Travel budgets are brimming, but one thing virtual events will never come close to replicating is the chance encounter with an exciting start-up that just happened to catch our eye from an unassuming corner of a tradeshow hall, or the after-party introduction to a CEO brandishing the trademark ear-to-ear grin, fresh from securing Series A funding. We could mourn the absence of IBC all day long, as one of many gaping holes in the 2020 events calendar that have forced Faultline to find new ways of identifying innovation and disruption. In the meantime, all we can do is promise our readers that our famously honest ear has never – not even for a second – lifted off the ground. That…