From now on, you can live-view the main stage of the First Tuesday event, and you get a webinar-type introduction of your preferred focus meetings. In between the keynotes, and after the introduction of your focus meeting you can attend 7 ‘real’ virtual 1-to-1 international business networking meetings. This is a result of the business partner cooperation between First Tuesday and Conversation Starter, an innovative app that extends every physical meeting into the virtual world.
First Tuesday is the fastest growing international business networking event. It is organised on the First Tuesday of every other month. ImpactBuilders has successfully tested this new networking concept in Tallinn (Estonia), and is now moving the event to Ghent (Belgium) and Milan (Italy) as from 2026. Other cities will follow. We want to create a great alternative for all the startup and VC events for the mid-market of mid-sized businesses in various classic industries — and their financing structures of family offices, private equity firms, and industrial holdings.
And now, this initiative gets blasted all across Europe, thanks to a big app from a small company in Antwerp (Belgium): ConversationStarter.
Conversation Starter widens up First Tuesday to all Europeans
Dries Hendrickx, co-founder, explains “We have developed an app that adds a virtual dimension to every physical event. Initially built to make it easier to make 1-to-1 appointments during in person events, allowing the attendees to make appointments with the most interesting people in the room. Growing with the needs & expectations of attendees, Conversation Starter has added a full online platform for the viewing of livestream events, as well as to have online conversations with great interesting individuals.”
“This allows us to run a fully online networking event, intermixed with the live-stream of the main-stage keynotes of the First Tuesday,” says Jan Lagast, founder of ImpactBuilders and designer of the First Tuesday networking concept. “In other words: online attendees will see the live-stream of the keynotes, and when we start to network in Tallinn and Ghent, they start to network online. 5-4-3-2-1, and there is your appointment.”
First Virtual First Tuesday on December 2
We are going to test this great virtual concept for our next event on 2 December. So, everyone in Europe will be able to attend the First Tuesday, and make great new appointments.
Test it out for free, and register for the virtual First Tuesday via this link: