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 2026…

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. 

Geneva Film Premiere

How to Live on Earth is a feature documentary presented by Benedict Cumberbatch and produced by Open Planet Studios in association with the Villars Institute and Silvania. The screening is being hosted at Building Bridges in collaboration with Mercuria.

Speed Networking

Our Speed Networking Sessions, led by Diamond Event Sponsors 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. 

Warm Data Lab Series

Warm Data Labs are a practice allowing for mutual learning across contexts.

Warm Data Labs are open to people who are curious, reflective and interested in experiencing complexity through personal stories and contexts. No prior knowledge of systems thinking or Warm Data is required.

The format includes two facilitated, in-person sessions—on Monday, 5 October and Wednesday, 7 October:

Social Media

Engage with us and your network on social media:

• Mark yourself as attending on our official LinkedIn Event Page to see who else is joining.
• Post about your attendance and tag us on LinkedIn @Building-Bridges-Switzerland
• Using the hashtag #BuildingBridges26.
• Top posts will feature on our community feed.