Posted in honor of the late Dr. Atul Butte (1970–2025), a visionary physician-scientist and bioinformatics pioneer whose work transformed how we think about data, diagnostics, and discovery.

Atul was a friend, colleague, collaborator and mentor to many in the NextMed Health community. Atul's dynamic and inspiring keynote at NextMed Health 2015 (then called Exponential Medicine) captures the spirit of his relentless drive to make science faster, smarter, and more impactful for patients worldwide.

Dr. Butte explores how big data is revolutionizing biomedicine — from retroactive crowdsourcing of public omics data to precision diagnostics, drug repositioning, and low-cost translational research. Delivered with humor, insight, and urgency, this talk is a rallying cry for students, clinicians, and entrepreneurs to rethink how science is done and accelerate solutions from bench to bedside.