Devindra Hardawar

• Devindra has attended CES a dozen times and hasn't tired of it yet, despite his disdain for Las Vegas.
• He launched VentureBeat's East Coast news room and led it for four years, with a focus on New York City startups and consumer hardware and software.
• In 2008, he co-launched The Filmcast, one of the longest running movie review podcasts. Since then, he's reviewed a new wide-release film every week, while also exploring must-watch TV shows and indie films.

Experience

Devindra has been devoted to demystifying the world of technology after getting hooked on Tech TV (RIP) in the late '90s. He's sold ancient printers at OfficeMax, and he spent his college and post-college years fixing computers and managing student IT workers at Amherst College's IT department. Devindra started the Amherst Student's first technology news column, which and later inspired his career as a freelance technology journalist in New York City. He spent four years at VentureBeat guiding its New York City newsroom, managing reporters, and covering the tech startup boom of the early 2010s. At Engadget, he's reviewed as many laptops as he can get his hands on, spent way too much time in AR and VR headsets, and successfully relaunched the Engadget Podcast.

Education

Devindra attended Amherst College in the idyllic farm fields of Western Massachusetts, where he took a ton of film courses and earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy. Turns out, that's a pretty great mental framework for thinking about technology and the way it shapes our lives.