Designed Networking for the Savvy Event Professional: Brisbane

You already know "mingle and network" doesn't work.

You've read the feedback forms. Attendees say they came for the connections, and leave saying the sessions were great but the networking felt flat. Every event professional already senses that open mingling leaves the outcome to chance, favours whoever's already confident in the room, and rarely produces anything beyond a stack of business cards nobody follows up on.

What's usually missing isn't budget or good intentions. It's a method, grounded in how connection actually forms, that you can realistically build into your next program.

Designed Networking for the Savvy Event Professional hands you that method, and the research behind it, in one live session.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

- Why mingling fails, and what works instead: the research on unstructured networking versus designed formats, and the specific mechanisms, escalating disclosure, psychological safety, swift trust, that make the difference.

- How to design a networking activation: a practical framework for building structured connection moments into any event format, from a 20-minute breakfast activation to a full conference stream.

- How to brief and facilitate it: what a facilitator needs to say and do to get a room of strangers into real conversation quickly, and how to set the norms that make people feel safe enough to try.

- How to prove it worked: simple ways to measure whether your networking activation actually produced connection, so you can show the value beyond a feedback-form smiley face.

WHO THIS IS FOR

This is a public session, open to individuals across organisations, not a private team booking. You'll be in the room with other event professionals doing similar work, not just people from your own organisation.

It's built for:

- Association event managers whose members keep asking for better networking, session after session

- Conference producers who want connection to be a designed part of the program, not an unstructured coffee break

- Corporate event and internal comms professionals running all-hands, offsites, or client events where relationships are the point

- Anyone who has run "networking drinks" and quietly suspected it wasn't actually working

WHY WE KEEP IT SMALL

Numbers for this session are capped on purpose. A small room means real discussion, hands-on practice, and direct feedback, not a lecture to a sea of faces. Everyone in the room gets a genuine learning experience, not just a seat.

WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH

A repeatable method for designing connection into your events, not just a one-off idea for your next one. You'll leave with the research base to explain why it works, a practical framework to apply it, and the facilitation skills to run it, so the next time someone asks for "better networking," you have a real answer instead of another round of open mingling.

DELIVERED BY

Evelina Bereni, psychologist and the researcher behind the designed networking methodology.

Spots are limited to keep the room small, so if this is a "yes," don't sit on it.