The Future of Crowdsourced Group Learning — Meetings Innovation Report
Photo Credit: The tiers of scaffold seating everywhere at C2 Montreal 2017 give the events a "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" vibe. Skift
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There's a big demand for event tech platforms that help conference attendees co-create their own educational and networking journeys. One company may have finally produced a matchmaking tool that actually delivers on that demand.
The Future of Meetings & Events
A lot of different event tech companies have been building matchmaking platforms to help conference attendees meet other like-minded people, but few of them are achieving any type of critical mass and widespread adoption.
Montreal-based E-180 is making a lot of right moves to perhaps become an industry standard. At C2 Montreal this year, it expanded on its individual Braindates meetup technology, and launched the online Group Braindates platform. Now, any conference attendee can organize a mini-workshop with four other C2 participants to discuss a subject of their choosing.
The beauty of the thing is that it actually works. More than 3,000 individual Braindates and 120 Group Braindates were scheduled, and there would have been more of the latter but E-180 simply ran out of space. Crowdsourced, collaborative learning is now a reality, althoug
