Crosscut Festival 2024
Virtual Access:
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Speaking in person only:
Audie Cornish
Ibram X. Kendi
Eric H. Holder Jr.
Michael Barbaro
Andrew Yang
Michael Cohen
Ken Jennings
Dahlia Lithwick
Marc Summers
Oren Etzioni
Jonquilyn Hill
Paris Jackson
Danni Askini
Sunil Kumar Aggarwal
Angela Jones
Speakers appearing virtually:
Deepak Chopra
Amna Nawaz
Will Hurd
Adam Smith
Jennifer Doudna
Darcy Jaffe
Judith Arcana
Carl Zimmer
Megan Burbank
Steven L. Kent
Michelle Nijhuis
Michael Pachter
About the Festival
The Crosscut Ideas Festival is a celebration of big ideas and a gathering for bold thinkers. Newsmakers, changemakers and innovators come together to take a fresh look at the biggest issues of our time. Over one week, the Crosscut Ideas Festival hosts fireside conversations and panels, meetups, art installations, workshops, and interactive experiences.
Attend the Festival
The Crosscut Ideas Festival includes a full day of festival programming in-person. Speakers from across the nation and around the region joined us to consider issues in politics, equity, the economy, science, the environment, innovation and much, much more.
Join us May 4, 2024 at the Amazon Meeting Center and quench your curiosity!
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Highlights
Festival Programming
The Crosscut Ideas Festival aims to foster open and respectful dialogue about important issues. It’s the mission of the Crosscut Festival to offer a program that provides a wide spectrum of viewpoints, experiences, and affiliations, and welcomes members of many communities. We are sensitive to the fact that some opinions and conversations may make audience members feel uncomfortable. As a public media organization, we are responsible to act as a neutral mediator. We do not endorse the policies or opinions of our guests. However, we believe that the best way to bridge our divides is to hear from people with whom we might disagree, even vehemently, and to ask each other hard questions. When participating in these events, we require that our guests and our audience do so according to our code of conduct.