Hari Sreenivasan
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Hari Sreenivasan
Keynote Speaker
Emmy Award Winning Journalist; Host, Amanpour and Company
Hari Sreenivasan is a deft moderator who can juggle questions from a live audience, and across social media platforms while leading the conversation and taking it to sometimes surprising places. His decades of experience having in-depth conversations with a wide range of newsmakers make him an excellent choice to moderate panels or one-on-one conversations, both virtually and live on stage.
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Hari Sreenivasan is an Emmy award winning reporter, anchor, and executive producer with decades of experience at the intersection of television and digital platforms. He pioneered a technology beat for a local tv station while rising up through broadcast television, and after working on technology focused programs across the USA and Sci-Fi networks, he began reporting and anchoring for national news programs. From helping launch ABC News Now to anchoring the overnight and early morning programs World News Now for ABC, he leapt to be the Dallas based Correspondent for CBS News. Sreenivasan then began a long career in public media by becoming a nightly fixture on the PBS NewsHour, as well as launching and anchoring its weekend program for 8 years. Simultaneously, he also anchored programs on science and technology before focusing his efforts toward long form interviews for Amanpour & Company which is broadcast on both PBS and CNN International and creating a YouTube channel; Take On Fake which helps people learn about misinformation. His work has been recognized with National and Local Emmys, as well as a Webby award.
Sreenivasan’s work overseas has ranged from exploring malnutrition in Guatemala, green energy technologies off the shores of Scotland, bombings in Jordan and France, and the plight of powerless rural villagers in India. He has crisscrossed the lower 48 covering far too much inclement weather from hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, to ice storms in Kentucky, and floods in Iowa. He has interviewed everyone from polygamists across a fence in Texas to philosopher Slavoj Zizek on a stroll in Riverside Park to then Vice President Gore on an airport tarmac in North Carolina. His career has kept renewing his license to stay curious.
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How A Polluted Information Ecosystem is a Threat to Democracy and to Your Everyday Life
From his work executive producing and hosting the Take On Fake channel, Sreenivasan draws the line between how our information intake is being polluted and what can be done about it. Increasingly, we live in social media and mainstream media filter bubbles where we are surrounded by like-minded opinions, sometimes however that also makes us vulnerable to mis/disinformation campaigns. While going through examples of false memes that have spread far and wide, he can also deliver some simple tips to get smarter about our social media consumption and become better critical thinkers.
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