hilde45:
Thought more about your OP and wonder if such could be incorporated via the "Insider" forum here @ A'Gon.
Not familiar with it (Insider), but as it's pay to play it might be a better venue for what you suggest.
It might start with chats/zooms with manufacturers (on a monetary level), but perhaps it could evolve to chats/zooms involving (only) non commercial members (those who are willing to pay a reasonable fee for such a service) eventually.
I've only experienced one Zoom (8 participants of non-blood family) and found it overwhelming, to say the least, but that's just me.
DeKay