Event mode
Match with attendees, see who is looking for someone like you, and request meetings at events.
When a community runs an event — a conference, summit, or meetup — JOGL Network turns on event mode: an AI-curated networking experience scoped to that event's attendees. An Events entry appears in the sidebar for the selected community once it has an event that is not a draft, and lists the community's events under Open for networking, Coming up and Past events, each card with how many people attend and, when the organizer has set one, its start date and time (in the event's own time zone, or in yours when the event has no valid time zone set). When the community has only one event, the entry opens it directly; All Events on the event's page goes back to the list.
When meeting requests are waiting for your answer, Events shows how many, and so do the event's card, a banner at the top of the event's page (See requests opens them) and its Meetings tab.
On the search page, Jojo points out waiting meeting requests too, naming the event with the most of them, and its button opens that event's Meetings tab. On each day of an event you attend, Jojo also tells you who your next meeting there is with and when it starts, with a link to the Meetings tab; with no meeting to come, it links to the event instead, and asks who you want to meet once networking is open if you have not said yet.
Open an event to see its details. If you are not one of its attendees yet, the page shows who's coming, the networking hours and what joining gets you, and Join Event adds you (it is not offered on an archived event); the networking tabs appear once you have joined. Beside them, or above them on a phone, the page then shows Your intent (see below), the event At a glance (participants, strong matches, your meetings and saved searches) and, while networking is open and on a wide screen, your Next meeting.
The three tabs
An event's networking page has three tabs:
- Matches — attendees worth meeting, driven by your saved event-scoped searches. Run a search scoped to the event's participants and its strong matches feed this tab; New search opens a search with the event already picked. Above your searches, Looking for someone like you lists the attendees whose goal search for this event (the one the interview runs) ranked you as a strong match, with the goals they picked, so you can say hello or ask to meet. The other searches anyone runs at the event stay their own.
- Participants — the event's other attendees, which you can browse and search by name, headline or what they can help with (accents and capitals don't matter).
- Meetings — your incoming requests, confirmed meetings, outgoing requests, and, under Past and cancelled, meetings whose time has passed or that were cancelled. Below your incoming requests is a switch, Let people at this event book a meeting with you: it opens your profile's Book a meeting availability to everyone attending this event, even if your general Who can book setting is more restrictive, but never to someone you have blocked or who has blocked you (see blocking a member). It only widens access for this event; for it to produce bookable slots you still need bookings enabled and a weekly availability in Settings → Meetings (the card tells you when that's missing). See Meetings.
Telling the event what you're looking for
When you open an event whose networking is open and you have not yet said what you are looking for there, a short AI interview asks what you hope to get out of it. Your answers are saved with your attendance for this event only (they do not change your profile) and immediately turned into an event-scoped search, so your Matches tab fills up right away. While networking is open, Define with interviewer (or Refine with interviewer once you have answered) under Your intent runs the interview again, and each interview you finish starts a new search. The interview does not open by itself while a meeting request at that event is waiting for your answer, or when a notification brought you to the Meetings tab; start it with Define with interviewer when you are ready. If an organizer invited you as a guest of the event, the welcome you go through when you first sign in can ask these questions already (Tell Jojo my goals); choose Later there and the event page does not open the interview by itself on that first visit. You can also type or dictate a search yourself with the composer's event scope set to the event.
Requesting a meeting
From a match or a participant, open Contact and choose Request meeting. You pick a Length and a Start time among the slots that are free for both of you inside the event's networking windows (or anywhere in the event, if the organizer set none), and optionally a topic and a location: one of the meeting locations the organizer set up, or your own with Custom location…. Once a location is entered, a Type goes with it (Video call, Phone call, WhatsApp, In person or Other); a link from a known video-conferencing service selects Video call for you. Once the event's end time has passed, the dialog tells you the event has ended and sends nothing.
You can also ask from outside the event page. While networking is open at an event you both attend, the Contact window on a member's profile, in search results or in a people list offers Request a meeting at followed by the event's name, which opens the same dialog. When you both attend several such events, it offers the one that ends first.
Guests the organizer imported who have not signed in to JOGL yet are labelled Not on JOGL yet. You can still ask them for a meeting from Contact: the request is saved and waits for them until they join, and when the organizers hold their email address and it has not unsubscribed from JOGL's invitation emails, they get an email about it, at most three a day for any one guest and five a day in all for the guests you send requests to. For a guest the organizers have no address for, Ask the organizer to introduce you opens a message to one of the event's organizers, with a draft you can edit before you send it; it shows only when one of them can receive a message from you, and not when you manage the community yourself. Until they sign in, you can't message such guests or send them a connection request.
On the other side, incoming requests show up under Requests for you in the Meetings tab, with the sender's name (linked to their profile), headline and organization. There you can Accept or Decline a request, or Reply to message the sender first; the requests you sent wait under Requests you've sent until they are answered or you Cancel them. Accepting confirms the meeting and sends both of you a calendar invite by email. The person you send a request to, and you when they answer, are told by push and email, as described in Notifications. Between you and a member either of you has blocked, no new request can be sent, and the block answers those already waiting: one the person who blocked received is declined, one they sent is cancelled, and nobody is notified (see blocking a member).
Confirmed meetings, under Upcoming meetings, show the time, the location when one was set, and, while the other person's profile can still be read, AI-generated Conversation starters written for you about the other person, in English or French as you choose beside them. Until its time slot has ended, a confirmed meeting also offers Add to calendar (it saves the meeting as a calendar file), Message, and Cancel meeting, which asks you to confirm, tells the other person and frees the time for both of you. Either of you can cancel it, whatever phase the event is in. A cancelled meeting moves to Past and cancelled, marked Cancelled, with who cancelled it, except when it was cancelled because the other person deleted their account, which names no one. When the other person has deleted their account or their profile is no longer visible to you, they show as Member unavailable, and neither Reply nor Message is offered.
On this page, starting searches and sending new meeting requests is possible only while the event is in its Networking open phase and has not reached its end time. Before that the event is in preparation, and afterwards it shows as Ended, or archived once the organizer archives it. For meetings the server goes by the phase, not the end time: sending a request and accepting one both need networking to be open, while a request still pending when the event is archived can still be declined or cancelled from the Meetings tab. Searches are different: the event picker in the search composer lists preparing and archived events too, so an event-scoped search started there runs while the event is Preparing, Networking open or Archived — for searches the restriction is a control on this page, not a rule the backend enforces. A draft event is the one exception: the picker never lists it.
Check-in status, when the organizer imports guests from Luma or Eventbrite, comes from the ticketing platform; there is nothing to scan in JOGL Network itself.
An AI agent you connect through the MCP server can list your community's events and, for an event you attend, its attendees and what each is looking for. It can also send a meeting request for you, once you confirm the preview it shows you, but only to an attendee who has signed in: unlike the app, it cannot leave a request waiting for an imported guest.