Encouraging other team members to speak up in meetings

For context, we are in a hybrid team (some are fully remote and the rest of us are in one day a week) of 8 devs and 2 testers, so most meetings are over a Teams call.

We're finding that in many of the meetings there is very little participation. It's usually only myself and the senior dev who speak up. I will often purposefully wait until other people have spoken before speaking myself as I'm conscious I don't want to do all the talking or always be first to speak. The problem is that often no one does say anything. When it's clear no one is going to speak up I do then chip in with my thoughts but always try to open it back out to everyone after like 'what do other people think?' but there is usually dead silence on the call and we will move on. Certainly in some cases maybe no one has a strong opinion or anything to add, but in technical discussions or refinements especially I would expect people to ask questions, which rarely happens either.

Has anyone else experienced this? Are there things we should be considering that might be affecting participation and engagement?

We are working with our SM on strategies to improve so have discussed a few ideas already but would be great to hear about other people's experience of meetings in dev teams, particularly virtual ones!

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