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• What’s the secret to more good years? A Good Time, for a Long Time Dan Buettner, Founder, Blue Zones + Dr. Eric Verdin, President and CEO, The Buck Institute for Research on Aging + Katie Drummond, Global Editorial Director, WIRED

  

  

• What if The Onion launched an alt-right podcast? Satire, and who it’s for now Ben Collins, CEO, The Onion

  Ben Collins is the CEO of The Onion and a journalist covering online disinformation and extremism. Between 2018 and 2024 he worked at NBC News, where he covered how movements such as QAnon influence politics and media.

  In 2024 he helped assemble the group that acquired The Onion, leading efforts to rebuild and expand the satirical publication. In 2026 The Onion acquired the conspiracy theory platform Infowars.

  Photo: The Boston Globe/Getty Images

  

• Who owns the future of AI? A lawsuit gives us some clues Clément Delangue, Cofounder and CEO, Hugging Face

  Clément Delangue is the CEO and a cofounder of Hugging Face, an open and collaborative platform for AI builders. Hugging Face hosts more than 3 million models and over 1 million datasets and spaces, with the goal of democratizing AI by distributing it to a broad base of users and developers.

  Photo: James Jackman

  

• What if you pointed a camera at Elon Musk and didn’t look away? Musk film screening and Q&A Alex Gibney, Film Director + Ashley St. Clair, Writer and Policy Advocate

  Alex Gibney is an Oscar-, Emmy-, Grammy-, Peabody-, and WGA Award-winning filmmaker celebrated for his incisive and gripping documentaries. His landmark works include Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear, Enron, The Inventor, and In Restless Dreams.

  Gibney is currently producing and directing a Hulu documentary about Luigi Mangione. His latest films, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, inspired by Salman Rushdie’s memoir, and Musk, an unvarnished examination of Elon Musk, are set for theatrical release in fall 2026.

  Ashley St. Clair is a mother, writer, media personality, and policy advocate whose work focuses on First Amendment protections, law, technology, culture, and government accountability. Her perspective is informed by nearly a decade spent inside conservative politics as a political strategist and media operative within the Trump and MAGA movement. A graduate of the University of Colorado with a degree in philosophy, she is currently pursuing her Juris Doctor.

  St. Clair is a frequent presence across national and international media and policy forums, with a focus on disinformation and stronger legal protections for women and children in the digital age.

  Photo of Alex Gibney: Andrew Brucker

  

  

• What if you could talk to a dolphin? Spoiler: You can. Here’s how Dr. Denise Herzing, Founder and Research Director, Wild Dolphin Project

  Dr. Denise Herzing is the founder and research director of the Wild Dolphin Project, coeditor of Dolphin Communication and Cognition, and an affiliate assistant professor in biological sciences at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She has studied Atlantic spotted dolphins every summer since 1985.

  Dr. Herzing is a 2004 fellow with the Explorers Club, a 2008 Guggenheim fellow, and a 2021 member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame. Recently, she was awarded Conservationist of the Year for 2027 by Wild About Wildlife and was included in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in AI. She is a founding member of the Marine Mammal Society, a scientific adviser for the American Cetacean Society and the Whale Sanctuary, and is on the board of Schoolyard Films.

  

• What if we could bring back the woolly mammoth? De-extinction, and what comes after Ben Lamm, Cofounder and CEO, Colossal Biosciences

  Ben Lamm is a cofounder and the CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company. A serial technology entrepreneur, he has spent more than 20 years building companies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, emerging technology, conservation, and space innovation.

  Prior to Colossal, he founded and led Hypergiant, Conversable, Chaotic Moon, and Team Chaos, all of which were successfully acquired. Lamm serves on the board of directors of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and is a fellow and trustee of the Explorers Club.

  Photo: Colossal Biosciences

  

• What if you could put a social network in front of a jury? Suing the platforms Mark Lanier, Trial Lawyer

  Mark Lanier is a top trial lawyer who has won some of the largest verdicts in US history, representing people harmed by the world’s most powerful companies. Most recently, he won the nation’s first social-media addiction trial, a landmark verdict against Meta and Google’s YouTube.

  An inductee in the National Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, Lanier also teaches the craft of trial advocacy to more than a thousand lawyers each summer at his Lanier Trial Academy. He has authored several books on faith and law, and leads a 750-member Bible class in Houston, where he lives with his wife, Becky, and their family.

