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# No-Nonsense Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create!


- **Date:** Wednesday, Jul 9, 2025
- **Time:** 11:00–12:00 (60 min)
- **Room:** M5 (45 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Description

Stop missing out on valuable connections. Learn how to craft your own networking strategy. Use it immediately at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025.

Do you seek inspiring and engaging conversations with like-minded people? Do you want to get there without wading through the dull desert of small-talk? This very interactive workshop is here to help! 

By reflecting on your role in the developer community and defining your networking purpose, you’ll clarify why you want to create meaningful connections. Using simple and effective strategies like leveraging proximity bias and intentional questions you will enter interesting conversations with fellow participants at the workshop. 

Whether you are alone at We Are Developers or just want to quickly get into the right mood for meeting new people, this session is your perfect start to the conference.

## Speaker

### [Theresa Scholten (born Lankes)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@theresa-scholten-born-lankes)

Agiler Coach, Facilitator and Workshopper


## Related talks at this congress

- [Building a Thriving Web Development Community in a Large Tech Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/598-building-a-thriving) — Jonathan Carle, Linda Bopp
- [Code meets connectivity - Developers as the powerhouse of Network API innovation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/609-code-meets) — Alex Walling
- [Did you actually listen?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/459-did-you-actually) — Lena Rossmann
- [Check-in & Badge Pickup powered by CARIAD @Volkswagen DRIVE.studio](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/486-check-in-badge) — General Program