Geek Speed Dating & Geek Speed Friending Montréal

We’ve just started! Give us time to fine-tune the formula, identify people’s needs, and if our team grows big enough and everything works out, we’ll expand to other cities.

Business attire. Neat appearance. As if you were going on dates. Come to please whether in friendship or love.

As Geeks ourselves, we have become aware of the misunderstanding caused when we share our passions with certain other people. We want to bring together passionate singles so that they can share their passions without shame.

And then we needed something different from the other offers in town. 🙂

For us, they are passionate people, whether it’s science, literature, botany, history, comics, manga, anime, video games, board games, cinema, cosplay… . People who love to learn and explore topics passionately.

Yes! All respectful people are welcome!

Join us at the location indicated on the day of the event. Introduce yourself and chat with the other participants already present.

About 30 minutes after the doors open, we start the event.

You sit in front of a person of the opposite sex, you introduce yourself to them, and every 5 minutes you change the interlocutor. All women meet all men and vice versa.

You then note down the names of the people you’d like to match with. If it’s reciprocal, we’ll share contact details in the days that follow.

After the speed dating, you will be able to chat with whomever you want in a respectful way until the end of the event.

With our company Écran Partage, which is a media outlet, which organizes video game events, and which works in the industry, we naturally have a more male readership.

In order to allow for gender-balanced events, we open male registrations in increments of 5. When enough women are registered to allow for some parity, the men then on the waiting list are notified and can buy a ticket.

Other dating events in the city have communication that appeals to women first, and have the opposite problem. They are constantly looking for male participants.

The events are aimed at heterosexual or homosexual singles.

Yes, we’re trying at the moment.

We test, we start, we iterate. We can see if people are afraid of this word when they sign up or not. We can see the clichés that people have in their heads, with the comments we receive, but we test to see if it can attract people to add or remove the word.

When our events are sufficiently known, this should no longer be a problem because people will be used to it.

Join us at the location indicated on the day of the event. Introduce yourself and chat with the other participants already present.

About 30 minutes after the doors open, we start the event.

Sit down at a table of 4, and introduce yourself! If you don’t have anything to talk about, we’ll make some suggested questions available. After 15-20 minutes, we ask 2 people at each table to move to another table. This way, after a few rotations, everyone should have met.

If you’re attracted to someone, you can ask for their contact details directly, or write down on a sheet of paper that you’d like to “match”. If it’s mutual, we’ll share the details with you within a few days.

After the rotations, everyone is free to talk with whomever they like.