AFQY Wellington May 26th 5.30 to 7.30pm

Welcome back to AFQY Wellington!

Event Overview:

AFQY the original networking event, where we can enjoy a few quiet yarns by "meeting the person, not the suit" with our famous 'No selling' rule to connecting before talking tech - as we have for 14 years. The format helps explain the event, and Ryan will greet you at the entrance, welcome you and connect you to a bunch of people and your first conversation. We consciously make you feel welcome and able to speak to anyone, and you will, as will everyone else... relaxed atmosphere with a fair bit of humour... we all have a good time talking and connecting.

Event Format:

• 5.30pm AFQY is officially open - 
  • Ryan will great you at the entrance
  • Introduce you to conversation
  • You can grab a drink on the tab and some nibbles
• 6.00pm Official Welcome and Introductions
• 6.10pm Back to "Meet the person" no-selling networking
• 7.00pm Check in "How many have you met tonight you didn't otherwise know be fore tonight?"
• 7.05pm Back to the last bit of connection making yarning
• 7.30pm Official Close
• 7.35pm  I am off the clock and ready to yarn ;-) so stay

Who is invited to attend:

We invite Tech-End-Users to join us for an afternoon of of AFQY networking.
Food and beverages are provided - finger food with beers, wines and softdrinks

Event Partner:

• Shaun Webber from Parallo
• Neil Calvert from Linq
  

Venue Partner:

• The Green Man - Kirsten Keeling

The AFQY Way:

1. No Selling - the process is get to know the person as a person first, then as you develop conversation tech and work naturally comes in, but all/any pricing, offers, pitching is not allowed and risks being red-carded for 3 events.
2. No flicking cards out - you can't give a card out, but you can ask for a card after you have had a good yarn - relationship first.
3. You can't ask what a person does until the 3rd question - again meet the person, not their suit, the first two questions help you discover who you're talking - uncover commonalities be it rugby or ballet or origami our diversity makes us inclusive before finding out what someone does.
4. If you are a Provider (Vendor, Disty, Reseller, Recruiter) then you must purchase a ticket for and bring an a Tech End User (CIO, CTO, CDO, CISO, Prog/Proj/Prod Manager, PM, BA, Dev, DevOps, etc etc) and put their name in the ticket - restricted to one person per non-sponsoring provider.
5. We R.O.A.R. Reserve the right of admission