Gergen
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Co-Presented with NBC News’“Education Nation”
Can Character Be Taught?
Dave Levin, Dominic Randolph,
Russell Shaw, Paul Tough
MODERATOR Andrea Mitchell
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
WAR & PEACE
Technology of War: What Does the War of
the Future Look Like?
Mary Legere, Mike McConnell,
Peter W. Singer, James Steinberg
MODERATOR Steve Inskeep
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
TECHNOLOGY
Will All This Data Make Us Better?
James Powell
INTERVIEWER Alexis Madrigal
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
ECONOMY
Health and the US Economy
Martin Gaynor, Elizabeth Nabel, Peter Orszag
MODERATOR Jimmy Henry
Koch Building, Lauder Room
2:40- 3:40 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
INSPIRING INNOVATORS
The MIT Media Lab @ Aspen Ideas
Micah Eckhardt, Todd Farrell, Coco Krumme,
Daniel McDuff, Nadya Peek, Eric Rosenbaum,
Ben Waber
Greenwald Pavilion
SCIENCE
The Truth about Cancer: A Filmed
Discussion for an Upcoming Documentary
Donald Abrams, David Agus, Ralph Moss,
Niven R. Narain, Shimon Slavin
INTRODUCED BY Stanley Tucci
MODERATOR Michele Norris
Paepcke Auditorium
SCIENCE
Science and Our Future
Brian Greene, Rolf-Dieter Heuer
MODERATOR Michael S. Turner
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
Greenwald Pavilion
*tickets required
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SUNDAY JULY
1
4:00 - 4:50 PM THE FOUR O’CLOCK HOUR
BOOK SIGNINGS
David Agus, Paula Broadwell, Tyler Cowen,
Peter Edelman, Jonah Lehrer, Emily Miller
EVENING SESSIONS
Paepcke Tent
AMERICA
Our Divided Political Heart
E.J. Dionne
INTERVIEWER Molly Ball
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
Aspen District Theater*
VALUES
Who Wrote the Book of Revelation—and
Why Do People Still Read It?
Elaine Pagels
Koch Building, Lauder Room
5:00- 6:00 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
WAR & PEACE
What Does It Mean to Be
a Military Superpower?
Mike Mullen
INTERVIEWER Steve Inskeep
Greenwald Pavilion
7:00 PM SPECIAL EVENT
“Intelligence Squared U.S.” Debate
No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom
Is Doing More Harm Than Good
Deborah Goldberg, Katherine Hudson,
Joe Nocera, Susan Tierney
MODERATOR John Donvan
7:30 PM AMERICA
Media and the Election: Prognosticating
Campaign 2012
Molly Ball, Ron Brownstein, Charlie Cook
MODERATOR Gwen Ifill
Belly Up Aspen*
8:00 PM ARTS
Joe Papp in Five Acts: A Film and Discussion
Tracie Holder
INTERVIEWER Oskar Eustis
Paepcke Auditorium*
Co-presented with NEW VIEWS:
Documentaries and Dialogue and Aspen Film
ARTS
Theater That Matters
Oskar Eustis, Gregory Mosher,
Anna Deavere Smith, Julie Taymor
MODERATOR Rocco Landesman
Paepcke Auditorium
5:30 - 6:30 PM SPEAKER SALONS
WAR & PEACE
Coming Home: Supporting America’s
New Generation of Veterans
Paul Rieckhoff
Hotel Jerome, Antler Bar*
AMERICA
So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End
Poverty in America
Peter Edelman
INTERVIEWER Anne Mosle
Limelight Hotel*
*tickets required
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MONDAY JULY
2
MAY WE SUGGEST…
CEO SERIES: INTRODUCING AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS
Anthony Coles of Onyx, 8:00 AM
WHY AREN’T WE CELEBRATING OUR INDEPENDENCE TODAY?
Our annual history lesson from David Rubenstein at 8:00 AM
INSPIRATION from the Nation’s top youth development orgranizations
High school graduates share their success stories at 12:00 PM
FUN AT FOUR O’CLOCK
■ Society of Fellows Reception
■ Special presentation: Finding Lost Hills—how one
philanthropist has changed the future.
Lynda Resnick interviewed by Walter Isaacson
■ Book signings
■ A Universe from Nothing with cosmologist Lawrence Krauss
TONIGHT
ASPEN TOWN DINE AROUND 6:20 PM
(for more information, see p.170 in the program guide)
FILM Chasing Ice, 8:00 PM
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MONDAY JULY
2
7:00 AM Body Break Yoga
Anderson Park
7:45 - 8:45 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
THE CHILD
Talking Back to Facebook
James P. Steyer
INTERVIEWER Scott Stossel
Limelight Hotel*
THE CHILD
How Economics Helps Us Understand and
Improve Modern Family Life
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
MODERATOR David Leonhardt
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
8:00 - 8:50 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
AMERICA
Why Do We Celebrate Independence Day
on July 4?
