When more than 300 people gathered on Sunday, February 24th, at the Merv Griffin estate for the fourth annual TEDx Workshop at TEDActive, TEDx Director Lara Stein took a look back at the program’s amazing 2012 milestones — the TEDxSummit gathering in Doha, over 5,000 TEDx events and 20+0 TEDx Talks on TED.com. She also looked forward with a global community that has quickly grown “from baby to toddler.”

The day was marked with presentations from TED staff and TEDx organizers, and updates on community-initiated projects. X’ers then broke out into brainstorm sessions, spread throughout the estate.

As the program grows, its members become global — TEDx attendees of TEDActive alone came from 63 countries — but continues to stay connected through workshops at TED conferences, local gatherings and online groups.

“You are a living, breathing, ecosystem … In order to be successful as a global community, we need to be better at getting together,” said Lara Stein, as she addressed the crowd from stage at the start of the day. “Your ability to get together will have a great impact on your TEDx community.”

Of course, as TEDx’ers, meeting in a conference room simply won’t do. As one attendee @CharlieCurve tweeted: “Out: Conference Rooms. In: Conferences Without Rooms.”

All photos by Kris Krug. See more photos from the TEDx Workshop on the TED Flickr stream. This post originally ran on the TEDx Blog.