FAQs

As a service to the industry, BIO provides access to the BIO Partnering™ system, which enables companies (you) to efficiently schedule in-person or virtual meetings during JPM Week (January 12–15, 2026). The system is open to any qualified company and investor that registers, regardless of whether you are attending the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference or any other concurrent event. 

Please note BIO and the BIO Partnering™ system are not affiliated with J.P. Morgan, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, or any other concurrent conference during JPM Week in San Francisco. 

BIO Partnering™ @ JPM Week is a BIO offered service which allows for use of the BIO Partnering™ system, to seamlessly arrange virtual or in-person partnering meetings during JPM Week.  

You can self-schedule meetings during 5 full days of partnering between January 12-15, 2026, with the flexibility to use your own in-person meeting space or virtual links, or BIO-proivded meeting space at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis or virtual links through Zoom.

The BIO Partnering™ system makes connections on a company-to-company basis. Individual delegates’ accounts will be placed under a company profile along with their colleagues as they register. After selecting their attendance type and filling out their profiles and their calendar availability, delegates send meeting requests to other companies and investors of interest and accept incoming meeting requests as appropriate.  Delegates then schedule their accepted meetings for mutually available times and specify locations. Some features available in the BIO Partnering system that make meeting management a breeze, include:  

• Self-schedule your meetings with great flexibility. Use BIO meeting space, virtual links or your own in-person or virtual locations. 
• Batch accept and decline incoming meeting requests to save time 
• Set saved search criteria and receive daily/weekly updates on new matches straight to your inbox 
• Native mobile app with push notifications for your upcoming meetings 
• Expanded partnering objectives to better classify your goals and search for partners based on their goals 
• Export shared contact information 

New for JPM Week 2026: AI-generated meeting request messaging and redeveloped self-scheduling interface to streamline clicks and make finding mutual availability easier! 

Access to BIO Partnering™ for JPM Week is available to qualified registrants from the following company types: Biotechnology or Pharmaceutical R&D, Government/Economic Development, Medical Device or Technology, Digital Therapeutics, Academic/Tech Transfer/University, Diagnostic, Investors, Hospital or Public Institute, and Patient Advocacy. All applications are subject to review by BIO. View the Registration Categories.

Pre-Registration is open now and full registration will begin later in September. Registration is required for access to BIO Partnering™  @ JPM Week, and you can do so here. The BIO Partnering™ system will open in early November. After the system opens, you can expect to receive your partnering login information within 1-2 business days of your completed registration. Be sure to add biopartnering@bio.org to your safe senders list to receive your login credentials.  

You can expect to find senior biotech executives, and business development leaders from leading companies, and analysts and investors from premier firms participating in partnering in-person in San Francisco or attending virtually from around the globe during JPM Week. View the 2025 participating company and investor lists here: Companies & Investors 

Yes, you will need to register and pick up your badge to access BIO's meeting space at the Marriott Marquis.

Each company profile is allowed 150 outstanding outgoing meeting requests. Once an outgoing meeting request is accepted, declined or canceled, it no longer counts against that limit and you can send an additional meeting request.

Once a meeting request has been accepted, participants from either company can schedule the meeting by clicking the “Schedule” button on the meeting request from the Meetings page. Delegates can see the attendance types (In-person or virtual) of the meeting participants to help them choose either an in-person meeting location or a virtual meeting link, or both.  

The meeting location, whether in-person, virtual or a hybrid meeting, is determined by the meeting participants when they schedule their meetings. Delegates can select from four meeting location options:

1. BIO in-person meeting tables at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis
2. Their own in-person meeting location
3. A BIO provided virtual link
4. Their own virtual meeting link or use a combination of in person and virtual for a hybrid meeting.

BIO provides in-person meeting space (assigned tables in an open floorplan) at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, during JPM Week for meetings scheduled through the BIO Partnering™ system on a first come, first served basis and at no additional charge. BIO also provides virtual meeting links for virtual and hybrid meetings, and users can also provide their own in-person location or their own virtual meeting link.

Check out our guides and tutorials at www.letspartner.bio.org 

For further assistance, please contact us at biopartnering@bio.org