Massachusetts spent its first 250 years inventing the country. Independence started here. So did public education, the telephone, the polio vaccine, the World Wide Web's first American node, and a long line of the institutions and ideas the rest of the country grew up using. Where Liberty Sparks Innovation is a one-day gathering at GBH about what this state helps invent in the next 250. The people, technologies, and institutions that carry the experiment forward to America at 500.
The day is part of Our America 250, a statewide initiative honoring the Revolution's quarter-millennium by treating it as a starting line rather than a finish. The program convenes scientists, founders, civic leaders, artists, educators, and organizers — including voices the first 250 years left out — for the kind of cross-generational conversation Massachusetts has always been good at hosting.
These talks will look to the future, and serve as living digital time capsules to be reviewed and acted on for the next 250 years.
SCHEDULE
Further details on the event schedule and line-up of speakers can be found here.
- 3:00 PM - Welcome Remarks
- 3:05 PM - Block 1
- 4:05 PM - Break
- 4:25 PM - Block 2
- 5:30 PM - Break
- 5:55 PM - Block 3
- 6:55 PM - Closing Remarks
