Guides
The questions nobody in this market answers plainly.
Written for the people running rooms and the people walking into them. Every figure in here matches what the product actually does.
Running events
How to measure whether a networking event worked
Attendance is not a result. Six measures that tell an organiser whether the room produced anything, and how to collect them without surveying people to death.
How to run a networking event people come back to
Repeat attendance is the only honest measure of a recurring event. What makes a room worth returning to, and the four mistakes that quietly kill a monthly format.
Attending events
How to prepare for a networking event in twenty minutes
Preparation is the whole difference between a useful evening and a pocket of business cards. What to do in the fortnight before, on the day, and in the week after.
Why most event networking apps go quiet the day after
Conference apps are built for the three days they are needed and abandoned on the fourth. The reason is structural, not a failure of engagement, and it decides what happens to every connection made in the room.
Founding members
The first rooms are being built now.
We're opening The Gantry with a small group of members and event owners across the Midlands and the South East. Leave your email and we'll be in touch about the next Room near you.
Event owners: tell us the event and the date, and we'll set the Room up with you.