Shira Lazar

Web Personality and Host 

Shira Lazar is an Emmy-nominated TV and web personality. She is a co-founder of Disrupt Group, a digital production company behind such popular online shows as What's Trending with Shira Lazar and The Partners Project (YouTube). A digital trailblazer, she is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post as well as Bloomberg TV, CNN, and Fox News. She is also a weekly social media columnist for Entrepreneur.com. She was named Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Tech 2011, Huffington Post's "Women in Tech to follow on Twitter" and a "Social Media Maven," when she won Ashton Kutcher's 24 Hours at Sundance.

Shira's extensive hosting work includes some of the biggest live-streams events on the web such as The Academy Awards, The Grammy Awards, The Tony Awards, The Independent Spirit Awards, The Sex and the City and Twilight premieres, and many more. An authority in the new media space, Shira also hosts and speaks around the world at influencer events and conferences including SXSW, Mashable Media Summit, Ignite, Branded Content Summit, Twiistup, Women In Tech International, Banff NEXTMedia amongst others.

In addition to her work in online programming, Shira also hosted television shows including NBC's 1st Look and Open House as well as DirecTV's Havoc on the 101. She was a correspondent on CourtTV's Hollywood Heat, Reelz Channel's daily movies news show, Dailies, and Travel Channel's Confessions of a Travel Writer.

Online, she developed and hosted video content for Live Earth Video, This Week In YouTube, Yahoo!'s daily What's So Funny, Condenast's travel blog Jaunted, Movies.com, Hollywood.com, Mania! TV, Verizon VCAST and more. She has been the official video blogger for Internet Week NY, red carpet host for the Webby Awards, and the first-ever Streamy Awards.

A native of Montreal, Shira graduated with honors from Emerson College, and now lives in Los Angeles.