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This September, today’s most important and provocative political, cultural, business, tech, and climate leaders gathered in Washington, D.C.’s reimagined waterfront neighborhood, The Wharf—home of The Atlantic’s new headquarters. Over three days of main-stage conversations and interviews, forums, intimate breakout sessions, book talks, happy hours, and special evening programming, our journalists hosted a lively exchange of complex ideas. What will you take away?
Treasury Secretary
Author, Dear Martin
Writer and Comedian
(D-CT)
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
White House National Climate Adviser
Alexandra Heyman Nash Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Comedian
Deputy Editor, The Atlantic
Vice President, Global Patient Advocacy, Global Health and Social Impact, Pfizer
Underwriter Session
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
CEO, CTIA
Underwriter Session
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Executive Producer, Shadowland
Neo-Classical Pianist and Composer
Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant Attorney General
CEO, National Indian Health Board
Senior Vice President, Marketing, The Atlantic
Underwriter Session
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Content Creators and Disability Advocates
Underwriter Session
Author, Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America; Senior Adviser, Giffords
Vice President for Health, UnidosUS
Executive Director of Patient Advocacy Relations, Genentech
Underwriter Session
Co-Writer and Director, Till
Executive Vice President, Centuri Group
Underwriter Session
President, American Council of Learned Societies
Co-founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
Executive Director, Business for Impact, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
SVP, Technology Diverse Segments, Representation & Inclusion, Wells Fargo
Moderator, Intelligence Squared; Contributor, AtlanticLIVE
President and CEO, Autism Community Ventures
Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Age Wave
Underwriter Session
Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
CEO, Southern Company
Underwriter Session
Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Freestylers and Broadway Performers: Aneesa Folds, Jay Ellis, Kaila Mullady, Andrew Bancroft
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Underwriter Session
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Senior Program Officer, Criminal Justice, MacArthur Foundation
Underwriter Session
Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Senior Counsel, Brennan Center Justice Program
Co-founder and CEO, Eat the Change; Co-founder, PLNT Burger
Organizational Psychologist; Founder, Institute for Life at Work
Founder and CEO, Anchor Change
Director, Gun Violence Prevention, Office Of The City Administrator, Washington D.C.
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Professor and Director of Public Safety Lab, New York University
Executive Director, Hop Hop Caucus
Underwriter Session
Managing Director & Partner, BCG
Underwriter Session
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Vice President of Supply Chain Management, Southern Company
Underwriter Session
CEO and Board Director, Indeed
Musician and Actor
Underwriter Session
Playwright, Composer, and Lyricist, A Strange Loop
Senior Correspondent, PolitiFact
Journalist
Underwriter Session
Associate Professor, Ohio State University
President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Dean for Medical Education, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Founder and Director, Good Energy
Underwriter Session
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Artist
Saunders Professor, Georgetown University
Professor and Founding Director, Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University
Michael R. Klein Professor, Harvard Law School
White House Chief of Staff
Contributor, AtlanticLIVE
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
District Attorney of Philadelphia
Executive Editor, The Atlantic
Member, SNCC Legacy Project
Founder and CEO, Biofabricate
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Senior Director, Systemwide Special Pathogens Program, NYC Health + Hospitals
Comedian and Author
North America Regional Chair, BCG
Underwriter Session
CEO, Diverse & Engaged
CEO, Recording Academy
Environment Program Director, Walton Family Foundation
Underwriter Session
Principal and Head of Policy, Regulatory and Government Relations, Edward Jones
Underwriter Session
Publisher, The Atlantic
Contributor, AtlanticLIVE
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
DJ
Public Defender, Cook County
Underwriter Session
Director, Future of Work, Meta
Senior Vice President and General Manager, AtlanticLIVE
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Author, Tracy Flick Can’t Win
Author, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Author, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
TikTok Misinformation Researcher
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Board Member, Facebook Oversight Board and Vice President, Cato Institute
Author and Partner, Studio for Urban Projects
Contributor, AtlanticLIVE
Software Curator and Free Range Archivist, Internet Archive
Managing Director, Environmental and Equity Strategies; Environment, Equity & Justice Center, Natural Resources Defense Council
Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region III
Executive Director, Walton Family Foundation
Underwriter Session
Executive Director, Wheaton College Billy Graham Center
Senior at Howard University
Underwriter Session
Managing Editor, The Atlantic
Managing Director & Partner, BCG
Underwriter Session
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
CEO, The Atlantic
Social Strategy Leader, KPMG
Underwriter Session
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Founder, Senior Vice President and Publisher, Kokila at Penguin Random House
Underwriter Session
Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
Global Oncology and US President, Pfizer
Underwriter Session
Programs Manager, Alivio Medical Center; Board Member, Latino Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Alliance
Underwriter Session
President and CEO, EqualAI
Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College of Columbia University
Author; Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Founder and CEO, ColorComm
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota
Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour
Actor, Producer, Author of Making A Scene
Staff writer, The Atlantic
Singer-Songwriter
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Retirement is increasingly viewed as a time of freedom and fulfillment. Yet, for many Americans, the pandemic and growing wealth gap have pushed this dream further out of reach. What are the forces shaping retirement and how can we help more Americans thrive in this chapter of life? Together, Edward Jones and Age Wave have embarked on an unprecedented research effort to better understand current retirement-related hopes, dreams and fears, recently releasing their latest cross-generational report, Longevity and the New Journey of Retirement. Join these two organizations as they explore the challenges and opportunities in preparing for the retirement journey and keys to thriving along the way.
