Creative conference room name
May 3, 2019 1:11 PM   Subscribe

There is a contest to name a conference room at work. It is a multi-purpose room. You were great at naming my work fitness challenge, so I have high expectations! It is a large biotech firm. Must be 3 words or less. I procrastinated and need an answer by 4 pm Pacific time. Thank you!
posted by gryphonlover to Work & Money (48 answers total)
 
Is there a theme or can it be anything?
posted by bleep at 1:12 PM on May 3, 2019


Call it the Centrifuge. Y'all go around and around and sometimes discover shit.
posted by seanmpuckett at 1:15 PM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


Tell us more about the room. The best names are the ones that are unexpectedly, weirdly apropos.
posted by amtho at 1:22 PM on May 3, 2019


Yakkety shack
posted by Middlemarch at 1:22 PM on May 3, 2019


The Mitochondrion (it's the powerhouse of the cell).
posted by sleeping bear at 1:25 PM on May 3, 2019 [3 favorites]


Response by poster: Literally anything safe for work is game!!! No theme. No other rooms have names on the site.
posted by gryphonlover at 1:28 PM on May 3, 2019


If it's a glass-walled room, or has large windows: The Observation Chamber.
posted by Making You Bored For Science at 1:28 PM on May 3, 2019


Response by poster: It is on the top floor, it would look out to the ocean if other buildings weren’t in the way. We are in north San Diego.
posted by gryphonlover at 1:29 PM on May 3, 2019


Multi-purpose? The Room of Requirement.
posted by kimdog at 1:35 PM on May 3, 2019 [5 favorites]


I recently found out about a group of octopuses called the argonauts, which has maybe my favourite common name of any marine animal: the Paper Nautilus.

No matter what the room is used for, I guarantee you can find a way to make Paper Nautilus fit the theme.
posted by rollick at 1:36 PM on May 3, 2019 [3 favorites]


The Fishbowl
posted by lakersfan1222 at 1:40 PM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


I like kimdog's suggestion above.

In college there was a glass enclosed room we called the Fishbowl.
posted by lharmon at 1:40 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


Best answer: I mean, Roomy McConferenceface springs to mind...
posted by Mchelly at 1:40 PM on May 3, 2019 [13 favorites]


Conference Schmonference
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 1:48 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


The Aerie
posted by Weeping_angel at 1:49 PM on May 3, 2019 [4 favorites]


Call it "Yeah screw those other buildings, amirite?"
posted by allkindsoftime at 1:49 PM on May 3, 2019


Crow's Nest
posted by blackjack514 at 1:54 PM on May 3, 2019


Fick’s Room of Diffusion
posted by nikaspark at 2:00 PM on May 3, 2019




This is boring but realistic: people will just end up calling it "the top floor conference room". So call it something simple like "Room A".
posted by Spacelegoman at 2:02 PM on May 3, 2019


"In Use". Should lead to lots of fun conversations and scheduling mixups.
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:08 PM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


Well, going with your whole Biotech theme:

Transitive Clustering Node, from Data Clustering in Life Sciences

or

Co-Occurence Probability Matrix, inspired by Progeny Clustering: A Method to Identify Biological Phenotypes
posted by seasparrow at 2:09 PM on May 3, 2019 [5 favorites]


Chamber of Secrets
That New Lunch Spot
Glass House
The Observation Tower
posted by ananci at 2:11 PM on May 3, 2019


The Leeloo Dallas Multi-Purpose Room
posted by kindall at 2:14 PM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


Positive Trial Result
posted by rhizome at 2:18 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


Biotech, hmmm.

Cysteine chapel?

The swell cell?
posted by jeremias at 2:28 PM on May 3, 2019 [3 favorites]


Top Shelf
posted by vunder at 2:33 PM on May 3, 2019


Best answer: "Looking for the Sea" or L4S

Obstructed Ocean View (we've got a meeting in the OOV room)

Sealab:2020 (or another number that's relevant maybe to your street address or the floor number)

Topfloor Meet Space (we've got a meeting in the TMS or TopFloorMS)
posted by hydra77 at 2:36 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


The Compass Rose

It covers the concept of direction and navigation, as well as being a sly reference to Western, Northern and Southern blotting.

Also I can easily imagine saying "The meeting is in the compass room" without embarrassment, which is an underrated criteria.
posted by rollick at 2:36 PM on May 3, 2019


The Loft
posted by mochapickle at 2:42 PM on May 3, 2019


A co-working space near me has a Thunderdome.
posted by teremala at 2:46 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


In Vitrio
posted by jamjam at 2:48 PM on May 3, 2019


The Panopticon
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 2:51 PM on May 3, 2019


Ball Pit
Petri Dish
War Room
Rick's Café Américain
Sandbox
posted by tinker at 3:41 PM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


Party Can
Devil Tina
Exclusive Bear
La Flumber
Unbridled Dave
Secret Sand
Killer the Butterfly
Pickle J Gator
I’m Repent
Evilish Kelly
Snuckles
Will Surprise
Zegafish Pete
Pat’s Quick Hat
- names by Janelle Shane
posted by moonmilk at 3:50 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


The Cantina
posted by SuperSquirrel at 4:03 PM on May 3, 2019


Kaleidoscope
Council of Ten
Politburo
ROW Room
Cerebellum
Chiastic Conference Chamber
HippoCampus
Cortex is already taken, methinks.
posted by effluvia at 4:06 PM on May 3, 2019


Creative Commons
posted by effluvia at 4:07 PM on May 3, 2019


'In Vitro', that is.
posted by jamjam at 4:11 PM on May 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: Thanks for the wonderful suggestions! I will report back with what won.
posted by gryphonlover at 4:12 PM on May 3, 2019 [4 favorites]


For "In Vitro," I'd suggest shortening it to just "Vitro," because...where is the meeting going to be?
posted by rhizome at 10:52 PM on May 3, 2019 [3 favorites]


The best names are descriptive when there's more than one room and people are trying to remember which is which. We have the Seahawk room, decorated with some football team accent colors and framed photos (not too much, though, tastefully done). One of the others is the Trophy room, which has this big trophy in it nobody remembers what it was for. But I can imagine exactly the room people are talking about when I get the invite, unlike the "301 conference room" or "(person's name) room", because of the visual memory effect.
posted by ctmf at 12:34 PM on May 4, 2019 [1 favorite]


We have a double-wide mobile home on our roof configured as a big conference room, and lots of people call it "the cloud", which is fun to say. We're meeting in The Cloud.
posted by ctmf at 12:36 PM on May 4, 2019 [1 favorite]


The Tidepool
posted by ian1977 at 5:16 AM on May 5, 2019


Who won?
posted by otherchaz at 9:58 AM on May 5, 2019


Response by poster: The winner is...Synergy Zone. Zzzzzzzzz. Wah wah.
posted by gryphonlover at 3:04 PM on May 6, 2019


boo.
posted by hydra77 at 8:55 AM on May 8, 2019


The perfect place to monetize mission-critical e-markets.
posted by rhizome at 9:03 AM on May 8, 2019


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