Back in March, the 2020 calendar got torn up. From happy hours to conferences to fireworks, the events of the year that were supposed to bring folks together in person were canceled.

When we look back on the pandemic and how it moved across the world to the U.S., the cancellation of SXSW is likely to be remembered as the moment for many when it got real, and a biotech conference will be one of the early spreaders. It demonstrates the importance of events in our society.

This was on view again when events started happening anyway, just virtually. We still needed a way to get together, while apart. We saw this locally as accelerators finished out cohorts with Zoom demo days. Webinars became a useful way to dive deep on topics of interest to a team’s mission. And bigger community-building and visibility events like Baltimore Innovation Week went on virtually.

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