Lara Stein

Consultant Lara Stein is founder and former Director of TEDx and the TED Prize, having overseen the strategy, creation, development and implementation of the TEDx program at TED. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, which started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago. Through Stein's leadership TED expanded from two annual conferences, into a global community of 9,000 TEDx events in 1,200 cities taking place in 133 countries.