I’m headed out to the world-renowned TED conference early tomorrow morning– I received an invite for last year’s event but unfortunately wasn’t able to attend. I had plenty of warning this time around and I’ve honestly never been this excited for a conference in my life! If you’re unfamiliar with the event, be sure to check out this great introduction where curator Chris Anderson calls it The Official Pre-release Version of Heaven (check out the TEDTalks and you’ll know why people say this). The theme for this years event is Icons, Geniuses and Mavericks– I’m looking forward to seeing presentations from folks like Jeff Han, Philippe Starck, Hans Rolsing, John Maeda, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Zaha Hadid and literally dozens more. I’ll do my best to blog my experience while out there but I can’t make any promises– I’ve got a full schedule! From TED in California I’m headed to speak at Community 2.0 in Las Vegas on Monday and Tuesday of next week. If you’re going to be at either one of these events and want to meet up feel free to drop me a note.