TIME: 7:00p-9:00p EST


On Wednesday, June 26, the Aspen Ideas Festival opens to a welcome from Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson and Atlantic Media owner David Bradley. The session will give way to some of the Festival's most dynamic speakers as they offer their Big Idea for transforming the world.


For more information and a schedule of events for the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival, click here. For real time tweets from the festival, see below: