The Higgs boson is the final missing piece to complete the standard model
of particle physics. It has been searched for in all major collider
experiments since it was postulated 50 years ago, and so far no conclusive
evidence of its existance has been found. The LHC at CERN was built to
provide the final answer to the question of whether the Higgs boson
exists, and during 2011 remarkable progress was made towards this end. In
this colloqium the latest results from the ATLAS collaboration will be
reviewed and an outlook will be given for what we can expect to see during
2012.