Host

Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) is host of On with Kara Swisher and co-host of the Pivot podcast. She’s editor-at-large at New York Magazine and a CNN contributor. Swisher is the co-founder of the technology website, Recode, and tech conference, Code, which is the country’s premier conference on tech and media. Considered the top reporter in the tech game, Swisher has been reporting on the industry since the early 1990s. Once called “Silicon Valley's most feared but revered journalist,” Swisher has established herself as the oracle of the tech world with unrivaled access to the industry's most significant leaders. She’s also a New York Times best-selling author for her memoir, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (Simon & Schuster, February 2024). 

Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) is host of On with Kara Swisher and co-host of the Pivot podcast. She’s editor-at-large at New York Magazine and a CNN contributor. Swisher is the co-founder of the technology website, Recode, and tech conference, Code, which is the country’s premier conference on tech and media. Considered the top reporter in the tech game, Swisher has been reporting on the industry since the early 1990s. Once called “Silicon Valley's most feared but revered journalist,” Swisher has established herself as the oracle of the tech world with unrivaled access to the industry's most significant leaders. She’s also a New York Times best-selling author for her memoir, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (Simon & Schuster, February 2024). 

AMD Chair and Chief Executive Officer

As chair and chief executive officer at AMD, Dr. Lisa Su has led the company’s transformation into the industry’s high-performance and adaptive computing leader, helping solve the world's most important challenges by delivering the next generation of AI and computing solutions.

Dr. Su is TIME’s CEO of the Year, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the Global Semiconductor Association’s Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award and the Grace Hopper Technical Leadership Abie Award. The IEEE recognized her with the highest semiconductor honor, the Robert N. Noyce Medal. Dr. Su is vice chair of the board of directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association, a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, and a Board Trustee at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.

Author and Journalist

Gary Rivlin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter who has been writing about technology since the mid-1990s and the rise of the internet. He is the author of AI Valley and nine previous books, including Saving Main Street and Katrina: After the Flood. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Fortune, GQ, and Wired, among other publications. He is a two-time Gerald Loeb Award winner and former reporter for the New York Times. He lives in New York with his wife, theater director Daisy Walker, and two sons.

Senior Advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins University for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Christy Wyskiel is the Senior Advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins University for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, overseeing Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV). A former institutional investor and serial entrepreneur, Christy has been instrumental in enhancing the university's research impact and catalyzing economic growth in Baltimore through academic commercialization. She co-founded UpSurge to boost Baltimore's entrepreneurial ecosystem and has led AI-focused startups at Johns Hopkins to secure significant funding, positioning the university and city as leaders in technological advancement. Christy is a passionate advocate for university-industry partnerships and views AI as the next frontier for research impact.