It Really Should Be July 2.
David Rubenstein
Koch Building, Lauder Room
SCIENCE
CEO Series: Pharma Leader
Anthony Coles, Onyx
Anthony Coles
INTERVIEWER Ezekiel Emanuel
Paepcke Auditorium
9:00 - 10:10 AM PLENARY SESSIONS
THE CHILD
What Is the Goal of Parenting?
Erika Christakis, Amy Chua,
Lawrence J. Cohen, Ellen Galinsky
MODERATOR Lori Gottlieb
Paepcke Auditorium
ECONOMY
What Will It Take to Renew Our Cities?
Lisa P. Jackson, Mitch Landrieu,
Annise Parker, Antonio Villaraigosa
MODERATOR Michele Norris
10:30 - 11:40 AM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
DEMOCRACY
Our Constitution at a Crossroads:
Does the System Need Reform?
Pamela S. Karlan, Sanford V. Levinson,
Richard A. Pildes, Jed Rubenfeld
MODERATOR Richard Wilhelm
Paepcke Auditorium
ARTS
Community and the Arts: All Art Is Local
Theaster Gates, Laura Zabel
MODERATOR Damian Woetzel
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
TECHNOLOGY
Knowledge Exchange:
Information’s Beautiful Future
Edwin Schlossberg, Mark Wigley
MODERATOR James Powell
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
Underwritten by Thomson Reuters
WAR & PEACE
What Is America’s Future Military Role
in the World?
Jane Harman, Craig Nixon,
Michael O’Hanlon, James Steinberg
MODERATOR Dina Temple-Raston
Greenwald Pavilion
AMERICA
What Will It Take to Govern in This
Highly Polarized Environment?
Mickey Edwards, Norm Ornstein
MODERATOR Gwen Ifill
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
SCIENCE
A Child’s First 2,000 Days: What’s the Brain
Got to Do with It?
Patricia Kuhl
Koch Building, Lauder Room
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
with support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
*tickets required
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MONDAY JULY
11:40 AM TRANSPORTATION STARTS FROM
DOERR-HOSIER CENTER AND PAEPCKE
AUDITORIUM TO OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM LUNCH ON CAMPUS
Marble Garden Tent
Doerr-Hosier Center
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
Koch Tent
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
INSPIRING INNOVATORS
Hear the Voices of the Future
Ernesto Aguilera, Rayonna Hall,
Xavier Jennings
MODERATOR Stephen Patrick
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
with support from the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
ECONOMY
Learning with New Orleans
Mitch Landrieu
INTERVIEWER Walter Isaacson
Paepcke Auditorium (No Food or Drinks Allowed)
AMERICA
Why We’ll Remain Preeminent
Lawrence H. Summers
INTERVIEWER Elliot Gerson
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
12:00- 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
DEMOCRACY
Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading
Change around the World
Laura Alonso, Kah Walla, Amira Yahyaoui
MODERATOR Alyse Nelson
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
Underwritten by Thomson Reuters
OUR PLANET
Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money and
Community in a Changing World
Billy Parish
Limelight Hotel*
2
1:15 - 2:25 PM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
ARTS
Co-Presented with NBC News’ “Education Nation”
Arts in Education
Howard Gardner, Jonah Lehrer,
Damian Woetzel
MODERATOR Andrea Mitchell
Greenwald Pavilion
DEMOCRACY
China and Democracy
Eric X. Li, Minxin Pei
MODERATOR James Fallows
Paepcke Auditorium
WAR & PEACE
Women In the Military: Embracing
Opportunities and Challenges
Paula Broadwell, Nancy Brown, Mary Legere
MODERATOR Angela Messer
Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room
SCIENCE
Our Genes and Our Addictions
Cheryl Healton, Steve Hyman,
Amir Levine, Nora D. Volkow
MODERATOR Scott Stossel
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
Underwritten by Legacy
OUR PLANET
The Politics of Sex
Christopher Elias, Musimbi Kanyoro,
Timothy E. Wirth
MODERATOR Monique Villa
Koch Building, Lauder Room
with support from United States Agency
for International Development
ECONOMY
Are We Truly Innovative?
