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Conference Networking Bingo Template

Break the ice between strangers at conferences with a playful networking challenge.

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Start with a ready-made Networking Bingo card designed for conferences and professional events.

Every square gives an attendee a specific, low-pressure reason to approach someone they have not met, so nobody has to invent an opening line.

How to run this activity

Distribute cards at registration alongside name badges. Attendees mingle during breaks and networking sessions, marking off squares as they meet people who match each description. Announce a prize for the first completed line at the closing session. Encourage attendees to exchange contact details with everyone they tick off.

What''s this Networking Bingo template for?

It suits welcome receptions, networking breaks, association events, customer conferences and professional mixers, where people arrive as individuals and should leave more useful to one another.

The prompts are professionally relevant rather than novelty facts, so the conversations they start are worth having.

Networking Bingo card ideas

  • Meet someone attending this event for the first time.
  • Meet someone from a different job function.
  • Meet someone working on a similar problem to you.
  • Meet someone who has solved a challenge you currently face.
  • Meet someone from a different industry or size of organisation.
  • Exchange one genuinely useful recommendation.
  • Meet someone you could introduce to another attendee.
  • Meet someone you would like to follow up with after the event.

Make the template more relevant

Edit a handful of squares so they reflect who is actually in the room: the sectors represented, the roles attending and the themes on the programme.

Keep every square something an attendee can ask about comfortably in a two-minute conversation, and leave out anything personal or protected.

Play live or print

Share a QR code on screen, on signage or on a badge insert and attendees play in their browser, each with a randomised card.

Printed cards suit table drops and delegate packs, and give people somewhere to note who they met.

Full prompt list

  1. Meet someone attending this event for the first time
  2. Meet someone from another organisation
  3. Meet someone in a different job function
  4. Meet someone from another region or country
  5. Meet someone who recommends a session you haven’t attended
  6. Meet someone working on a similar problem to you
  7. Meet someone from a different industry
  8. Meet someone who has attended this event before
  9. Meet someone whose role you want to understand better
  10. Meet someone using a tool or approach you’re considering
  11. Meet someone who works with a similar customer group
  12. Meet someone facing a challenge you have already solved
  13. Meet someone who has solved a challenge you currently face
  14. Meet someone from a smaller organisation than yours
  15. Meet someone from a larger organisation than yours
  16. Meet someone who disagrees with you about an industry trend
  17. Meet someone whose work complements yours
  18. Meet someone you could introduce to another attendee
  19. Meet someone with an unexpected route into their current role
  20. Meet someone working on something you had not considered before today
  21. Exchange one genuinely useful recommendation with someone
  22. Meet someone you would like to follow up with after the event
  23. Meet someone you would not normally have approached
  24. Make one connection that could become useful after the conference

Customisation ideas

  • Include squares that direct attendees to specific sponsor stands
  • Add prompts referencing this year's keynote themes or speakers
  • Create a virtual version for hybrid or online-only attendees

Frequently asked questions

Mention the game during the opening address and offer a visible prize, such as free entry to next year's event. Placing cards in registration packs alongside pens increases uptake significantly.

Yes, with adjustments — swap physical actions for chat-based ones, such as commenting in a session thread or sending a direct message. See our remote and virtual meeting bingo templates for more ideas.

Something related to future engagement works well, such as a discounted ticket, branded merchandise, or a feature in event follow-up communications.

Yes, this is a great way to drive footfall to sponsor booths. Include a square for visiting a specific stand or collecting a sponsor's business card.

Related activity guidance

Need more ideas? Networking Bingo covers prompt ideas and facilitation guidance for events and teams.

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Customise this Networking Bingo template

Edit the prompts, make the card fit your event and choose live or printable play.