We make networking sessions interactive at company events with 100 to 2,000 employees
At company events, employees tend to stay within their teams.
Things can get awkward at most all-company events. Colleagues and guests get into their bubbles, connecting only with people who feel familiar.
Walk into almost any kick-off at a 100-2,000 person company and you'll see it: Engineering sits with Engineering, Sales sits with Sales, Marketing clusters near the back. Nobody planned it that way. It's just the easiest thing to do when you walk into a room and don't know most of the people in it.
This is a problem when the goal behind the event is to make sure all the teams come together and get to know each other.
We solve this problem with our interactive networking tool, Jam Bingo.
Jam Bingo incentivizes each person to get to know someone new outside of their department. Most especially, it's designed to be easy to facilitate for 100, 300, 500, or even 2,000 people.
Why this is a bigger problem at this specific size
Too big to know everyone, too small to not need to
Past 100 attendees, half the room are strangers, but still small enough that leadership actually wants Sales talking to Engineering and Support talking to Product. That's exactly where our Jam Bingo comes in.
What we actually do about it
We give people a reason to mix.
Telling a room to 'go network with someone outside your team' doesn't work, people default back to who they already know within thirty seconds.
What works is an interactive activity that requires people to find someone specific, someone outside their own department, in order to complete it.
- That's what JamBingo does: It gets people having meaningful conversations instead of surface-level networking..
The prompt does the work a facilitator can't
- Find someone from a department you rarely work with and ask what they're focused on this quarter.
- Find someone whose job you couldn't explain to a stranger.
- Find someone outside your department who joined in the last six months.
- Find someone from a team that depends on your team's work.
- Find someone who sits on a different floor, building, or time zone than you.
It gets people moving across the room instead of sticking with the people they already know.
Does this work for hybrid kick-offs too?
Yes, that's most of the companies we work with
At this employee count, kick-offs are rarely fully in-person. Someone's always dialing in from another office or home. Because the activity runs on a phone, remote employees get pulled into the same cross-department matches as everyone in the room, instead of watching from a gallery view while the in-person crowd mingles.
What changes by the time the kick-off actually starts
The room looks different before anyone opens a slide
The point isn't just a fun activity. It's that by the time leadership starts talking about company-wide goals, the room has already had a few dozen cross-department conversations. That's a very different audience than one that walked in and sat with the same five people they always sit with.
