Find Clarity in a Confused World
The noise is exhausting. The irrationality is relentless. Step away for five days and return with a sharper mind, clearer purpose, and renewed conviction.
Refuel Your Mind
The Objectivist Conference
The noise is exhausting. The irrationality is relentless. Step away for five days and return with a sharper mind, clearer purpose, and renewed conviction.
Refuel Your Mind
Every day you're bombarded with contradictions. "Leaders" who demand you ignore what your eyes can see. "Experts" who penalize questions. A culture that treats achievement as suspicious and ambition as a character flaw.
It's exhausting. Not because the arguments are hard to refute — they're not. It's exhausting because you have to refute them constantly, in an environment that punishes clarity and rewards conformity.
You need a reset. Not a vacation — a recharge. A place where reason is the starting point, not the exception. Where independent thought is celebrated, not occasionally tolerated.
OCON is that place.
It's not just a conference. It's an intellectual retreat for serious minds.
Lectures that push your thinking — not your patience. Engage with philosophers, psychologists, and founders who have life-enhancing ideas to share.
No walking on eggshells. No virtue signaling. Conversations where disagreement is welcome and clarity is the goal.
Return home with sharper thinking, clearer priorities, and the conviction that comes from knowing you're not alone.
Five days of ideas, connection, and clarity.
Speakers who don't just study ideas — they live them.
Founder, Center for Industrial Progress
Author of Fossil Future and The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. A leading voice for energy freedom and human flourishing, presenting "How to Liberate America's Producers."
It's very rare that you can have such intellectual intensity be effortless as well. The conversations flow naturally because everyone operates from the same foundational principles. You can skip the basics and go straight to what matters.— Daphne, OCON Attendee
Five days in New Orleans—the city where Ayn Rand delivered her final public lecture—a fitting setting for a gathering dedicated to the power of the reasoning mind.
Full access to all lectures, panels, and social events