About our events
NetParty is the first Worldwide Young Professionals Network. We are over 100,000 members and growing.
Our NetParty Networking Events are business and social networking events, held after work at nightclubs, lounges, mansions and other cool venues, attended by hundreds of young professionals and designed to make it easy to make new contacts and new friends.
The events generally follow this format:
- The first two hours of our events are like an extended "cocktail hour" with passed hors d’oeuvres at many events, drink specials, and low music conducive to business networking and making new connections.
- Later, our events take on a more social atmosphere, with great music and conversation.
- Our events are held at the hippest and most interesting venues. However, the music is never so loud that you cannot talk and our crowd is generally comprised entirely of young professionals. Business casual attire is requested.
Beginning in 2010, we will begin offering these additional services for young professionals:
- NetParty Seminars take place both in the real world and online and provide information about the latest tools for growing a business. Seminars include: "Growing Your Business with Social Media," "Using Facebook to Effectively Market Your Business," "NetParty's Guide to Twitter" and "Setting Up and Running a Business on WordPress."
- NetParty Career Services provides you with the tools you need to compete in today's challenging business environment.
- NetParty Nightlife acknowledges that there is life after work.
- NetParty Travel organizes getaways for young professionals.
- NetParty Nuggets, our opt-in email newsletter, highlights trends you should know about and what's new, cool, and geared for young professionals.
- NetParty Perks are some of the benefits of NetParty Membership including discounted car rentals and health club memberships.
Membership is completely free - just enter your email above. We look forward to having you join us!
Attended by young professionals
The young professionals who attend NetParty networking events are generally in their 20’s & 30’s, and work in a wide variety of fields. Our attendees include doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs, attorneys, fashion insiders, advertising executives, actors, sales professionals, writers, investment bankers and other professionals.
A small sample of the organizations represented at a NYC NetParty event include Citibank, MTV, NBC, Crain’s, The United Nations, AIG, Neologe.com, Deloitte & Touche, TIAA-CREF, Conde Nast, Lehman Brothers, Macroimagination.com, Screenvision, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Chase.com, Sikorsky, Kenyon Law, KPMG, Accenture, Standard Bank London, The WB Network, Universal McCann, Goldman Sachs, Salomon Smith Barney, Paramount, Citadon.com, Amex.com, AmeriChoice, Bozell, Columbia.edu, NYU.edu, The New School and many others…
At the hippest and most interesting venues
NetParty seeks out the best locations for our networking events. If you have a suggestion, please contact us.
Recent events have been held at some of the most talked-about venues in the country including Marquee, Hiro and The Rainbow Room (Manhattan), Social and Les Deux (LA) and Pangaea (Miami and Austin).
About NetParty Team
NetParty USA Team
Jeff Strank Founder
I’m a reformed attorney and a technogeek-wannabe. I’m a lot better looking than the people below me on this page which makes working together awkward. I attend many of our events across the country so if you have suggestions for us, please feel free to buy me a drink and then tell me. If you have any complaints about our events, please try to find Lynn or Kristen. It’s probably their fault. Most likely Lynn's.
We are expanding rapidly and will be soon launching a much more significant web presence. We are always looking for great ideas and for great people to join our team so feel free to email me at jeff at netparty.com.
Lynn Reich Event Management / Sponsorship Director
I have nine years of event management experience and currently manage our Event Director Program. In my role as Sponsorship Director, I can put your product or brand in front of tens of thousands of young professionals nationwide both online and in-person at our events. If you want to reach this desirable demographic, please drop me a line at lynn at netparty.com.
Kristen Kos Social Media Queen / Venue Outreach
I manage NetParty’s Social Media Program. I’m also always on the lookout for the newest, hottest and most interesting event venues. If you own or manage one and would like to host hundreds of young professionals after-work, you can ping me at kristen at netparty.com.
Timo Office Manager
I retrieve faxes. I shred faxes. I feel like I could do more, but let's just say I'm not particularly motivated and leave it at that.
NetParty Argentina Team
Pablo Ziliani Project leader
Together with Nubis, I’m leading the charge to create what we hope will be a unique business/social networking online destination. My interests including the Python programming language (in 2004 I was among the starters of PyAr) and graphic design.
Cristian “Nubis” Bruno Project leader
I’ve always liked computers, I learned about "The Internet" when I was 12 and I have been learning ever since in order to be a part, and enable other people to be a part of the new way of approaching human relations and knowledge/information sharing. I’m glad to be part of a team where I can finally do that. To me, the upcoming sites are just the start of many good things to come, where people will make a difference in our lives by letting us make a difference in theirs.
Roberto Etcheverry Programmer
I work with Unix and Linux since I can remember. I like Python a lot, but my heart belongs to Perl.
I pretend to play in a band and I have a cat, too (called Tina). Those things seem to be quite common here.
Julián Landerreche Web developer
HTML & CSS guy and a nerd-wannabe. I play in a techno-pop band called Exaudi.
Tomás Rojas Programmer
Backend developer here. I like inline skating and love going to the movies. Oh, and I don’t have a cat.
Juan Barcan Web developer
I’m a graphic & web designer. My interests and roles are Photoshop, HTML & CSS. Also, I’m a big Vélez Sársfield fan.
Camila Torre Notari Graphic Designer
I’m a graphic designer and illustrator. I love drawing comics and my cat’s name is Petunio.
NetParty Event Directors
Cortney DeArmond Chicago Event Director
I'm a transplant to Chicago who is proud to call the city home for the past 8 years. As the Chicago Event Director, I help bring young professionals together at some of the most exciting and innovative venues throughout the city and am amazed that someone has offered to pay me to do this. If you like fun, or want to host a group of smart, successful, happy people at your Chicago venue, contact me at cortney at netparty.com.
You? Event director
Are you a budding event superstar with great knowledge of your city’s nightlife and strong writing skills? A natural born party-planner with an unquenched desire to help young professionals meet and NetParty grow? Write us to jobs@netparty.com and tell us why you should be your city’s Event Director.
