Events, with a real guest list behind them.
Hosting is the part most platforms get wrong. CHiiRO built that half first.
Read the programmeThe programme
What an event page carries, in the order you meet it
Before
Relevance, not proximity.
Events are filterable and searchable by category, format and time. On a founder-and-investor network the useful filter is relevance: an online session on convertible notes run by someone who has closed forty of them is worth more than a mixer twenty minutes away.
- Category
- Online or in person
- Time
- Search
Registering
Real capacity. Three distinct states.
When a room holds forty, registration forty-one is refused. You can register, cancel your registration, or say you are interested without committing — because "maybe" is real information most event tools throw away.
- Capacity
- Registered
- Interested
- Cancelled
On the day
The host sees who committed.
Not a guess from a spreadsheet: the guest list shows who registered and, separately, who is merely interested. Filtering, search and sorting are built, along with clean lists of what you created versus what you signed up for.
- Guest list
- Filter, search, sort
- Created and attending
The week after
The follow-up is the point.
An event’s value is mostly in the week afterwards, which is why events sit inside a network rather than beside one. You met someone; their profile is here; the conversation continues in a room that already exists.
- Profiles
- Connections
- Communities
You would be early. Early is the best time to host.
The events machinery is built. What is not there yet is a calendar full of gatherings organised by members, and this page will not imply otherwise. If you host something, the room is small, everyone in it turned up on purpose, and the person you came to meet is reachable afterwards.
Reminder emails are not switched on; put it in your own calendar.
What else is not switched on yetQuestions about events.
Where the conversation continuesCan I host an event on CHiiRO?
Yes. Any member can create an event, set it as online or in person, give it a category, cap attendance, and manage the guest list. The host owns the event and is the only person who can change it. Hosting is free during the Founding beta and requires no approval.
Does CHiiRO enforce event capacity?
Yes. When an event has a maximum attendance, registration is refused once that number of people have committed. Hosts see who committed and, separately, who expressed interest without registering.
Are CHiiRO events online or in person?
Both, and neither is the default. An event is marked as one or the other when it is created, and both are filterable. On a founder and investor network the more useful filter is usually relevance rather than location.
Does CHiiRO send event reminders?
Not currently. Automated reminder emails are not switched on, so add the event to your own calendar after registering. CHiiRO says this rather than listing reminders as a feature that does not run.
How do I find startup events worth attending?
Filter by the specific subject rather than by proximity, and prefer smaller sessions run by someone who has done the thing repeatedly. On CHiiRO, events sit inside the network, so the follow-up conversation with someone you met happens in a place that already exists.
Host the session you wish someone else had run.
