Dan Patterson is the Director of Content and Communication at Blackbird.AI. Prior, he was the national tech correspondent for CBS News, a senior producer at CNET, a senior reporter at ZDNet and TechRepublic, the digital platform manager at ABC News, and a reporter for various media companies.Dan produced stories from conflict regions in Africa and the Middle East, presidential primaries and conventions, the UN in New York and Geneva, and technology events like CES, SXSW, Black Hat, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Dan has interviewed entertainers Willie Nelson and Chuck D, Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa, Secretary of State Antony Blinkin, hacker Kevin Mitnick, entrepreneur Kathy Ireland, and senior officials at Google, Microsoft, Meta, and more. His career began on college radio, and Dan was an early innovator in podcasting and video streaming. His story 'Angels of Death: Gun trafficking on the Iron Pipeline' won the Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism, and 'Inside the War on Truth' won a Silver Telly Award.He moderated conference panels and spoke at events, including the keynote address to the European Broadcasting Union’s 2023 cybersecurity seminar in Geneva, the Global Cybersecurity Summit in Kyiv, SXSW in Austin, the Talkers Talk Media event in New York City, and other events.Dan contributes to ZDNet and This Week in Tech.Representation: Seth Mayeri for Paradigm Media Entertainment.