FreedomFest: Full Schedule

2:00pm MDT

Atlas Society - "The Dream of Entrepreneurial Individualism" David Kelley, Matt Nye, Aaron Day

The Dream of Entrepreneurial Individualism

Speakers

Aaron Day

CEO, Atlas Society

Aaron Day has eleven years of CEO and startup experience and personal domain expertise. Day is chairman and CEO of Tangerine Wellness and was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Industry Ventures, a technology-focused venture capital firm. He served from 1995 to 2001 as Chairman/Chief... Read More →

David Kelley

Founder, Chief Intellectual Officer, The Atlas Society

David Kelley is founder and chief intellectual officer at The Atlas Society. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and taught philosophy at Vassar College and at Brandeis University. He founded The Institute for Objectivist Studies, now The Atlas Society, in 1990... Read More →

Matt Nye

Chair, Republican Liberty Caucus

Matt Nye is National Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC), a 527 voluntary grassroots membership organization dedicated to working within the Republican Party to advance the principles of individual rights, limited government and free markets (www.rlc.org).In addition to his role as National Chair, Nye has taken on a number of leadership roles in local and national political and non-profit organizations. He is the Founder and Immediate Past Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida, the organizer of the Brevard Tea P... Read More →

Exhibitors

Atlas Society

Booth 424

The Atlas Society promotes open Objectivism, which is the philosophy of reason, individualism, achievement, and freedom originated by Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism was set forth in such works as her epic novel "Atlas Shrugged," and in her brilliant non-fiction... Read More →

Wednesday July 8, 2015 2:00pm - 2:50pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

8:00pm MDT

Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (Tim Skousen, Jeremy Coon, dirs.)

Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (82 min)

Anthem Films

Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

Talk about a dream come true... Over 30 years ago, a group of friends aged 11 and 12 decided to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark shot for shot, entirely from memory, using their parents' basements and backyards as studios and neighborhood kids as cast members. For seven years they... Read More →

Wednesday July 8, 2015 8:00pm - 10:00pm MDT
Wilshire

Anthem

2:20pm MDT

Keith Fitz-Gerald "How to Invest in the Era of Bigger and Bigger Government"

How to Invest in the Era of Bigger and Bigger Government

Speakers

Keith Fitz-Gerald

Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning & Total Wealth Research

Keith Fitz-Gerald has spent 35 years in global markets as a consultant, analyst and trader. More than 3 million readers, subscribers and viewers depend on his commentary, perspective and analysis every month to help them navigate today’s complicated markets with good reason. Keith... Read More →

Thursday July 9, 2015 2:20pm - 3:10pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

3:50pm MDT

Daniel Peterson “Abraham Divided: Can the Middle East Crisis Ever Be Resolved?”

Speakers

Daniel Peterson

Professor, Brigham Young University

Daniel C. Peterson (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles) is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic at Brigham Young University and is the founder of the University’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, for which he served as editor-in-chief until mid-August 2013. He has... Read More →

Thursday July 9, 2015 3:50pm - 4:40pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

4:50pm MDT

Kevin Williamson “The End is Near and It’s Going to be Awesome” (Intro by Charles C.W. Cooke)

Kevin Williamson
“The End is Near and It’s Going to be Awesome” (Intro by Charlie C. W. Cooke)

Speakers

Charles C. W. Cooke

Writer, National Review

Charles C. W. Cooke is a writer at National Review and a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied modern history and politics. His work has focused especially on Anglo-American history, British liberty, free speech, the Second Amendment, and American exceptionalism... Read More →

Kevin Williamson

Correspondent, National Review

Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent. His Exchequer blog covers debt, deficits, and the intersection of finance and politics. Williamson began his journalism career at the Bombay-based Indian Express Newspaper Group and spent 15 years in the newspaper business... Read More →

Thursday July 9, 2015 4:50pm - 5:40pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

10:00pm MDT

MOVIES WITH MARC ELIOT "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)

Movies with Marc Eliot" Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)

Speakers

Marc Eliot

Hollywood Biographer

Marc Eliot has written widely on the media and popular culture for a variety of publications. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Down 42nd Street, Death of a Rebel, and Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince. He has written numerous... Read More →

Thursday July 9, 2015 10:00pm - Friday July 10, 2015 12:00am MDT
Wilshire

Midnight Movies

9:00am MDT

SOCIAL MEDIA - Floyd Brown "How to Make a Million Dollars on Facebook"

