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7:45am MDT

Where Is Knowledge? Limelight Hotel Our Moral Imagination Hotel Jerome Ballroom

8:00am MDT

CEO Series: An American Competitiveness Agenda with Honeywell CEO Paepcke Auditorium Investing in the Markets: Safe or Uncertain? Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room

9:00am MDT

Will the European Union Survive? Greenwald Pavilion The Population Challenge Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room Will College Learning be Transformed by Technology? Paepcke Auditorium

10:30am MDT

Culture and Conflict Kresge Building, Hines Room Arab Spring: 18 Months Later, What's Ahead for Democracy? Greenwald Pavilion Can We Compete? Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room Knowledge Exchange: the New Professional Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room The Geography of Progress: What Do Cities Look Like in a World of Seven Billion? Paepcke Auditorium Artificial Intelligence: Radically Disrupting Genetic Science Koch Building, Lauder Room Competition: What's Fair Today? Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room

12:00pm MDT

The Road to Freedom Aspen Meadows Restaurant White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You Limelight Hotel CEO Series: The Role of Business in Addressing the Nine Billion Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room The Messages of our Music Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room NPR's "Talk of the Nation" 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Doors open, lunch served 12:00 - 2:00 PM Live Show Hour 1: Exporting Democracy Ender: What Do We Believe and Why? Hour 2: Making Work Work Ender: The Stories Behind Photogr... Hotel Jerome Ballroom

12:10pm MDT

Special Session: Today's Supreme Court Ruling on President Obama's 2010 Health Care Law Paepcke Auditorium

1:15pm MDT

US and Mexico Doerr-Hosier Center, Kaufman Room How Will We Feed Nine Billion of Us? Greenwald Pavilion College Sports at a Crossroads: Entertainment or Education? Paepcke Auditorium Visualizing Our Future through the Lens of Big Data Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room Telling Our Stories through Film Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room Confucianism: If Not a Religion, What Is It? Koch Building, Lauder Room

2:40pm MDT

Congress's Fall from Grace: Can We Reverse It? Paepcke Auditorium Ideas for the Future: Art, Media, and Race Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room

4:00pm MDT

Book Signings Paepcke Tent Collective Impact: Communities Moving the Needle on Big Challenges Koch Building, Booz Allen Hamilton Room Art: "Coal + Ice," Art Exhibit Tour Doerr-Hosier Center, Resnick Gallery

5:00pm MDT

Can the Federal Reserve Stimulate the Economy? Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room The Character Code Greenwald Pavilion Head Games: Can Football Be Saved From Itself? Discussion Followed by a Screening of American Man Paepcke Auditorium

7:30pm MDT

Hearts, Minds, and the 2012 Election Belly Up Aspen What is a Legacy Worth? Leaving an Impact Beyond the Game Doerr-Hosier, McNulty Room

8:00pm MDT

Finding North: A Film and Discussion Paepcke Auditorium

8:30pm MDT

Entrepreneurship 2012 Hotel Jerome Ballroom