Need inspiration for your conference room names? Here’s a list of some of the cool meeting room names from your favorite tech startups.

Conference room names are important

They bring meaning to someone or something. It’s how we identify people and things. Our buildings have names, so do the cars we drive. There are entire companies built on the skill of naming brands for big companies.

Tech & tech startups are just like a celebrity couple expecting their first child…they put painstaking thought into what unique and clever name they should give their conference rooms.

These companies are bold and exciting places to work. They push the status quo and look to make their mark on the world. This kind of environment fosters creativity; creativity that can be channeled into naming their conference rooms.

Technology companies have some of the most unique conference room names. Some themes are simple, but have creative meaning behind them, like how the Mashery names their conference rooms after The Princess Bride characters. The largest meeting room is named Fezzik, after Andre the Giant’s character.

There are many different examples of how startups crowdsource their team’s creative talents to come up with the coolest names for a conference room. These names make booking a meeting room actually fun!

Here’s a look at some of the most famous tech companies and the brilliant names given to their conference rooms.

Best Conference Room Names with Mashups

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Facebook moved into a gigantic 430,000 square foot campus in 2015. The campus is built to hold 2,800 employees and has dozens of conference and meeting rooms with reservation systems. The Facebook team has mini-themes for different clusters of conference rooms.

In every Facebook office, employees vote on the name of the conference room in their designated area, first by picking themes, which get voted up or down, and then by voting on names within the theme. That way they can decide which inspirational room names are the best for their office.

In an interview with Fortune, Slater Tow, a Facebook spokesperson said that “It’s a long-standing tradition here that we vote on best conference room names.”

The team has done a fabulous job to date with the names. Facebook’s conference room names are some of the most creative and humorous names in tech. Here are four different examples of themes and conference room names within the themes.

Bad Ideas

• Sub-Prime Mortgages
• Windows Vista
• Beacon
• Running with Scissors
• Fighting Chuck Norris
• Knife at a Gun Fight
• Land War in Asia
• Crossing the Streams (Ghostbusters)

Musicians + Acronyms/Terms

• Barenaked LEDs
• Collective SOL
• Flock of SQLs
• fl33twood mac
• The SMShing Pumpkins
• INXCSS
• Notorious OMG
• Vanilla ICMP
• GNU Kids on the Block!
• LOL Cat Stevens
• 50 CentOS
• Black Eyed PC Load Letter
• Jay-ZOMG
• LL Cool.js
• TLDR.E.M.
• IMHOgen Heap
• Johnny Cache
• JSON Mraz
• Linkedin Park
• Perl Jam
• Alicia Keylogger

Words That Could Be Prefixed with “In”

• Five Minutes
• Stagram
• Genius
• Finite
• Conceivable
• Decent
• Tact
• Ternet
• N-Out Burger
• Appropriate
• Toxicated
• Sane

Star Wars Crossed with Drinks

• Dark and Stormtrooper
• Use the Four Loko
• Mai Tai Fighter
• Brewbacca
• Jar Jar Drinks
• Darth Jager

Imagine checking the conference room booking system at Facebook and having to choose between Brewbacca and Notorious OMG for your 3pm meeting? Book a meeting at Facebook is bound to give anyone a chuckle.

Etsy

The home to thousands of individual e-commerce stores, its headquarters are located in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. Etsy has long been associated with creativity; many of the e-commerce shops that use the their platform are individual sellers, peddling different creative projects. For example, this store owner gained fame by offering Golden Girls panties.

It’s no surprise that the Etsy team feeds off of creativity and devised inspirational conference room names that rival Facebook’s – with conference room themes as a mashup of food and musicians. This resulted in delicious names that could probably double as menu items at your local diner.  Checking meeting room availability never sounded so tasty.

Food/Musicians Mashups

• Pjork
• Soy Division
• Ace of Bouillabaisse
• Bon Bon Jovi
• David Lee Broth
• Fleetwood Mac ‘n’ Cheese
• Froyo Ma
• Johnny Cashews
• Lil Kimchee
• Nine Inch Snails
• Oreo Speedwagon
• Public Edamame
• Red Velvet Underground
• Sushi and the Banshees
• The Rolling Scones
• Wu Tang Clams

Conference Room Names with Special Meaning

Pinterest

Most of us know about Pinterest by now.

Pinterest users are known to fall into rabbit holes, pinning everything that could possibly interest them. It’s this fanatic use of Pinterest that drives the team’s conference room themes.

Pinterest determines the name of their meeting spaces based on what the site’s users are excited about. Here’s a list of conference rooms at Pinterest and an inside look at what Pinterest users love.

Things Pinterest Users Love

• Hipster Babies
• Beach Wedding
• Kitten Mittens
• Chambray
• Infinity Scarf
• Kale Chip
• Crock Pot

As these technology companies have demonstrated that inspirational conference room names don’t have to be banal. In fact, your company conference room names shouldn’t be something like “Conference Room C.” Crowdsourcing your team’s creative minds will help build culture, as well as display it for the world to see. What are some other conference room names that you love?

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