Maria Shriver's Women's Conference (click link to see mug shots of all the speakers), which features Meghan McCain, Cindy McCain, Katie Couric, Kelley Preston, Madeleine Albright, and yes, RICHARD BRANSON, sold out in 2 hours.
The Contra Costa Times:
Demand was so high that many people could not log onto the website to buy tickets.
"We doubled our server capacity this year in anticipation of very high demand," said event spokeswoman Marissa Moss. "We received hundreds of thousands of simultaneous requests at 9 a.m., and it overwhelmed our servers.
"Thousands of people did make it into the ticket queue before the servers crashed and were able to fulfill their ticket requests."
