The GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Most people attending a business speed-networking event has been broken by Entrevo, a UK-based business that helps entrepreneurs and leaders to stand out, scale up and build global small businesses.
The event, organised by Entrevo CEO, Darshana Ubl, took place at the Mermaid Theatre, Blackfriars, London on Friday October 17 and involved 487 business networkers plus a support team of 35.
The record-breaking activity took 1 hour and 18 minutes and involved each networking participant to speak with 22 others.
The event was adjudicated by official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator Mark McKinley, who kept everyone on their toes when announcing the good news. Several people were disqualified which meant that the new world record was achieved with a margin of just 12 people.
He said to the excited audience, “Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Most people attending a business speed-networking event was achieved today by Entrevo. Congratulations! You are all officially amazing. Well done!”
Indian-born Darshana Ubl said on hearing the news, “I couldn’t have done this without the help of my wonderful teams, plus all the stewards and ushers. There are many other people I want to thank. I wish I could get all 600 of you up on stage. I want to congratulate you all. It’s not my personal victory or Entrevo’s victory – it’s for each and every one of us.
“It’s been a dream for a long while to achieve a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title. It involved a lot of planning and patience, so we were thrilled to receive the accolade.”
Entrepreneur and Australian-born author Daniel Priestley, who co-founded Entrevo said, “This achievement is a total credit to Darshana and the team who drove this challenge all the way. Darshana doesn’t just like the challenge of running a 600 person event, she has to spice things up with a world record attempt. What a woman!”
The world record attempt took place in between a series of lectures offered by leading figures including New Zealand-born Dale Murray CBE, American-born Julia Langkraehr and Nic Rixon, a founding partner of Shirlaw’s Business Coaching. Dr Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, gave a keynote speech as the start of the day’s conference, stressing the support the Government is currently providing to entrepreneurs.
The event was an Entrepreneur Brand Accelerator conference promoting the Key Person of Influence, the world’s leading personal brand business coaching system.
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