i met a guy semi-recently thru IH that knew a lot, somehow, about medical laboratory software. so, he wrote some, sold some, etc. said he plans to, as his nex

i met a guy semi-recently thru IH that knew a lot, somehow, about medical laboratory software. so, he wrote some, sold some, etc. said he plans to, as his next phase, start heading back to various industry conferences and just start shooting the shit with people and make contacts and talk shop and presumably find some contract work that might end up becoming a product (again) -- something like that. which actually all sounded pretty reasonable. but it didn't really resonate with me mainly b/c i don't specialize in anything - i don't know any vertical really well, so i feel like i just can't empathize all that well with that situation. but i guess i can empathize well enough to know that it sounds reasonable to me. i guess you'd probably have to be open to spending $1,500 or so and heading to AWS re:invent or whatever other specific trade shows there are and at least giving it a go. i also feel like there are other 'weird' middlemen/people of sorts who hang around in these business 'spaces' - not the physical space, but the connection/business-making space. i guess you could always go to a trade show and say, "Hey, i'm bob, i do b2b consulting for 'x'. Do you know anyone who does that type of thing besides me? Yeah, i do x, y, z, etc. I'm not sure what all I do yet. But i'd like to give it a go, whatever it is. Are people using your tool? yeah? oh, that make sense. and you have a field consulting team or you use VARs?"