Networking

You may try to organise a casual chat meetings within your group or teams. Mural is one platform which you can use it have a productive meeting with meaningful interactions. Such meetings once or twice a month would definitely help you build your network. Probably ask others how are they building the network as they being in a same boat. Conference are not that productive as most of the focus is on the learning outcomes from the conference. Search for slack groups, those too can be helpful

Attend meetups or conferences..

+1 same problem. Any general advice or something for Bangalore?