As the McCain Institute’s signature annual event, the Sedona Forum, provides an opportunity for United States and world leaders to have informal, face-to-face discussions about real solutions to the problems facing our world today.

The Sedona Forum was founded by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, who owned a home in the Page Springs area southwest of Sedona.

It is held each spring at Enchantment Resort to bring about positive change in national and world affairs. For the first time, the 2021 Sedona Forum will be virtual. With the theme of “Defending Democracy,” this is an opportunity to hear about the world’s most pressing issues from high-level panels featuring top experts and policymakers from around the world and on both sides of the aisle.

The 2021 Sedona Forum was held from Wednesday April 28, starting at 5:30 am. through noon on Friday, April 30. The event was free.

The event was posted to our website on April 17. Now that the event has concluded, all the presentations are archived. If you want to watch any specific presentation or panel, click here.

The full agenda can be seen here:

Past speakers have included then-Vice President Joe Biden; former Prime Minister Tony Blair; Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats; CBS News Correspondent John Dickerson; Actor and Thorn Co-Founder Ashton Kutcher; Secretary of Defense James Mattis; National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster; CIA Director Mike Pompeo; CEOs from GE, Chevron, Walmart-USA, Fedex, Freeport McMoRan and Hewlett Packard; and presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, experts and civil society leaders from around the world.

The full 2021 agenda will be posted soon. To register for this free event, click here. For more information, visit thesedonaforum.org.

The full list of 2021 speakers includes:

• His Excellency Ambassador Shaikh Abdulla, Ambassador to the United States from the Kingdom of Bahrain
• Kristen Abrams, Senior Director of Combatting Human Trafficking from the McCain Institute for International Leadership
• Richard Aborn, President of Citizens Crime Commission of New York
• Ben Affleck, co-founder and Chairman, Eastern Congo Initiative
• His Excellency Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, Ambassador to the United States from the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates
• Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State and chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group
• Ernie Allen, Human Trafficking Advisory Council at the McCain Institute for International Leadership
• Gen. John Allen, retired U.S. Marine Corps general and president of the Brookings Institution
• José Andrés, chef and founder of World Central Kitchen
• David Axelrod, Director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics
• Kelly Ayotte, former Senator from New Hampshire
• U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, Congressman from Indiana District 3
• U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, Senator from Wyoming
• U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, Unites States Congresswoman, California District 37
• Stephen Biegun, former United States Special Representative to North Korea
• The Honorable Julie Bishop, Chancellor of Australian National University
• Margaret Brennan, moderator of “Face the Nation” on CBS News
• Chris Brose, Head of Strategy at Anduril Industries
• William Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management
• Nicholas Burns, professor at Harvard Business School
• Jason Carter, chairman of the board for The Carter Center
• Catherine Chen CEO of Polaris
• U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, Congresswoman from Wyoming
• Steve Clemons, Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic
• U.S. Rep. Jerry Connolly, Congressman from Virginia District 11
• U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, Senator from Delaware
• Dr. Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University
• Gov. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona
• U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, Senator from Illinois
• U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, Unitied States Senator, Iowa
• Mark Esper, 27th U.S. Secretary of Defense and 23rd U.S. Secretary of the Army
• U.S. Sen. Debra Fischer, Senator from Nebraska
• Jeff Flake, former Senator from Arizona
• Dr. Tom Frieden, President & CEO of Resolve to Save Lives
• Sam Gill, President & CEO of Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• Tony Sgro, founder and CEO of EdVenture
• Siobhan Gorman, Partner with The Brunswick Group
• U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina
• President Juan Guaidó, internationally recognized president of Republic of Venezuela
• António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations
• Larry Fitzgerald, Wide Receiver with the Arizona Cardinals
• Harry Harris, retired admiral in the U.S. Navy and former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
• Heidi Heitkamp, former Senator from North Dakota
• Brian Hook, founder of Latitude LLC
• Will Hurd, former Congressman from Texas Distict 23
• Toomas Ilves, former president of the Republic of Estonia
• Laleh Ispahani, Managing Director of Open Society U.S.
• Princess Lalla Joumala, ambassador to the United States from Morroco
• U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Senator from Virginia
• U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona
• U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Congressman from Illinois District 16
• Henry Kissinger, Ph.D., former U.S. Secretary of State and founder of Kissinger Associates
• David Kramer, Senior Fellow at Florida International University
• Christopher Krebs, former director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security
• Courtney Kube, Correspondent, NBC News
• Jon Kyl, former Senator from Arizona and Senior Counsel for Covington
• Elise Labott, columnist at Foreign Policy
• Nathan Law, democracy activist in Hong Kong
• Dr. Genevieve LeBaron, professor of politics at University of Sheffield
• Joe Lieberman, former Senator from Connecticut
• Dr. Pardis Mahdavi, dean of Social Sciences at Arizona State University
• U.S. Rep. Tom Malinowski, Congressman from New Jersey District 7
• Mark Malloch Brown, president of the Open Society Foundations
• Gen. James Mattis, retired general with the United States Marine Corps and 26th U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Theresa May, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Cindy McCain, Chairwoman of the Board at the McCain Institute for International Leadership
• U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, Congressman from, Texas District 10
• U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senator from Kentucky and Senate Minority Leader
• H.R. McMaster, retired general in the U.S. Army and former U.S. National Security Advisor
• U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, Senator from New Jersey
• David Miliband, President & CEO of the International Rescue Committee
• Vladimir Milov, founder & President of the Institute of Energy Policy
• Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent & Anchor, NBC News
• Derek Mitchell, president, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
• U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, Congressman from Massachusetts District 6
• Dr. Katrina Mulligan, acting vice president, National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress
• U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut
• U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, Congresswoman from Florida District 7
• Dikembe Mutombo, CEO & President of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation
• Elizabeth Neumann, former assistant secretary of Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention at the Department of Homeland Security
• U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman from California District 12 and Speaker of the House
• Tom Perriello, former Congressman from Virginia and Executive Director of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations
• Gen. David Petraeus, retired general in the U.S. Army and Chairman of KKR Global Institute
• U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, Senator from Ohio
• David Pressman, Partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner
• Vidhya Ramalingam, founder & CEO of Moonshot CVE
• U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, Senator from Rhode Island
• Josh Rogin, columnist, Bloomberg View & Political Analyst at CNN
• U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, Senator from Utah
• Daniel Rothenberg Co-Director, Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University
• U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, Senator from Nebraska
• Dr. Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
• Bob Schieffer, political contributor at CBS
• Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures, former CEO & Chairman of Alphabet Inc. (the parent company of Google)
• U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Senator from New Hampshire
• Josette Sheeran, Executive Chairwoman of the McCain Institute for International Leadership
• U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Senator from Arizona
• U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Congresswoman from Michigan District 8
• Brette Steele, Senior Director for Preventing Targeted Violence from the McCain Institute for International Leadership
• Ali Soufan, Chairman and CEO of the The Soufan Group
• U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan Senator from Alaska
• Jake Tapper, Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN
• Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic
• U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, Senator from North Carolina
• Fran Townsend, EVP of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer for
• Activision Blizzard and Trustee of the McCain Institute for International Leadership
• Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, President-Elect of Belarus
• Dr. Dan Twining, President of the International Republican Institute
• Hannah Vaughan Jones, journalist with CNN International
• Gen. Joseph Votel, retired Commander, United States Central Command of the United States Army
• U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz Congressman from Florida District 6
• U.S. Sen. Mark Warner Senator from Virginia
• U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Senator from Rhode Island
• Honorable Bobi Wine, Member of Parliament, Kyadondo County East, Uganda
• Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube