In 2009, Lakshmi Pratury, longtime TEDster, and Chris Anderson - Curator of TED Conference - hosted TEDIndia, a one-time conference that expanded TED's reach to Asia. Nearly 1000 attendees from 46 nations traveled to Mysore, India to hear from a diverse group of accomplished speakers. This conference brought together accomplished artists, architects, technologists, business people, musicians, dancers, scientists and social entrepreneurs as well as one hundred young TEDIndia fellows. Riding the momentous energy and demand generated from TEDIndia, the inaugural INK (Innovation and Knowledge) Conference in association with TED was held in December 2010 in Lavasa Hill City, India with the theme of Untold Stories.