Tyler Cowen, Andrew McAfee,
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
MODERATOR Andrew Ross Sorkin
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
WAR & PEACE
The Ethics of War
Stephen L. Carter
MODERATOR Leigh G. Hafrey
Kresge Building, Hines Room
*tickets required
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MONDAY JULY
2
2:40- 3:40 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
5:30- 6:30 PM SPEAKER SALONS
AMERICA
WAR & PEACE
The Health Care Decision
Tyler Cowen, Ezekiel Emanuel, Neera Tanden
MODERATOR David Leonhardt
Wired for War: the Robotics Revolution and
Conflict in the 21st Century
Peter W. Singer
Greenwald Pavilion
Limelight Hotel*
OUR PLANET
VALUES
How Do We See The World?
Marissa Mayer
INTERVIEWER Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Attached: The New Science of Adult
Attachment and How It Can Help You Find
and Keep Love
Amir Levine
INTERVIEWER Sue Goodwin
Paepcke Auditorium
4:00 - 4:50 PM THE FOUR O’CLOCK HOUR
ECONOMY
Rebuilding Community: Finding Lost Hills
Lynda Resnick
INTERVIEWER Walter Isaacson
Hotel Jerome, Antler Bar*
EVENING SESSIONS
Koch Building, Lauder Room
Society of Fellows Reception
Belly Up Aspen*
Underwritten by Booz Allen Hamilton
Koch Tent
BOOK SIGNINGS
Kurt Andersen, Stephen Carter, Alyse Nelson,
Norm Ornstein, James P. Steyer, Lynn A. Stout
Paepcke Tent
SCIENCE
A Universe from Nothing
Lawrence Krauss
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
5:00- 6:00 PM PLENARY SESSIONS
INSPIRING INNOVATORS
Ideas for the Future: Work, Food, and Cities
Allison Carruth, Leila Janah,
Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley
MODERATOR Alexis Madrigal, Sarah Rich
7:30 PM TECHNOLOGY
Steve Jobs’s Design Genius
Walter Isaacson
INTERVIEWER Kurt Andersen
8:00 PM OUR PLANET
Chasing Ice: A Film and Discussion
James Balog
Paepcke Auditorium*
8:30 PM THE CHILD
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy:
Overparenting and Its Perils
Lori Gottlieb, Madeline Levine,
Polly Young-Eisendrath
MODERATOR Katie Couric
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
AMERICA
Coding the Next Chapter of
American History
Jennifer Pahlka
Paepcke Auditorium
*tickets required
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TUESDAY JULY
3
MAY WE SUGGEST…
CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE WITHOUT PUBLIC MEDIA?
NPR Chief Gary Knell shares his thoughts on the issue. 7:45 AM
THE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE two official views
from Washington at 8:00 AM.
DON’T LEAVE WITHOUT TEST DRIVING A MERCEDES roadster,
Luxury Bluetec sedan, or SUV
CONVENE IN GREENWALD PAVILION
for the Final Session at 1:15 PM
GOT BOOKS?
#AspenIdeas
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TUESDAY JULY
3
7:00 AM Body Break Yoga
Anderson Park
7:45 - 8:45 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS OFF CAMPUS
WAR & PEACE
It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Army: The History
and Future of America’s Armed Forces
David Kennedy
Hotel Jerome Ballroom*
WAR & PEACE
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen L. Carter
INTERVIEWER Elisa New
Limelight Hotel*
8:00- 8:50 AM BREAKFAST SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
OUR PLANET
What Will Fuel the Automobile
of the Future?
Lisa P. Jackson, Ray LaHood
Paepcke Auditorium
AMERICA
The Role of Public Media in a Democracy
Gary Knell
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
9:00- 10:10 AM PLENARY SESSIONS
ECONOMY
Our Economy: Optimism, Pessimism,
and Reality Check
David Rubenstein, Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Paepcke Auditorium
TECHNOLOGY
Is the US Behind in the Mobile Revolution?
Eric Feng, Marissa Mayer,
Dave Morin, Tim O’Reilly
MODERATOR Jerry Murdock
Greenwald Pavilion
10:30- 11:40 AM TUTORIAL SESSIONS
THE CHILD
Screen Time: Technology and Our Kids
Howard Gardner, James P. Steyer
Koch Building, Lauder Room
ARTS
True Believers
Kurt Andersen
INTERVIEWER Walter Isaacson
Doerr-Hosier Center Center, Kaufman Room
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OUR PLANET
Sustainability Redux:
Radical Changemakers
Musimbi Kanyoro, Billy Parish,
Timothy E. Wirth
MODERATOR Peggy Clark
Greenwald Pavilion
with support from United States Agency
for International Development
ECONOMY
Is Technology Finally Destroying More Jobs
Than It’s Creating?
