Kara Swisher is the host of On with Kara Swisher and producer and host of the popular Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway. A pioneering tech journalist, she started covering the industry in the early 1990s. She met OpenAI’s Sam Altman when he was ninetee. She made Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sweat so much during an onstage interview that it took eight years for him to sit down with her again—and that went even worse for him. With legendary tech columnist Walt Mossberg, Swisher was the cofounder and editor-in-chief of Recode, and co-executive producer of the Code Conference series. She’s written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Her 2024 memoir of her three decades covering tech, Burn Book, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives with her family in Washington, DC.

Imran Ahmed is the CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Harm (CCDH) which has offices in London; Brussels; Washington, DC; and Ottawa. The nonprofit publishes studies exposing how social media platforms and AI companies harm us, our kids, our communities, and our democracy for profit. He holds a master’s degree in Social and Political Science from Cambridge University and received the Elevate Award that recognizes leaders addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington, DC. In 2023, Elon Musk sued Ahmed and CCDH for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. CCDH won. In December 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened Ahmed with deportation, citing CCDH’s advocacy for a safer internet. A court-imposed restraining order has stopped Rubio from arresting or detaining him…for now.