Chicago Ideas: Conversations That Shape Change

One day you're dodging bombs in Afghanistan. The next, you're dodging traffic in America. Hear Paul Rieckhoff of The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America share the physical and emotional challenges of transitioning into civilian life, and find out how you can give veterans an 'on ramp' back into society.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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President of charter school Success Academy in New York, Eva Moskowitz explains how the conversation around "school choice" takes the focus away from where educators would like it to be: on how to best educate students.

Uploaded 14-03-18

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Steve Case, cofounder of AOL and CEO of Revolution LLC, is an original disruptor who is still disrupting the status quo of business and technology today. From the CIW stage, Steve sits down with Rick Stengel to explore the past, present and future of game-changing innovation.

Uploaded 22-04-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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When Theodore Ross was 9 years old, he moved from New York City to Georgia, where his mother had him convert from Judaism to Christianity. Years later, he embarked on a cross-country journey looking for his lost religion, and found some unusual answers to a simple question -- am I a Jew?

Uploaded 14-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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Bestselling author A.J. Jacobs is a human guinea pig. He has done everything from embedding himself with religious snake handlers to outsourcing his life to workers in India. Through deep observation and fearless participation, hear how he immersed himself in experiences to augment the art of storytelling.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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Listen how Tom Brokaw, General Colin Powell and General Stanley McChrystal discuss the differences and similarities between veterans coming home from war in the past and present, and how it is our obligation to support these fine young men and women as they return to civilian life.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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Comparing marijuana to penicillin, Mitch Kahn, CEO of Grassroots, discusses the ways that people's understanding of cannabis will change with expanded use.

Uploaded 05-12-19

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Benjamin Holliday Wardell is the founder of the Cambrians, a dance company that builds collaborative processes to bridge gaps in the dance and theater worlds. Here, Wardell tells us about this process both in words and through interpretative dance.

Uploaded 20-12-17

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How did DonorsChoose.org get its first headline feature in the New York Times? Founder and CEO Charles Best admittedly gets very nervous when he tells this "hiccup" of a story. Find out how Charles went from helping his own classroom in the Bronx to impacting more than 6.6 million students in America.

Uploaded 18-03-13

About Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago Ideas Week is an annual seven-day celebration of ideas, innovation and community, aiming to become the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers. CIW's goal is to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to achieve great things. Learn more: www.chicagoideas.com



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