Networking During Conferences: 14 Ways to Unleash Your Digital Potential Events and conferences are the holy grail of networking. In this presentation I will explore how to take advantage of the during-event digital conversation to network and make new connections

1. Networking During Conferences:
14 Ways to Unleash Your Digital
Potential
Events and conferences are the holy grail of networking. In this
presentation I will explore how to take advantage of the during-event
digital conversation to network and make new connections

2. Morad Stern
Global Dev Communities Manager,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Morad.stern@gmail.com
@Morad
Morad Stern

3. Event are fun. They can also be a great place to network and get
to know very interesting people from your industry

4. Face to Face
Digital
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Day of the event Week after the event

5. Face to Face
Digital
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Day of the event Week after the event
Face to face networking is available only during the event itself. However, most
people ignore the fact that the digital platform enables us to network with
participants of a professional conference even before and after the event is over

6. Photo Credit: Kate Ter Haar
Do your homework before coming to
the conference: Who is coming? Who
will be lecturing? What are the event
communication channels? What value
can I add or contribute to this event?

7. Map all the relevant social
accounts related to the
conference
Photo Credit: Kate Ter Haar
Week before event
What is “Mapping”? See here

8. Share with your friends and followers
that you’ll be participating the event.
Ask people to tell you if they are going
too
Week before event

9. Try to figure out who are the
people behind the event. Try
to connect them. Offer your
help
Photo Credit: TopRank Marketing
Week before event

10. Don’t forget to share you just
arrived. Use the “check in”
option. Use different digital
platform to check who already
here
Photo Credit: TopRank Marketing
During the event

11. Noticed a familiar face
from Facebook / LinkedIn
/ Twitter? - Don’t be shy
and say hello
Photo Credit: Robert Scoble
During the event

12. Usually, lecturers in professional
events are interesting people
(especially in big conference). Look
out for them and reach them
During the event
Photo Credit: Globes MAD 2016
Next Slide is a great example…

13. I looked for the 6 people in the previous
slide (They spoke in a conference I lectured
as well). I found their Twitter accounts and
mentioned them together, doing so during
my own lecture
During the event

14. Search for the real time digital
conversation going on regarding the
event (Twitter’s # might be a good start).
Join that conversation
Photo Credit: Eric Fischer
During the event

15. Share, share, share: Insights, images,
feelings - from the event
Tag, tag, tag: People you meet. Lecturers
you hear. Location that relevant to where
you are
Photo Credit: Joel Kramer
During the event

16. What’s the conference top
insights right now? Look for viral
/ provocative headlines. Share!
Photo Credit: Heisenberg Media
During the event

17. Participating the conference as a group?
Awesome – work as a group: Tag each
other, mention each other, share your
teammates statuses and vice versa
Photo Credit: Willy Lange
During the event

18. Have you met someone
interesting during the
conference? Write his / her name
down
Photo Credit: Johan Larsson
During the event

19. …Look for this person’s
online digital assets.
Contact him or her
Week after the event
Photo Credit: Johan Larsson

20. Summarize your experience from
participating. Write it as a post or
status. Try to emphasize industry
trends that the event reveled
Week after the event

21. Share pleasant moments
from the event. Look for
official summary and images
online.
Week after the event

22. Morad Stern
Global Dev Communities Manager,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Morad.stern@gmail.com
@Morad
Morad Stern