5. Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen, Colorado
#5 Political Event (up from #6)
As is the tradition for the event, held on the campus of the Aspen Institute, attendees tackled issues related to health and wellness for the first several days, discussing caregiving, the brain, and moonshots, among other topics. From there, they jumped into 10 ambitious program tracks, including Global Conflicts: Are There Paths to Peace?; Making It in the U.S.A.; Moral Commitments, Moral Choices; Reimagining the Internet; The America I Know; The Art of Change; The Genetics Revolution; Feeling the Heat: Big Ideas on Climate; Inside Creativity; and the Thinking Machine. Next: June 21-20, 2018