With over 100 events, 200 speakers and 7 days of innovation and ideas, Chicago Ideas Week has an event for everyone. We asked our Founder & Co-Chairman Brad Keywell to share 10 of the Talks and Conversations you should definitely not miss.

1. Technology: Disruptive Innovation The Internet of Things, social robotics, sensors. Technology is moving faster than ever before. 
2. Life’s Big Questions Brittany Maynard’s husband Dan Diaz, Former Special Master to the Federal September 11th Fund Kenneth Feinberg, New Yorker writer Patricia Marx and more in a session that will raise as many questions as it answers.
3. Cultural Icons: You Know the Headlines. Now Learn the Truth. Kristin Spodobalski speaks publicly for the first time about her partner and legendary ESPN anchor Stuart Scott. Tom Arnold shares his 30+ year friendship with journalist David Carr. Jan Gaye outlines Marvin Gaye’s enduring impact on music.
4. Terrorism: Behind the Headlines The world’s foremost experts answer all of the questions you have about Al Qaeda, ISIS, America’s counterterrorism efforts and more.
5. The State of Mental Health in America Patrick Kennedy, National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas Insel and Cook County Department of Corrections Executive Director Nneka Jones Tapia provide unique perspectives on how our society approaches mental health.
6. Medical Breakthroughs The discovery of the genes that cause Alzheimer’s disease, the development of a less-invasive ACL surgery, improving cancer detection–these are the breakthroughs that will impact us all.
7. The Giving Solution: How Philanthropy Is Changing the World Philanthropy is more than just a check. It’s innovative data solutions, text messages that can change the world and the talent that we all bring to the table.
8. Leading Under Pressure Former CIA Director & four-star General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price and more share their approach to leadership when the pressure is on.
9. The State of the Union We’re kicking off the week with David Gregory, CNN’s S.E. Cupp and Marc Lamont Hill, The New Yorker’s Robin Wright and more on the 2016 campaign, Iran, the economy and the political headlines you can’t miss.
10. Genius: A Peek Inside the World’s Most Brilliant Minds A MacArthur Genius & John Bates Clark Medalist, a piano prodigy, a biomedical inventor with over 200 patens–all one one stage.