Using the brokerage tool to find partners
The brokerage tool can be used to identify potential partners for your consortium, to send them messages and arrange online meetings.
1) Registration
Register via the Register button. Make sure you choose the correct time zone to avoid confusion later on!
2) Use your profile to showcase your needs
The organisation description and 'services offer' questions should describe what your company does, what you can offer to potential partners, and who you want to meet. A good profile will generate significantly more meeting requests.
3) Browse and search profiles of attendees
Go to the participants list to filter by category and country, and to search by keyword.
4) Send & receive meeting requests
Browse the profiles of participants and send meeting requests to those you want to meet during the event.
5) Meetings
Access your meetings in My Agenda or Meetings, where you have your complete schedule and the list of your meetings. Check your camera and microphone and don't be late!
How to initiate a Virtual Meeting?
- Identify promising participants on the Participants list. Once you find a suitable meeting partner, click "Request meeting" to send them a meeting request.
- Use the Messages functionality to chat about common interests and availability.
- Click "View Profile →" to find out more about the participant
- If you would like to have a meeting with them, you can also request a meeting here.
- Check My agenda and Meetings for your schedule and your list of confirmed meetings.
- At the time of the meeting, go to the Meetings page and click on Start Meeting
- You can generate a link to invite additional guests through the Invite guests button, or share your screen through the screen sharing button.
- A virtual meeting can be started at any given time before its ending time and it won't stop automatically, one of the participants has to end it.
- The remaining time will be displayed on the top left corner.
- The next meeting card will be displayed with one minute before the next meeting.
- Clicking on Start Next Meeting will end the current meeting and will start the next one.
Technical requirements for Virtual meetings
Virtual meetings take place through the b2match video tool, which is integrated in the b2match platform and it doesn’t need to/it can't be downloaded.
Please note that larger group meetings (5+ people) are possible but may experience reduced video/audio quality. You might prefer to hold them on your own virtual meeting platform (Zoom, Teams, Webex etc.) - you can share the link with other participants via the messaging function.
- Install the latest version of your browser
Use a device with an incorporated webcam or a webcam. Without the camera, the meeting can still take place in the audio mode.
Microphone and camera
You can test your microphone and camera in your Meetings list, once you are logged in to your b2match profile. In order to do this, you need to click the blue Camera and microphone test and follow the instructions.
The system will indicate if there are issues caused by your permission settings for either your browser or the system:
- browser permissions for the microphone and camera
- system permissions for the microphone and camera
Additionally, you can do the following checks:
- test your microphone with other apps, such as Google Meet, Skype, Zoom, etc.
- run Twilio's network test, which will start an automatic diagnosis to check if Twilio has permission to use your microphone and camera
- Twilio is the name of the software we use for online meetings
