We never attend the conference, but we send out between 100-120 cold emails requesting meetings which often lead to 5-10 f2f meetings, which are a way better use of time than the conference sessions themselves.
There are a constellation of events around the conference, but they tend not to be that useful and the signal to noise ratio is super low.
Here’s a cold email template we was used successfully used for JPM in 2016:
*Subject*: Amy, meet at JP Morgan?
*Body*: Hi Amy,
I’m the cofounder & CEO of Sempre Health & we’re in the health tech space. Specifically we’re bringing individualized pricing to healthcare, beginning with prescriptions.
We’re venture-backed within the Alchemist Accelerator & we currently have a 200 patient pilot underway with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Similar to a “good driver discount”, insured patients can drive their own copays down with healthy behaviors. This increases access to medications for the 1 in 3 patients who underutilize due to cost barriers, resulting in net increased revenue for our biotech partners.
I would love to get your thoughts on what we’re building. Would you be free to meet during JP Morgan next week?
Let me know what works for you.