Small rooms, built by hand.
Quarterly dinners, an annual summit from year two, and chapters that open in order. No stage, no slide deck, no keynote.
Rows, and a stage to face.No stage. One table, seated by hand.
Dinners.
One long table, or several small ones, depending on the room. Quarterly, and the core of the network.
The guest list is composed, not filled.
Three to four weeks out, balanced across the four groups against a target ratio, never first-come.
Seating is the product.
You are placed next to the two or three people most relevant to what you are working on. If there is someone you need to meet, tell us and we seat you toward them.
The evening.
One organisation may host or introduce the evening. They get the same seat at the table as everyone else, not a microphone.
What leaves the room.
Introductions are made personally, with consent, within the week. Nobody's contact details leave the room without their say-so, and never from a shared list. What is said at the table stays at the table, so people can speak plainly about procurement, regulation and money.
The summit.
From year two. Once the dinners have proven the room, the summit scales it: a full day, Canada-wide, with curated attendance and the same composition rules at larger scale.
Chapters.
Toronto, then Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. Toronto is the only chapter open today; the rest are named because that is the order they open in, not because they exist yet.