 I'm very excited about the direction in which computational biology is developing. Everybody in the field realises the enormous potential in this incredible amount of big data that is being generated now. SID has been organising BC2 since 2003. I came to attend this biostatic conference to update myself about the latest trends in this field. We're all still thinking about how to make the best of this data, how to harness its power. How do you get from complex multimodal patient data to biomarkers that help predict if a patient has a high risk of getting a certain disease or not? It's important to have conferences which are multidisciplinary. We're not trying to just show our research in methods. We're also trying to understand what is the most important problem that other people are trying to solve. BC2 Conference is highly timely. It's really the future of medicine, digital health, medicine that is going to be much more data-driven, predictive, personalized and proactive. I just felt like sitting in here, you just get like a first raw seat to really see a glimpse into the future. It's a really great place to meet people working in the fields and I think there's also big needs in academia and the industry for this kind of work. We're very happy to provide true SID BC2 as a platform to foster excellence in data science. The winner of early career bioinformatician award, Eleonora Apocchi. They received the SAP Early Career Award for my work on Mendelian Anomization Approach Integrating Expression Data with GWOS data. For me, it's a huge honor receiving this award. Best Graduate Paper Award, Jochen Zinni. They received the SAP Best Graduate Paper Award for our work on the identification of mutations in single cell data sets which hopefully will help us to lead to new treatments for cancer in the near future. BC2 is the best meeting in Europe to get an overview of what's going on in computational biology.