Dimon’s Disdain of Zoom Falters as Conference Goes Online (1)

Few of the corporate world’s leaders have been as effusive this year as Jamie Dimon in cajoling office workers back into pre-pandemic routines, arguing his army of bankers at JPMorgan & Chase & Co. can’t tend relationships nearly as well on Zoom.

But those views met their match this week as the bank prepared to resume an annual in-person gathering for, of all industries, biotechnology executives -- many of whom are involved in fighting Covid-19.

Instead, JPMorgan on Wednesday said it moved the annual health-care conference online after industry bellwethers Moderna Inc. and Amgen Inc. announced that they wouldn’t fly ...