Here's what I did and I highly recommend it, if you don't already have a network: Goto meetup.com or any event/meetup website. I found this Python ML meetup gr

Here's what I did and I highly recommend it, if you don't already have a network: Goto meetup.com or any event/meetup website. I found this Python ML meetup group (could be any technical group), joined, and went to their weekly weekly conference (more than a hundred in attendance). I'd sign up to go up the stage and talk for a couple minutes just introducing myself and what I did. After I got off stage, interested people would come up to me and chat with me. There definitely had been a few collaboration propositions.