"networking reception" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an event where people can mingle and network with each other, such as a business mixer or informal gathering. For example: "The company is hosting a networking reception next week for its new staff members."
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A brochure for the meeting and "networking reception" said Sudan is "endowed with rich natural resources, including oil, and has been emerging as a major oil producer".
SOMEHOW, everyone seemed to know that a "diversity networking reception" would draw African-Americans in much greater numbers than, say, Latinos or Asians.
On Thursday 21 July, the Global Development Professionals Network will host an afternoon seminar and networking reception alongside the International Aids Conference in Durban, South Africa.
A "networking reception" included 400 pieces of "petit beef Wellington," at $4.75 each, 400 "mini Monte Cristo sandwiches" at $5 each, and "pasta reception station" at $16 a person.
At a "networking reception" held after the screening, Jeanne M. Sullivan, a self-described "longtime venture capitalist," was chatting with Anna Ewing, the former chief information officer at Nasdaq.
These include award ceremonies, conferences, seminars, roundtables and networking receptions.
With over 400 attendees and 60 plus papers, eight keynotes, and one panel discussion, the 2008 Society of Plastics Engineers SPE Automotive Composite Conferencece and Exposition (ACCE)'s 'The Road to Lightweight Performance' convened in Troy, Michigan, in the USA for three full days of presentations, panel discussions and networking receptions.
I have also recently noticed that "executive" job fairs (for 100K+ jobs) sometimes masquerade as "networking receptions" that turn out to be marketing events for an Internet job search site.
THE annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA), which was due to begin in Denver, Colorado, on January 6th, will be the usual mêlée of receptions, networking events and seminars (more than 500 of them) on the latest economic research.
Even though there have been many other events hosting tech startups at No. 10 in the last four years since this government came to power, they have all been receptions and networking events.
