NETWORKING

At Building Bridges, networking isn’t a side event, it’s how over 2,000 change-makers under one roof, connect with each other, courageously. Every moment is an opportunity to connect across sectors, challenge assumptions, and co-create solutions. From curated sessions to chance encounters over coffee, here’s how networking features across Building Bridges 2025…

Action Events

Most of our Action Events are co-designed by community partners to be interactive and participatory. Workshops, roundtables, fishbowl formats and solution stage sessions are engineered to spark real conversations and open new pathways for collaboration.

Global Village

The Global Village on the ground floor of the CICG offers a relaxed space for impromptu dialogue—over coffee, between sessions, or during dedicated networking breaks. Amidst highly visual billboards by Founding Partners and Event Partners of Building Bridges, participants can learn about sustainability initiatives in action. In addition, the vibrant space is animated by cocktail events on selected evenings. 

Social Cocktails

Wrap up the day with fellow attendees at the end of each day in the Global Village. It is the perfect opportunity to build new relationships, exchange ideas, and reflect on the day’s insights and learnings in a casual atmosphere. More details to come soon. 

Speed Networking

Our Speed Networking Sessions, led by Diamond Event Partners Lombard Odier, Pictet and UBS, are tailored for those looking to make fast, focused, high-value connections. They aim to facilitate individual connections between people interested in similar topics to expand their networks and explore areas of synergy in their work. The sessions follow a classic Speed Networking format where individuals rapid fire introduce themselves to each other and then move on to a new person. Participants meet 8-10 new people during the session. 

These sessions will be announced on the programme soon. Stay tuned!

Cohorts Connect

Cohorts Connect is now open for applications. This two-part programme is designed to bring together a selected group of participants for deeper, more meaningful connection. 

The format includes two facilitated, in-person sessions—on Day One and Day Three:

• Opening session on Tuesday 30 September 14:30-15:30 – Cohorts Connect: Warm Data Lab.
  This opening session will be hosted as a Warm Data Lab, facilitated by Nora Bateson. Developed to explore the relational fabric of complex systems in an immersive manner. 
• Reflection session on Thursday 2 October 15:30-17:00 – Cohorts Connect: Reflection Session.
  This closing session brings the cohort journey full circle. It begins with a keynote address exploring our shared responsibility to transform how finance interacts with nature, people, and the future. 

More than networking, Cohorts Connect is about building trust and laying the foundations for future collaboration.

To learn more and submit your application, please visit Cohorts Connect at Building Bridges 2025.