There is no plug-and-play solution or protocol for you to engineer into the organization.
You have to talk, wine and dine, and be part of professional groups with the same people to then try to pull them into it.
Summits (as a concept but not all implementations) in my experience has a higher signal rate, as the attendees are all participants too, and pretty much requires being entrenched in a somewhat tight knit professional group already.
That’s where we’re at right now. You really don’t want a clueless bizdev manager person. This group of people have no qualifications and making up unrelated metrics of validation is their job. “So and so was a lawyer, so I trust their attempt at this obscure engineering problem” is the kind of logic this group will try to sale you on, and theyre going to trainwreck you to their clients the same way.
Finding a good one for you doesnt come from apps. It comes from human relationships.