Speakers

Floyd Brown

President, Western Journalism

Floyd Brown is a political innovator, writer and speaker. His latest book, Obama Enemies List: How Barack Obama Intimidated America and Stole the Election, was released in January 2013. Floyd serves as president of the Western Center for Journalism, a nonprofit foundation dedicated... Read More →

Friday July 10, 2015 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

10:30am MDT

Erick Brimen, Shanker Singham "Developing Enterprise Cities"

Erick Brimen, Shanker Singham on "Developing Enterprise Cities"

Speakers

Erick Brimen

Partner, NeWAY Private Capital

Erick Brimen started his career in private banking, working at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He later moved to investment banking as a mergers and acquisition sell-side advisor for AG Edwards & Sons (now Wells Fargo), where he participated in transactions valued at over $1.2 billion... Read More →

Shanker Singham

Managing Director, Competitiveness and Enterprise Cities Project

As the Managing Director of the Competitiveness and Enterprise Cities Project, Shanker A. Singham brings with him a wealth of experience in trade, competition and regulatory systems. He is one of the most experienced, and best-known international trade and competition lawyers in... Read More →

Exhibitors

Enterprise Cities

NeWAY Capital and the Competitiveness and Enterprise Cities Project (CECP) develop cities with new regulatory systems that deliver a pro-competitive business environment founded on open trade, merit-based competition and property rights protection. These regulatory systems help countries... Read More →

Friday July 10, 2015 10:30am - 11:20am MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

11:30am MDT

Peter Schiff "The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy and What It Means to You and Your Money"

Peter Schiff
"The Real Crash:
America’s Coming Bankruptcy and What It Means to You and Your Money"

Speakers

Peter Schiff

CEO, Euro Pacific Capital

Peter Schiff is Chairman of SchiffGold, CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc, and host of The Peter Schiff Show. Peter is an economic forecaster and investment advisor influenced by the free-market Austrian School of economics. He is one of the few forecasters who acc... Read More →

Exhibitors

Euro Pacific Capital

Booth 523

Euro Pacific Capital offers a means for American investors to gain exposure to those areas of the global economy that have largely avoided the crushing debt burden that has swamped many developed economies. Based on the irresponsible policies of the Federal Reserve and the continued... Read More →

Friday July 10, 2015 11:30am - 12:20pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

1:30pm MDT

Art Benjamin "The Beauty & Mystery of Mathematics" Book/ DVD Signings to Follow

Art Benjamin
"The Beauty & Mystery of Mathematics"

Book/ DVD Signings to Follow

Speakers

Art Benjamin

Professor, Harvey Mudd College; Math Magician

Arthur Benjamin earned his B.S. at Carnegie Mellon University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in 1989. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, where he has served as department chair and co-editor of Math Horizons magazine... Read More →

Friday July 10, 2015 1:30pm - 2:20pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

2:30pm MDT

DEBATE "Should Vaccines be Mandatory?" Ronald Bailey vs Dr. Bob Sears; Matt Welch, mod.

DEBATE
"Should Vaccines be Mandatory?"
Ronald Bailey vs Dr. Bob Sears

Matt Welch (moderator)

Moderators

Matt Welch

Editor in Chief, Reason Magazine

Matt Welch is editor-in-chief of Reason, the libertarian magazine of "Free Minds and Free Markets." He is co-author of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, which Tyler Cowen called "the up-to-date statement of libertarianism... Read More →

Speakers

Ronald Bailey

Science Editor, Reason Magazine

Ronald Bailey is the award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and Reason.com, where he writes a weekly science and technology policy column. He is also the author of The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century (St. Martin’s Press, July 21) and Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution (2005... Read More →

Dr. Bob Sears

Pediatrician/Author

Dr. Bob Sears is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine and trained in Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. He is a full-time practicing pediatrician in Dana Point, CA. He is the author of The Vaccine Book: Making and Educated Decision for Your... Read More →

Friday July 10, 2015 2:30pm - 3:20pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

3:30pm MDT

DEBATE "The Inequality Debate: Have the Middle Class and Poor Lost the American Dream to the Rich?" Yaron Brook & Robert Kuttner; Daniel Mitchell mod.