  

• Where should the VC dollars go next? Investing in the ideas, people, and movements shaping the future Alexis Ohanian, Founder, Seven Seven Six and Cofounder, Reddit

  Alexis Ohanian is a tech founder and venture capitalist. He is the cofounder and former executive chair of Reddit, which he started in 2005, left in 2010, and then returned to lead in 2014 before resigning in protest in 2020. In 2020, Ohanian founded Seven Seven Six, a venture capital firm with over $1.3 billion in assets under management.

  He is the founding control owner of Angel City Football Club and Los Angeles Golf Club, and the founder of ATHLOS. Ohanian is also an investor in Chelsea FC Women. In 2022, he launched the 776 Foundation to support marginalized individuals and announced a $20 million commitment to climate action through his 776 Fellowship Program. He’s also the bestselling author of Without Their Permission and creator of the Business Dad podcast, exploring what it means to be a dad in today’s world.

  

• What if the next election is won by creators, not campaigns? After the midterms CJ Pearson, Political Influencer and Republican Strategist + Kat Abughazaleh, Researcher, Journalist, and Former Congressional Candidate

  CJ Pearson is a nationally recognized conservative commentator and political strategist, and the chair of the Next250 political action committee. As the national co-chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council, he played a pivotal role in mobilizing young conservatives during the 2024 election, helping connect the RNC and the influencer community. In 2025, Pearson was recognized by Time as one of the 100 most-influential people on the internet. Beyond his public profile, Pearson is the founder and CEO of the Pearson Company, a creator-led political influencer agency, and a regular contributor to Fox News.

  Kat Abughazaleh is a Palestinian-American researcher, journalist, and former congressional candidate. Abughazaleh’s organization KAPOW, formed after her close election loss, works to integrate mutual aid and direct action into electoral politics by using campaign resources to help people rather than manipulate them. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones and The New Republic. Abughazaleh lives in Chicago with her partner, Ben, and their two cats, Heater and Dragon. She hates ICE, Flock, and genocide, but finds joy in her loving family, mediocre knitting, and reading space operas.

  Photo of CJ Pearson: Alan Shindleman. Photo of Kat Abughazaleh: Eliana Melmed

  

  

• What happens when you push AI to the limit? Hilarity ensues Evan Ratliff, Writer and Host, Shell Game + Husk, Comedian and Face of AI Satire Online

  Evan Ratliff has been contributing feature stories to WIRED for over 25 years. He’s also the writer and host of the podcast Shell Game, and the author of The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord.

  Husk is a comedian known for his satirical takes on AI. His deadpan exchanges with ChatGPT’s voice model have received over 800 million views and earned Husk 1 million followers, including Justin Bieber, Jack Black, Nikki Glaser, Tim Robinson, and Bob Odenkirk. Coverage of his work has appeared in Vanity Fair, WIRED, Vice, and Fast Company, which dubbed him “Sam Altman’s worst nightmare.” He has an original series in development with The Onion and has done brand partnerships with CeraVe, Ninja, and ON.

  Photo of Evan Ratliff: Jonah Green. Photo of Husk: Husk

  

  

• What will 2099 be like? And will humans still be in charge? Hunter Schafer, Actress and Artist + Silka Luisa, Showrunner, Creator, and Executive Producer

  Hunter Schafer is an actress and artist best known for her pivotal role in HBO’s drama series Euphoria. She also recently appeared in Mother Mary, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Cuckoo, and Kinds of Kindness. She will appear in the forthcoming Blade Runner 2099 miniseries as well as in Tom Ford’s adaptation of the Anne Rice novel Cry to Heaven. Schafer is also an artist trained in illustration and painting.

  Silka Luisa is the showrunner, creator, and executive producer of Prime Video’s forthcoming limited series Blade Runner 2099. Previously, she served as showrunner and executive producer of Apple TV+’s Shining Girls, and wrote and executive produced the pilot The Wilding for USA Network. She also wrote on Netflix’s Fear Street film trilogy and served as supervising producer on the first season of Paramount TV+’s Halo series. She was a consulting producer on Strange Angel, created by Mark Heyman.

  Photo of Hunter Schafer: Neilson Barnard. Photo of Silka Luisa: Jonny Marlow