The roundtable
Serious talk, memorable rooms.
Local rooms built around the people in them, on a subject worth the morning. Kept to time, peers only, unrecorded by default.
Futr Keystone
The relationship comes first. The business follows.
The best conversation at any event happens after the agenda ends, once the titles drop and people just talk. We build the room around that moment, rather than leaving it to chance.
Why Futr Keystone
The right people, somewhere worth remembering.
Every Futr Keystone room is built around the people in it. Because every place is by invitation, we know who’s coming before anyone arrives, and that each of them adds something as a peer and as a network worth keeping. Then we make it worth the time: a setting people talk about afterwards, something to share before anyone talks shop, and a conversation kept to time.
Built around the people
Every room starts with who should meet whom. The format follows — a roundtable, a friendly contest, a few days away.
Worth remembering
A hockey box, a chef’s table, a GoPro on the buggy. The fun is the point: it’s what turns a contact into a relationship.
Worth the time
By invitation, so everyone in the room adds value as a peer and as a network, and every voice is worth hearing. Kept to time, one per company, nobody selling.
Why these events
Three ways we get people talking properly.
No industry sits still, and nobody works it out alone. Every format brings in outside insight from people living the change, alongside the peers you’ll actually call when you need a second opinion.
The contest
Competitive, not corporate.
The two sides of a working relationship on opposite teams, drawn rather than entered.
The expedition
TED Talks meets a great adventure.
A handful of the sharpest minds somewhere that has nothing to do with the office.
Whichever room you’re in: you leave having had fun, made a friend, and got something out of it. Never just having attended something.
The series
One room, or a conversation that runs.
Come to a single room, or stay for the series: ask your questions in the first, hear them answered in the second, and look back on how it played out in the third.
Why I built this
Business is simple. Networking should be too.
I believe business is simple. Most people want the same thing from a room: to walk in, feel comfortable being themselves, and talk about what’s really on their mind with people they actually want in their network.
So my idea is simple: build the room for the people in it. Invitation only, so everyone there is someone worth meeting, the speakers included. Put the questions that matter most in business right now on the table, and hear how your peers and the people leading the change see the next twelve months. Make it somewhere you’ll enjoy. The relationships follow.
Futr Keystone is a business, not a charity. Organisations pay to support a room. You don’t. My interest is in that being worth enough to them that the rooms keep happening, never in what gets said inside one.
One ask, and only one
Ask for an invitation.
Tell us who you are and which kind of room interests you. There’s no fee — every seat is decided, not sold or signed up for, and that’s what keeps the room worth being in. A person reads every one.
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