THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 PROGRAM GUIDE WASHINGTON IDEAS MAINSTAGE PROGRAM 9:00 AM Bob Cohn, President, The Atlantic
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) With Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Mark Bertolini, Chairman and CEO, Aetna With Matt Thompson, Executive Editor, The Atlantic
Mayor Muriel Bowser, City of Washington, DC
Spencer Rascoff,CEO, Zillow Group With Gillian White, Senior Associate Editor, The Atlantic
10:00 AM Matt Hiznay, Cancer Survivor and PhD Candidate Ted Johnson, Biopharmaceutical Researcher, Pfizer With Lori Reilly, Executive Vice President, Policy, Research and Membership, PhRMA Produced by America’s Biopharmaceutical Companies*
General (Ret.) David Petraeus, Member and Chairman, KKR Global Institute With Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN
Christina Tosi, Founder and CEO, Milk Bar With Derek Thompson, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Secretary Steven Mnuchin, US Department of the Treasury With Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News
11:00 AM Robert Costa, National Political Reporter, The Washington Post; PBS Moderator, Washington Week Glenn Thrush, White House Correspondent, The New York Times Katy Tur, Correspondent, NBC News; Author, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History With Margaret Carlson, Columnist, Bloomberg View
Feng Zhang, Co-Inventor, CRISPR; Core Institute Member, Broad Institute With Ross Andersen, Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Margaret Low, President, AtlanticLIVE
12:00 PM Luncheon Programming LIVE Podcast: “The Takeout” with Major Garrett, CBS News Author Talk featuring Derek Thompson, The Atlantic with Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
2:00 PM Margaret Low, The Atlantic
Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) With McKay Coppins, Staff Writer,The Atlantic
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), US House Democratic Leader With Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent, ABC News #WASHINGTONIDEAS WIFI: Ideas2017 | PASS: Ideas2017
J. Craig Venter, Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and Head of Scientific Strategy, Human Longevity, Inc. With Matt Thompson, The Atlantic
Lisa Melcher, CEO, The Hope Dealer Project Tina Stride, President, The Hope Dealer Project With Alison Stewart, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
3:00 PM Mirza Cifric, Co-Founder and CEO, Veritas Genetics John Deeken, COO, Inova Translational Medicine Institute With Todd Stottlemyer, CEO, Inova Center for Personalized Health Produced by Inova*
Madeleine Albright, Former US Secretary of State With Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Luis Diaz, Head of Solid Tumor Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Department of Medicine Stefanie Joho, Cancer Survivor and Patient Advocate With Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
4:00 PM Rohit Prasad, Vice President and Head Scientist, Alexa Machine Learning With Alexis Madrigal, Staff Writer,The Atlantic
David Isay, Founder and President, StoryCorps With Alison Stewart, The Atlantic
Margaret Low, The Atlantic
*This session is produced by one of our underwriters, and not by The Atlantic’s editorial team. ADDITIONAL TOURS AND PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCES AUTHOR TALK WITH SALLY QUINN CREATIVE TENSIONS: 8:00 - 9:00 AM | Ideas HQ @ Rosa Mexicano AMERICAN DREAM 10:00 - 11:00 AM | The Loft @ 600 F AUTHOR TALK WITH LIZA MUNDY Designed by IDEO and Sundance 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Ideas HQ @ Rosa Mexicano NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY TOURS AUTHOR TALK WITH DEREK THOMPSON 12:00 PM 19th Century Tour | 2:30 PM 20th Century Tour 12:00 - 1:00 PM | The Forum @ Sidney Harman Hall National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F Street, NW
“THE VIETNAM WAR” FINAL EPISODE WASHINGTON IDEAS ALL-LEVELS FLOW 6:45 PM Reception | 8:00 PM Screening + Panel 6:30 - 7:30 PM | Yoga District Columbia Heights Sidney Harman Hall