2017 Washington Ideas Forum

Property of The Aspen Institute / Credit: Kris Tripplaar

 

Speakers included:

 

Margaret Low, President, AtlanticLIVE

 

Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers

 

Mitch Landrieu, Mayor, City of New Orleans with Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic

 

Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots, X with Derek Thompson, Senior Editor, The Atlantic

 

 

Richard Besser, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, ABC News

 

Joelle Emerson, Founder and CEO, Paradigm with Liza Mundy, Contributor, The Atlantic

 

Christopher Ruddy, CEO, NewsMax Inc.with Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic

 

Tom Wilson, Chairman and CEO, The Allstate Corporation

 

Michele Norris, Founding Director, The Race Card Project with Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief, The Atlantic

 

Adam Neumann, Co-Founder and CEO, WeWork with Derek Thompson, Senior Editor, The Atlantic

 

Dennis Muilenburg, Chairman, President, and CEO, The Boeing Company with David Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media

 

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute

 

David Ignatius, Opinion Writer, Washington Post, and Author, The Quantum Spy with Mary Louise Kelly, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic

 

Angela Hwang, Global President of Inflammation and Immunology, Pfizer

 

Guy Primus, Founder and CEO, The VR Company with Alexis Madrigal, Staff Writer, The Atlantic

 

Melanie Whelan, CEO, SoulCycle with Alison Stewart, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic

 

David Shulkin, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Kevin Vigilante, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton

 

William Schindler, Associate Professor Of Anthropology, Washington College with Ross Andersen, Senior Editor, The Atlantic

 

Martin Baron, Executive Editor, The Washington Post with Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

Atlantic’s president Bob Cohn

 

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) with Steve Clemons, The Atlantic

 

Mark Bertolini, Chairman and CEO, Aetna with Matt Thompson, Executive Editor, The Atlantic

 

Spencer Rascoff, CEO, Zillow Group with Gillian White, Senior Associate Editor, The Atlantic

 

Matt Hiznay, Cancer survivor and PhD candidate; Ted Johnson, Biopharmaceutical researcher, Pfizer; and Lori Reilly, Executive Vice President, Policy, Research and Membership, PhRMA

 

General (Ret.) David Petraeus, Member and Chairman, KKR Global Institute

 

Christina Tosi, Founder and CEO, Milkbar with Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

 

Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury with Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News

 

Robert Costa, National Political Reporter, The Washington Post, and moderator, PBS’s Washington Week; Glenn Thrush, White House Correspondent, The New York Times; and Katy Tur, Correspondent, NBC News, and Author, Unbelievable: My Front-row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History with Margaret Carlson, Columnist, BloombergView

 

Feng Zhang, Co-Inventor, CRISPR; Core Institute Member, Broad Institute with Ross Andersen, Senior Editor, The Atlantic

 

Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) with McKay Coppins, Staff Writer, The Atlantic

 

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), U.S. House Democratic Leader with Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Correspondent, ABC News

 

J. Craig Venter, Co-Founder, Executive Chairman And Head of Scientific Strategy, Human Longevity, Inc. with Matt Thompson, Executive Editor, The Atlantic

 

Lisa Melcher, CEO, and Tina Stride, President, The Hope Dealer Project with Alison Stewart, The Atlantic

 

Mirza Cifric, Co-founder and CEO, Veritas Genetics; and Todd Stottlemyer, CEO, Inova Center for Personalized Health

 

Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent

 

Stefanie Joho, Cancer Survivor and Patient Advocate, and Luis Diaz, Head of Solid Tumor Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Department of Medicine with Ross Andersen, The Atlantic

 

Rohit Prasad, VP and Head Scientist, Alexa Machine Learning with Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic

 

David Isay, Founder and President, StoryCorps with Alison Stewart, The Atlantic

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