#conferences

#conferences

The JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is back in town, and while biotech executives are 80% men, a renegade group of women executives took over Union Square in so many pink pantsuits it would have made Mary Tyler Moore proud. If you haven't noticed, the JP Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference is in town again, and the famed big-money biotech conference runs through Thursday. It's considered SF's second largest revenue-generating conference of the year, behind only Dreamforce.

Like wildebeest migrating across the plains of East Africa or monarch butterflies flying thousands of miles south every winter, billionaires are a remarkably predictable breed. The world's nearly 3,000 billionaires follow a familiar annual circuit: cruising between vacation spots on superyachts, jetting to marquee sporting events, and suiting up for the same closed-door business conferences. "Birds of a feather flock together," Doug Gollan, the founder of Private Jet Card Comparison, told Business Insider.

On the surface, ILTACON 2025, the International Legal Technology Association's largest annual legal technology event, had all the makings of a great conference. But despite the thought-provoking sessions and keynotes, networking opportunities and PR fanfare, I couldn't shake the sense that we were in the midst of a seismic shift in legal tech, surrounded by the restless energy of a boomtown.

Face-to-face connections lead to unexpected collaborations, mentors, and insights.

Lowe is one of a handful of celebrities-including actor Bryan Cranston and the Spice Girls' Mel B-who have been invited to legal tech conferences globally to speak on topics ranging from grit to hard work.