Sept. 23
Main Course @ IdeaFestival 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM Humana Building & Main Street (between 4th and 5th Streets) (Separate Registration Required)
Sept. 24
Idea Kentucky Conference Separate Registration Required 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Ali Center)
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Speed Art Museum)
IF Onsite Registration 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (KICC)
Sept. 25
The Big Jam Suketu Bhavsar, Nickole Brown, Howard Dubrovsky, Sanford Goldberg, Wayne Hall, Jr., Philipp Kraemer, Everett McCorvey, Lopa Mehrotra, Brad Riddell, Mark Shepherd 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe Katrina Firlik 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
Creative Space (Lunch Event) Mark Beasley 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $18.00
Puzzled? Will Shortz 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $20.00
The Rise and Fall of Hyperpowers Amy Chua 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
IF Launch: Curry Stone Design Prize Curry Stone Design Prize, Emiliano Gandolfi 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
Taste of Innovation 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $20.00
IF After Dark: At The Movies with screenwriter Jack Epps Jr. Jack Epps Jr. 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
Sept. 26
Idling Technology: Solutions for Greener Air – FREE Robert Hupfer 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM (KICC)
The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM (KICC) Pass Required: $20.00
IF Kids (for students only) IF Kids 9:30 AM – 1:15 PM (KICC)
Studio Arne Quinze Arne Quinze 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
The Science and Wonder of Magic Teller 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $20.00
Proust Was A Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
BIG: Designs on the Future City Bjarke Ingels 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
Surviving Rwanda Immaculee Ilibagiza 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
A Question of Freedom Suketu Bhavsar, Sanford Goldberg, Lori Hartmann-Mahmud, Tiffany Shlain 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (The Kentucky Center) Pass Required: Free
Ninjutsu: The Art of Success Peter King 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
The X Factor: Whos Buying What and Why GLIs technology network Awards Dinner Bridget Brennan 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $65.00
IF After Dark: Vovas World Vova Galchenko 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
IF After Dark: Movies That Changed Your Life FREE 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM (Brown-Forman Amphitheater)
Sept. 27
Serious Play Jane McGonigal 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
The World in your Pocket John Gauntt 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
The Physics of NASCAR Diandra Leslie-Pelecky 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM (KICC) Pass Required: $15.00
Who Helps Who … and Why? The Nature of Goodness (Lunch Event) Lee Dugatkin 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM (KICC) Pass Required: $18.00
The Space Colonization Imperative J. Richard Gott 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
*CANCELLED* Sex, Time and Power Leonard Shlain 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (KICC)
Wheres The Big Idea? 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (KICC) Pass Required: Free
Mozart: An Exploration of Genius with the Kentucky Center Richard Kogan 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (The Kentucky Center) Pass Required: $15.00
DIAVOLO DANCE THEATER 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM (Brown Theatre) Pass Required: $30.00
IF After Dark: Diavolo Post Performance Party 9:45 PM – 12:00 AM (PRIME Lounge)
Streaming Events All Days
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Speed Art Museum)
Hauck Installation Hauck Installation 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (KICC)
FutureLab FutureLab 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (KICC)
Filmmakers Studio (separate registration required) Michael Dougan, Soozie Eastman, Jason Epperson, Jack Epps Jr., Mindy Faber, Marc Gurevitch, Stuart Pollard, Mark Poole, Anna Richardson, Brad Riddell, Arthur Rouse, Mark Shepherd, Ed Smith, Filmmakers Studio 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (KICC)
This article appears in September 17, 2008.