Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Ideas Conference 2013
- Saad Abdul-Latif - CEO of PepsiCo Asia, Middle East, and Africa
- Stephen Adler - Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News
- Anant Agarwal - President of edX
- Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi - Chief Operating Officer, Mubadala Development Company
- Ehab Al Shihabi - Executive Director for International Operations, Al Jazeera America
- Nadia Al-Sakkaf - Nadia Al-Sakkaf is the editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times, the most widely read English-language newspaper in Yemen
- Madeleine Albright - First Woman to Become a United States Secretary of State
- Charles Alcock - Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- David Alpert - Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Greater Greater Washington
- Kurt Andersen - Host, "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC"; Author
- Chris Anderson - Former Editor-in-chief of Wired; Author and Founder, 3D Robotics
- Anousheh Ansari - Iranian-American Engineer and Co-founder and Chairwoman of Prodea Systems
- Paola Antonelli - Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Paula Apsell - Senior executive producer of "NOVA," the PBS science series
- Jeffrey Ashby - Chief of Mission Assurance, Blue Origin; Former Astronaut, NASA
- Stephen Attenborough - Commercial Director, Virgin Galactic
- Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
- Maria Banks - Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Melody Barnes - Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
- Robert Barnett - Partner, Williams and Connolly LLP
- Maria Bartiromo - Financial Journalist on Fox Business News; Former Anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo"
- Shabana Basij-Rasikh - Co-Founder and Managing Director, School of Leadership, Afghanistan
- Brian Bedol - Founder and CEO, Bedrocket Media Ventures
- Yves Behar - Founder of fuseproject; Chief Creative Officer of Jawbone; Known for his TED Talk, "Designing Objects That Tell Stories"
- Frances Beinecke - President Natural Resources Defense Council.
- Jeremy Ben-Ami - Founder and President, J Street
- James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
- Jeremy Bentham - Vice President, Global Business Environment, Royal Dutch Shell
- Nicolas Berggruen - Chairman, Berggruen Holdings; Chairman, Berggruen Institute on Governance
- Julie Bergman Sender - Director; Producer, Harmony; Co-Owner, Balcony Films
- Richard Besser - ABC News Senior Health & Medical Editor
- Mitchell Besser - Founder and Medical Director, mothers2mothers
- Charles Best - Founder and CEO, DonorsChoose.org
- Kiran Sethi - The founder of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, Kiran Sethi has launched an initiative to make our cities more child-friendly.
- Lloyd C. Blankfein - CEO and Chairman, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
- Barbara Bloemink - Former Executive Director, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
- Arthur Bloom - Founder and Director, Renovation In Music Education (RIME)
- David Boies - Founder and the chairman of the law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
- Jennifer Bradley - Fellow and Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
- Rita Braver - National Correspondent, "CBS Sunday Morning"
- Stephen Breyer - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- John Bridgeland - President and CEO, Civic Enterprises
- Eli Broad - Eli Broad is founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation,
- Beth Brooke-Marciniak - Global Vice Chair, Public Policy, EY; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- David Brooks - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author of NY Times Bestseller "The Road to Character"
- James L. Brooks - Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Gracie Films
- Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
- Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
- LeVar Burton - Actor & Literacy Advocate
- Thomas P. Campbell - Director and Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
- Pamela Cantor - Founder, President, and CEO, Turnaround for Children
- Eric Cantor - Majority Leader, US House of Representatives (R-VA)
- Lea Carpenter - Author, "Eleven Days"
- Jean Case - CEO, Case Foundation
- Steve Case - Former CEO of America Online (AOL); Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution
- Elaine L. Chao - Distinguished Fellow, The Heritage Foundation; 24th US Secretary of Labor (2001-2009)
- Mei-Ann Chen - Conductor and Music Director, Memphis Symphony Orchestra
- Perry Chen - Co-Founder and CEO of Kickstarter
- Jaycie Chitwood - Future Fuels and Environmental Strategy Manager, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
- Clayton Christensen - Harvard Business School Professor
- Peggy Clark - Managing Director, Aspen Global Health and Development
- Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
- Ta-Nehisi Coates - Senior Editor, The Atlantic, Bestselling Author of "Between the World and Me"
- Anthony Coles - President and CEO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
- Cesar Conde - EVP at NBCUniversal & Former President of Univision
- Catharine Conley - Deputy Chair, Planetary Protection Panel, International Council for Science Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), International Council for Science
- Luis Cortes, Jr. - Reverend; Founder, President, and CEO, Esperanza
- Dick Costolo - Former CEO of Twitter and Co-Founder of Feedburner
- James G. Coulter - Founding Partner, TPG Group; Co-Chair, LEAD Commission
- Katie Couric - Global Anchor of Yahoo News
- Lester Crown - Chairman, Henry Crown and Company
- Scott Dadich - Editor-in-Chief, WIRED
- Kenneth L. Davis - President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Tracy Day - Co-Founder and CEO, World Science Festival
- John E. Deasy - Superintendent-in-Residence of The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems
- Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
- Joan Dempsey - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Ronald DePinho - President, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
- Robert Dingemanse - Co-Founder and CEO, PAL-V Europe NV
- Timothy Donley - Lance Corporal, United States Marine Corps
- R. Luke DuBois - Director, Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
- Pierre Dulaine - Pierre Dulaine, Founder, Dancing Classrooms
- Fred Dust - Partner, IDEO
- Carol Dweck - Leading Researcher in the Field of Motivation, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, Author of "Mindset"
- Nicholas Eberstadt - Nicholas Eberstadt is a leading economist focusing on demography, international development and East Asian security.
- Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
- Michael D. Eisner - President and CEO, The Tornante Company; Former CEO and Chairman of The Walt Disney Company
- Adam Ellick - New York Times Correspondent & Filmmaker Behind “Class Dismissed: Malala’s Story”
- Mona Eltahawy - Journalist; Egyptian Peace Activist
- cc - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
- Susan Engel - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Class of 1959 Director of Program in Teaching, Williams College
- David Ensor - Director, Voice of America
- Tony Fadell - Founder and CEO, Nest
- James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Tom Fanning - Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company
- Noah Feldman - Noah Feldman studies the intersection of religion, politics and law -- with a focus on how Islam meshes with modern democracy.
- Howard Fillit - Executive Director and Chief Science Officer, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation; Executive Director and Chief Science Officer, Institute for the Study of Aging
- Howard Fineman - News Analyst, NBC News/MSNBC; Editorial Director, Huffington Post Media Group; Best-selling Author
- Elliott S. Fisher - Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College; Solving healthcare's greatest riddle: improving quality while managing costs
- Michele Fluornoy - Senior Advisor, Boston Consultant Group; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense
- Ben Fountain - Author, "Billy Lynns' Long Halftime Walk"
- Adam Frankel - Founder and Executive Director, Digital Promise
- Chrystia Freeland - Editor of Thomson Reuters Digital; Previously the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times
- Tom Freston - Principal, Firefly3; Former CEO, Viacom Inc.
- Thomas Frieden - Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
- David Frum - Senior Editor at the Atlantic; Chairman of The Policy Exchange; Former Speech Writer for George W. Bush
- Michael D. Gallagher - President and CEO, ESA
- David Gallo - Director of Special Projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- William A. Galston - Senior Fellow, Governance Studies The Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies The Brookings Institution.
- Ned Gardiner - Visualization Manager, Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Howard Gardner - Renowned Developmental & Cognitive Psychologist; Father of Multiple Intelligences Theory; Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Julius Genachowski - Federal Communications Commission Chairman (2009-2013) and Respected Internet and Media Executive
- David Gergen - Senior Political Analyst, CNN
- Sean Gerrity - President, American Prairie Reserve
- Michael Gerson - Michael Gerson worked closely with President George W. Bush to express in memorable speeches the Nation's response to the events of 9/11/2001, and then to define and explain the unfolding War on Terror.
- Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
- Fadi Ghandour - Founder, Vice Chairman, and Former CEO, Aramex
- Martha Gilmer - Vice President, Artistic Planning and Audience Development, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Anand Giridharadas - New York Times Columnist & Author
- Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Thelma Golden - Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
- Niel Golightly - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
- Bianna Golodryga - Business Correspondent, Co-Anchor, ABC News's "Good Morning America Weekend"
- Austan Goolsbee - Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2010-2011) and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Solly Granatstein - Co-Executive Producer, The Years Project
- Brian Grazer - Academy Award-Winning Producer; Chairman and Co-Founder, Imagine Entertainment; Author of "A Curious Mind"
- Brian Greene - Quantum Gravity and String Theory Physicist; Founder of World Science U
- Joseph Grima - Editor, Domus
- Dan Gross - President, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
- Jason Grumet - Founder and President, Bipartisan Policy Center
- Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Jim Halpert - Partner, DLA Piper
- Margaret A. Hamburg - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
- Mona Hammami - Senior Manager, Office of Strategic Affairs, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court
- Husain Haqqani - Pakistan's Former Ambassador to the United States
- Jay Harman - President and CEO, PAX Scientific, Inc.
- Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Hal Harvey - CEO, Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC
- Kendall Haven - Master Storyteller; Story Consultant; Author, Story Proof
- Chris Heilmann - Chief Fiduciary Executive, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Sarah Heyward - Executive Story Editor, HBO's "Girls"
- John Hickenlooper - Governor of Colorado
- Ryan Hill - Founder and Executive Director, TEAM Academy Charter Schools
- Peter Hirshberg - Pioneering Entrepreneur and Voice on Disruptive Culture and Technology
- Craig Hogan - Director, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics; Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
- Richard Hollingham - Journalist; Presenter, "Space Boffins"
- Doug Holtz-Eakin - President, American Action Forum
- Dan Hooper - Staff Scientist, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
- Tony Hsieh - CEO of Zappos
- Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
- Erik Huggers - Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation
- Asa Hutchinson - 46th Governor of Arkansas
- Christopher M. Hyzy - Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- David Ignatius - Bestselling Author and Washington Post Columnist
- Steve Inskeep - Host, “Morning Edition,” NPR
- Robert Irion - Director, Science Communication Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Eric Isaacs - Director, Argonne National Laboratory; President, UChicago Argonne, LLC
- Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
- Hiroshi Ishii - Associate Director and Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Farahnaz Ispahani - Media Advisor to President Asif Ali Zardari; Politician, Pakistan Peoples Party
- Shirley Ann Jackson - President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Dr. Meg Jay - Author, "The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter — And How to Make the Most of Them Now"
- Saru Jayaraman - Co-Founder and Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United; Director, Food Labor Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
- Cristina Jimenez - Co-Founder, United We Dream
- Lindley Johnson - Executive, Near Earth Object Observation Program, NASA
- Kristina Johnson - Chairman and CEO, Enduring Hydro; Former Under Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy
- Elena Kagan - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Atul Kapadia - Chairman and CEO, Envia Systems
- Robert D. Kaplan - Best-Selling Author & Atlantic Monthly Correspondent
- Justin Kasper - Astrophysicist, High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Bruce Katz - Vice President and Founding Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- David Keene - President of National Rifle Association, former Chairman of the American Conservative Union, Managing Associate at Carmen Group Lobbying
- Captain Mark Kelly - Commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Mission
- Bridget Kendall - Host, BBC World Service's "The Forum"
- Philip Kennicott - Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
- Paula Kerger - President and CEO, PBS
- Alan Khazei - Founder and CEO, The Action Tank; Co-Chair, Franklin Project, The Aspen Institute
- Chris Kibarian - President, Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters
- Danny Kim - Founder, President, Chief Technical Officer, Lit Motors
- Gabe Klein - Commissioner, Department of Transportation, City of Chicago; Director, Washington D.C. Department of Transportation; Former Vice President, Zipcar; Entrepreneur
- Joel Klein - CEO, Amplify; Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, News Corporation
- Ezra Klein - Editor-In-Chief, Vox.Com; Columnist, Bloomberg News and Policy Analyst/Contributor, MSNBC
- Patricia K. 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
- Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
- Ray LaHood - Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- David Laibson - Professor of Finance at Harvard University, renowned speaker on behavioral economics.
- Eric Lander - President and Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
- Daniel Leithinger - Doctoral Candidate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Singer Known for "Sweet Dreams," Political Activist and Humanitarian
- David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Allan Levey - Betty Gage Holand Chair, Department of Neurology, Emory University
- Kate D. Levin - Principal, Bloomberg Associates; Former Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City
- Madeline Levine - Educator & Author of The Price of Privilege
- Daniel Limonadi - Senior Flight Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Eric Liu - Inspirational Civic Leader, Author & Educator
- Jeffrey Logan - Senior Energy Analyst, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Rich Lowry - Journalist
- Ed Lu - Chairman and CEO, B612 Foundation
- Robert H. Lustig - Bestselling Author of Fat Chance
- Michael Lynton - CEO, Sony Entertainment Inc.; Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Yo-Yo Ma - Grammy Award-Winning Cellist; Founder and Artistic Director for the Silk Road Project
- Tod Machover - Tod Machover is head of the MIT Media Lab's Hyperinstruments/Opera of the Future group.
