One group will sit down the entire time, and the other group will move around the room like an assembly line, talking to each stationary person for a few minutes before moving on to the next. Speed-dating is structured mingling that usually involves two groups: a stationary group and a mobile group.
After searching for answers online, he attended an event hosted by Skip the Small Talk, a company that hosts speed-dating, “speed-friending,” and other relationship-building activities that attempt to work past surface-level chatter and initiate intimate conversations. “Where do you meet people as an adult outside of school?” said Pineda. When Aldrin Pineda, 35, moved to Boston in 2019, he was unsure of where he could make meaningful connections.