SARAH SZALAVITZ is the founder and CEO of 7 Robot, a social design agency. 7 Robot works with studios, platforms, and brands to build cross platform communities for their content. 7 Robot also advises on community building, digital strategy, content acquisition and distribution, programming, technology, social media, and distribution. Prior to founding 7 Robot, she acquired for Veoh Networks, putting together over 1000 deals with content creators and owners, ranging from Facebook to MTV to Ask a Ninja. She has consulted for a variety of old and new media companies, including AND, CSG, Generate, the HRTS, Revver and Next New Networks and, additionally, serves as an advisor to several start-ups. Sarah served as a development executive at Brooklyn Films and briefly practiced law. She attended the University of Southern California, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Harvard Law School.
Sarah is a member of the Young Literati’s Steering Committee, the Television Academy’s Interactive Media Peer Group, the Producers Guild, and is the founder the Delicious Digital Brunch. She produces www.aliveinbaghdad.org