Investor conferences can be overwhelming, exhausting, and expensive. But when approached strategically, they’re a valuable part of your fundraising and networking toolkit. These events offer more than just face time with investors and learning about industry trends. They’re also great opportunities to meet key partners such as contract research organizations, consultants, legal teams and other essential vendors who support biotech startups at every stage.
If you’re planning to raise a round, or if you have the chance to present in a showcase event, these conferences can be particularly high-impact. But it’s important to go in with intention. The best advice? Have a plan, be deliberate with your schedule and know who you want to meet and why.
Most investor-focused conferences provide an online networking platform as part of your registration, make sure to use it to the fullest. Reach out in advance, book meetings and prioritize the sessions that will give you the most return on your time. A little upfront effort can go a long way in turning a packed agenda into meaningful momentum for your company.
If you’re planning to raise a round, or if you have the chance to present in a showcase event, these conferences can be particularly high-impact. But it’s important to go in with intention. The best advice? Have a plan, be deliberate with your schedule and know who you want to meet and why.
Most investor-focused conferences provide an online networking platform as part of your registration, make sure to use it to the fullest. Reach out in advance, book meetings and prioritize the sessions that will give you the most return on your time. A little upfront effort can go a long way in turning a packed agenda into meaningful momentum for your company.
Labiotech provides a list of many conferences and events across the biotechnology and biopharma sectors.
JPM Healthcare Conference
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Frequency: Annually in January
About: The big one that kicks off the calendar year. Lots of conferences and events occur simultaneously in downtown SF during this week.
BIO CEO & Investor Conference
Location: New York, NY
Frequency: Annually in early spring
Format: Hybrid
About: Organized by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), this conference focuses on established and emerging publicly traded and late-stage private biotech companies. This conference provides a forum where institutional investors, industry analysts, and senior biotechnology executives have the opportunity to shape the future investment landscape of the biotechnology industry, financing promising discoveries to result in better patient outcomes.
BIO International Convention
Location: Various locations (Past locations include Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Philadelphia)
Frequency: Annually in June
Format: In person
About: The BIO International Convention is a large global event for the biotechnology industry, offering key networking and partnering opportunities, and insights into major trends affecting the industry. It claims to offer connections for those working in public pharmaceutical companies, biotech startups, academia, non-profit organizations, or government agencies, as researchers, business development professionals or investors. Offers proprietary BIO Partnering™ match-making platform—exclusive to the Premier Access registration package—to allow you to find potential partners, schedule and accept meetings.
BIO Investor Forum
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in October
Format: Hybrid
About: This event showcases drug development programs that are ready for partnering or venture funding, focusing on accelerating the progress of new therapeutic technologies into commercialization.
Biotech Showcase
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: Biotech Showcase is an investor conference that provides private and micro-mid-cap biotechnology companies with an opportunity to present to and meet with investors and biopharmaceutical executives.
Seed Showcase
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: For pioneering biotech startups seeking a competitive edge. Event will be tailored to startups facing limited funding, the quest for the right partners, and the need to stand out in a crowded market to propel you toward success.
TechBio Showcase
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: This event brings together technology and biology to unlock new potentials and create a future where science and innovation work hand in hand to create groundbreaking advancements in healthcare.
Bio€quity Europe
Location: Various locations across Europe (Past locations include Munich, Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Vienna, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Milan)
Frequency: Annually
Format: Hybrid
About: Europe's premier international showcase for financial dealmakers and biopharma executives to meet rising biotech companies, featuring company presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities.
East-West Biopharma Summit
Location: Various locations across Asia and the U.S. (Previous locations include Redwood City, Boston, Singapore, Seoul)
Frequency: Annually in March
Format: In person with bonus days of virtual partnering meetings
About: C-level conference for Asian and Western biopharma executives and investors. Expand your network, debate strategy, and meet key players from across Asia-Pacific. Focuses on fostering cross-border collaboration and global market growth through strategic partnerships and investments
RESI JPM
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: The Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) conference series connects early-stage life sciences companies (discovery to phase 2) with investors (seed to series B). It features partnering, pitching, panels, workshops, and is part of J.P. Morgan Healthcare Week. There are multiple RESI events across the globe throughout the year.
SOCAP
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in October
Format: Hybrid
About: SOCAP is the largest global impact event. This annual conference is where movement makers and institutional investors learn from each other, academics share research with operators on the ground, entrepreneurs showcase their scalable, world-changing ideas, deals are set, and people take action
South by Southwest (SXSW)
Location: Austin, TX
Frequency: Annually in March
Format: Hybrid
About: South by Southwest is best known for celebrating the convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture. The conference includes world-class exhibitions, professional development and networking opportunities, tech competitions, awards ceremonies, and much more.
