Total Ant Creators & Guests

Leo Laporte is the host of The Tech Guy's weekly radio show and author.

Jason Howell is a musician and co-host of Tech News Weekly.

Steve Gibson is a software engineer, security researcher, and IT security proponent.

Ant Pruitt is a technology professional-turned photographer, videographer, and content creator. Born and raised in South Carolina, Ant was an enterprise IT professional for more than ten years in North Carolina where he spent most of his adult life. Ant eventually turned his creativity into a small business, providing writing, photography, video, and post-production services. He handled a range of assignments, including portraits, event photography, social media marketing, and interview videos. He also worked as a freelance writer for TechRepublic, covering consumer tech, enterprise IT, and tips for beginner content creators.Ant first appeared as a guest on the TWiT network in 2017 to share tips on drone photography and video. After a cross-country move with his wife and two younger sons (the oldest son is in the Army), Ant is set to co-host some of TWiT's established podcasts, as well as develop new shows with a focus on digital photography and video.

Stacey Higginbotham is a host of This Week in Google Podcast and blogs about chips, broadband and the internet of all the things.

Mikah Sargent is a writer, producer, and co-host of Clockwise Podcast with Dan Moren.

Andre Brown is a photographer, speaker, and educator.

Rick Sammon is a photographer, Canon Explorer of Light, co-founder, host & Crusader for Great Content at The Digital Photo Experience Podcast, he has published 36 books, including Exploring the Light and Digital Photography Secrets, his book Flying Flowers won the coveted Golden Light Award and book Hide and See Under the Sea won the Ben Franklin Award.

Dan Moren is the author of the sci-fi espionage capers The Aleph Extraction and The Bayern Agenda, from Angry Robot Books, as well as The Caledonian Gambit from Talos Press. He also co-hosts tech podcasts Clockwise and The Rebound; writes, hosts, and produces the nerdy game show Inconceivable!; and is a frequent panelist on the Parsec-award-winning show The Incomparable.

Mike Elgan is a journalist, blogger, columnist, and podcaster.

US lawyer/geek interested in tech, international law, civil liberties & their convergence.

Jason Hiner is the editor in chief of ZDNET.

Steve Brazill is a Southern California based Music Photographer, the host of the Behind the Shot Podcast, and an on-air personality at 96.7 KCAL Rocks.

My passion for storytelling and technology brings me to connect my experience in video and film to storytelling for everyone—using mobile phones.Founder of the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego launched in 2009 for only films shot with cell phones for the big screen.President of Mobile Film Stories: Streaming mobile film & video distribution service and community platform.Inspiring public speaker and host of the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking.

Joss Fong is a journalist. She is currently senior editorial producer of the Vox video team, where she produces videos for Vox's platforms on YouTube, Facebook, and Netflix. Fong received a master's degree in science journalism from New York University.

Sam Abuelsamid is a senior analyst at Navigant Research.

Dan Patterson is a writer, technology reporter at CBS News, and producer at CNET.

Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, Ph.D., is the Book Author of "The TECHLASH and Tech Crisis Communication." She is a Former Research Fellow at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her expertise: the tech news field.

Alex Stamos is a computer scientist, adjunct professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the former chief security officer at Facebook.