Teresa Carlson is a global tech executive with decades of leadership experience and a visionary industry disruptor. She works to enact positive change for new and emerging technologies, focusing on accelerating global resilience in AI, cloud computing, defense, cyber, and mission intelligence. She serves as an international advisor and board member at the Venture Capital firm General Catalyst. Teresa is also a veteran executive of large tech companies, including Amazon, where she founded and led Worldwide Public Sector and Industries, growing it into a multibillion-dollar business. She led the US Federal Business at Microsoft and returned as a Corporate Vice President and Executive in Residence. Teresa also led large global organizations at Splunk and Flexport, where she served as President and Chief Growth Officer. She has spent her career driving digital transformation across organizations worldwide, working to modernize policies at all levels of government, and cultivating a 21st-century global workforce to increase jobs and improve the economy. Teresa also dedicates time to philanthropic and leadership roles in the global community. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the White House Historical Association, Executive Committee of The Atlantic Council, Board of Trustees at Meridian International Center, and Commissioner at the National Portrait Gallery.

Marc Lavallee is the director of technology product and strategy for the journalism program at Knight Foundation. Marc brings more than two decades of experience as a technology executive and software developer to this role.

Prior to Knight, Marc led The New York Times’s Research & Development unit, which explores near-term applications of emerging technologies such as AI and spatial computing.

Previously, he led the Interactive News desk at The Times, and held a variety of technical roles at NPR, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe.

Vivian Schiller joined the Aspen Institute in January 2020 as Executive Director of Aspen Digital, which empowers policymakers, civic organizations, companies, and the public to be responsible stewards of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world.

A longtime executive at the intersection of journalism, media and technology, Schiller has held executive roles at some of the most respected media organizations in the world. Those include: President and CEO of NPR; Global Chair of News at Twitter; General Manager of NYTimes.com; Chief Digital Officer of NBC News; Chief of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications; and Head of CNN documentary and long form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys.

Schiller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.

Sree Sreenivasan is a consultant, speaker and trainer for nonprofits, corporations, startups and executives. He is the former Chief Digital Officer for New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University and was a professor of digital media at Columbia Journalism School for 20 years. He was named Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business 2015 and Poynter Institute’s 35 most influential in social media.

Kristin Switzer is the Senior Advisor to the Chief Data Officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she facilitates collaboration across the Bureau’s business components to lead and operationalize the agency’s Enterprise Data Strategy, a shared agenda for the Bureau to better leverage data to achieve its mission. In addition to providing guidance and counsel to the CDO and members of the Office of the Chief Data Officer leadership team, Kristin oversees strategic planning, budget and procurement, metrics, stakeholder communications and engagement, and serves as the gatekeeper to OCDO for internal and external partners.

Including several years at the U.S. Department of Justice, Kristin’s career in the federal government and private sector, and her experience working at the intersection of business, operations, policy, technology, and data, spans over 17 years. Since joining the Bureau in 2013, Kristin has served on numerous rulewriting teams, was instrumental in establishing the Bureau’s Regulatory Implementation & Guidance function, developed the Concept of Operations and inaugural roadmap that laid the foundation for the establishment of the OCDO, and led a major reg tech initiative, which earned her the Bureau’s highest honor, the Director’s Mission Achievement Award. Kristin earned a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Society and Women’s Studies from Purdue University and recently completed an executive education course on artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.