Venture Capital World Summit
Location: Various locations across the world
Frequency: Varies
Format: Hybrid
About: Venture Capital World Summit is a series of investment conferences designed to connect the global investment community, offering a platform for investors and businesses seeking capital and expertise to scale up and expand internationally.
LSX World Congress
Location: London, UK
Frequency: Annually
Format: Hybrid
About: LSX World Congress is an event with life science industry decision-makers from innovative biopharma, medtech and healthtech companies with investors, senior BD&L teams, R&D leaders and industry KOLs.
IndieBio Demo Day
Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
Frequency: Varies
Format: Hybrid
About: IndieBio, an early-stage biotech accelerator, culminates its programs with Demo Days, showcasing its portfolio companies to a curated audience of venture capitalists and angel investors. A very valuable event for early biotech startups.
KiwiTech Demo Days
Location: Online (with potential for in-person components)
Frequency: Multiple times per year
Format: Hybrid
About: KiwiTech hosts demo days that connect tech startups, including those in the biotech space, with their investor network. They aim to provide networking opportunities for startups seeking angel investors and venture capitalists.
Business of Biotech
Location: Tampa, FL
Frequency: Annually
Format: In-person
About: The conference connects biotech executives, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and researchers to discuss the latest advances in cancer care. Thursday's Partnering Forum is an invitation-only event, and Friday's conference and exhibits are currently closed for registration.
BioJapan
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Frequency: Annually in October
Format: Hybrid
About: BioJapan is Asia's premier partnering event for the international biotechnology industry, a large trade show held annually in Yokohama, Japan, focused on facilitating business partnerships and fostering innovation across biotechnology, drug discovery, and life sciences sectors.
Venture Summit
Location: Various locations (Past locations include Silicon Valley, CA, New York City, NY, Boston, MA)
Frequency: Annually in April
Format: In-person and remote events available
About: Venture Summit West is an event linking venture capitalists, corporate VCs, angel investors, senior execs of venture-backed companies, researchers, incubators, and service providers.
Global Life Science Partnering & Investor Conference
Location: San Diego, CA
Frequency: Annual
Format: In-person
About: The conference features: panel discussions, keynote & fireside chats, one‐on‐one partnering meetings, company presentations (especially for smaller / emerging life science companies), and extensive networking opportunities.
HLTH
Location: USA: Las Vegas, EU: Amsterdam
Frequency: USA: Annually in October, EU: Annually in June
Format: In-person
About: Very buzzy and fast-paced conference focusing on healthcare innovation, bringing together healthcare leaders, pharma companies, payors and innovators to discuss latest trends, technologies and solutions.
If there are other relevant conferences of events we should feature on this page, please contact us.
JPM Healthcare Conference
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Frequency: Annually in January
About: The big one that kicks off the calendar year. Lots of conferences and events occur simultaneously in downtown SF during this week.
BIO CEO & Investor Conference
Location: New York, NY
Frequency: Annually in early spring
Format: Hybrid
About: Organized by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), this conference focuses on established and emerging publicly traded and late-stage private biotech companies. This conference provides a forum where institutional investors, industry analysts, and senior biotechnology executives have the opportunity to shape the future investment landscape of the biotechnology industry, financing promising discoveries to result in better patient outcomes.
BIO International Convention
Location: Various locations (Past locations include Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Philadelphia)
Frequency: Annually in June
Format: In person
About: The BIO International Convention is a large global event for the biotechnology industry, offering key networking and partnering opportunities, and insights into major trends affecting the industry. It claims to offer connections for those working in public pharmaceutical companies, biotech startups, academia, non-profit organizations, or government agencies, as researchers, business development professionals or investors. Offers proprietary BIO Partnering™ match-making platform—exclusive to the Premier Access registration package—to allow you to find potential partners, schedule and accept meetings.
BIO Investor Forum
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in October
Format: Hybrid
About: This event showcases drug development programs that are ready for partnering or venture funding, focusing on accelerating the progress of new therapeutic technologies into commercialization.
Biotech Showcase
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: Biotech Showcase is an investor conference that provides private and micro-mid-cap biotechnology companies with an opportunity to present to and meet with investors and biopharmaceutical executives.
Seed Showcase
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: For pioneering biotech startups seeking a competitive edge. Event will be tailored to startups facing limited funding, the quest for the right partners, and the need to stand out in a crowded market to propel you toward success.
