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Networking & matchmaking

Attendee networking

Attendee networking is the deliberate facilitation of connections between the people at an event — through matchmaking, curated introductions, shared-interest grouping, or in-app messaging — rather than leaving relationships to chance.

Good networking tooling turns attendance into relationships, which is the real return on an in-person event. It’s the difference between “we had 200 people” and “200 people left with someone worth knowing.”