Almost 1000 students and Ann Arbor community members headed to the Power Center Thursday evening for the University of Michigan’s 16th annual TEDxUofM conference with the theme “Rooted.” Six speakers presented talks on topics related to the places, people and identities that form their identities. They were accompanied by performances from Cedar Bend Band, Amala Dancers and Moli.
In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Taubman junior Trini Sernas, one of TEDxUofM’s three co-directors, said the intention behind this year’s theme was to have a topic all members of the audience could connect to.
“We really were interested in the stories of people’s backgrounds and what it felt like to have roots in a certain place or to be uprooted,” Sernas said. “We like that the theme is very up to interpretation, which lends itself well to the TED Talk theme.”…