Dealing with a must-attend spot where almost everyone's the opposite gender

Got this place I absolutely have to go to, no way around it. But nearly everyone there's male-just a handful of women. We work in groups, and my group's all guys. I don't initiate chats with them, but they try talking to me and get dismissive when I say I'd rather not. They even kind of push me into conversations. Honestly, they're all a bit socially clueless, wallahi, it's just too much. Since interacting with non-mahram men is haram, how do I actually avoid it? It's kind of ironic, and my parents-they don't really take this stuff seriously (I'm a revert, they aren't)-they just brush off situations like this. In fact, they're basically why I'm even going to this place.