Abstract: A meeting request is received that specifies a first participant account and a proposed topic for a meeting. A database is traversed to determine one or more second participant accounts for the meeting that are linked to the proposed topic. The meeting is scheduled with the first participant account and the one or more second participant accounts. The database contains data for a plurality of accounts (including the first participant account and the one or more second participant account) associated with entities, a plurality of events involving the entities, a plurality of prior topics derived from the events, and a plurality of links between the accounts, events and prior topics.