Upcoming B2B Events

Overview

Upcoming B2B Networking is a monthly LinkedIn newsletter that lists the in-person business networking events happening across Detroit, Ann Arbor, and the surrounding metro. I started it on my own in January 2025 and fund it myself. Each edition is one chronological list of where to show up that month.

Audience

Professionals, founders, and business owners in metro Detroit who want to meet people in person, and need to know what is on, where, and whether it costs anything.

Why I started it

Event calendars are easy to find. Knowing which events are worth going to is not. A curated list of in-person B2B networking events in metro Detroit was hard to come by.

More accessible than email. The closest alternative, The List Detroit, asks for your email. This lives on LinkedIn: one click to subscribe, and you’re notified when each edition goes out.

Tested before it launched. It started as a spreadsheet of the events I was attending, emailed one by one to people I met. Almost everyone wrote back to thank me, so I turned it into a newsletter.

How it works

A standing list of organizers. Every edition starts from about thirty organizers across Detroit, Ann Arbor, and the suburbs, each checked again every month.

In-person only, at any price. Webinars and virtual events are out. Free and paid events both belong, and drop-in coworking days and design-craft sessions are left out.

Verified on the event’s own page. Listings and calendars often disagree, so each time, venue, and price is checked against the event page before it runs.

One flat, chronological list. Each entry gives the event, the organizer, the date and time, the venue with its full address, and a link to RSVP.