Past Events

The ANDE Annual Conference targets high-level executives of ANDE member organizations, including leading investors, capacity development providers, foundations, and experts. The agenda features roundtable workshops focused on solutions to common challenges, structured and unstructured networking sessions, and participatory plenary sessions with leading thinkers in the entrepreneurship space.

The Aspen Institute’s Health Innovation Project will host a discussion, in partnership with ThinkWellPoint, entitled, “Reinventing Health Care: Frontline Innovations Transforming Local Care Delivery.” This will be the second of 3 regional events: Columbus, OH; New York, NY; and San Francisco, CA.

 Samuel Nussbaum, MD, Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy and Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint, Inc., will provide the keynote address for the event, which welcomes leading clinicians, business leaders, public health officials and policymakers from the New York City area.

At the forum, speakers will provide an overview of the Health Innovation Project’s report, "Reinventing Health Care: The Barriers to Innovation," first released in Washington, D.C., in March 2012. Report authors will review their findings on recommendations to empower consumers in their own health decisions and engage physicians and providers in the pursuit of innovation.

San Francisco's Treasurer José Cisneros will discuss Kindergarten to College, the first city-wide child savings accounts program.

Skills for America’s Future (SAF) invites you to an upcoming webinar, Skills for America’s Future Introduces the Global Corporate College (GCC), at 2pm on September 12, 2012. GCC is a consortium of community colleges that provides high-quality, standardized instruction in locations across the United States that helps employers realize the full potential of their workforce.

New York Times columnist Gail Collins discusses her new book, As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda. Moderated by Dan Rather.

Free Event | Award-winning writer and teacher Pam Houston is the author of two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, a collection of essays called A Little More About Me and two novelsSight Hound and her newest, Contents May Have Shifted. Houston’s stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O.

For almost 60 years, this premier roundtable has challenged leaders in every field to think more critically and deeply. The seminar is a unique opportunity to step away from the demands of the present and reflect with other leaders in moderated, text-based Socratic dialogue on the concept of a good and just society: What is it? How does it become a reality?

Featuring Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, one of America's most successful governors and strategic political thinkers, in conversation with Elliot Gerson, Executive Vice President, The Aspen Institute.