Networking

We know how useful conferences are to meet new people and others who have the same or different interests and also learn from one another.

Equally, they could be daunting, especially for early career or junior researchers, first timers who might not know anyone, and public participants. You might also feel too shy to approach someone!

For these reasons, we have organised different ways to help you network with other delegates. These include:

• A coloured sticker on your badge to indicate you are an early career researcher, a first-timer, or a public participant. This will allow other delegates to identify you and maybe help you break the ice.
• There is an allocated space for people to hang out and mingle near the registration desk on the first day. Our team from CAPC will help ease you into the conference and introduce you to people.
• Mingle with Bingo - an incentive to meet people, mingle, find out about their work and maybe something interesting about them. There is a prize draw for those who manage to complete the card!
• A workshop session for early career researchers on the first day (expect some sketches and a sing-a-long)
• These are all optional and voluntary but we hope they will improve the experience of the conference for you. Who knows, this might be a start of an interesting collaboration or even improve your career prospects. Have fun!