- Alexis Madrigal - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
- Ruth Marcus - Columnist, The Washington Post
- Karl Marlantes - Author, "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War"
- Jonathan Martin - National Political Correspondent, New York Times
- Michel Martin - Former Host, NPR's "Tell Me More"
- Richard Massey - Astronomer, Royal Observatory Edinburgh
- Sommer Mathis - Editor, The Atlantic Cities
- Ingrid Mattson - London and Windsor Community Chair of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology, Huron University College
- William E. Mayer - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
- Andrew McAfee - Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
- General Stanley McChrystal - Former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan; Known for his TED Talk "The Military Case for Sharing Knowledge"
- Scott McCleskey - Global Head of Regulatory Intelligence, Thomson Reuters
- Mike McConnell - Vice Chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton
- David McConville - President, Buckminster Fuller Institute
- Mike McCue - Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard
- Robert McDuffie - Violinist; Founder, Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, Townsend School of Music, Mercer University
- Lee McIntire - Chairman and CEO, CH2MHill
- Mickey McManus - President, CEO, and principal of MAYA Design
- Mark Meckler - Co-founder of Tea Party Patriots
- Andrew N. Meltzoff - Co-Director and Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
- David Allen Miller - Music Director, Albany Symphony Orchestra
- George J. Mitchell - Former US Senator / Author / Lawyer
- Andrea Mitchell - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
- Saad Mohseni - Chariman and CEO, MOBY Group
- Heidi Moore - New York Bureau Chief, "Marketplace," American Public Media
- Dror Moreh - Director, "The Gatekeepers"
- Murray Moss - Founder, Moss Design Gallery
- Zanele Muholi - Photographer; Filmmaker, "Difficult Love"
- Sendhil Mullainathan - Professor of Economics at Harvard University; Founder of ideas42, a Non-Profit Organization Devoted to Taking Insights About People from Behavioral Economics and Using it to Create Novel Policies, Interventions, and Products.
- Jerry Murdock - Managing Director and Co-founder, Insight Venture Partners
- Diane Nabatoff - Producer, "Dancing in Jaffa"
- Ethan Nadelmann - Founder and Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
- Andrew Ng - Founder, Coursera
- Indra Nooyi - Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
- Jacqueline Novogratz - Founder & CEO, Acumen Fund
- Joseph S. Nye, Jr. - University Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School
- Lawrence O'Donnell - Host, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, Political Analyst, Author
- Meghan O'Sullivan - Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard University
- Marvin Odum - President, Shell Oil Company
- Alexis Ohanian - Co-Founder of reddit, Entrepreneur, Investor, Activist & Bestselling Author of "Without Their Permission"
- Peter Orszag - Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
- Joseph Parkes - Chairman, Board of Directors, Cristo Rey Network
- Cristina Pato - Galician Bagpipe Master; Member, Silk Road Ensemble
- Henry Paulson - Former Secretary, US Treasury Department
- Tim Pawlenty - Former Governor of Minnesota; Former Republican Presidential Candidate; Political Commentator
- Ann Pendleton-Jullian - Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture, Georgetown University; Professor, Architecture Section, Ohio State University
- Mark Penn - Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
- Jim Pisz - Corporate Manager, North American Business Strategy, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
- Ramesh Ponnuru - Opinion journalist and a senior editor for National Review magazine.
- Mauro Porcini - Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo
- Donald Pressley - Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Market Lead, Middle East and North Africa, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Phloeun Prim - CEO, Season of Cambodia; Executive Director, Cambodian Living Arts
- Chris Rainier - Documentary Photographer; Fellow, National Geographic Society
- A. Barry Rand - CEO of AARP
- Lisa Randall - Award-Winning Physicist and One of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," Author, "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs"
- Pamela Reeves - Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Lynda Resnick - Vice Chairman, Roll Global; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Andrew Revkin - Prize-Winning Journalist and Author, Expert on Climate Change and Global Warming
- Cecile Richards - President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Charles "Lil Buck" Riley - Founder, Choreographer, and Dancer, New Styles Krew; Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, The Aspen Institute
- Richard E. Robbins - Director, "Girl Rising"; Co-Founder, The Documentary Group
- James E. Rogers - Chairman, President, and CEO, Duke Energy Corporation; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Joel Rose - Former CEO, School of One, New York City Department of Education
- Gary Rosen - "Weekend Review" Editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Jeffrey Rosen - President and CEO, The National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic
- Hanna Rosin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Author, "The End of Men"
- Ambassador Dennis Ross - Ambassador Dennis Ross
- Andrew Ross Sorkin - Financial Columnist for The New York Times & Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box
- Karl Rove - Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush (2000-2007)
- David M. Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
- Robert E. Rubin - Co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and a counselor at Centerview Partners.
- Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
- Steven Sacks - Founder and Director, Bitforms Gallery
- Barham Salih - Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
- Marcus Samuelsson - Owner, Red Rooster & James Beard Award-Winning Chef
- Ted Sarandos - Chief Content Officer, Netflix, Inc.; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute
- Dimitar Sasselov - Dimitar Sasselov works on uniting the physical and life sciences in the hunt for answers to the question of how life began.
- Mick Sawka - Director of Business Development, Office of Technology Development, Harvard University
- Cynthia Schneider - Cynthia Schneider studies culture and politics -- watching how novels, TV shows and cultural engagement around the globe (and especially within the Muslim world) might lead to political change. She was the US ambassador to the Netherlands from 1998 to 200
- Dennis Scholl - Vice President, Arts Program, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Tom Schuler - President and CEO, Solidia Technologies, Inc
- Larry Scripp - Chair, Music Education Department, New England Conservatory
- John Seely Brown - Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California; Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
- Stuart Sender - Producer, Writer, Director, "Harmony"; Co-Owner, Balcony Films
- Eldar Shafir - William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
- Shiza Shahid - Co-Founder & Global Ambassador, The Malala Fund
- Nate Silver - Founder, FiveThirtyEight.com; Author, "The Signal And The Noise"
- John Skipper - President, ESPN
- Moncef Slaoui - Chairman of Global R&D and Vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline
- Jeffrey Smisek - Chairman, President, and CEO, United Continental Holdings, Inc.
- Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
- Robert Spano - Music Director, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; 2011 Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence
- Scott Speck - Conductor and Music Director, Mobile Symphony Orchestra
- Sandy Speicher - Education Lead, IDEO
- Margaret Spellings - President, George W. Bush Presidential Center; Former United States Secretary of Eduction
- Daniel Sperling - Professor and Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
- Hari Sreenivasan - Anchor, Senior Correspondent, and Director of Digital Partnerships, “PBS NewsHour” and "PBS NewsHour Weekend"
- Michael Stern - Conductor and Music Director, Kansas City Symphony
- James Steyer - CEO, Common Sense Media; Author, "Talking Back to Facebook"
- J.B. Straubel - Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Tesla
- Tracy Straus - Founder and Artistic Director, Celebrate the Beat
- Rod Stryker - Founder and Instructor, ParaYoga
- Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
- Derek Thompson - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
- Jer Thorp - Co-Founder of 'The Office for Creative Research' & Former Data Artist in Residence at "The New York Times"
- Linda Tischler - Senior Editor, Fast Company
- Scott Tong - Correspondent, Sustainability Desk, Marketplace
- Paul Tough - Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine, Author of "Whatever It Takes" & "How Children Succeed"
- Toni G. Verstandig - Senior Vice President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; Chairman, Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute
- Kevin Vigilante - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Monique Villa - CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Leo Villareal - Artist
- Darren Walker - President of the Ford Foundation
- Jim Wallis - Christian Writer and Political Activist
- Laysha Ward - President, Community Relations, Target Corporation
- Vin Weber - Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- David Weigel - Senior Political Correspondent, Slate Magazine
- Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
- H. Gilbert Welch - Professor of Medicine and Public Policy, Dartmouth College; General Internist, White River Junction VA Medical Center
- Jay F. Whitacre - CTO, Aquion Energy; Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ross Wiener - Executive Director, Education and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
- Leon Wieseltier - Former Literary Editor, The New Republic
- Richard Wilhelm - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Alastair Willis - Conductor and Music Director, Illinois Symphony Orchestra
- Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
- Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
- Evan Wolfson - Founder and President, Freedom to Marry
- Jessie Woolley-Wilson - CEO, DreamBox Learning
- Wendy Woon - Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Tim Wu - Internet Advocate; Professor at Columbia Law School; Author of "The Master Switch"
- Jocelyn Wyatt - Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
- Xiao Xiao - Doctoral Candidate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Amos Yadlin - Director, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
- Lining Yao - Doctoral Candidate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tom Yellin - Co-Founder and President, The Documentary Group; Executive Producer, Girl Rising
- Monica Yunus - Operatic Soprano, Co-Founder, Sing for Hope
- Zia Yusuf - President and CEO, Streetline, Inc.
- Camille Zamora - Soprano; Co-Founder, Sing for Hope
