Jeremy Caplan is Director of Teaching and Learning at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He also leads the school's Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program, a 100-day online program for independent journalists building new ventures—sites, newsletters, podcasts— around the world. He uses AI on a daily basis for everything from organizing brainstormed ideas to transcribing and summarizing meetings. Over the past 10 years he has supported hundreds of journalists around the world developing their own niche journalism ventures. A former Time Magazine reporter, he writes Wonder Tools, a weekly newsletter spotlighting the most useful tools for creative productivity to help people make the most of their time. After studying public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, Jeremy earned an MS in Journalism as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and an MBA at Columbia Business School as a Wiegers Fellow. He lives in New York City with his wife, two young daughters and their collection of musical instruments, chocolates, and board games.

Nikita Roy is a data scientist, journalist and Harvard-recognized AI futurist. She is currently a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists, focusing on AI literacy in the news industry. She leads the AI Journalism Lab and serves on the AI advisory board at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Additionally, she heads the development of the AI Discovery Course at JournalismAI at Polis, the journalism think tank at the London School of Economics. Nikita is also the host of the globally acclaimed Newsroom Robots podcast incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs. It has ranked among the top technology podcasts in over 30 countries on Apple Podcasts. She conducts AI trainings for newsrooms and universities, including The Economist, The Boston Globe, Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Toronto. Her insights have been featured on BBC, CBC, Nieman Lab, Quartz and Yahoo Finance. An alumna of the University of Toronto and Harvard University, Nikita is dedicated to promoting the responsible and innovative use of AI in media.