Insight · Smart matchmaking
Two people stand three metres apart for most of the afternoon. One runs innovation at a large energy company. The other founded a simulation start-up that solves exactly his problem. They never meet, because nothing told them to.
The short version. Networking at scale is a search problem. Good matchmaking finds the handful of people worth meeting and makes the first step easy.
Ask the right questions up front
Matching starts at registration with a few honest questions: what you want from the event, what you can offer, and who you would like to meet. Our reception and registration desk captures this in the same flow as check-in, with consent on screen.
Shared goals and complementary ones
The obvious matches are people with the same goal. The valuable ones are often complementary: a buyer and a seller, an investor and a founder, a hiring manager and a candidate. A good matcher weighs both and explains why it suggested someone.
Tick your goals below and see who ranks first.
Private by design
Suggestions are shown only to the person they are for, and nobody is introduced without both sides agreeing. Contact details move only when two guests choose to connect, the same consent-first approach as VAULT.
From suggestion to meeting
A list of names is not a meeting. The step that matters is booking a slot and a place: a quiet table in a lounge, a short window between sessions. COMMIT handles the agenda, and CORTEX personalises each screen interaction on the stand.
Mistakes we see
- Matching only on job title. Goals tell you far more about who should meet.
- Showing suggestions to both sides at once. Introductions should be opt-in on both ends.
- Leaving the meeting to chance. A suggestion becomes value only when a time and place are booked.
- Collecting more data than the match needs. Ask for goals, not life stories.
Where it fits
- web and application development
- smart event technology
- CORTEX: personalised screen interactions
- COMMIT: event software and platforms
Questions clients ask
Do guests see each other's details?
Only after both agree to connect. Suggestions are private to each guest.
Does matching use our attendee data?
Only the answers guests give at registration, with consent, on the venue network.
Can matches be booked into meeting slots?
Yes. The agenda system can reserve a table and a time for both people.
More insights
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- A wall that keeps up with the room: real-time social walls, local first
- Beyond the flat screen: projection mapping on curved and irregular surfaces
- Movement draws the eye: kinetic installations for brand activations
- How a cylindrical hologram works: from CAD file to exhibition floor
- Lead capture on a stand: the architecture behind 217 qualified leads
Start with a conversation
Tell us the event, the venue and what people should walk away remembering. Web and application development WhatsApp FAIM
Joby Thuruthel / FAIM
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