What a Weekend! The Launch of 10 Million Ideas in Action   TEDxBeaconStreet 2013 had an exciting weekend -- the culmination of months of dreaming and planning. But for the bigger effort, Ideas In Action, it was a launch. The extraordinary three days of memories, connections, and ideas are just the raw material for the next year of conversations, innovations, and transformations.     Over 60 speakers, 2,500 attendees, 4 venues, 3 viewing villages, 200 volunteers, 60 Adventure Catalysts (TEDx organizers from around the world), family-friendly TEDxYouth event/activities, 20 event partners, 1 Escape Velocity Party, 1 giving of the Ideas in Action Award to Lara Stein and the TEDx team of TED...all kicked off global impact to be measured by 10 million views.   Globally our Livestream was viewed from over 100 countries:         To inspire you to keep sharing and taking action,   we have gifts for you! Ideas in Action Adventure Toolkit - A guidebook for the Ideas In Action Adventure movement.  Ideas In Action 3D logo - Send it to Shapeways to print in 3D - perfect for your desk (our Oscar)! Designed by speaker Ben Peters.  Weekend Highlight Video of pictures from November 15-17 - view it at high definition 1080p.  In the new year continue the Conversation Online. Braintrust member Philipp Schmidt and his MIT Media Lab team will host an online gathering to talk about TEDxBeaconStreet talks. Pick a talk and discuss it with eight other people (and in some cases with the original speaker) in a Google Hangout.  More Fascinating New Talks - We are looking into hosting new talks in February, April, and September, in addition to our big event November 15 & 16, 2014. Tell Us What You Think - Complete Our Survey    We value our community so much that we want to understand you and your feedback on TEDxBeaconStreet 2013. We would love to know more about what you thought about each of our speakers and presenters as we launch our 10 Million Views Campaign and 100 Adventures.    While the event is still fresh in your mind, please take this TEDxBeaconStreet Survey and give us your valuable feedback.    Stay Involved Sign up HERE to write a guest post on our blog about your experience or to join our editorial/content/social media team. We have a program of Adventures planned throughout the year - many offered by our speakers - to further explore some of the ideas shared at the conference. New and exciting opportunities will arise as well. We will publish the Adventures schedule on the TEDxBeaconStreet web site. If you have an idea for an Adventure or would like to help organize Adventures, let us know HERE. Join our volunteer team! If you'd like to get involved as a TEDxBeaconStreet volunteer, please join us by signing up HERE.   Share   Videos will be available soon. Our friends at The Pulse Network have started working on editing footage from the event and we should start posting videos online in the next few weeks. We do ask for your patience as we have over 60 talks to edit and it's a lot of work. We'll let you know when they're ready to view and share! The Livestream is up.   Stay up to date with video releases, news, and updates. Share talks with your friends and your personal and professional network to help with the views campaign. Invite your friends and colleagues to participate in Adventures and add them to our community.           Support   TEDxBeaconStreet was FREE, brought to you by the non-profit Ideas in Action organization and supported by generous donations. We offer this incredible experience free and in exchange we ask for your help putting Ideas in Action, We need your support to continue to offer innovative wonderfulness for the coming year; if you were inspired by the weekend, feel free to donate here via PayPal.   We had five major budget items: World-class video production by The Pulse Network Food for Escape Velocity Party by Jasper White   40 Berkeley hostel lodging of Adventure Catalysts T-Shirts by RP Graphics Steinway piano rental  A HUGE thank you to our major Supporters listed here, and to all of our partners, for creating such a memorable event!  Superheroes: North Bridge,  Silicon Valley Bank, Bergmeyer   Superstars: The Barr Foundation and Communispace Ideas in Action Partner: Google Solve for <X> Media Partners: MIT TechReview, WBUR, Boston.com, BATV    Venue Partners: Lincoln School, Google, MIT Media Lab, BTC Style  Partners: Zimman's, CMM Staging & Design  Braintrust Meetings Host & Printing Partner: BATV Communication/Registration Partners: Constant Contact, Attendware  Speaker Prep Sessions Host: MIT Media Lab Fun Furniture Partner: Yogibo Photography Partners: Mike Ritter, Dave Rezendes   Website, Content, & Design: Caty Rezendes  Thanks to You! TEDxBeaconStreet is special because of you. Thank you for bringing your unique perspective, talent, energy and enthusiasm to share with the rest of us. We truly appreciate it and hope you enjoyed the entire event.      Presented by Ideas In Action, a Massachusetts nonprofit organization, TEDxBeaconStreet's mission is to create a platform and community for activating ideas and learning. Just as Beacon Street connects Boston to surrounding communities and mirrors hundreds of Beacon Streets throughout New England, our focus is to bring people of all ages and socioeconomic groups together to hear fascinating speakers, discuss innovative ideas, experience captivating Adventures, and use these experiences to learn, grow, change lives, and create community impact.