Atlantic Festival 2024 | AtlanticLIVE | 19 September 2024 | The Wharf DC, 760 Maine Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024, USA

2024 is a crucial moment for bold ideas, innovation, culture, and exploration.

This fall in Washington, D.C., Atlantic writers and moderators will be joined by elected officials, best-selling authors, notable actors, climate scientists, health-care professionals, tech giants, and CEOs to tackle today’s big questions and meet the moment head-on.

Get your pass to two full days of one-on-one interviews, in-depth panel discussions, intimate book talks, exclusive screenings, happy hours, and more. Connect with other curious people, think deeply about the issues that matter most, and experience The event live.

2024 Speakers

Jamie Dimon
Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase

Anna Deavere Smith
Actor and Playwright

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
United States Supreme Court; Author, Lovely One: A Memoir

Karl Rove
Political Consultant and Analyst

Elaine Welteroth
Journalist, Author, and Founder, birthFUND

RJ Scaringe
Founder and CEO, Rivian

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries
(D-NY)

Jeffrey Goldberg
Editor in Chief, The Atlantic

Elaina Plott Calabro
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Jemele Hill
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

Lynsey Addario
Photojournalist and Author

Tim Alberta
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Brian Anderson
President and CEO, Coalition for Health AI (CHAI)

Ross Andersen
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Katya Andresen
Chief Digital and Analytics Officer, The Cigna Group

David Axelrod
Political Consultant and Analyst

Gal Beckerman
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Aicha BenTaieb
Director of Machine Learning for Clinical Sciences, Genentech

Joel Bervell
Medical Mythbuster, Science Communicator

Uché Blackstock
Author; Founder and CEO, Advancing Health Equity

Alfiee Breland-Noble
Mental Health Expert and Founder, The AAKOMA Project

Arthur C. Brooks
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

Rodney Brooks
Founder and CTO, Robust.AI

Ronald Brownstein
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Ron Busby Sr.
President and CEO, U.S. Black Chambers

Pete Buttigieg
Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation

Isabel Casillas Guzman
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Charina Chou
COO, Google Quantum AI

Yet-Ming Chiang
Kyocera Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

Nic Cober
Founder and CEO, The BOW Collective; Principal Managing Partner, Cober Johnson & Romney

Kellyanne Conway
President of KAConsulting LLC; Former Senior Counselor to President Donald Trump

David Cordani
Chairman and CEO, The Cigna Group

Lisa Damour
Clinical Psychologist and Author

Jessica Dehn
Serial Entrepreneur in the Early-Childhood Space

Jerusalem Demsas
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Caitlin Dickerson
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Tulsee Doshi
Director and Head of Product, Gemini Model, Google

Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Senior Director, Justice Program, The Brennan Center for Justice

Senator John Fetterman
(D-PA)

Megha Garibaldi
Chief Growth Officer, The Atlantic

Bria Gillum
Senior Program Officer, Criminal Justice, MacArthur Foundation

Garth Graham
Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health, Google/YouTube

Jennifer M. Granholm
Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Lauren Greenfield
Creator and Director, Social Studies

Jonathan Haidt
Social Psychologist, NYU Stern School of Business

Celine Halioua
Founder and CEO, Loyal

Adam Harris
Senior Fellow, New America; Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

Robyn Hasan-Simpson
Executive Director, Women on the Rise

Noah Hawley
Filmmaker and Storyteller

Cindy Hohl
President, America Library Association

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Co-founder, Urban Ocean Lab; Author, What If We Get It Right?

Nneka Jones Tapia
Managing Director of Justice Initiatives, Chicago Beyond

Yukari Kane
Founder and CEO, Prison Journalism Project

Noël Kassewitz
Visual Artist

Cynthia Kenyon
Vice President, Aging Research, Calico

David Ko
CEO and Board Member, Calm

Kathleen Koch
Contributor, AtlanticLIVE

Ian N. Kremer
Executive Director, The LEAD Coalition

Bill Kristol
Editor at Large, The Bulwark

Ellen Kuras
Director, Lee

Adrienne LaFrance
Executive Editor, The Atlantic

Sarah Laskow
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Kiese Laymon
Author; Professor of Creative Writing and English, Rice University

Rachel L. Levine
Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service; Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Shirley Li
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Diana Lind
Writer; Visiting Fellow, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Longwell
Publisher, The Bulwark

Pattie Maes
Professor, MIT Media Lab

Rania Mamoun
Author and Activist

Brandy R. Matthews
VP, Global and U.S. Medical Affairs, Alzheimer's Disease, Eli Lilly and Company

Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Alice McKown
Chief Revenue Officer and Publisher, The Atlantic

Noah McQueen
Co-founder and Head of Strategy, Heirloom Carbon Technologies

Tamar Mendelson
Professor; Director, Center for Adolescent Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Tim Miller
Writer at Large, The Bulwark

Rebecca Mishuris
Chief Medical Information Officer; VP of Digital, Massachusetts General Brigham

Ethan Mollick
Professor; Co-director, Generative AI Lab, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Candace Montgomery
Executive VP, AtlanticLIVE

Liane Moriarty
Author, Here One Moment

Vann R. Newkirk II
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Justin Panther
Actuary Senior Manager, Risk and Return Management, Allstate

Nancy Pelosi
Speaker Emerita, U.S. House of Representatives

Dror Poleg
Economic Historian and Author

Asahi Pompey
Global Head of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs

Representative Jamie Raskin
Maryland

C. J. Rice
Recently Exonerated

Hanna Rosin
Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Host, Radio Atlantic

Christina Ruffini
Contributor, AtlanticLIVE

Suchi Saria
Founder and CEO, Bayesian Health

Victoria Scott-Miller
Owner, Liberation Station Bookstore

Amirah Sequeira
National Government Relations Director, National Nurses United

Stafford Sheehan
Co-founder and CTO, Air Company

Lenore Skenazy
President, Let Grow

Clint Smith
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Evan Smith
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

Timothy Snyder
Author, On Freedom

Jared Spataro
Corporate VP, AI at Work, Microsoft

Scott Stossel
Editor, The Atlantic

Jake Tapper
Anchor; Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN

Bhumika Tharoor
Managing Editor, The Atlantic

Derek Thompson
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Nicholas Thompson
CEO, The Atlantic

Carla Thompson Payton
Chief Strategist and Impact Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Micky Tripathi
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Acting Chief AI Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Andrea Valdez
Managing Editor, The Atlantic

Victor Velculescu
Co-director, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

Alandra Washington
Chief Transformation & Organizational Effectiveness Officer, W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Tyler Watson
Executive VP, Marketing, The Atlantic

Jenisha Watts
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Erin Whelan
Executive Director, SMYAL: Empowering LGBTQ+ Youth

Anne E. White
Executive VP and President, Lilly Neuroscience, Eli Lilly and Company

Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan

Chris Womack
Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company

Secretary Janet Yellen
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Alex Zhavoronkov
Founder and CEO, Insilico Medicine

2024 Partners

• Capital Area Food Bank
• Politics-Prose