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For Immediate Release
Contacts:
Jennifer Myers
Director
of Public Affairs, The Aspen Institute
(202)
736-2906/jennifer.myers@aspeninstitute.org
Natalie
Raabe
Communications
Director, The Atlantic
(202)
266-7533/nraabe@theatlantic.com
The
Aspen Institute and The Atlantic Announce
2013
Aspen Ideas Festival
Speakers include Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, Yo-Yo Ma,
Susan Rice, Annie Lennox, and Tom Friedman
Washington, DC, May 21. 2013 –– The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic are pleased to announce the ninth annual Aspen
Ideas Festival. From June 26 through July 2, 2013, more than 300 insightful
thinkers and leaders from around the country and beyond will gather in Aspen,
CO to discuss their work, the issues that inspire them, and their ideas. The
week’s programming will cover a variety of important issues including the economy,
the Middle East, energy, space, mobility, and design, among other topics. The
public dialogue will engage, over seven days, a festival audience of more than 4,000
attendees between the campus at the Aspen Meadows and the town of Aspen, as
well as those following the festival online throughout the world.
Speakers
currently confirmed to attend include: US Supreme Court Associate Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan;
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih; Twitter CEO Dick Costolo; Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA); Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence President Dan Gross; National Rifle Association of America President David A. Keene; Goldman Sachs CEO and Chairman Lloyd
Blankfein; Cellist
and the Aspen Institute’s 2013 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence Yo-Yo Ma; Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab Director Andrew Ng; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice; edX President Anant Agarwal; fuseproject Founder and CEO Yves Behar; National Resource Defense Council President Frances Beinecke; Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Managing Partner David Boies; The Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Campbell; The Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow Elaine Chao; Stanford University Professor of Psychology Carol S. Dweck; MD Anderson Cancer Center President Ronald DePinho; Harvard
Law School Professor of Law Noah Feldman; Billy
Lynns' Long Halftime Walk Author Ben
Fountain; Aramex
Founder and Former CEO Fadi Ghandour; The Studio Museum in Harlem Director
and Chief Curator Thelma Golden; US Food and Drug Administration
Commissioner Margaret Hamburg; HBO's "Girls" Executive
Story Editor Sarah Heyward; Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh; Harvard Business School Chair of Business Administration Nancy Koehn; US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood; New Orleans Mayor Mitch
Landrieu; The SING
Campaign Founder, Singer, and Activist Annie
Lennox; Photographer Zanele Muholi; Acumen Fund, Inc. Founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz; Reddit
Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian; Former Secretary of the US Treasury
Department Henry Paulson; Former Governor (R-MN) and
Republican Presidential Candidate and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable Tim Pawlenty; Republican Political Consultant and Policy Advisor Karl Rove; Red Rooster Chef and Owner Marcus
Samuelsson; Wikipedia
Co-Founder Jimmy Wales; American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten; and IDEO.org
Executive Director Jocelyn Wyatt.
Alongside
leading journalists such as Kurt Andersen, Maria
Bartiromo, James Bennet, David Brooks, Ronald Brownstein, David Carr, Steve
Clemons, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Katie Couric, James Fallows, Jeffrey Goldberg, Steve
Inskeep, Ezra Klein, Alexis Madrigal, Andrea Mitchell, and Michele Norris, presenters will discuss their ideas in
plenary sessions, tutorials, and other sessions on program tracks including American
Society: One Nation, Divisible; the Economic Puzzle; World Affairs:
Understanding the Middle East; Balance of Power: the Energy Revolution; Citizen
Artists; Space and the Cosmos; the Reinvention of Television; Flying Cars: The
Future of Mobility; How We Learn; Innovation by Design; and You and Your Health. More details on all program tracks are available at www.aspenideas.org/festival/tracks.
“The
conversations and presentations offered at the Aspen Ideas Festival will
underscore some of the most critical dilemas and challenges we face today,”
said Kitty Boone, Aspen Institute vice president and director of the Aspen
Ideas Festival. “So many of those coming are the thinkers and leaders whose
vision and expertise are taking us into the future in such a positive and
constructive way.”
Prior to the start of the
Festival, the 21st Century National Service Summit on June 24-25 will serve as
the first-ever signature lead-in event to the Aspen Ideas Festival and will be
centered around the Franklin Project's plan to build a bold vision of civilian
national service as a common expectation and common opportunity for all
Americans. General Stanley McChrystal
(Ret.) and others will present findings from the summit during the opening day
of the Aspen Ideas Festival. Learn more at http://as.pn/om.
“What distinguishes this
gathering is what distinguishes The Atlantic: a
commitment to exploring and debating ideas of consequence,” James Bennet,
editor in chief of The Atlantic,
said.
During
the lead-up to the Aspen Ideas Festival, The
Atlantic will host an Ideas
Special Report on
its website, highlighting breakthroughs and innovations having direct impact on
business, technology, politics, science, and the arts. The report coincides
with the July/August Ideas issue of The
Atlantic in print and online, focused on the most powerful ideas
shaping our world.
Starting June 26, TheAtlantic.com will offer comprehensive
coverage of the Festival, including articles on the most compelling discussions
and presentations, a daily “Today at Aspen” photo gallery, and video
conversations with panelists and attendees. Online coverage will also include special
commentaries and observations from Atlantic writers
and editors on the scene, including including Kasia
Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, Garance Franke-Ruta, Conor Friedersdorf, Megan
Garber, J.J. Gould, and Derek Thompson,
as well as well as National Journal’s
Ronald Brownstein and Quartz’s Kevin Delaney.
It is now easier to keep up with
the Aspen Ideas Festival in more ways than ever before. Full-session video and audio
clips will be featured on www.aspenideas.org,
on the Aspen Institute’s YouTube channel,
iTunesU, and on the Aspen Institute’s video channel
and TheAtlantic.com’s video
channel. Regular
updates from the Festival in the run-up, during the event, and after can be
found on Facebook
and Twitter.
Follow the Ideas Festival on Twitter at @aspenideas with the hashtag #AspenIdeas.
Additionally the Festival discussions can be followed all year on the Aspen
Ideas Festival blog.
For a list of currently confirmed
speakers, program tracks, and passholder information, please visit www.aspenideas.org.
EDITOR’S NOTE: There are a
limited umber of press passes available. To apply, please fill out the form
here: http://www.aspenideas.org/festival/press.
Presenting underwriters for the
2013 Aspen Ideas Festival include Allstate; Booz Allen Hamilton; CH2MHILL; DLA
Piper; Mt. Sinai; PepsiCo; Shell; Thomson Reuters; Toyota; and U.S. Trust, Bank
of America Private Wealth Management. Supporting underwriters include AARP, the
American Federation of Teachers, Ernst & Young, Legacy, Southern Company,
and the Target Foundation. Pearson and the Entertainment Software Association
are contributing underwriters.
About The Atlantic
Since 1857, The Atlantic has played a central role in shaping the
national debate on current affairs and cultural trends. Dedicated to bold, independent, diverse, and
highly reasoned perspectives, its writers, bloggers, and critics
represent the best in American journalism. The Atlantic’s
award-winning commentary and coverage can be found in its magazine, on its
website at www.TheAtlantic.com,
and at events produced by its industry-leading events division, AtlanticLIVE.
About the Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies
organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based
on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical
issues. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the
Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It also has offices in New York City and
an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.
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