Events & Meetups
Create, discover, and attend startup ecosystem events - from intimate networking sessions and pitch nights to large-scale conferences and demo days - all managed within the platform.
What you will learn
- How to discover and register for events
- How to create and manage events as an organizer
- How live streaming and virtual events work
- How event scoring and recommendations work
Event Discovery#
The events module surfaces relevant upcoming events based on your interests, role, location, and network activity. Events from organizations, communities, and individuals all appear in a unified discovery feed.
- Browse by category: networking, pitch, workshop, conference, demo day, hackathon
- Filter by format: in-person, virtual, hybrid
- Filter by date, location, price, and audience type
- Recommended events based on profile and past attendance
- Events from your followed pages and joined communities
- Trending events with high registration velocity
- Calendar view of upcoming registered events
Event Creation#
Any verified user or organization page can create events. The creation flow supports rich event details, ticketing, and promotion.
- Title, description, and cover image
- Date, time, and timezone with recurring event support
- Venue details for in-person or meeting link for virtual
- Ticket types: free, paid, early bird, VIP
- Capacity limits with waitlist support
- Speaker and agenda management
- Sponsor and partner showcasing
- Custom registration form fields
- Promotion tools: share to feed, invite connections, community cross-post
What kind of event you are creating#
The type you pick decides where the event surfaces in discovery and which filters find it, so it is worth getting right.
- Networking - informal mixers built around meeting people
- Pitch event - startups presenting to a room, competitively or not
- Demo day - a cohort showing what it built at the end of a programme
- Workshop - hands-on, people leave having made or learned something
- Bootcamp - a workshop run over several days
- Conference - multi-track, multi-speaker, usually ticketed
- Panel - several speakers on a stage answering questions
- Fireside chat - one guest, one interviewer, informal
- Webinar - presented online to an audience that mostly watches
- Hackathon - time-boxed building, usually with prizes
- Meetup - casual, recurring, community-run
- Other - anything that does not fit; still fully discoverable
Registration & Attendance#
- One-click registration for free events
- Ticketed events take payment through a secure provider at registration
- Ticket QR code generation for check-in
- Waitlist management with automatic promotion
- Cancellation with refund processing
- Reminder notifications: 24 hours and 1 hour before event
- Post-event feedback collection
- Attendance tracking and certificate generation
Live Streaming#
Virtual and hybrid events support live streaming through the platform's Event Live Socket, enabling real-time audience participation.
- Integrated live video streaming for virtual events
- Real-time chat sidebar during live streams
- Q&A functionality for audience questions to speakers
- Polls and reactions during live sessions
- Screen sharing for presentations and demos
- Recording for on-demand replay access
- Attendee count and engagement metrics in real time
Event Analytics#
Organizers access detailed analytics about their events to measure success and improve future offerings.
- Registration count, conversion rate, and source tracking
- Attendance rate: registered vs actually attended
- Engagement metrics: chat messages, questions, poll responses
- Revenue summary for paid events
- Post-event feedback scores and comments
- Audience demographics breakdown
