A 1:1 meeting is a time you book with another attendee through the app. You send a request and the other person accepts. The meeting then appears in both of your schedules with a chat and, depending on the event, a table or a video room.
Where to find it
Mobile app: Networking tab in the bottom bar.
Web app: Networking in the left menu. On windows narrower than 768 px it moves to the bottom bar.
The tab shows a badge with your unread messages plus the requests waiting for your answer.
How a meeting comes together
You open a person's profile from People (or the name your organizer gave it) and select Suggest meeting. See Suggest a meeting.
The app proposes a networking slot that is free for both of you. You can change it and edit the message.
The other person gets a push notification and an email. They can Accept, Decline or Reschedule.
When they accept, the meeting is confirmed. The chat opens for both of you, and the meeting shows in My Schedule.
If the meeting has a time slot, both of you get a push notification 5 minutes before the start: "Meeting in 5 minutes with <name>".
While a request is pending, the slot is reserved for both of you. Nobody else can book either of you for that time.
Who can request a meeting
You and the other person both finished the networking part of onboarding. If you skipped it, the Networking tab shows Start networking.
The organizer decides who can send requests to whom, and how many requests each person can send. See Meeting requests remaining.
If you don't see Suggest meeting on a profile, you can't send that person a request right now. Either a request between you is already pending, they opted out of networking, your ticket doesn't allow requests to them, or you have no requests left.
If you already have a confirmed meeting with the person, their profile shows Join call instead of Suggest meeting.
Time slots and networking areas
The organizer defines networking slots: fixed times when meetings happen, each tied to a networking area (a place at the venue or an online area). The Suggest meeting screen shows a Suggested networking slot with the day, the time and the area, marked "Available for both of you". Select Change to pick another slot.
If the Suggest meeting screen has no slot card, the organizer has turned off networking slots. You then send a request without a time and agree on when and where to meet in the chat.
Times show in the event's time zone if you attend in person. If you attend virtually, they show in your own time zone (Account > Date & time > Time zone).
In-person and virtual meetings
In-person: when the meeting is accepted, Brella assigns a table (or the organizer's name for a meeting point) in the networking area. The table shows in the chat under Meeting details and on the meeting card in My Schedule. If the organizer named a reserved table, for example "VIP", the name shows too. If every table is taken and the organizer allows overbooking, the meeting is confirmed without a table. The chat then shows a notice from the organizer (the default is "Arrange custom location"). Agree on a spot in the chat.
Virtual: every confirmed meeting has a video room. Select the camera icon next to the message box or Join video call in the ⋯ menu. If neither of you attends in person, the meeting card also has a Join button. In the web app on a window 1024 px or wider, the call opens in a pop-up window. On the Suggest meeting screen of a virtual event, the slot location reads Online meeting.
If both of you attend in person, the camera icon is hidden. The room still exists in the ⋯ menu as Join video call.
The meeting chat
Every request opens a chat with the other person. The header shows Meeting with <first name> and the status: Accepted, Pending or Canceled.
After you send a request, you can write 1 reminder message. Then the message box reads "Chat is paused until <name> replies." until they answer. See Waiting for an answer to your meeting request.
Status changes appear as lines in the chat: Meeting request sent, Meeting request received, Meeting accepted, Meeting rescheduled, Meeting canceled, Meeting declined.
The ⋯ menu in the header holds the actions for the meeting: Reschedule, Cancel meeting and Join video call. It also shows Show map when the organizer added a networking map, and Invite others when the organizer turned on group meetings.
Where your meetings show
Networking > Meeting requests: requests waiting for your answer.
Networking > Chats: every meeting and chat, newest message first.
My Schedule: confirmed meetings and pending requests as cards, with the status pill (Accepted Meeting, Pending Meeting), the time, the area and the table.
Schedule (or the name your organizer gave it): the timeline marks your meetings in the networking slots. The tile reads New request, Reschedule, Pending or the table.
People: the button on a person's card reads Waiting (your request is pending), New request (their request is waiting for you) or Meeting details (meeting confirmed).
Good to know
Requests and meetings belong to one event. Each event has its own list.
Meetings are 1:1 unless the organizer turned on group meetings. Then you see Add others on the Suggest meeting screen and Invite others in the chat menu. See Group meetings.
Meetings with the label Arranged by organizer (or the name your organizer gave it) were booked for you by the event team. See Meetings arranged by your organizer.
Set the times you are not available before you start booking. See Set your networking availability.
Answer the requests you receive. A request that waits more than 5 hours lowers your position in other people's matches.