2015 Spotlight Health Opening and Welcome

Spotlight Health returns to Aspen, Colorado as the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival. This year’s theme is Smart Solutions to the World’s Toughest Challenges. From Ebola, climate change, and genetically modified organisms, to cancer, personalized medicine, and death with dignity, we’ll take on these headline-blaring challenges, and look at the future-facing solutions.

Season 1 Episode 10 Length 40:56 Premiere: 06/26/15

Recent Episodes

How AI Will Shake Up Business — and Society

S2 E147 Length 58:37 Premiere Date 07/01/17

On Genius

S2 E148 Length 1:05:28 Premiere Date 07/01/17

Tuning In: Classical Music and the Creative Mind (includes l

S2 E138 Length 46:40 Premiere Date 07/01/17

We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our

S2 E139 Length 48:26 Premiere Date 07/01/17

America’s Online Enemies

S2 E145 Length 1:05:24 Premiere Date 07/01/17

A Democrat, a Republican, a Rental Car — and a Road Map to B

S2 E144 Length 59:52 Premiere Date 07/01/17

Clips & Previews

If Culture is the Problem, How Do We Change the Culture?

Clip Length 09:40 Premiere Date 06/29/15

Senator Lindsey Graham on the Danger Posed by Iran

Clip Length 04:40 Premiere Date 06/29/15

Should We Replace the WHO?

Clip Length 02:31 Premiere Date 06/26/15

The Gutenberg Moment for Medicine

Clip Length 01:40 Premiere Date 06/26/15

Karan Chopra: Operating Systems for Change

Clip Length 02:31 Premiere Date 06/25/15

Season 1 Episodes

Show Episodes

Show Clips & Previews

Do We Need to Rethink Policing in America?

S1 E73 Length 44:48 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Will Business Lead a Middle-Class Resurgence?

S1 E72 Length 43:11 Premiere Date 06/30/15

The Afternoon of Conversation: Cameron Carpenter

S1 E71 Length 07:23 Premiere Date 06/30/15

The Afternoon of Conversation: Paul Ryan

S1 E70 Length 24:28 Premiere Date 06/30/15

The Afternoon of Conversation: A Town Hall Discussion

S1 E69 Length 39:48 Premiere Date 06/30/15

The Afternoon of Conversation: Peter Thiel

S1 E68 Length 22:19 Premiere Date 06/30/15

The Afternoon of Conversation: David Petraeus

S1 E67 Length 30:28 Premiere Date 06/30/15

The Afternoon of Conversation: Valerie Jarrett

S1 E66 Length 22:56 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Our Climate Future Is Brighter Than It Looks

S1 E65 Length 58:08 Premiere Date 06/30/15

How Do We Sustain Economic Growth?

S1 E64 Length 54:42 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Money and Politics

S1 E63 Length 1:03:52 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Defining Moment: What Does the American Dream Mean in 2015?

S1 E62 Length 56:10 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Why California is Leading the US in Energy Innovation.

S1 E61 Length 1:01:35 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Retweeting and Reimagining our Relationship with Technology

S1 E60 Length 53:07 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Why Democratic Capitalism Needs Design Thinking

S1 E59 Length 57:07 Premiere Date 06/30/15

I am or AI am?

S1 E58 Length 57:15 Premiere Date 06/30/15

Shifting Influence in Politics from the Money to the Many

S1 E57 Length 52:18 Premiere Date 06/29/15

America’s Role in the World & the Role of Democracy at Home

S1 E56 Length 58:42 Premiere Date 06/29/15

The New Quantitave Journalism

S1 E54 Length 55:33 Premiere Date 06/29/15

What is College For?

S1 E53 Length 56:30 Premiere Date 06/29/15

Global Competition and the U.S. Airline Industry

S1 E52 Length 46:21 Premiere Date 06/29/15

Deep Dive: Is Math Important?

S1 E51 Length 1:18:33 Premiere Date 06/29/15

The NEW Golden Age of Television

S1 E49 Length 1:02:47 Premiere Date 06/29/15

Women and Work

S1 E48 Length 1:01:54 Premiere Date 06/29/15

The Robotic Moment: What Happens When We Talk to Machines?

S1 E47 Length 57:37 Premiere Date 06/29/15

Is Violence a Function of our Culture?

S1 E46 Length 57:50 Premiere Date 06/29/15

The Power of Youth

S1 E45 Length 57:23 Premiere Date 06/29/15

How Can the Private Sector Increase Economic Mobility?

S1 E44 Length 1:01:28 Premiere Date 06/29/15

The Sound of Tomorrow

S1 E43 Length 59:36 Premiere Date 06/29/15

Climate Clarity and Complexity

S1 E42 Length 59:56 Premiere Date 06/28/15

By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

S1 E41 Length 57:34 Premiere Date 06/28/15

Deep Dive: The Fish We Eat

S1 E40 Length 1:27:40 Premiere Date 06/28/15

Libraries Are the Original and Future Open Source Platform

S1 E39 Length 42:02 Premiere Date 06/28/15

Restarting Opportunity in the Connected Age

S1 E38 Length 1:00:39 Premiere Date 06/28/15

Thomas Jefferson Then and Now

S1 E37 Length 56:07 Premiere Date 06/28/15

Deep Dive: Drought

S1 E36 Length 1:19:50 Premiere Date 06/28/15

How I Learned about Capitalism from Bach & a Penniless Swami

S1 E35 Length 51:52 Premiere Date 06/28/15

America's Lessons Learned in Afghanistan

S1 E34 Length 59:59 Premiere Date 06/28/15

Welcome and Opening Session: 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival

S1 E32 Length 1:23:15 Premiere Date 06/27/15

Expanding Worker Voice to Expand Economic Opportunity

S1 E31 Length 53:20 Premiere Date 06/27/15

Compromisers Make Great Democracies

S1 E30 Length 56:46 Premiere Date 06/27/15

Cartel Land

S1 E29 Length 29:31 Premiere Date 06/27/15

Long Life in the 21st Century

S1 E28 Length 56:04 Premiere Date 06/27/15

When Systems Collide: Health, People, and the Planet

S1 E27 Length 59:00 Premiere Date 06/27/15

How Useful is Medical Screening?

S1 E26 Length 52:41 Premiere Date 06/27/15

Biology and Electronics Come Together

S1 E25 Length 40:32 Premiere Date 06/26/15

The Power of Health Technology

S1 E24 Length 56:45 Premiere Date 06/26/15

Why Your Smartphone Will Radically Change Healthcare

S1 E21 Length 49:35 Premiere Date 06/26/15

How to Dance in Ohio

S1 E20 Length 28:45 Premiere Date 06/26/15

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Film and Discussion

S1 E19 Length 24:11 Premiere Date 06/26/15

Farm to Table or Freezer to Table: What's Healthier?

S1 E18 Length 58:09 Premiere Date 06/26/15

The Last Mile: Reaching the Hardest to Serve

S1 E17 Length 57:20 Premiere Date 06/26/15

Building Resilient Health Systems

S1 E16 Length 55:50 Premiere Date 06/26/15

Accelerating 21st Century Cures

S1 E15 Length 57:07 Premiere Date 06/26/15

In Conversation with Ashley Judd

S1 E14 Length 44:45 Premiere Date 06/26/15

The Art of Health

S1 E13 Length 1:04:23 Premiere Date 06/26/15