TechBio Showcase
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: This event brings together technology and biology to unlock new potentials and create a future where science and innovation work hand in hand to create groundbreaking advancements in healthcare.
Bio€quity Europe
Location: Various locations across Europe (Past locations include Munich, Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Vienna, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Milan)
Frequency: Annually
Format: Hybrid
About: Europe's premier international showcase for financial dealmakers and biopharma executives to meet rising biotech companies, featuring company presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities.
East-West Biopharma Summit
Location: Various locations across Asia and the U.S. (Previous locations include Redwood City, Boston, Singapore, Seoul)
Frequency: Annually in March
Format: In person with bonus days of virtual partnering meetings
About: C-level conference for Asian and Western biopharma executives and investors. Expand your network, debate strategy, and meet key players from across Asia-Pacific. Focuses on fostering cross-border collaboration and global market growth through strategic partnerships and investments
RESI JPM
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in January
Format: Hybrid
About: The Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) conference series connects early-stage life sciences companies (discovery to phase 2) with investors (seed to series B). It features partnering, pitching, panels, workshops, and is part of J.P. Morgan Healthcare Week. There are multiple RESI events across the globe throughout the year.
SOCAP
Location: San Francisco, CA
Frequency: Annually in October
Format: Hybrid
About: SOCAP is the largest global impact event. This annual conference is where movement makers and institutional investors learn from each other, academics share research with operators on the ground, entrepreneurs showcase their scalable, world-changing ideas, deals are set, and people take action
South by Southwest (SXSW)
Location: Austin, TX
Frequency: Annually in March
Format: Hybrid
About: South by Southwest is best known for celebrating the convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture. The conference includes world-class exhibitions, professional development and networking opportunities, tech competitions, awards ceremonies, and much more.
Venture Capital World Summit
Location: Various locations across the world
Frequency: Varies
Format: Hybrid
About: Venture Capital World Summit is a series of investment conferences designed to connect the global investment community, offering a platform for investors and businesses seeking capital and expertise to scale up and expand internationally.
LSX World Congress
Location: London, UK
Frequency: Annually
Format: Hybrid
About: LSX World Congress is an event with life science industry decision-makers from innovative biopharma, medtech and healthtech companies with investors, senior BD&L teams, R&D leaders and industry KOLs.
IndieBio Demo Day
Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
Frequency: Varies
Format: Hybrid
About: IndieBio, an early-stage biotech accelerator, culminates its programs with Demo Days, showcasing its portfolio companies to a curated audience of venture capitalists and angel investors. A very valuable event for early biotech startups.
KiwiTech Demo Days
Location: Online (with potential for in-person components)
Frequency: Multiple times per year
Format: Hybrid
About: KiwiTech hosts demo days that connect tech startups, including those in the biotech space, with their investor network. They aim to provide networking opportunities for startups seeking angel investors and venture capitalists.
Business of Biotech
Location: Tampa, FL
Frequency: Annually
Format: In-person
About: The conference connects biotech executives, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and researchers to discuss the latest advances in cancer care. Thursday's Partnering Forum is an invitation-only event, and Friday's conference and exhibits are currently closed for registration.
BioJapan
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Frequency: Annually in October
Format: Hybrid
About: BioJapan is Asia's premier partnering event for the international biotechnology industry, a large trade show held annually in Yokohama, Japan, focused on facilitating business partnerships and fostering innovation across biotechnology, drug discovery, and life sciences sectors.
Venture Summit
Location: Various locations (Past locations include Silicon Valley, CA, New York City, NY, Boston, MA)
Frequency: Annually in April
Format: In-person and remote events available
About: Venture Summit West is an event linking venture capitalists, corporate VCs, angel investors, senior execs of venture-backed companies, researchers, incubators, and service providers.
Global Life Science Partnering & Investor Conference
Location: San Diego, CA
Frequency: Annual
Format: In-person
About: The conference features: panel discussions, keynote & fireside chats, one‐on‐one partnering meetings, company presentations (especially for smaller / emerging life science companies), and extensive networking opportunities.
HLTH
Location: USA: Las Vegas, EU: Amsterdam
Frequency: USA: Annually in October, EU: Annually in June
Format: In-person
About: Very buzzy and fast-paced conference focusing on healthcare innovation, bringing together healthcare leaders, pharma companies, payors and innovators to discuss latest trends, technologies and solutions.
If there are other relevant conferences of events we should feature on this page, please contact us.