{"id":313695,"date":"2026-10-25T01:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313695\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T01:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:48:20","slug":"the-aspen-institute-launching-inaugural-aspen-ideas-encore-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313695\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aspen Institute launching inaugural Aspen Ideas Encore in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization that hosts leadership seminars, policy programs and facilitates open dialogue, and the Richard King Mellon Foundation announced it will be launching its inaugural Aspen Ideas Encore event in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Aspen Ideas Encore will be a three-day convening of regional and national leaders, a spinoff of the decades-old Aspen Ideas Festival held every year in Aspen, Colo. The gathering is planned for September 2027 and will bring approximately 800-1,000 participants and nearly 100 local, national and global speakers to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cFor more than 20 years, the Aspen Ideas Festival has demonstrated the extraordinary things that can happen when we bring people together with curiosity and a willingness to engage seriously with ideas and with one another,\u201d said Interim President and CEO of the Aspen Institute Maria Acebal. \u201cAspen Ideas Encore gives us an exciting opportunity to carry that tradition into new communities. Pittsburgh \u2014 with its history of reinvention, its culture of innovation, and its remarkable civic institutions \u2014 is an ideal place to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/21\/aspen-institute-ideas-festival-pittsburgh.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/21\/aspen-institute-ideas-festival-pittsburgh.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization that hosts leadership seminars, policy programs and facilitates open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[128089,128090,128088,73,75,74,55474],"class_list":["post-313695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aspen-ideas-encore","tag-aspen-ideas-festival","tag-aspen-institute","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-richard-king-mellon-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}