45 minutes
12 Stories
Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Age Wave
Principal and Head of Policy, Regulatory and Government Relations, Edward Jones
Culture, Health
Produced by our underwriter and not The Atlantic’s editorial team.
For decades, conditions of the nervous system have been among some of the most complex to understand and treat. Further, these conditions can be exacerbated by language barriers, cultural differences/norms, geography and mobility. In a conversation facilitated by Genentech, learn how members of the neuroscience community are coming together to address these common barriers and foster accessibility, and visibility of disability and DEI across neurological conditions.
45 minutes
Dockmaster
Content Creators and Disability Advocates
Executive Director of Patient Advocacy Relations, Genentech
Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Musician and Actor
Programs Manager, Alivio Medical Center; Board Member, Latino Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Alliance
Health
The stakes couldn’t be higher. Finding solutions to climate change so that people and nature can thrive together is the opportunity and challenge of the moment. The Atlantic will assemble policymakers, climate innovators, scientists and business leaders to address today’s most urgent climate challenges and solutions to build a more resilient future.
1 hour 15 minutes
12 Stories
White House National Climate Adviser
Co-founder and CEO, Eat the Change; Co-founder, PLNT Burger
Executive Director, Hop Hop Caucus
Founder and Director, Good Energy
Founder and CEO, Biofabricate
Environment Program Director, Walton Family Foundation
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Author and Partner, Studio for Urban Projects
Climate
As the nation recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, racial inequities in health care highlighted during the past two years continue to disproportionately affect marginalized communities. Join The Atlantic’s journalists, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates to examine how to better address the needs of the most vulnerable and find sustainable solutions to ensure a more equitable health-care future for all.
1 hour 15 minutes
Dockmaster
Vice President, Global Patient Advocacy, Global Health and Social Impact, Pfizer
CEO, National Indian Health Board
Vice President for Health, UnidosUS
Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department
Dean for Medical Education, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Contributor, AtlanticLIVE
Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Managing Director, Environmental and Equity Strategies; Environment, Equity & Justice Center, Natural Resources Defense Council
Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region III
Health
The Atlantic sits down with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Adviser to the President, as he reflects on his life’s work, the pandemic, and his legacy.
45 minutes
District Pier
Deputy Editor, The Atlantic
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Health
The Atlantic Festival’s Ideas Stage is the destination for back-to-back interviews with luminaries across the fields of business, science, technology, politics, and culture. Bold thinkers address the most significant issues of our time on the festival mainstage while Atlantic journalists dissect their ideas about the way forward. The Ideas Stage can be livestreamed daily with the Virtual Festival Pass and is can’t-miss programming, with speakers to be announced on a rolling basis.
2 hours
The Mead Center for American Theater (Arena Stage)
Comedian
CEO, CTIA
Neo-Classical Pianist and Composer
Co-founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Journalist
President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Artist
Michael R. Klein Professor, Harvard Law School
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Senior Director, Systemwide Special Pathogens Program, NYC Health + Hospitals
CEO, Recording Academy
Senior Vice President and General Manager, AtlanticLIVE
Author, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Executive Director, Walton Family Foundation
Senior at Howard University
CEO, The Atlantic
Global Oncology and US President, Pfizer
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota
Staff writer, The Atlantic
Business, Climate, Culture, Health, Progress & Tech, Race/Identity/Politics
Happy Hour includes an open bar and is a great place to network and unwind outdoors on the District Pier. Join us after the Ideas Stage programs or unwind with us after work each day. You must be 21+ to attend.
2 hours
District Pier
An exclusive first look at Shadowland, an upcoming docuseries streaming September 21st on Peacock based on the critically acclaimed reporting project from The Atlantic. Award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across the country to uncover conspiracy theories that have captured American attention and to investigate their dangerous influence on the functioning of our democracy. Following the world premiere, join The Atlantic’s executive editor Adrienne LaFrance in conversation with Berlinger, and The Atlantic’s Adam Harris and Kaitlyn Tiffany.
1 hour 30 minutes
District Pier
Executive Producer, Shadowland
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Executive Editor, The Atlantic
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Culture
September 21–23, 2022