2025 Aspen Ideas Festival

The 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival will commemorate the Aspen Institute’s 75th anniversary and honor its enduring commitment to a humanistic worldview, exploring questions both timely and timeless. We bring brilliant leaders and thinkers from around the globe to discuss the ideas that will help build understanding today and shape tomorrow.
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 AI revolution, business and the economy, the role of art throughout all aspects of our lives, geopolitics, sports, leadership, and more.