People are worried about Colorado's water future: We've been in a two-decade megadrought. By 2050, cities, industries and ecosystems are all expected to face water shortages. Most people know that shrinking supplies will affect them, but the nuance can be hard to grasp. Easy-to-understand concepts – like desalination, cross-country pipelines, and weather modification – often capture the imagination, without further digging into whether they hold real promise. Which solutions are purely distraction and which ones have merit? Come hear from five Colorado newsrooms that teamed up to tackle stubborn water myths, turn them on their heads and see what truths shake out.

Panel experts will look at and discuss how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already seeping into the way Coloradans live, work, play and get help.

This panel will look at research being done in Colorado on how animals share viruses with humans that can turn into global public health threats. Experts in human and veterinary medicine will come together to look at the ways the health of people and animals is intertwined.

Boxed lunches are available for pick up for those with lunch tickets. Lunches can also be brought into the keynote conversation.

Colorado Sun outdoors reporter Jason Blevins will sit down with Drew Petersen, a pro skier from Summit County who is outspoken about his battle with suicidal feelings, to talk about mental health in our mountain communities. Join the one-on-one conversation and participate in the Q&A.

Chefs and food truck owners will discuss their creative business strategies to serve people good food, plus chefs share their own recommendations and look at different/alternative food options that deviate from the traditional sit-down experiences.

Oil & Gas: When is enough enough? This will explore the fact that Colorado's oil and gas industry is likely the most regulated in the U.S., and yet we're making very little progress toward meeting greenhouse gas reduction goals set to be met by 2030.

The Colorado Sun Politics team will hear insights from The Colorado Polling Institute’s. There will also be a Question & Answer portion of the panel with The Colorado Sun’s politics team.

Colorado has a major shortage of homes. The supply crunch has put the American dream of homeownership out of reach for thousands of middle class families, and left a majority of tenants paying more in rent than experts consider affordable. We’ll chat with a panel of housing professionals from the Front Range to the mountains about the state of housing in Colorado. How did we get here? What actions have state and local governments taken that will help? And what future policies should state and local officials consider to address the remaining barriers to affordable home ownership and renting?

Can I Recycle It? (And What Happens to it if I Do?)" Colorado's most exciting and baffling game show, hosted by Colorado Sun environment reporter Michael Booth and the state's leading recycling experts. We will stump our panel and our audience with on-stage reveals of 20 household items, asking whether most communities recycle these objects and what happens to them when they do. How high are the stakes? Only the future of your community and your planet depend on it! Join us for a lively and in-depth exchange on the current state of Colorado recycling, and a revolutionary set of new policies aimed at boosting our dismal waste diversion rate of only 16%. Plus some lovely parting gifts in the form of cloth Sun grocery bags.

Colorado has housed and fed about 45,000 migrants from South America in the past year and a half, a huge effort that stretched resources thin and stoked a political debate about immigration policy and work authorization. While it was the biggest influx of new immigrants that Denver has ever experienced, the state has in years past welcomed and assimilated floods of immigrants from Afghanistan, Somalia and other African nations. Join us for an engaging discussion with some of Colorado’s leading experts on how immigration is affecting Colorado’s evolving demographics, the job market and homelessness.