🤝 Networking & messaging
Meet other attendees through the People directory, direct messages, chat rooms and speed networking.
The point of a conference is the people. 👋 People in the event nav is the hub: the attendee directory, with links across the top to 💬 My chats, 🤝 Meetings, ⚡ Speed networking and 📋 Community.
👋 The People directory
A list of fellow attendees with photo, display name, title and organization. Speakers carry a speaker badge. Each person has two buttons:
| 👋 Say Hi | A one-tap wave — lighter than a message and a good opener. It changes to 👋 Sent and can only be sent once per person. If people wave at you, a green banner at the top of the page says so: "3 people have said hi to you". |
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| 💬 | Opens a direct message thread with that person and drops you into it. |
Saying hi earns points at events running the games.
✨ AI match suggestions
At the top of the People page is ✨ People you should meet. Press Find my matches and the platform reads the profiles and suggests a handful of attendees worth your time — each with a sentence explaining why it thinks so. Refresh matches gets a different set.
💬 Direct messages
💬 Chats in the nav (or 💬 My chats from the People page) lists your conversations. Open one, type, send. Messages arrive live — you don't need to reload — and the other person gets a notification if they have push turned on.
Start a thread either from the 💬 button in the directory or from someone's profile.
# Group chat rooms
Organizers can open group rooms — a track's back channel, a first-timers' room, a hallway channel. They appear under Join a room at the top of your chats page, each named with a #. Press one to join and it moves into your conversation list. Rooms are open to any signed-in attendee; you can't create them yourself.
⚡ Speed networking
/{event}/networking — conference hallway serendipity on demand. Press ⚡ Find me a match and you join a queue; the moment someone else is waiting, you're paired and a chat opens between you. The chat is yours to keep after the conversation ends.
- Press ⚡ Find me a match. If people are already queuing, the page tells you how many.
- You see ⏳ Waiting for a match…. The page rechecks every few seconds by itself — don't close it.
- When a match happens you land in a chat with your new acquaintance. Say hello.
- Changed your mind while queuing? Leave queue.
🤝 Booking a meeting
For something more deliberate, 🤝 Meetings lets you propose a specific time. Pick the person, choose a time, add a note about what you'd like to discuss, and send it.
Requests appear in one list — the incoming ones labelled wants to meet you, the ones you sent labelled your request — each showing pending, accepted or declined. On an incoming pending request you get Accept and Decline buttons. Meetings aren't rooms or video calls; agreeing on a time and place is the point, and the "where" goes in the note.
🔒 Privacy
- You control what's shown. The directory shows your profile fields, so leave out anything you'd rather not share. Your email address is never listed.
- You only appear once you exist as a participant — that happens when you buy or claim a ticket, or star your first session.
- Organizers moderate. They can block an account, which removes it from the directory and stops it messaging people. Report anything that needs it to the organizers.