120+ Topics That Can Be Discussed in Breakout Rooms During Webinars

Akanksha Kumari
• January 23, 2025

(8 min read)

Engagement & interaction are just as important as the content quality to ensure the success of any webinar or virtual event. There are several ways to initiate & maintain a continued interaction among your webinar attendees, and one such method is to incorporate breakout sessions as part of the webinar agenda.

Breakout rooms have always been a vital component of virtual engagement strategies. These sessions offer a dynamic platform for attendees to connect, collaborate, & exchange valuable insights. 

From light-hearted conversations and intimate discussions, to focused brainstorming sessions and engaging fun activities, a webinar breakout session can easily be personalized to suit & compliment your event’s theme and other requirements. 

To simplify your planning, we have curated a list of over a hundred topics, based on diverse webinar breakout session themes & ideas. 

120+ Topics That Can Create Amazing Webinar Breakout Rooms Discussions

Breakout room topics can vary based on the webinar theme & main subject, aim of discussion, intention, and desired outcome. It can be a group discussion, networking, or just a casual interaction.

In this section, we’ll explore a variety of topics based on popular breakout room themes & ideas to make your next webinar breakout session more interesting than ever.

Breakout Rooms Topics for Networking 

Speed networking

  1. Get to know your peers/colleagues/industry leaders
  2. Share your one crucial career-defining moment 
  3. 2 emerging industry trends that excites you the most
  4. Exchange perceptions: Share one career advice 

Lightning talks & discussions

  1. How do you define a project’s success or failure 
  2. Hybrid is the future. Why?
  3. Automation everywhere: 3 popular examples

Virtual coffee/ Virtual lunch

  1. What’s your go-to coffee/meal option?
  2. Habits die hard: Your best & worst habit

Roundtables & Social networking cafe

  1. Expert corner: Identify a problem & find innovative solutions 
  2. Establish sustainability with 3 simple steps
  3. Client/Customer interactions you can’t forget and Why?

Breakout Rooms Topics for Team & Group Discussions 

Brainstorming sessions

  1. Make a list of growing competitors in our industry
  2. Onboarding initiatives for employees & customers: Explore the areas that can be improved
  3. Identify effective cost-cutting suggestions without impacting the current workforce

Debate

  1. Fully remote or hybrid: Work culture that will shape the future of corporates
  2. Micromanagement: Beneficial or Disaster
  3. Artificial Intelligence (AI): Replacing jobs or refreshing approaches

Case study discussions

  1. Uncover how [Company Name] leveraged influencer marketing to boost demand generation
  2. Customer loyalty programs in action: How [Company Name] capitalizes on CLP to improve retention & engagement

Three-minute thesis (3MT)

  1. Top 3 $1 billion companies: Reasons that led to their success
  2. AR & VR in [Industry Name]: Innovating the future of event experiences
  3. [Project Name]: State why this can/cannot be a success

Demo/showcase

  1. How does [Company Name]’s new [Product Name] improve customer experience
  2. [Product Name] is live: Discuss features, benefits, & improvements
  3. The future of [Field Name]: 5 AI products & tools to transform your strategies

Goal setting worksheets

  1. Develop 5 SMART goals for next quarter
  2. 2025 Risk assessment frameworks
  3. Departmental KPIs & metrics: Establish clear performance indicators for accurate assessment
  4. Business projects & collaborations: Internal & external targets

Workshop & Training Breakout Room Topics 

Educational & skill-building

  1. Uncover how blockchain is transforming [Industry Name]
  2. Data visualization tricks for immersive presentation 
  3. Public speaking & digital communication: Must-haves to level-up

Mentorship

  1. Learn [Industry Name] cybersecurity essentials 
  2. AI & machine learning: Everyday applications you need to know
  3. 5 strategies to build & expand your professional network
  4. Career development & progression opportunities in [Industry Name]

Skill sharing & Peer learning

  1. Advanced Excel: Uncover techniques for business analytics
  2. Eliminate language barriers: Learn audience communication hacks from your peers
  3. Personal branding techniques for personal & professional development
  4. [Department Name] innovations: Ideas to implement to drive better results  
  5. Workplace wellness: Initiatives companies took over the years

