June Cohen

Social Media Speaker June Cohen is the Executive Producer of TED Media for the TED Conference. She was one of the leaders pushing to bring the conference online, launching TED Blog in 2005, a podcast series TEDTalks in 2006, the newly altered TED.com and the TED Open Translation Project in 2009. Chris Anderson and June co-host the TED conference.

TED.com has won a variety of awards including seven Webby Awards, and the Communication Arts 2008 Interactive Award for Information Design. At the TED Conference in 2010, TEDTalks were watched 250 million times in the first 3.5 years made available. At the first commercial web magazine; HotWired, June Cohen worked with a team to launch the site and she wrote the Net Surf blog from 1994 to 1996. In that same year, June launched Webmonkey, a how-to site for web developers. In 1997, she launched HotWired 4.0 with broad JavaScript and ‘dynamic’ HTML.

As an early innovator in new media, June led a team at Stanford University to develop the world’s first multimedia magazines, called Proteus, built in a HyperCard and used in QuickTime to integrate video. June Cohen is available for speaking engagements, personal appearances and public events.

APPEARANCES: TED

TO WORK WITH JUNE COHEN: Social media expert June Cohen can be hired for speaking engagements and events in roles such as corporate appearances, endorsements, speaking.