Emily Chang Presented by The Distinguished Speaker Series

Emily Chang will appear live on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 at the Long Beach Terrace Theatre at 7:30pm. Emily Chang is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and expert on global technology and the future of business. For 12 years, she worked as executive producer and host of Bloomberg Technology, where she regularly interviewed top tech executives, investors, and entrepreneurs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Disney CEO Bob Iger to name a few. Chang is now producing and hosting new series for Bloomberg Originals at the intersection of tech, business, and culture that explores how society, life, and humanity are changing at the hands of technology. As Host of The Circuit with Emily Chang, she goes behind the scenes with the world’s most fascinating founders, innovators, and changemakers. In its first season, the show examined the future of social media and Elon Musk’s Twitter reign and scored inside interviews with the makers of ChatGPT which focused on the promise and perils of artificial intelligence.

 Her appearance is one of six evenings and can be purchased as part of the series package. Series package prices differ based on the section purchased and can be bought at www.speakersla.com or (310) 546-6222. Single tickets are not available. The Distinguished Speaker Series of Southern California is presented by Swan Productions, LLC a for-profit, all female, family-owned organization based in Manhattan Beach, CA. The Distinguished Speaker Series began in 1996 to create something unique in Southern California that would educate, enlighten, and entertain. These six presentations a season are with the most fascinating, prestigious, forward-thinking experts and celebrities – tackling some of the most pressing and provocative issues of our time. Our presentations bring neighbors together – stereotypes are challenged and attitudes changed; where shared experiences can ignite positive actions; where arts, culture, education and entertainment collide; where our communities are strengthened and transformed through real, important conversation.