The Atlantic Festival

In its tenth year, Washington Ideas becomes The Atlantic Festival. Our new name pays homage to 161 years of reporting, analysis, and storytelling, and captures the expanded ambition of the event.
Through in-depth interviews with some of today’s biggest thinkers and leaders in technology, politics, business, and culture, we will illuminate new ideas and grapple with the most consequential issues of our time.
From October 2 to 4, 2018, The Atlantic Festival will take over several blocks of Penn Quarter in Washington, DC. Anchored by our Ideas Stage at Sidney Harman Hall, our downtown campus will also feature film screenings, book talks, networking receptions, breakout lunches, and much more.