‘Rise and Run’: Here’s the lineup for TEDxPenn

The TED format is pretty hard to beat if you’re into inspirational public speaking.

And since TEDxPhiladelphia is still reorganizing its programming for the year, you may want to get 2017 started by attending TEDxPenn, the student-organized speaker series that will hold its next event on April 1.

Nathan Kok, Director of PR and Marketing, reached out to Technical.ly Philly to tell us the event is expected to bring together one thousand attendees at the Annenberg Theater for Performing Arts on Penn’s campus.

Hear from Dr. L. Scott Levin, who performed the world’s first pediatric bilateral hand transplant, at the TEDxPenn: Rise & Run Conference. pic.twitter.com/AOJ2g8eL1y

— TEDxPenn (@TEDxPenn) February 16, 2017

Here’s the lineup of 12 speakers:

• Sagi Haviv
• Araba Ankuma
• Dan Everett
• Hyungsoo Kim
• Katherine Milkman
• L. Scott Levin
• Tia Kansara
• Dwayne Booth
• Rachel Hwang
• Davis Smith
• Vijay Balasubramanian
• Megan Ryerson

The theme for the day is pretty enigmatic: “Rise and Run.” We’ll let the organizers explain:

“Our theme is intentionally polysemic—the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase,” the event website reads. “On the one hand, rise and run is a reference to the mathematical description of slopes, positive growth, upward trends. On the other hand, rise and run can be interpreted literally, as in the case of someone who is motivated to wake up and do what he/she loves to do.”