How we behave.
What to do if someone doesn’t.

Placeholder notice. Starting draft — review with the organising team and, where relevant, a solicitor before launch.

01

Our pledge

We Influence is a room for people building the creator economy — and “people” covers every kind of person who might be in that industry. We want every attendee to feel welcome, heard, and safe, regardless of background, identity, role, or seniority.

02

What we expect

• Listen more than you talk. The room is small, on purpose.
• Assume good faith. People are trying.
• Give credit where it’s due. Steal ideas, not attribution.
• Disagree with the argument, not the person.
• Respect Chatham House rules by default: share what was said, not who said it, unless the speaker says otherwise.
• Keep your drinking on the useful side of enthusiastic.
• Leave the room cleaner than you found it.

03

What is not acceptable

The following behaviours are not welcome at a We Influence meet-up, regardless of context, intent, or who it comes from. Breaches will be taken seriously.

• Harassment, intimidation, or threats — verbal, physical, or online — including but not limited to conduct based on race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, nationality, or appearance.
• Unwanted physical contact or unwanted sexual attention.
• Slurs, insults, or “jokes” about any of the above.
• Publishing private information about others without consent.
• Disruption of talks, deliberately talking over others, or otherwise making the room less useful for everyone else.
• Pressuring speakers, hosts, or attendees into commercial arrangements they haven’t asked for.
• Recording talks or conversations without consent.

04

Where this applies

Inside the venue, outside the venue while it’s happening (smokers’ corner counts), and online in any We Influence–affiliated conversation — including email threads that follow on from the evening.

05

How to report something

If something happens that doesn’t feel right, or if you witness something happening to someone else, please tell us. You can:

• On the night: find the organiser at the door, or anyone wearing a “host” label. They’ll step away with you.
• Later: use the contact page and pick the Conduct topic.

Reports are read by the organising team only. We’ll aim to acknowledge within 24 hours and work with you on next steps at your pace. We won’t do anything that names you without your consent.

06

What we’ll do

Depending on what’s happened, we may:

• Have a private word with the person on the night.
• Ask someone to leave the evening.
• Not invite someone to future evenings.
• Escalate to the police or another authority where the law requires it.

We’ll tell you what we’re going to do before we do it, where safe to do so.

07

Good-faith protection

We will not retaliate against anyone for reporting something in good faith, even if the investigation doesn’t go the way they hoped.

08

Attribution

This code of conduct draws on patterns from the Contributor Covenant and the Django Code of Conduct, adapted for a social meet-up context.