Reframe your perspective with a provocative two-day ideas festival from PBS News and KQED!

Pioneering thought meets discerning journalism live onstage as some of today’s most inventive minds and changemakers join the hosts of PBS News Hour for in-depth interviews, timely discussions, and moving performances.

We’re especially excited to hear legendary journalist & podcaster Kara Swisher’s takes on today’s media and political climate, along with former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich speaking truth to power, and if we’re lucky, we may just hear Nancy Pelosi’s plan on how Democrats may effectively challenge the rise of the Right in DC.

The 2-day festival is packed with incredible West Coast journalists, politicians, and thought leaders, all together at the KQED headquarters in San Francisco.

The lineup of speakers is incredible:

Emerita Nancy Pelosi, tech journalist Kara Swisher, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, policy expert Lanhee Chen, California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, women’s ensemble Kitka, singer Meklit Hadero, and more.

Reframe Festival 2025

Premium seats at the Opening Night program at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, plus access to the following full day of sessions at KQED, including a box lunch and a closing reception.

May 1
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes Street San Francisco, CA

May 2
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
KQED Headquarters 2601 Mariposa Street San Francisco, CA

All event info and tickets here

Full Festival Pass: $225 (plus fees)
Includes opening night and following full-day program, with box lunch and closing reception.
Tickets here.

Opening Night: $49-89 (plus fees)
Includes evening program at Sydney Goldstein Theater.
Tickets on sale via City Box Office.

Reframe Festival offers a considered answer to traditional newsmaker festivals and innovation summits. With its balance of pioneering West Coast spirit and the journalistic acumen and rigor of public media, the event’s curation emphasizes the value of “reframing” assumptions to reveal new angles and unconsidered paths forward. Through thoughtful discussions, Reframe presents models of the intellectual humility needed to reconsider strongly held positions, the empathy to search for common good, and the deftness of imagination to adapt amid accelerating change. 

Through partnership between KQED and PBS News, Reframe creates a unique voice from the West Coast to the world. Our organizations’ trusted journalists interview the region’s most inventive minds and undersung changemakers to examine the ways they lead and shape our national discourse. Presented live on stage at KQED and venues in San Francisco – with select highlights shared widely online and via broadcast – Reframe engages PBS News more deeply with Bay Area viewers and KQED more broadly with national audiences interested in the influence that Silicon Valley technology and California culture have on American society. 

Reframe Festival also offers potential revenue growth opportunities through sponsorship, ticket sales and donor cultivation. The next iteration of the Festival will feature a restructured ticket model to widen reach and increase potential gross sales, sponsored content sessions to attract more substantial underwriting, and exclusive engagement opportunities for major donors invested in the future of journalism and critical analysis of the interplay between West Coast and national dynamics in politics, policy, and culture. 

This post was sponsored by the fine folks at KQED

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