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Event Overview: Aspen Ideas Festival

The Aspen Ideas Festival brings brilliant leaders and thinkers from around the globe to discuss the ideas that will shape tomorrow and help us understand today.

300+ speakers. 100+ sessions. One extraordinary gathering.

From June 25 - July 1, 2025, the Aspen Ideas Festival will welcome inspiring leaders, brilliant thinkers and curious seekers to our Rocky Mountain campus. From sunup to sundown, we’ll stretch our minds, feed our imaginations and revel in the ideas that are shaping our collective future.

We invite you to attend one of two sections of the Aspen Ideas Festival:

Festival 1: June 25 – 28
Festival 2: June 28 – July 1

Mark your calendar now to join us! Registration opens on November 19 with a special early bird rate.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 1 and Festival 2 passes include:

  • Access to 100+ unique content sessions in venues that celebrate the natural landscape
  • Hands-on learning opportunities in workshops and field trips
  • Expert-led roundtable discussions
  • Enriching activities, such as yoga, guided nature walks, and art tours
  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily as well as culinary delights around campus
  • Evenings at Ideas: exclusive nighttime programming that includes dinner and drinks
  • Opportunities to network with fellow attendees, speakers, and moderators
  • A special Aspen Ideas bag
  • Travel concierge support to assist you in exploring your lodging options
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See highlights from the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival

Program Overview

From sunup to sundown, the Aspen Ideas Festival packs hundreds of fascinating discussions into seven days. We explore critical issues as well as uncover ideas that spark wonder. Panels, interviews, lectures and interactive sessions will delve into topics shaping the 2024 election, business and the economy, the role of art throughout all aspects of our lives, geopolitics, sports, leadership, and more. Explore our 2024 programming for an idea of the subjects we cover.

Attendees have exceptional opportunities to interact with people shaping the world — on footpaths and sidewalks, over lunch in the pavilion or coffee at the espresso bar, in auditoriums and in small seminar rooms. The intimacy of the Festival gatherings renders the experience unique and unforgettable.

Speakers

Every year, over 300 inspiring leaders bring their big ideas to the Aspen Ideas Festival. Speakers begin to be shared in the spring, with confirmations and exciting announcements happening right up until the event. Check out the 2024 speaker lineup.

Agenda

Explore the 2024 agenda to get a sense for how the days are structured.