Berkshire
Business networking events in Reading
The commercial centre of the Thames Valley, and the densest concentration of technology and telecoms employment in the country outside London. Rooms here skew corporate and skew technical.
The networking scene here
Thames Valley Park and Green Park hold much of the large-employer base, with the town centre and Winnersh carrying the rest. A large share of attendees work for national or international firms rather than running their own, which changes the tone: less referral-seeking, more partnership and supplier conversation.
Where business gets done: Thames Valley Park, Green Park, Reading town centre and Winnersh Triangle.
Rooms listed here open 14 days before the event, so you can read who is going and decide who you want to meet before you commit the morning. Also covers Bracknell, Wokingham, Newbury, Maidenhead, Basingstoke and Slough.
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The sectors that show up here
Reading concentrates these enough that a local room is worth travelling for. Each one networks differently, and the page says how.
Technology and software
Technology is the one sector that largely built its own networking rather than joining anyone else’s. The rooms are communities first, and the…
How these rooms runRecruitment and the future of work
The most networking-native sector there is, and the one that creates the most friction in everybody else’s rooms. Worth being honest about both halves…
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