Suzanne Stefanac

Media & Technology Strategist; former Director of the American Film Institute's Digital Content Lab (Los Angeles)

A journalist from 1982 until 1994, she wrote about digital issues for Wired, Macworld, New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among others.

With the launch of MSNBC in 1996, Stefanac was executive producer for The Site, an hour-long, nightly television program and website that explored how technology impacts modern life. In 1998, she co-founded RespondTV, an interactive television infrastructure company that facilitated the first ecommerce over television. In 2005, Stefanac authored Dispatches from Blogistan: A Travel Guide for the Modern Blogger, published by Peachpit/New Riders as part of their Voices that Matter series. Stefanac joined the American Film Institute as Director of the Digital Content Lab in 2006 and launched AFI DigiFest in 2007. She is happiest on the bleeding edge.