BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 29, 2026--
Outside Interactive, Inc., in partnership with the State of Colorado's Outdoor Recreation Industry Office, announced the first slate of featured speakers for the Outside Days Industry Conference, a two-day networking and thought leadership symposium for outdoor, travel, and active lifestyle professionals that directly precedes the Outside Days weekend festival.
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An expansion of Outside Summit, which launched in 2024, the Outside Days Industry Conference has expanded to a two-day gathering at the King Center on Denver’s Auraria Campus from May 28-29, and now features four robust programming tracks with keynote presentations, panel discussions, and breakout workshops. An Industry Pass grants attendees access to both days, plus the opening night of the Outside Days festival on May 29.
Industry Conference speakers announced today include:
The full lineup of announced speakers is available at the Outside Days Industry Conference website. New speakers will continue to be announced in the coming weeks.
In 2026, the Outside Days Industry Conference program will focus on creating new pathways to outdoor participation at a moment when our collective need to “touch grass” has never been greater. The full conference agenda will be released in early Spring, but the four programming tracks include:
“We know that time outside is fundamental to human health, happiness, and connection,” said Robin Thurston, Founder and CEO of Outside Interactive, Inc., who will also be speaking at the event. “The Outside Days Industry Conference brings together leaders committed to helping people get outdoors by improving access, protecting public lands, and creating the products and services that inspire greater participation. I'm thrilled to welcome the industry game changers who are advancing conversations that empower the next generation of outdoor advocates.”
Outside Days is an annual celebration of outdoor community and culture, with four days of programming featuring athletes, explorers, artists, storytellers, and industry leaders crafted to inspire attendees to reconnect with the outdoors and each other. The 2026 musical lineup includes headliners Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, and Cage the Elephant.
A 2-day Industry Pass starts at $289 and prices will increase after February 1, 2026. A 4-day Industry Pass bundle with VIP starts at $489 for the full Outside Days weekend, with access to a premium VIP viewing area, exclusive food vendors, private bar access, expedited entry, and more. Additional premium pass options include the 4-day Industry Pass bundle with GA+ starting at $439 and includes perks like express entry, private bathrooms, additional food and beverage options, and exclusive main stage viewing and hospitality within the Outside+ Lounge. Plus, each GA+ ticket comes with a one (1) year Outside+ subscription including unlimited digital content across the Outside Network and premium access to the Gaia GPS and Trailforks Pro navigation apps.
The Outside Days Industry Conference is managed by Boulder-based Outside Interactive, Inc. Support for the Outside Summit comes from Capital One, REI Co-op, the Jeep® brand, Brooks Running, The North Face, VF Foundation, Visit Denver, the State of Colorado, and Reju. Support for Outside Ignite is provided by ICELab, Cooley LLP, Next Ventures, and the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office.
Additional programming details will be announced in Spring 2026. For tickets and more information, visit https://outsidedays.outsideonline.com/industry-conference.
About Outside Interactive, Inc.
Outside Interactive, Inc. is the premier destination for outdoor inspiration, activation, and celebration. Each year, Outside reaches more than 300 million unique users and has more than 100 million registered users across its network of 25 media, service, and utility brands, including Outside, MapMyFitness, Velo, Yoga Journal, Pinkbike, Gaia GPS, Trailforks, athleteReg, and more. Outside’s mission is to get everyone outside, experiencing healthy, connected, and fulfilling lives by creating an experience for both longtime adventurers and those just getting started. Outside’s subscription offering, Outside+, bundles best-in-class storytelling, videos, gear reviews, mapping apps, online courses, discounted event access, and more. Learn more at outsideonline.com/outsideplus.
Outside Days Industry Conference Announces First Wave of Featured Speakers
NEW YORK (AP) — The worst day for Microsoft in years is yanking the U.S. stock market away from its record heights on Thursday. Gold and silver prices meanwhile, are swinging sharply following their jaw-dropping runs.
The S&P 500 sank 0.7% after flirting with its all-time high earlier in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 101 points, or 0.2%, as of 1:29 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.4% lower.
Microsoft was the heaviest weight on the market by far, and it tumbled 12.1% even though the tech giant reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Investors honed in instead on how much Microsoft is spending on investments, whether growth in its Azure cloud business will slow and how long its push into artificial-intelligence technology will take to turn into big profits.
Its stock is on track for its worst day since the market's COVID crash in 2020, and it was alone responsible for more than two-thirds of the S&P 500's drop.
Tesla also weighed on the market after falling 2.3%. It delivered a bigger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected, but the results were sharply lower than from a year earlier. Tesla’s leader, Elon Musk, has been trying to get investors to focus less on its flagging car sales and more on the company’s robotaxis and robots.
Companies across the market are under pressure to deliver at least solid growth in profits following record-setting runs for their stock prices. Stock prices tend to follow the path of corporate profits over the long term, and earnings need to rise to quiet criticism that stocks have grown too expensive.
ServiceNow dropped 12.2% even though it reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than expected. Analysts praised the performance, but it wasn’t enough to stop a slide for the stock that’s been underway since the summer.
Stocks were nearly evenly split between gainers and losers within the S&P 500. Meta Platforms led the gainers. The company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp rallied 9.9% after topping profit expectations, even though it also said it will continue its massive investments in AI.
IBM was another winner and climbed 4.6% after surpassing analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue. Southwest Airlines flew 15.8% higher even though its profit fell short of forecasts. It gave a forecast for earnings in 2026 that blew past analysts’ expectations, saying it’s seeing strong momentum after making changes to its business like charging baggage fees and having assigned seating.
Some of the wildest action in financial markets was again for precious metals.
Gold’s price rallied near $5,600 per ounce in the morning before it suddenly and briefly dropped back below $5,200. It was most recently at $5,386.10, up 0.9% from the prior day.
It was only on Monday that gold's price topped $5,000 for the first time, and it had nearly doubled over the last 12 months.
Silver, which has been zooming higher in its own feverish run, had a similar and sudden reversal of momentum.
Prices for precious metals had been surging as investors looked for safer things to own while weighing a wide range of risks, including a U.S. stock market that critics call expensive, political instability, threats of tariffs and heavy debt loads for governments worldwide.
But safety can come at a price when it's really expensive. The huge run for gold and silver raised criticism that their prices had gone too far, too fast and were due for a pullback. Even bitcoin, which is pitched as a form of “digital gold,” fell sharply. It sank more than 6% and dropped toward $83,000.
The U.S. dollar has seen its value sink over the last year because of many of the same risks that drove gold's price higher, but the dollar held relatively steady against the British pound, euro and other competitors Thursday.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury dipped to 4.23% from 4.26% late Wednesday.
The Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to at least pause cuts to its main interest rate. That was after the Fed cut rates three times in a row to close out 2025 in an attempt to shore up the job market.
Helping to keep the Fed on pause is the fact that inflation remains stubbornly above the central bank’s 2% target. Lower rates can worsen inflation. They could also further undercut the U.S. dollar’s value, which would help U.S. exporters.
President Donald Trump has been pushing aggressively for lower rates and once again on Thursday criticized the Fed's chair personally for being “too late” to cut.
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed across much of Europe and rose in Asia.
South Korea’s Kospi climbed 1% for one of the world’s bigger moves, lifted to another record in part by chipmaker SK Hynix.
AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.
Trader William Lawrence works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Shanghai, Nikkei and New York Dow indexes at a securities firm Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man stands near an electronic board displaying stock prices and Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index, at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
A man walks past an electronic board displaying stock prices and Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index, at the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
