The Berlin Content Meetup
In 2019, I started a content meetup in Berlin.
I wasn’t too ambitious initially so the first installment ended up being three people chatting in a pub. (hat tip to ur-attendees, James and Diksha)
After that, I pushed the boat out slightly further.
I organised an event with a simple format: 3 speakers, 15 minutes each, sharing something that worked for them. Plus lots of beer and pizza.
My main goal was to get people in a room so they could talk to each other. And suffice to say it worked. Over 100 people came. And kept coming.
We had 6 lovely meetups over the course of a year and then the pandemic hit.
People asked me to take it online but I didn’t because my initial hope was to make meeting people less awkward, not more. And we’ve all been through enough Zooms.
I had intended to revive it but the pandemic continued to wear on and after a while, it didn’t make sense.
So here’s to making space for something new.
Big thanks to Blinkist, my then-employers, for allowing use of the space and especially to Jana, basically the best person there is, for helping me organise it.
Thanks to everyone who came along and many, many thanks to all the speakers who shared insights and generally made my life very easy. Stars, all.
Amanda Cormier
James Haslam
Shelley Pascual
Emily Stevens
Vanessa Ellingham
Venetia Anderson
Claire Larkin
Tom Anderson
Diksha Dutta
Emilie Rauschütz
Noemi Tanoni
Paul O’Callaghan
Matthew Deery
Katrin Jahns