THE ATLAS SOCIETY GALA 2022 & 2023

The Atlas Society’s annual gala continues to be our largest fundraising event of the year and the perfect opportunity to bring our members together to celebrate the ideas of Ayn Rand—and our work in spreading them. It’s also the most effective means of attracting new donors to support The Atlas Society as honorees and other speakers to help promote our work to their audiences. For example, after our 2022 honoree, Michael Saylor, shared our video of his gala acceptance speech, it attracted 150K+ views on YouTube in a matter of hours.

It was our pleasure to have our 2020 honoree, Peter Diamandis, present the Lifetime Achievement award to Michael Saylor, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Microstrategy, at our 6th annual gala in Malibu, California.

Additionally, for the first time ever, we included daytime programming prior to the gala for all of the event attendees. This seminar featured panels with all of our scholars and Saylor himself—discussing everything from Objectivism to Bitcoin, technology, and politics. During the panel about Bitcoin, Saylor observed:

“Satoshi essentially said: We know we can’t win as long as we hold the currency of a corrupt government. Both he and John Galt are heroic figures who said: You’re in a no-win situation as long as you stay in a corrupt system. You need to depart the system. One of them gives a solution of Galt’s Gulch and the strike, and the other one gives a solution to shift your money to cyberspace.”

This year’s gala promises to be our most spectacular yet, with an international lineup of speakers, entertainment and networking on the Miami waterfront.

The 2023 theme is James Bond—fitting for our *007th* gala—and we are honoring Ricardo Salinas, renowned Mexican entrepreneur and philanthropist. As founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, his business empire extends across multiple industries, including media, telecommunications, retail, and financial services.

Michael Saylor will present the award to Mr. Salinas on October 5th, 2023, at The Frost Museum in Miami Florida. We hope you will consider joining us for this special event.

Email atlasgala@atlassociety.org with any questions about the event.