Genomics, big data and bioinformatics mark the start of a journey that leads to personalised medicine. How we get there depends on whether we can gain useful knowledge from data - and act on it. BioData World Congress is a unique event that aims to stimulate the debate in the development targeted therapeutics, featuring key stakeholders in genomics and personalised medicine. Speakers include EMBL-EBI Director Ewan Birney, ELIXIR Director Niklas Blomberg, BBSRC CEO Jackie Hunter, Genomics England Chief Scientist Mark Caulfield, and many others. A full list of speakers