How to create a LinkedIn Event

Choose carefully, because the type and format are fixed once the event is posted:

• Create the event within a year of its date. LinkedIn says events created further ahead may not send attendee notifications.

Sources: LinkedIn Help: LinkedIn Events overview, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Create a LinkedIn Event, checked 15 October 2026

On desktop:

1. Click the Home icon at the top of the page, then Events in the left pane.
2. Click Create an Event.
3. Upload a cover image and add alt text.
4. Choose the organiser: your profile or a Page you admin.
5. Choose the event type and, for online events, the format.
6. Add the event name, time zone, start date and time, and an end time if you want one.
7. For a Page event, tick Use a LinkedIn registration form if you want registrations, and add your privacy policy link.
8. Add a description and any speakers, then click Next.
9. Write a short post to promote the event, choose who it's shared with and click Post. The event isn't created until you post.

• Cover image: 16:9, at least 480 pixels wide, for example 480 x 270 or 1280 x 720. Upload from your device; cloud files aren't supported.
• Speakers only appear in the list if they're your connections.
• In the app: My Network, Manage my network, Events, then Create.
• To try it out from a Page, use LinkedIn's built-in test event option rather than a test Page.

Sources: LinkedIn Help: Create a LinkedIn Event, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: LinkedIn Events organized by Pages FAQ, checked 15 October 2026

Organisers and attendees can invite their 1st-degree connections:

1. Go to your Events homepage and select the event.
2. Click Share, then Invite.
3. Search by name or filter by location, company, school or industry.
4. Tick the people you want to invite and click the Invite button.

• Each person can send up to 1,000 invitations a week. The limit covers all your events together.
• Page followers can't be invited unless they're connected to one of the Page's admins. Share the event in a Page post to reach them.
• Attendees get reminders seven days, three days and 15 minutes before the start.

Sources: LinkedIn Help: Invite your connections to attend a LinkedIn Event, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: LinkedIn Events organized by individuals FAQ, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: LinkedIn Events organized by Pages FAQ, checked 15 October 2026

Events organised by a Page can use a registration form. It's pre-filled from the member's profile with first name, last name, email, job title, company and country or region.

• Super and content admins can add, remove or replace the form at any time, even after the event.
• Add it when you create the event. People who registered before you added it aren't asked to fill it in.
• Find registrations in the Registration section of the event's Analytics tab. New registrants can take four to five days to appear in the download.
• Registrant data can be downloaded for up to a year after each person registers.
• Only send marketing to people who ticked the consent checkbox.

Source: LinkedIn Help: Registration forms used for Events organized by Pages, checked 15 October 2026

To edit: go to your Events homepage, select the event, click Manage event, then Edit event, make your changes and click Save. What you can change depends on timing:

• To cancel or delete, click Manage event and choose Cancel event or Delete event. Both are permanent.
• You must cancel before you can delete. Cancelling tells attendees; deleting doesn't, and removes the event and its post.
• A LinkedIn Live event can only be cancelled before it starts.

Sources: LinkedIn Help: Edit a LinkedIn Event, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Cancel or delete a LinkedIn Event, checked 15 October 2026

Common blockers:

Sources: LinkedIn Help: LinkedIn Events organized by Pages FAQ, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Create a LinkedIn Event, checked 15 October 2026; LinkedIn Help: Cancel or delete a LinkedIn Event, checked 15 October 2026

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