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Vail Symposium Doing Well by Doing Good: Business, Art and Nonprofit Collaboration

Zeal Optics, Snowboard Outreach Society and Artist Pat Milberry collaborate for profit, community well-being and environmental beautification. For Zeal Optics, increased profitability came . . .

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No Strings Attached w/ Alex Honnold Mon, 01/21/2013
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Climate Change and Extreme Weather

There’s no shortage of extreme weather around the globe and scientists assert that intense storms, droughts and record-breaking heat waves are occurring with increased frequency because of humans. But blaming individual weather events on climate change is harder. This panel of scientists will...Watch now »

Tue, 03/20/2018
Beyond Belief: Considering Evidence for Life After Life- Dr. Eben Alexander, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD.
Beyond Belief: Considering Evidence for Life After Life with Dr. Eben Alexander and Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD.

Believing in the afterlife is one thing… proving it is another. This year, people from around the world competed in an essay contest providing their rationale for life after death. Nearly $2 million in prize money was awarded with Las Vegas entrepreneur Robert Bigelow putting up the prize money...Watch now »

Fri, 04/08/2022
Cold Comfort: Investigating a Mysterious Disappearance on Everest- Jeremy Evans on Marco Siffredi
Cold Comfort: Investigating a Mysterious Disappearance on Everest - Jeremy Evans on Marco Siffredi

Marco Siffredi was the first person to make a complete snowboard descent of Mount Everest in 2001 and was regarded by many as the world’s best snowboarder. But the following year, in 2002, Marco mysteriously disappeared on Everest while attempting a more difficult route known as Hornbein Couloir...Watch now »

Wed, 02/23/2022
High Tide: America’s Mounting Challenges From China, Climate Change & Globalization with Bruce Jones
High Tide: America’s Mounting Challenges From China, Climate Change & Globalization with Bruce Jones

Dr. Bruce Jones, author of the recent, bestselling book “To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers” will talk about the mounting naval arms race between the US and China and how misunderstanding or missteps could lead to armed conflict. Melting...Watch now »

Sat, 11/20/2021
Long Haulers: The COVID 19 Aftereffects That Will Continue to Reverberate Globally w/ Thomas Wright
Long Haulers: The COVID-19 Aftereffects that will Continue to Reverberate Globally w/ Thomas Wright

COVID-19 spread across the globe like a true tsunami: almost imperceptible at the outset, building inexorably, resulting in tremendous destruction. Global interconnectedness such as the free flow of goods, services and people became a liability spreading the disease across borders and around the...Watch now »

Thu, 02/03/2022
The Power and Beauty of the Brain w/ Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and Dr. Sue Morter
The Power and Beauty of the Brain w/ Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and Dr. Sue Morter

In 1996 at the age of 37, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey,” experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain. On the afternoon of this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not...Watch now »

Fri, 06/03/2022
Cryptocurrency and Digital Currency: The Future of Money with Bob Bench  & Puneet Singhvi
Cryptocurrency and Digital Currency: The Future of Money with Bob Bench and Puneet Singhvi

The future of money will be here faster and be more diverse than you think. What are cryptocurrency and digital currency? The terms are not synonymous. While all cryptocurrencies could be considered digital currencies, not all digital currencies need to be official sovereign-backed currencies....Watch now »

Wed, 01/26/2022
Declining Global Population and Its Consequences with Dr. Darrell Bricker
Declining Global Population and Its Consequences with Dr. Darrell Bricker

For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different alarm. Rather than continuing to increase exponentially, they argue, the global population is...Watch now »

Thu, 01/20/2022
Preparing for the Worst: Eagle County Emergency Preparation with Barron, Vardaman, Bauer & Van Beek
Preparing for the Worst: Eagle County Emergency Preparation with Barron, Vardaman, Bauer & Van Beek

A pandemic that has raged for more than a year, annual wildland fires that are the new normal, and mudslides throughout the valley and in neighboring counties are a few of the emergency events Eagle County has confronted recently. Join the Vail Symposium and Vail Valley Partnership for a webinar...Watch now »

Fri, 10/08/2021

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