TEDx Silicon Valley: Over 100,000 watch in 45 countries

On Dec 12th, TEDx Silicon Valley brought together several hundred leading thinkers and doers to talk about Innovations for Social Change. A great lineup included Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Peter Thiel (Clarium Capital/Founders Fund), Thomas Goetz (Wired Magazine), Dr. Clayborne Carson (Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University) and many more. I was fortunate to be a speaker as well, and my talk included a musical performance and slides of my art. More on this coming soon in another post.

Some cool facts about our TEDx:
• More than 100,000 individuals watched the UStream video and participated online live.
• More than 45 countries around the world participated in the TEDx Silicon Valley UStream and Twitter channels.
• Over 11.8 million TEDx SV social media impressions throughout the world happened.

The leadership team creating TEDx Silicon Valley was fantastic. ValleyZen would like to give them a shout out here:

Co-Curators Ron Gutman (CEO of Wellsphere) and Andrej Naberoj (Co-Founder of Noovo) worked together to assemble an amazing, diverse team:

Lorenzo Thione (Founder, Powerset) brought his unique knowledge of technology and artistry to the production. He also made the final show run seamlessly, blending, audio, video and live streaming.

Rachel Masters (former VP of Strategic Relationships at Ning, Inc.) brought her serious media and social media expertise.

Dr. Daniel Kraft (Stanford faculty, Founder, StemCor Systems, and TED speaker) brought an irrepressible love and knowledge for all things TED and sought out Campbell Recital Hall as a beautiful venue for the talks. Daniel also chronicled the day in some wonderful photographs which can be seen here.

Greg Miller (Managing Director at Google.org ) brought his devotion to TED values and inexhaustible TED knowledge. He made excellent speaker recommendations including to feature Daniel Berkman, the African kora player.

Silvia Console Battilana (Founder, Auctionomics) brought her brilliant organizational mind and tremendous energy to the cause. Also a strong advocate for women’s voices and causes.

Gary A Bolles (CEO of Xigi Inc) brought his depth of experience on conferences and passion for TED. He was most definitely the logistics guru—anticipating and resolving any glitch before it could materialize.

Robin Starbuck Farmanfamaian (San Francisco Ballet ENCORE! President) brought her boundless positive energy to TEDx. She organized and deployed an army of 45 incredible volunteers.

Chris McCann (Founder of the Startup Digest with BASES) was a social media machine, coordinating social media initatives for TEDxSV.

Jen McCabe (CEO/Founder of Contagion Health) was also a social media firestorm, who came up with fresh ideas for how to communicate with the TEDxSV audience.

Mona Brooks (Mona Brooks photography) was the official photographer of TEDx SV capturing the beauty and energy of the day with aplomb.

Veronica Ho (Wellsphere) brought her great attention to detail to the production — assisting Ron with many important elements of the conference.

Kathleen Donahue (Wellsphere) was the graphic designer par excellence helping make all slides uniform and working hard on the program.

Rocky Mullin (Founder, Vanadium) was our stage manager extraordinaire.

Jennifer Barr (Social Entrepreneur) brought an amazing amount of volunteer experience and a true passion for social entrepreneurship.

Dr. Michelle Kraus (political blogging) brought her wisdom and passion.

Ivan Marchenko did beautiful work on the site.

Also for all those who volunteered and contributed a lot of their time in the final week and day of — thank you.

PLEASE SHARE a FAVORITE MEMORY or TWO of TEDx Silicon Valley here: