BioData World Congress is a world-leading event for individuals working with 'big data' and precision medicine. With the advent of high-powered computing architecture and plummeting costs of sequencing, a new era has begun, with large-scale initiatives like the 100,000 Genomes Project taking centre stage in global efforts to usher genomics into the clinic. Welcoming in this new generation of healthcare is a multifaceted effort requiring academics, commercial businesses, clinicians and pharmaceutical companies and of course the patients to congress and discuss how to develop this new exciting field of healthcare.