Executive Editor, Recode
Kara Swisher
Speaking Sessions:
No More Excuses. Let's Fix This Thing.
Wednesday, June 19 @ 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Stage AIn the early days of the big tech platforms, the founders didn’t really understand what they were building. But they took billions in VC and IPO money and they had to generate big profits, fast, so they hit the gas. Meanwhile, in the rush to sign up for their products, we clicked “Yes” to terms-of-service agreements we never read, making deals we didn’t understand. And here we are.
Tech writer and author Kara Swisher – described by New York magazine as “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist,” will deliver a call-to-arms to demand a safe, fair and transparent online experience for everyone – to take back our privacy, hold companies responsible for what’s on their platforms and force elected officials act in the public interest.
Roundtable discussionKara Swisher, who has worked corn The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, is now editor at large at Recode, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, hosts two podcasts, Recode Decode and Pivot, and is a contributor to NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC. She has covered tech since the billionaire elite of Silicon Valley back were young founders trying to get their startups off the ground. This invite-only roundtable discussion is your opportunity to learn from Swisher’s experience covering the rise and fall of countless companies as tech has swallowed the world.
Read MoreKara Swisher is the editor at large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast and executive producer of the Code Conference. She also co-hosts the podcast, Pivot and is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times.
Previously Kara worked in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column, “BoomTown,” about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles and news stories on technology for the paper. Prior to that, she worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
Swisher is also the author of “aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web,” and the sequel, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future.”