Teach me something new

  1. Video editing techniques you need to know
  2. Stress management tips to manage work & life
    45. 7 things to know about work-life-balance concept 
  3. Keyboard shortcuts: Save hours & increase self-productivity

Breakout Rooms Topics for Large Webinars/Large Groups

Subject-specific 

  1. Future trends in [Field/Industry] 
  2. Innovations & advancements in AI over the years
  3. Why content is important for [Department Name] initiatives
  4. Top digital tools & sustainable solutions introduced in [Industry Name]
  5. How [Webinar’s main focus] is affecting [Target audience category] 

Personality tests

  1. What’s your MBTI* or Find your personality trait with MBTI
  2. Preferred working style & designation preferences
  3. If your friends have to describe you in one word, what it would be 

*MBTI

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a popular personality assessment tool. This helps individuals understand how they perceive the world, make decisions, or interact with others. It categories personalities into 16 types of traits like introversion vs. extraversion, thinking vs. feeling, sensing vs. intuition, and more. 

Try & test-product discussions

  1. Beta features: Test & feedback session
  2. Trial run: Live user experience & accessibility test
  3. [Feature Name] trial period: User feedback, competitor comparison, & improvement suggestions

Cross-departmental sessions

  1. Sales <> Marketing: Steps taken to boost lead generation & conversions
  2. HR <> [Department Name]: Ideas to drive quality performance
  3. IT-Operations: Areas of improvements
    61. Customer Service <> Product Development: Client’s requirement, experience, & implementation timeline

Team’s wants & needs exchange worksheet

  1. [Upcoming Initiative/Event Name & Date]: Funds, staff, & resource requirement, allocation, & exchange
  2. Bulk hiring: Interview, onboarding, training, & task allotment roadmap
  3. Customer/Employee education: Current gaps, potential solutions, & action items

Virtual Ask me anything (V-AMA)

  1. Spotlight sessions: Live on-stage Q&As with industry experts 
  2. Deep-dive session by [Team Name]: Everything about [Initiative/Product Name]
  3. Future possibilities: Live Q&A session with the Leadership

Breakout Rooms Ideas & Topics for Small Webinars/Small Groups

Poll-based topics selection

Direction: Give 4 options: a,b,c, & d. Select a topic based on maximum votes & begin the discussion.

  1. Remote working challenges 
  2. [Webinar main idea]: Why is it important
  3. Most popular & widely implemented [Trend/Technology] in [Your Industry Name]

2-min icebreaker games

  1. Choose one: Tea/Coffee/Juice/or Just water
  2. Name your 2 favorite sports & 2 favorite athletes 
  3. Are you a night owl or an early bird
  4. Your one unique talent

Team quizzes

Direction: Keep questions between 5-7 with a 15-20 seconds time limit for each question.

Give 4 options: a,b,c, & d for every quiz question. 

  1. Which of these companies have recently become Unicorn
  2. Select the latest innovation in [Your Industry]
  3. When was [Your Company Name] founded
  4. What does [Abbreviation] stand for
  5. How many members are there in [Department Name]

One-on-one sessions 

Note: For small webinars, keep the maximum duration for interaction 2-3 minutes. Make sure you notify attendees 40-60 seconds prior.

  1. Know your colleague
  2. Talk to host/leader/speaker
  3. Rapid round: One unforgettable career advice 

Book discussion

  1. Name 2 latest industry publications & their authors
  2. Recent read: Fictional or Non-fictional & [Book Name]
  3. Top 3 books every [working professional/job seeker/student] should read

Two truths, one lie

  1. About professional or personal achievements
  2. About the things that you have or haven’t done (like athletic sports, extreme adventures, etc.)
  3. About languages you know or you don’t
  4. About places you have or haven’t traveled to (like countries, cities, landmarks, etc.)

