Nilay Patel is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge. In his decade-plus at Vox Media, he’s grown The Verge into one of the most influential tech sites, with a global audience of millions of monthly readers and award-winning journalism with real-world impact. Patel is a go-to expert voice in the tech space and host of The Verge’s Webby Award-winning podcasts, Decoder and The Vergecast.
The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s
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The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event in Seattle, featuring live podcasts and studio television recordings. Journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world take on hot topics making news and the biggest issues of our time.
Join us on June 6th at our new locations in the historic Fremont Neighborhood- including Fremont Studios, PICKLR, and Hidden Hall. The first round of speakers and podcasts will be announced on April 6th. Cascade PBS members get an early release on April 2nd.
Podcasts from around the country come to Seattle to record live sessions that are recorded for broadcast and streaming on Cascade PBS; including publications like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vox, CNN, Pushkin, NPR, Cascade PBS, and more.
Watch conversations on Cascade PBS Ideas Festival ON DEMAND. Listen to full length podcast editions of all festival conversations HERE.
The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival has hosted hundreds of speakers such as Jane Goodall, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Malcolm Gladwell, Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, Macklemore, Judy Woodruff, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Senator Jeff Flake, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Senator Jon Tester, Jake Tapper, Ross Douthat, Al Franken, Attorney General Eric Holder, Michael Barbaro, Carl Bernstein, Ezra Klein, Amanda Knox, Matt Damon, Dahlia Lithwick, Heather Cox Richardson, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
In addition to the live podcasts and television taping, Elliott Bay Book Company hosts a pop up bookstore with all the speaker books available. Attendees can meet the speakers in a Q&A Corner after each session, or share thoughts and make community with fellow attendees at After Show Meetups. There are also food trucks, interactive installations, a happy hour and live DJ.
Interested in learning more? Reach us at events@cascadepbs.org