Andrew McAfee
Kresge Building, Hines Room
DEMOCRACY
Women and the Struggle for Democracy
Laura Alonso, Kah Walla, Amira Yahyaoui
MODERATOR Steve Clemons
Paepcke Auditorium
AMERICA
A 360º View of Campaign 2012
Molly Ball, Charlie Cook, David Leonhardt
MODERATOR Ron Brownstein
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM LUNCH ON CAMPUS
Marble Garden Tent
Doerr-Hosier Center
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
Koch Tent
12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SESSIONS ON CAMPUS
ECONOMY
The United States and Europe:
the Drags on Global Growth
Alan Greenspan
INTERVIEWER David Leonhardt
Doerr-Hosier Center, McNulty Room
THE CHILD
How We Hope: Lessons from the Gallup Poll
Shane Lopez
Aspen Meadows Restaurant
ECONOMY
Need, Speed, and Greed
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room
1:15- 2:15 PM CLOSING SESSION
Greenwald Pavilion
ideas festival PRESENTERS
Michael Abramowitz Director of the Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Donald Abrams Chief of Hematology–Oncology, San Francisco General Hospital; Professor, Clinical Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco
Joel Achenbach Staff Writer, The Washington Post; Author, A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea
Ernesto Aguilera Alumni, LA Conservation Corps
David Agus Professor of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California; Author, The End of Illness
Noura Al Kaabi CEO, twofour54
Ellen Alberding President, Joyce Foundation
Laura Alonso National Representative, Argentina
Kurt Andersen Host, “Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC”; Author, True Believers
Gustavo Arellano Editor, OC Weekly; Syndicated Columnist,“¡Ask the Mexican!”; Author, Taco USA
Donald Baer Worldwide Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Burson Marsteller
James Balog Photographer; Cast, Chasing Ice; Founder, Extreme Ice Survey
Ehud Barak Minister of Defense, Israel
Maria Bartiromo Anchor, CNBC; Anchor, “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo”
Jackie Bezos Co-Director, Bezos Family Foundation
Taylor Branch Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, America in the King Years
David Breashears Filmmaker, Mountaineer; Executive Director, GlacierWorks
Christine Brennan Sports Columnist, USA Today
Eli Broad Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation; Former CEO, SunAmerica; Co-Founder, KB Home
Paula Broadwell Author, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus; Research Associate, Harvard University
Arthur C. Brooks President, American Enterprise Institute; Author, The Road to Freedom
David Brooks Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times
Jim Brown Founder, Amer-I-Can; NFL Hall of Fame Legend
Nancy Brown Vice Admiral, US Navy (Ret.); Former Director, Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Department of Defense
Tim Brown CEO, IDEO
Ron Brownstein Editorial Director, The National Journal
Tory Burch CEO and Designer, Tory Burch
Lauren Bush Co-Founder, CEO, and Creative Director, FEED Projects; Chairman, FEED Foundation
Allison Carruth Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Stanford University
Stephen L. Carter William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Yale University School of Law; Author, The Impeachment of
Abraham Lincoln; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Merle Chambers Founder and President, Chambers Family Fund
Elaine Chang Graduate Student, Stanford University; Founder, Social Teeth
Kevin Chi Graduate Student, Stanford School of Medicine; Co-Founder, CombatIV
Stacy Childress Deputy Director, US Program, Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Annping Chin Senior Lecturer, History Department, Yale University
Melissa Chiu Museum Director, Asia Society Museum; Vice President, Global Arts Programming, Asia Society
Myung Sun Choi Graduate Student, Stanford Mechanical Engineering, Co-Founder, CompactCath
Erika Christakis Administrator, Harvard University
Nicholas Christakis Director, Human Nature Lab, Harvard University
Amy Chua John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law, Yale University School of Law; Author, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Jason Chua Co-Founder, SparkTruck; Graduate Student, Stanford Mechanical Engineering
Lawrence J. Cohen Psychologist; Author, Playful Parenting
Anthony Coles President and CEO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Neal Conan Host, “Talk of the Nation,” NPR
Charlie Cook Editor and Publisher, The Cook Political Report; Columnist, The National Journal
Dave Cote Chairman and CEO, Honeywell
Katie Couric Special Correspondent, ABC News; Host, “Katie”
Tyler Cowen Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Richard M. Daley Former Mayor (D), Chicago, Illinois
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Mitch Daniels John Danner Vishakha Desai Elizabeth Diller Dennis Dimick E.J. Dionne Thomas Donaldson John Donvan Pierre Dulaine Diana Eck Micah Eckhardt Peter Edelman Michael Eisner Christopher Elias Rehema Ellis Ezekiel Emanuel Oskar Eustis Heidi Ewing Fan Lixin Todd Farrell Kenneth Feinberg Eric Feng Richard W. Fisher Brian Fiske Alan Fletcher Jon Frankel Jacob Frenz Ann B. Friedman Thomas L. Friedman Ellen Galinsky Howard Gardner Daniel Garza Theaster Gates Helene D. Gayle Martin Gaynor David Gergen Miles Gilburne Deborah Goldberg Elliot Goldenthal Sue Goodwin Hala Gorani Lori Gottlieb Rachel Grady Brian Greene Alan Greenspan Richard Haass Governor (R), State of Indiana; Former Director, Office of Management and Budget
Co-Founder and CEO, Rocketship Education
President and CEO, Asia Society
Co-Founder and Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Professor of Architectural Design, Princeton University;
Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, The Aspen Institute