DEBATE
"The Inequality Debate: Have the Middle Class and Poor Lost the American Dream to the Rich?"
Yaron Brook & Robert Kuttner,

Moderators

Daniel Mitchell

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Daniel J. Mitchell is a Senior Fellow who specializes in fiscal policy, tax reform, international tax competition, and the economic burden of government spending. He also serves on the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review. Prior to joining Cato, Mitchell was a senior fellow... Read More →

Speakers

Yaron Brook

Executive Director, Ayn Rand Institute,

Yaron Brook is the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute and a leading advocate of Rand’s ideas. A former finance professor, he speaks internationally on such topics as the causes of the financial crisis, the morality of capitalism, and ending the growth of the state. Yaron... Read More →

Robert Kuttner

Co-Founder & Co-Editor, The American Prospect

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine and professor of social policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns for Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, and The New York... Read More →

Friday July 10, 2015 3:30pm - 4:20pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

10:00pm MDT

Movies with Marc Eliot: "A Face in the Crowd" (Elia Kazan, 1957)

Movies with Marc Eliot
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)

Speakers

Marc Eliot

Hollywood Biographer

Friday July 10, 2015 10:00pm - Saturday July 11, 2015 12:00am MDT
Wilshire

Midnight Movies

9:30am MDT

Charles Murray "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission"

Charles Murray
"By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission"

Speakers

Charles Murray

Political Scientist, Author, American Enterprise Institute

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian. He first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground, which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His 1994 New York Times bestseller, The... Read More →

Saturday July 11, 2015 9:30am - 10:20am MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

10:30am MDT

PRIVACY PANEL Jeff Kalibjian, Terry Easton "Re-claim Your Privacy, Beat Them at Their Own Game!!"

PRIVACY PANEL"Re-claim Your Privacy, Beat Them at Their Own Game!!" Terry Easton - PublisherCentral, Jeff Kalibjian - HP Enterprise Services

Speakers

Terry Easton

Group Publisher & Editor-In-Chief, PublisherCentral

Terry Easton is the Group Publisher & Editor-In-Chief of the PublisherCentral group of topical news sites. He has written about global economics for Human Events, and technology in a variety of magazines and journals. For over 35 years, Professor Easton has taught graduate level... Read More →

Jeff Kalibjian

HP Distinguished Technologist, HP Enterprise Services

Jeff Kalibjian is a HP Distinguished Technologist, and is a senior data security architect in the HP Enterprise Services (ES) US Public Sector Enterprise Security Solutions Engineering Group. Currently he is performing the role of IP strategist for HP’s Continuous Monitoring solution... Read More →

Saturday July 11, 2015 10:30am - 11:20am MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

1:30pm MDT

DEBATE "Anarchy vs Limited Government: Can a Voluntary Society Survive?" Michael Huemer and Mark Skousen; Gary Alexander, mod.

DEBATE -
"Anarchy vs Limited Government: Can a Voluntary Society Survive?"
Michael Huemer and Mark Skousen, Gary Alexander (mod)

Moderators

Gary Alexander

Senior Writer, Navellier.com

Gary Alexander is currently Senior Writer at Navellier.com, where he edits MarketMail, including his own Growth Mail column. For the previous 20 years, he was Senior Executive Editor at InvestorPlace Media (formerly Phillips Publishing), where he edited market experts like Richard... Read More →

Speakers

Michael Huemer

University of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Huemer received his BA from UC Berkeley in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1998. He is presently professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of more than 50 academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy... Read More →

Mark Skousen

Presidential Fellow, Chapman University

Dr. Mark Skousen is a professional economist, financial advisor, university professor and author of more than 25 books on economics, personal finance, and investing. His works include Economic Logic, A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street, The Making of Modern Economics, and The Compleated... Read More →

Saturday July 11, 2015 1:30pm - 2:20pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

2:30pm MDT

Kevin Freeman "What If Scenarios? CyberAttack…."

Kevin Freeman
What If Scenarios?
CyberAttack….

Speakers

Kevin Freeman

Founder, National Security Investment Consultant Institute

Kevin D. Freeman, CFA, is founder of the National Security Investment Consultant (NSIC) Institute and CEO of Freeman Global Holdings, LLC, which offers economic warfare consulting and investment management services to High Net Worth and Institutional clients. Prior to establishing... Read More →

Saturday July 11, 2015 2:30pm - 3:20pm MDT
Wilshire

Break Out Sessions

5:00pm MDT

Senator Mike Lee Reception

Speakers

Mike Lee

United States Senator

Mike Lee is an American politician and lawyer and the junior United States Senator from Utah. Lee began his career as a clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah before serving as a clerk for future Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. He then entered private... Read More →

Saturday July 11, 2015 5:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Wilshire

Special Event