Keynote 1: High Energy Physics: Present and future

With the start of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, particle physics entered a new era. The LHC will provide a deeper understanding of the universe and the insights gained could change our view of the world, and the talk will present some of the reasons for the excitement surrounding the LHC. The LHC is expected to yield insights into the origin of mass, the nature of dark matter and into many other key questions. This keynote will address the exciting physics prospects offered by the LHC and post-LHC accelerators, discuss in particular what the discovery of the Higgs boson tells us about Physics, Mankind and the Universe.