Executive Editor, Environment, National Geographic
Author, Our Divided Political Heart; Op-Ed Columnist, The Washington Post; Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution
Mark O. Winkelman Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business,
University of Pennsylvania
Moderator, “Intelligence Squared US”; Correspondent, ABC News
Founder, Dancing Classrooms
Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard University
Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of Law, Georgetown University School of Law; Author, So Rich, So Poor
President and CEO, The Tornante Company; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
President, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Education Correspondent, NBC News
Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Former Chair,
Bioethics Department, National Institutes of Health
Artistic Director, The Public Theater
Co-Director, Detropia
Documentary Filmmaker, Yuan Fang Media; Director, Last Train Home
Graduate Student and Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Founder and Managing Partner, Feinberg Rozen; Special Master for Executive Compensation,
Obama Administration
Founder and CEO, Erly
President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Vice President, Research Programs, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
President and CEO, Aspen Music Festival and School
Director and Producer, American Man; Correspondent, “Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel,” HBO
Co-Founder, CombatIV
Board Chair, SEED Foundation; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Co-Founder and President, Families and Work Institute
John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery / Department of Surgery, Stanford University
School of Medicine
Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Founder and President, Rebuild Foundation
President and CEO, CARE USA
E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; Chair of the Board, Health
Care Cost Institute
Professor of Public Service and Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University; Senior Political Analyst, CNN; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Founder and CEO, ePals
Managing Attorney, Earthjustice
Composer
Executive Producer, “Talk of the Nation,” NPR
Anchor and Correspondent, CNN International
Psychotherapist; Author, Marry Him; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
Co-Director, Detropia
Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Columbia University; Author, The Elegant Universe
President, Greenspan Associates, LLC; Former Chairman, US Federal Reserve
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Rayonna Hall Margaret Hamburg Jon Hamilton Jane Harman Graduate, Gateway to College
Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR
President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative
(D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Rolf-Dieter Heuer Director-General, CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research
Fred P. Hochberg Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Reid Hoffman Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock Partners; Henry Crown Fellow,
The Aspen Institute
Tracie Holder Co-Director and Producer, Joe Papp in Five Acts
Daniel Hong Co-Founder, CompactCath; Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Chris Howard President, Hampden-Sydney College
Hu Shuli Editor-in-Chief, Caixin Media
Glenn Hubbard Dean, Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University Graduate School of Business;
Former Chairman, US Council of Economic Advisors, George W. Bush Administration
Katherine Hudson Watershed Program Director, Riverkeeper
Arianna Huffington President, Huffington Post Media Group; Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post
Steve Hyman Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute
Gwen Ifill Moderator and Managing Editor, “Washington Week”; Senior Correspondent, “The PBS NewsHour,” PBS News
Steve Inskeep Host, “Morning Edition,” NPR
Joichi Ito Director, The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lisa P. Jackson Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency
Kristi Jacobson Co-Director, Finding North
Leila Janah Founder and CEO, Samasource
David Janka Co-Founder, CompactCath Team
Valerie Jarrett Senior Advisor to the President, The White House
Xavier Jennings Graduate, YouthBuild
Simon Johnson Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
Robert Kagan Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution; Author,
The World America Made
Musimbi Kanyoro President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
Pamela S. Karlan Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
Alexis Karolides Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute
Bridget Kendall Host, “The Forum,” BBC World Service
David Kennedy Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Philip Kennicott Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
Kathayoon Khalil Co-Founder, SparkTruck
Michael Kimmel University Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University; Author, Manhood in America
Ross D. King Professor of Machine Intelligence, University of Manchester
Joe Klein Columnist, TIME
Gary Knell President and CEO, NPR
Eugene Korsunskiy Co-Founder, SparkTruck
Michael Kranish Washington Bureau Deputy Chief, Boston Globe
Lawrence KraussAuthor, A Universe from Nothing; Foundation Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan Krueger Chairman, President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors
Coco Krumme Member, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Patricia Kuhl Co-Director, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of
Washington; Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning
