Dave L. Light

Business mentor, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, Social entrepreneur, World traveler

I am a polymath, provocateur, possibilist and pioneer My passion is "Growing ideas to reality" Life experiences so far: TEDxAmbassador, pioneer TEDx organizer in 2009, founder The ARISE Initiative, IdeasWorthDoing, global TED Audacious Project assessor, global TED Fellows mentor, Community activator and pioneer Jury member Cartier Women's Initiative, twice venture capitalist in The Pacific Rim, Silicon Valley start-up team, co-founder of Innovation X by Coca-Cola, global environmentalist with WWF-Earth Hour, co-founder Fellowship of Inventors, social scientist, global fund manager, economist, central banker, educator, computer programmer, screen culture and art museum tour guide, world traveler, cook, poet, the story continues... Talk to me about... Ideas worth spreading Ideas worth doing Community and movement building Women empowerment and entrepreneurship New approaches for crowd-creation and creatocracy Building innovative cultures Designing new ventures, for-profit and not-for-profit. Investment and venture finance History and economic development Dinosaurs What you are passionate about? What will give you peace?

Ideas+Dream+Share+Grow I am passionate about human thriving, ideas, invention, building tribes, innovative cultures, and helping people build and grow their ideas into reality.

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." ~ poet Muriel Rukeyser. "Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person." ~ author Wilfred Peterson. "To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day." - Lao Tze, philosopher, born 604 BC "An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, founder of Buddhism, c500 B.C. "It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing" - Steve Jobs 1957-2011 "When you are busy judging someone, you have no time to love them." ~ Mother Teresa

Community building, Curation, Innovation, New venture design, Presentation design, Venture Capital

I've been a TEDster and a member of the TED community since its earliest days, attended several TED conferences around the world, TEDxAmbassador, TED Audacious Project assessor, TED Fellow mentor, and was one of the 30+ pioneer TEDx licensee in 2009: curated >50 TEDx events, platformed ~200 speakers, grew our local TED community to >200,000 people, help develop and grow the global TEDx community, and was commissioned by TED to design and host the inaugural global TEDxWeekend summit in 2015.

Cooking global cuisine from paella to penang laksa. Giving screen culture and art tours as a volunteer museum guide Adventuring: Circumnavigated the planet 6 months on backpack and coast-to-coast across Australia and America