The “Aspen Ideas to Go” podcast is a weekly show featuring fascinating speakers who have presented at the Aspen Ideas Festival and other public programs offered by the Aspen Institute — including Aspen Words, the Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series, and various events around the country. For a curated listening experience, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or listen to each episode on the Aspen Ideas website.
How do cities become hubs of tech innovation? Leaders weighed in during a recent discussion recorded at CityLab 2015 in London. The conversation features:
- Boris Johnson, mayor of London;
- Michael Bloomberg, 108th mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies; and
- Walter Isaacson, CEO and president at the Aspen Institute.
Tricia Johnson is editorial director of public programs at the Aspen Institute.
RELATED CONTENT:
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Robotic Moment: Conversations With Machines
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Building a Better Teacher
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Gray Matter: The Brain After 50
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: What’s Character Got To Do With It?
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: ‘Unfinished Business’ with Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Facing Death with Dignity and a Plan
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: The Unorthodox Church of Pope Francis
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Katie Couric, Netflix, and the New Age of Television
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: What is College For?
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Long Life in the 21st Century
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Is Violence a Function of Our Culture?
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: The National Security View from the White House
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Faith and the Public Square
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Circuit Training for Your Brain: Well-Being is a Skill
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: The Supreme Court’s Marriage Equality Ruling: The Most Consequential Ruling of Our Lifetimes?
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: A Conversation Across Cultures
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: Robert Putnam on Investing in “Our Kids”
- Aspen Ideas to Go Podcast: American Musical Traditions