Michelle Kwan Olympic Figure Skating Medalist; Member, President’s Council on Fitness and Nutrition
Ray LaHood Secretary, US Department of Transportation
Rocco Landesman Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Mitch Landrieu Mayor (D), New Orleans, Louisiana
Shelly Lazarus Chairman, Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide
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Steven Z. Leder Debra Lee Sylvia Lee Mary A. Legere
Jonah Lehrer David Leonhardt Adam Lerner Dave Levin Amir Levine Madeline Levine Sanford V. Levinson Eric X. Li Li Xiaolin Robert Lipsyte Liu Xin Shane Lopez Michael Lopp Lu Chuan Suzanne Malveaux Geoff Manaugh Marissa Mayer Andrew McAfee Kathleen McCartney Annie McChrystal Stanley A. McChrystal David McConville Steven McCormick Daniel McDuff Tom McMillen C. Douglas McMillon Jamie Merisotis Amanda Michel Andrea Mitchell Ted Mitchell Moby Heidi Moore Dave Morin Gregory Mosher Ralph Moss Russell Muirhead Michael Mullen Jerry Murdock Charles Murray Pervez Musharraf Elizabeth Nabel Niven R. Narain Alyse Nelson Elisa New Richard Newell
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Andrew Ng
Senior Rabbi, Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Chairman and CEO, BET Networks
Water Manager, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Lieutenant General, US Army; Senior Army Intelligence Officer, Pentagon
Author, Imagine; Contributing Editor, Wired
Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Director, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art
Superintendent, KIPP New York; Co-Founder, KIPP
Principle Investigator, Columbia University
Psychologist; Author, The Price of Privilege
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair Professor of Government, University of Texas
School of Law
Founder and Managing Director, Chengwei Capital
President, Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
Author, An Accidental Sportswriter; Former Sports Columnist, The New York Times
Founder and Director, Enlight Foundation, Xinping Foundation; Photojournalist
Gallup Senior Scientist-in-Residence, Research Director, Clifton Strengths Institute
Director, Palantir Technologies
Director, Writer, City of Life and Death
Anchor, “CNN Newsroom”
Co-Director, Studio-X NYC; Adjunct Professor, Columbia GSAPP
Vice President, Local, Maps, and Location Services, Google
Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Lecturer, McChrystal Group
Retired General, US Army; Co-Founder and Partner, McChrystal Group
President, Buckminster Fuller Institute
President and CEO, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Graduate Student, Affective Computing Group, The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chairman, National Foundation on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition; Former US Representative (D-MD); Former
NBA and US Olympic Basketball Player; Former Co-Chairman, President’s Council on Physical Fitness
and Sports
President and CEO, Walmart International
President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Open Editor, The Guardian
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News; Host, “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” MSNBC
President and CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund
Musician, DJ, Photographer
New York Bureau Chief, “Marketplace,” American Public Media
Co-Founder and CEO, Path
Director, Producer
Director, The Moss Reports
Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics, Dartmouth College
Retired US Navy Admiral; Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Co-Founder, Insight Venture Partners; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Author, Coming Apart; W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Former President, Pakistan
President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer, Berg Pharma
Co-Founder, President and CEO, Vital Voices
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and Director,
Duke University Energy Initiative
Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Stanford University
Craig Nixon Joe Nocera Seth Norman Michele Norris Chris Nowinski Michael O’Hanlon Dele Olojede Tim O’Reilly Norm Ornstein Peter Orszag Meghan O’Sullivan
Ou Ning Eduardo Padron Elaine Pagels Jennifer Pahlka Billy Parish Annise Parker Ed Parsons Steve Patrick Aaron Peck Nadya Peek Minxin Pei Mark Penn Richard A. Pildes Mark Preston Louie Psihoyos Robert D. Putnam John Quackenbush Dominic Randolph Wallace Renfro Lynda Resnick Paul Rieckhoff Craig Robinson Charlie Rose Eric Rosenbaum Andrew Ross Sorkin David Rothkopf Jed Rubenfeld David Rubenstein Kai Ryssdal Ricardo Salinas Michael J. Sandel Jeremy Schaap Orville Schell Bob Schieffer Edwin Schlossberg Eric Schmidt Dennis Scholl Howard Schultz Partner, Leadership Development and Education, McChrystal Group
Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times
Co-Founder, CombatIV
Host, “All Things Considered,” NPR
President and Co-Founder, Sports Legacy Institute; Co-Director, Center for the Study of
Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine
Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Publisher and Chairman, Timbuktu Media; Africa Leadership Initiative Fellow, The Aspen Institute
Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
Political Scientist and Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Vice Chairman Global Banking, Citigroup, Inc.; Former Director Office of Management
and Budget, Obama Administration
Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of Internal Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Artist, Curator, Publisher; Chief Editor, Chutzpah! Magazine
President, Miami Dade College
Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University; Author, Revelations;
Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Founder and Executive Director, Code for America
President, Solar Mosaic; Co-Author, Making Good
Mayor (D), Houston, Texas
Geospatial Technologist, Google
Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Co-Founder, SparkTruck
Graduate Student, Media Arts and Sciences School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies; Professor, Claremont McKenna College
CEO Worldwide, Burson-Marsteller; CEO, Penn Schoen Berland
Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law; Co-Director, New York University
Center on Law and Security
Political Director, CNN
Executive Director, Oceanic Preservation Society; Director, The Cove; Photographer
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard School of Public Health
Head of School, Riverdale Country School
Vice President and Chief Policy Advisor, NCAA
Vice Chairman, Roll Global; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Executive Director and Founder, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Men’s Basketball Head Coach, Oregon State University
Executive Editor and Anchor, “Charlie Rose,” PBS; Anchor, “CBS This Morning”
Doctoral Student, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Financial Columnist, Editor-at-Large, The New York Times; Co-Anchor, “Squawk Box,” CNBC
CEO and Editor-at-Large, FP Group; President and CEO, Garten Rothkopf
Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
Host, Senior Editor, “Marketplace,” American Public Media
President and CEO, Salinas Group
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University; Author,
What Money Can’t Buy
Anchor, ESPN; Contributor, “ABC World News Tonight” and “Nightline,” ABC News
Arthur Ross Director, Center on US China Relations, Asia Society
Moderator, “Face The Nation,” Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
President and Principal Designer, ESI Design
Executive Chairman, Google
Vice President, Arts Program, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company
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Paul Sciarra Founder, Pinterest
John Seely Brown Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California; Independent Co-Chairman,
Deloitte Center for the Edge
Beppe Severgnini Journalist, Columnist; Author, La Bella Figura
Jane Shaw Dean, Grace Cathedral
Russell Shaw Head of School, Georgetown Day School
Harry Shearer Author, Director, Satirist, Musician; Radio Host, “Le Show,” KCRW
Peter W. Singer Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
John Skipper President, ESPN
Anne-Marie Slaughter Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University;
Former Director of Policy Planning, US State Department of State
Shimon Slavin Professor of Medicine and Scientific and Medical Director, The International Center for
Cell Therapy and Cancer Immunotherapy
Mario Small Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Anna Deavere Smith Professor, New York University; Director, Anna Deavere Smith Works; Actress; Playwright
Alix Spiegel Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR
Bonnie St. John US Paralympic Medalist; Author, How Great Women Lead
Naama Stauber Graduate Student, Stanford University; Co-Founder, CompactCath
Katherine Steele Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford Mechanical Engineering; Co-Founder, CompactCath
James Steinberg Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State
Constance Steinkuehler Squire Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
Bret Stephens Foreign Affairs Columnist, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Betsey Stevenson Assistant Professor, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
James P. Steyer Founder and CEO, Common Sense Media
Lynn A. Stout Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Business Law, Cornell Law School
Lawrence H. Summers Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Former Secretary
of the Treasury; Former Director, National Economic Council, Obama Administration
Neera Tanden President, Center for American Progress
Julie Taymor Theater, Opera, and Film Director; Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, The Aspen Institute
Dina Temple-Raston Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
Gillian Tett US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Matt Thompson Editorial Product Manager, NPR
Michael Thompson Psychologist; Author, Raising Cain
Susan Tierney Managing Principal, Analysis Group
Matthew Tilleard MBA Candidate, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Co-Founder, CombatIV
Laurie Tisch President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Linda Tischler Senior Editor, Fast Company
Eric Topol Director and Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Paul Tough Author, Whatever It Takes
Stanley Tucci Actor, Writer, Film Producer, and Film Director
Kevin Turner Founder, The Kevin Turner Foundation; Cast, American Man
Michael S. Turner Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago;
Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Merlijn Twaalfhoven Composer; Director, La Vie Sur Terre
Nicola Twilley Author, Edible Geography; Co-Founder, Foodprint Project; Co-Director, Studio-X NYC
Vijay Vaitheeswaran Author, Need, Speed, and Greed; Senior Correspondent, China Business and Finance Editor, The Economist;
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Advisor, World Economic Forum
Shankar Vedantam Science Correspondent, NPR
Antonio Villaraigosa Mayor (D), Los Angeles, California
Nora D. Volkow Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Ben Waber President and CEO, Sociometric Solutions; Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
Darren Walker Vice President, Education, Creativity and Free Expression, The Ford Foundation
Kah Walla President, Cameroon’s People’s Party