Top three

  1. Top 3 places you want to visit
  2. Top 3 people (alive or dead) you’d like to meet
  3. Top 3 superpowers you’d like to possess
  4. Quarterly initiatives: Top 3 upcoming campaigns 

This or that

  1. Preferred working culture: Remote or Hybrid
  2. Your Pick: Call or text message
  3. Morning or evening: Your preferred working slot 

Breakout Rooms Topics for Casual & Fun Activities

Silent disco

Direction: Have your headphones/earphones ready. In the silent disco, the music will not be played out loud, instead every breakout room participant will have to listen to the music using headphones/earphones. 

  1. Contribution & creation: Enjoy your team anthem or collaboratively create a playlist
  2. Music exchange: Share & listen to songs from different cultures  

Virtual meditation sessions

  1. Morning routine: 5 stress-relief & breathing exercises 
  2. Focus-building visualization yoga 

Walking tour

  1. Workplace showcase: Home office or in-office space 
  2. Your go-to-[landmark or cafe]: A virtual tour of favorite local spot

Virtual photo booth

  1. Office buddy/buddies portrait corner
  2. Company yearbook: Click & compile teams snapshots & frames 

Spelling bee

Direction: The breakout room participants can be divided into 2 groups. One member from each group spells the word aloud. You will get 20-seconds to think & spell the word. 

1 chance will be given to spell it and another chance to re-spell the word if you spell it wrong. 

However, if it is misspelled the second time, the member will be out of the round. 

  1. Remember & Spell: The longest [Movie/Song/Actor/Actress/Place Name]
  2. Spell the synonyms of [Word]

Creative activity

  1. Team space: Click/Paint a Portrait or Landscape
  2. Script-based roleplay: A virtual play/mimicry on [Play Name]

Guess the song

  1. Song that starts with letter [State the Letter]
  2. Songs in action: Mimic, identify, & sing the song

Mic drop moments

  1. Share 2 unbelievable moments of your life
  2. Your 1 unique milestone that no one knows about 

Listen & find

Direction: The virtual participants will have to solely focus on the audio played to find the instructions & hints.

  1. Verbal challenges & problem-solving session: Focus on audio to find instructions,  directional guidelines, & hints
  2. Recognize your teammate by their voice 

Show & tell

Direction: Showing half of the image and asking the participant to identify or guess the picture with the available info/image. You can share a few hints depending on the difficulty level.

  1. Half & the other half: Identify the picture 
  2. Whose office is this: Find the workspace
  3. What is this place: Identify and state the name 

Share a photo

  1. Company archives: Find your team
  2. Solve the puzzle based on the given visuals
  3. Follow the snapshots: Match before and after

Draw with whiteboard 

Direction: Draw some elements which are directly related to the concept, whether it is a movie or song. You can draw up to 7 elements to help your team figure out the topic of interest.

  1. Which movie is this
  2. Identify the idioms 
  3. This is your colleague/teammate

Conclusion

Whether you’re planning a webinar, virtual conference, or hybrid event breakout session, these themes and topics are suited for all. It can be further categorized into specifically employee-based, audience-based, and customer-based breakout sessions. 

It is also crucial to understand that the selected themes and specific topics of breakout sessions or any engagement activity contributes significantly towards attendees active participation and involvement rate throughout the activity. 

If the aim is small group discussions or team-building activities, the topics would be tailored to align with respective objectives.

To ensure that your attendees remain excited about the breakout sessions, tailor every topic, use different ideas suited to target group and audience size.

FAQs

Leverage your webinar platform to create and personalize your breakout rooms. Webinar platforms, like Airmeet offer several engagement features and networking spaces to make breakout sessions modern, branded, & immersive. 

There are several games which can be integrated into webinar or any virtual event breakout session, such as team trivia, treasure hunt, virtual charade, virtual escape rooms, and virtual races.

Here are some breakout room topics of discussion for auditory learners: 

  • Audio-based problem-solving sessions
  • Live Q&As with subject-matter experts
  • Audio-guided discussions with clear instructions 

Some breakout session topics for visual learners:

  • Whiteboard brainstorming discussions & training sessions
  • Video or picture-based problem solving sessions
  • Pictorial representations: Workflow diagrams & infographics

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