Title: The LHC at the Dawn of a New High-Energy Frontier

Abstract: Since June 2015, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has entered Run-2 of its program colliding protons at the new high-energy frontier of 13 TeV center-of-mass energy. First public results were already released by the experiments. The event was preceded by more than two years of consolidation and preparatory work by the accelerator and detector communities. This time was also used by the experiments to finalise a large amount of Run-1 physics analyses in all areas of LHC physics, from Standard Model and Higgs-boson measurements to searches for new phenomena. The colloquium introduces the LHC physics program, reviews recent highlights of Run-1 results from the LHC and presents early Run-2 13 TeV results.