Vin Weber David Weinberger Joanne Weiss Karl Wendt Gary White Mark Wigley Kenji Williams Timothy E. Wirth Justin Wolfers Wu Tong Jocelyn Wyatt Amira Yahyaoui
Polly Young-Eisendrath Laura Zabel
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Senior Researcher, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
Chief of Staff to the Secretary, US Department of Education
Rothberg Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Co-Founder, President, and CEO, water.org
Dean, Columbia University School of Architecture
Founder and Director, Bella Gaia
President, United Nations Foundation
Associate Professor of Economics, Business, and Public Policy, The Wharton School of Business,
University of Pennsylvania
Performer, Silk Road Ensemble; Musician; Composer; Vocalist
Executive Director, IDEO.org
President, Al Bawsala; Tunisian Activist
Psychologist; Author, The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age
of Self-Importance
Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts
Owner, U.S. News & World Report; Owner, New York Daily News
underwriter and partner PRESENTERS
Marco Annunziata Molly Ball Keith Banks Melody Barnes James Bennet Berl Bernhard David Bradley Beth Brooke Nicholas Burns Peggy Clark Steve Clemons Roger Cressey Clive Crook Tom Daschle
Kevin Delaney Mickey Edwards James Fallows Tom Fanning Tom Farrey Charlie Firestone Richard Florida Russ Ford Chrystia Freeland Michael Gallagher Elliot Gerson Dan Glickman Jeffrey Goldberg Chief Economist and Executive Director, Global Market Insights, General Electric Co.
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Chair, Aspen Forum for Community Relations, The Aspen Institute; Former Domestic Policy Advisor,
The White House; CEO, Melody Barnes Solutions, LLC
Editor, The Atlantic
Partner, DLA Piper; Chair, Middle East Investment Initiative and Chairman Emeritis, The Aspen Institute
Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
Global Vice Chair, Public Policy, Ernst & Young; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Director, Aspen Strategy Group, The Aspen Institute; The Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations,
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Vice President, Policy Programs and Executive Director, Global Health and Development, The Aspen Institute
Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Chief Washington Commentator, Financial Times; Columnist, The National Journal; Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper; Former US Senator (D-SD)
Editor, Quartz
Vice President and Director, Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership, The Aspen Institute
National Correspondent, The Atlantic
CEO, President, and Chairman, Southern Company
Correspondent; Director, ESPN; Director, Sports and Society, The Aspen Institute
Executive Director, Communications and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Director, Professor, Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto;
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Executive Vice President Onshore Gas Americas, Shell Oil Company
Editor, Thomson Reuters Digital; Contributor, The Atlantic
President and CEO, ESA
Executive Vice President, Policy and Public Programs, International Partnership, The Aspen Institute
Executive Director, Congressional Program, The Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center;
Former Secretary (D), US Department of Agriculture
National Correspondent, The Atlantic
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Leigh G. Hafrey Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Seminar Moderator, The Aspen Institute
Bob Harper Lifestyle Coach, Quaker Oats
Cheryl Healton President and CEO, Legacy
Chris Heilmann Chief Fiduciary Executive, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Jimmy Henry Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Christopher M. Hyzy Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Walter Isaacson President and CEO, The Aspen Institute; Author, Steve Jobs
Brad Jakeman President, PepsiCo Global Beverage Group, PepsiCo
Gregory Kallenberg Director and Producer, Rational Middle Energy Series
Chris Kibarian President, Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters
Corby Kummer Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Alexis Madrigal Senior Editor, The Atlantic
William E. Mayer Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
Mike McConnell Vice Chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton
Angela Messer Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
George Mitchell Chairman, Global Board, DLA Piper; Former US Senator (D-ME); Former Special Envoy for Middle East Peace;
Co-Chair, Housing Commission, Bipartisan Policy Center
Anne Mosle Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
Joe A. Muscat Partner and Director, America’s Cleantech Network, Ernst & Young
Marvin Odum President, Shell Oil Company
Susan Peters Vice President, Executive Development and Chief Learning Officer, General Electric Company
James Powell Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters
Beth Sauerhaft Director of Global Environmental Sustainability, PepsiCo
Deirdre Stanley Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Thomson Reuters
Scott Stossel Editor, The Atlantic
Peter Trick Senior Vice Preisdent, Booz Allen Hamilton
Toni Verstandig Chairman, Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute
Monique Villa CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Randi Weingarten President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
Marc Whitten Corporate Vice President, XBox Live
Richard Wilhelm Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Thomas Wilson Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
Damian Woetzel Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute
Gregory Yep Global Vice President R&D, Long-Term Research, PepsiCo