Opening Plenary: Pico Iyer

Join us for the Opening Plenary which features best-selling novelist and travel writer, Pico Iyer. Iyer has a personal story that touches many cultures and an intellectual curiosity that has taken him all over the world. Iyer's writings include two novels and more than a dozen works of nonfiction, including the recent bestseller The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise, which examines how to live more peacefully in an increasingly divided and distracted age. His most recent book, Aflame: Learning from Silence, explores the clarity and calm that can be found in silent meditation. Iyer's four TED Talks on longing and belonging, wisdom, and our place in the modern world have been viewed more than 11 million times, and his books have been translated into 23 languages.