Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that the 2017 TEDxUF event was the eighth annual, not the fourth.
Transparency is the theme for UF’s eighth annual TEDxUF conference.
Tickets are available for pick up tomorrow until March 31 for the conference, which is April 1 at 1:30 p.m. There are 150 free tickets available for students as well as anyone in the community.
The conference will feature nine speakers who will talk for about 10 minutes on topics ranging from science to self-interest, said Kyley Hagan, the public relations coordinator for the event.
“We picked (the theme) because we’re all trying to see transparency and understanding the pieces of our lives,” she said. “Transparency is often prized above all else as a virtue.” One of the speakers, LB Hannahs, will talk about LGBTQ+ rights, Hagan said.
“They are talking about finding the authenticity in discomfort,” the 21-year-old UF journalism junior said. “Students our age should address trans people and they will feel more comfortable.”
Candice Luc, a 20-year-old UF civil engineering junior, said she enjoyed the identity-themed conference last year and related to it because of her Asian American identity.
“I think transparency could be interpreted in different ways,” she said “It could be in terms of politics or social issues.”
Veronica Hernandez, a UF digital arts and sciences senior, speaks about video games and apathy during the 2016 TEDxUF. “The world is under attack,” the 21-year-old said. “Apathy isn’t just a villain, it’s a supervillain.”
