Washington Post Live, The Posts award-winning live journalism platform, is unveiling its speakers for The Futurist Summit: The New Age of Tech, its second recent major convening focused on technology.

An all-star lineup of Post journalists will moderate interviews with influential business leaders and policy-makers about the promise and risks posed by emerging technologies. The event will be held on Thursday, March 21 at The Post Live Center in The Washington Posts D.C. headquarters.

Notable interviews include:

The summit will also feature an interactive session about the challenge of deepfakes led by Post technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler and a drone demonstration during an interview with Skydio CEO Adam Bry by associate editor Jonathan Capehart.

Todays ever-changing technology presents unlimited opportunities to better co-pilot our lives, said Vineet Khosla, Chief Technology Officer for The Washington Post. The conversations at The Posts tech summit will highlight some of these solutions and explore the pressing questions facing the world. Khosla, a founding engineer of Siri, joined The Post in 2023 from Uber where he was responsible for its routing engine. He will kick off the summit with opening remarks.

View the program agenda and the full list of speakers here.

The Washington Posts Futurist Summit is hosted with presenting sponsor Mozilla.

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