We are excited to share that a group of USC students will be hosting a student-run TEDx on Thursday, April 25, 2013. Click here for more information about the program and to apply.

The USC Stevens Center for Innovation started the TEDxUSC Conference in 2009 to celebrate and promote a culture of innovation at USC. USC Stevens produced four conferences featuring 67 talks and performances, 20 short films by USC students and 63 technology and game demonstrations seen live by more than 4,600 guests. TEDxUSC videos have been viewed online more than 4 million times (and counting) on TED.com and YouTube. TEDxUSC was the first 

independently organized TED event ever held in the world and became a model for a global TEDx program that has grown to more than 6000 TEDx events in 90 different countries and 45 different languages.

The conference has had a great impact on many of the presenters, organizers, sponsors and attendees. The University’s culture has been changing over the last several years and today we see innovation and entrepreneurship more tightly woven into the fabric of the University community; we’d like to think that TEDxUSC contributed to this transformation.

As USC Stevens pursues its mission of helping USC innovators make impact with their ideas, our focus remains on our core services of patenting and intellectual property strategy, promoting USC innovations, licensing technologies, starting new companies, and creating programs such as Ideas Empowered, Coulter Translational Research Partnership and the Entrepreneurs in Residence program that support and drive translation and commercialization.

We have decided to take a step back from producing TEDxUSC in order to focus our efforts on offering these core services. While we are stepping back from TEDxUSC, we hope to see the event live on. Groups interested in running a TEDx conference at USC should visit the TED.com website for more information.

Thank you all for your support for the program over the years and for your continued support of USC innovation.

In 2009, the TEDxUSC “Ideas Empowered” conference brought the spirit of the TED conference to USC – hosting some of the world's smartest thinkers, greatest visionaries, and most fascinating teachers to inspire a better understanding of the world and create a better future.

Since TEDxUSC 2009, we have helped to create a model for a worldwide TEDx experience, helping kick off a world-wide success story through hundreds of smaller “TEDx” events in over 35 languages and 60 different countries.

Find a TEDx near you by clicking here.