FreedomFest 2024: Full Schedule

12:15pm PDT

Brain Food with Steven Pinker, Michael Shermer and Matt Ridley

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT

This is a ticketed event. You can purchase a ticket via the FreedomFest Registration Platform.

Speakers

Steven Pinker

Public Intellectual / Harvard Professor / Author of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters & Enlightenment Now

STEVEN PINKER asks the big questions about human progress and sets out, in public, to answer them. In Rationality, he explores why—when humanity is reaching new heights of scientific reasoning—there appears to be more fake news, conspiracy theorizing, and medical quackery than... Read More →

Michael Shermer

Founding Publisher, Skeptic Magazine

Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a we... Read More →

Matt Ridley

Author, How Innovation Works, Rational Optimist, Viral

Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovati... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT
Room 133

Special Event (Ticketed)

6:30pm PDT

Treasure Investments Private Dinner

Thursday July 11, 2024 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT

Room 133

Speakers

Michael Sheppard

Partner, Treasure Investments

Michael Sheppard presently serves as Partner & Director of Investor Relations for Treasure Investments Corporation & CEO of Nevada Mining Company. Michael is a nationally known speaker on raising funds for charitable causes. As the President of World Bible Society & National Community... Read More →

Exhibitors

Treasure Investments Corporation dba Foundry Michelangelo

https://foundrymichelangelo.com/With Treasure Investments Corporation, you have the opportunity to invest in a company that creates fine art profitably, virtually free from debt, holding assets in excess of two billion dollars with exclusive rights to produce 72 one-of-one posthumous original sculptures in precious me... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Room 133

Sponsor Event

12:15pm PDT

Steve Forbes on Achievement: Promoting Capitalism in the Classroom

Friday July 12, 2024 12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT

Room 133

Speakers

Robert Chatfield

President & CEO, Free to Choose Network

Robert Chatfield serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Free To Choose Network (FTCN), a global media organization, replacing Bob Chitester, Founder and Chairman of the Board, who stepped aside as President and CEO in July 2017. Chatfield is the executive producer for... Read More →

Steve Forbes

Chairman/Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media

Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media.Steve’s newest project is the podcast “What’s Ahead,” where he engages the world’s top newsmakers, politicians and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions... Read More →

Exhibitors

izzit.org

We offer no-cost, high-quality educational materials to educators: teachers, homeschoolers, parents, grandparents, scout troop leaders — to anyone interested in learning/teaching! Our entertaining & educational videos come with tons of additional resources — Teacher's Guide, activities... Read More →

Friday July 12, 2024 12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT
Room 133

Sponsor Event

7:30am PDT

Five Easy Ways to Convert Students to Free-Market Capitalism

Saturday July 13, 2024 7:30am - 8:30am PDT

Room 133

This is a ticketed event.

Speakers

Mark Skousen

Producer, FreedomFest

Dr. Mark Skousen is a Presidential Fellow and the Doti-Spogli Endowed Chair of Free Enterprise at Chapman University. He has a BA, MA, and Ph. D. in economics (George Washington University, 1977). In 2018, Mr. Steve Forbes awarded him the Triple Crown in Economics for his work in... Read More →

Saturday July 13, 2024 7:30am - 8:30am PDT
Room 133

Special Event (Ticketed)