AtlanticLIVE

How do we solve the world’s most pressing issues? Join us for our annual celebration of curiosity and the breakthroughs that are changing the world. This year, we’ll explore how this rapid pace of progress is shaping the next generation, the challenges and opportunities these advances entail, and how we build the strongest foundation for the future.

This session will feature a conversation produced by our underwriter The Annie E. Casey Foundation. Lisa M. Lawson, the foundation’s president and CEO, will join the author and policy expert Richard V. Reeves to discuss her new book, “Thrive: How the Science of the Adolescent Brain Helps Us Imagine a Better Future for All Children,” and the essentials that young people need to successfully cross the bridge to adulthood.

*This session is produced by our underwriter and is independent of The Atlantic’s editorial staff.

In an era defined by constant connectivity, many of us are feeling more disconnected than ever. The ways we relate to one another have been reshaped by technology—and the effects are both liberating and disorienting.

This session will feature a conversation produced by our underwriter Scout Motors. The president and CEO of Scout Motors, Scott Keogh, joins The Atlantic’s CEO, Nicholas Thompson, to explore how our vehicles can help ensure innovation enables connection instead of replacing it, keeping us in contact on the road and off the grid while building community with one another and the land around us.

*This session is produced by our underwriter and is independent of The Atlantic’s editorial staff.

As criminal justice reform efforts gain momentum, why have so many struggled to deliver lasting safety, accountability, and fairness? This forum explores how lived experience, public will, and new ideas are reshaping the national conversation.

This session will feature a conversation produced by our underwriter the MacArthur Foundation on the institution of incarceration.

*This session is produced by our underwriter and is independent of The Atlantic’s editorial staff.