Community and networking

Community is the event's attendee directory. Use it to find people, save the ones you want to remember, and see your contacts and meetings in one place. Together with your AI matches, contact exchange and messages, it helps you meet the right people at the event.

What you see depends on what the organizer has turned on, and the menu items may have other names. The default names are used below.

Find peopleCopy Anchor Link

Open Community from the menu. All lists everyone in the directory, A to Z by last name.

• Search. Tap the search box and type a name, company or job title.
• Save someone. Tap the bookmark icon next to their name. They're added to Saved.
• Message someone. Tap the message icon next to their name. It's hidden for people who don't accept messages.

If the organizer has turned on matchmaking, a banner such as "5 people to meet" at the top opens your matches (see below).

On some events, attendees can't browse the directory. Community then shows only your own people: your meetings, contacts and leads.

ProfilesCopy Anchor Link

Tap anyone to open their profile: their photo, job title, company, headline and bio, plus anything they've added, such as Interests, Skills, Ask me about and Availability (for example, "Open to scheduled meetings"). If they work for a sponsor or exhibitor, Representing shows which one.

From a profile you can:

• Tap Send message to start a chat.
• Tap Request meeting to book a meeting. See Meetings.
• Tap the bookmark icon to save them.
• For people you've exchanged contacts with, add private notes under My notes, and download their details to your phone's address book.

If you were matched with someone, Why we matched you explains the match.

Your Saved listCopy Anchor Link

Tap Saved at the top of Community. It gathers your people in sections:

• Meetings: your confirmed meetings and requests you've sent, with any requests waiting for your answer at the top.
• Leads: people you've scanned, if you work a sponsor's booth with lead retrieval.
• Contacts: people whose QR code you've scanned.
• Saved: people you've bookmarked.

Use the filter icon to show only some sections.

Get matched with peopleCopy Anchor Link

If the organizer has turned on matchmaking, the home page has a Curated for you section. It suggests people, sessions, speakers and sponsors for you, based on your profile and your goals. A NEW label shows how many new suggestions are waiting.

Tap a tile, such as People, to open your matches. Tabs at the top switch between people, sessions, speakers and sponsors, with the number of matches on each. For each person:

• Read why you were matched.
• Tap Send message or Request meeting to reach out, or the bookmark icon to save them.
• Tap Skip to hide them. Skipped matches don't come back.

Matched sessions show which of your goals they fit and why they were picked. Tap Bookmark to save one to My agenda, or Skip to hide it. Tap Add goals at the top to tell the app more about what you're looking for.

Set a goalCopy Anchor Link

Your matches get better when you tell the app what you're looking for.

To manage your goals, tap the pencil next to Curated for you on the home page. Preferences opens:

• Tick the kinds of matches you want, such as people, sessions or speakers.
• Under Your goals, turn each goal on or off. Profile based matches you on your profile alone. Goals marked Organizer-Set were suggested by the organizer.
• Tap the refresh icon next to a goal to look for new matches.
• Tap Add another goal to add one (up to 10).

A complete profile also helps. Until yours has a photo, bio, headline, job title, company, skills, interests and things people can ask you about, the home page shows Update your profile (Get better matches).

Exchange contactsCopy Anchor Link

Instead of swapping business cards, scan each other's QR code.

You're connected confirms it, and they appear under Contacts in your Saved list. Only the person who scans gets the contact, so if you both want each other's details, scan each other's code.

You can also scan someone's code with your phone's own camera. It opens the event app (log in if asked) and shows their name with Accept contact.

MessagesCopy Anchor Link

Start a chat from someone's profile (Send message) or from the message icon in Community. Open Messages from the menu to see all your conversations. You get a notification when someone writes to you.

The organizer can limit messaging. For example, you might be able to reply to messages but not start new conversations.

ChannelsCopy Anchor Link

If the organizer has set up Channels, open them from the menu. Channels are group feeds on a topic, created by the organizer, where you can post, like and comment as in the activity stream. Public channels are open to everyone. Private ones only appear if the organizer added you.

Control who can find youCopy Anchor Link

If the organizer allows it, the Settings screen (tap your name at the bottom of the menu) has two privacy switches:

• Profile visibility: turn it off to hide your profile from Community and from other people's matches. People you've already connected or chatted with can still see you.
• Direct messages: turn it off so attendees can't start new conversations with you. Conversations you already have stay open. You also won't be suggested as a match, since nobody could reach you.

When you turn off Profile visibility, the app asks Hide your profile?. Tap Hide profile to confirm. You can turn it back on at any time.

To choose whether your email address and phone number show on your profile, open Settings, then Edit profile, and use Show email on profile and Show phone on profile.