Add a layer of meaningful connection to every event you host.
Owa’w does one thing well: it lets the right people find each other during your event, with the rigor your work deserves. Identity verified, ownership confirmed, moderation adapted — by default. Without changing anything to how you already run things.
What Owa’w changes for your guests
Most of your guests will never speak to a stranger at your event. Not because they don't want to — because the friction of the first move is too high. Owa’w removes that friction without removing the choice.
The possibility of approaching, without awkwardness — Showing interest in someone present at your event becomes a discrete gesture, on a phone, not a public approach across a room. Your guests can express attention without the social cost of being wrong. The conversation only starts if the other person reciprocates.
Free choice, among people actually present — Your guests don't scroll through profiles or filter through criteria. They see only the people who chose to be in the same place, at the same moment, at the event you organized. The match is contextual, not statistical.
A clear window, without time pressure — Conversations open thirty minutes before the event and remain accessible for a few hours after it ends. No infinite scroll, no urge to come back. Your guests engage at the rhythm of your event, then move on with the contacts they chose to keep.
An experience they remember, not a habit that drains them — Owa’w is built to be present when it matters and absent the rest of the time. Your guests leave with a real encounter, or with the memory of a good evening — never with the lingering anxiety of an app they should check again.
That's what your guests receive. Here's what you receive in return.
What you, the organizer, receive in return
Owa’w isn't a tool you operate during your event. It runs in the background, by itself, on the architecture you already use. What you receive is not work to do, but a dimension added to what you already offer.
A differentiating dimension — Two events at the same date and location, with the same lineup, are no longer interchangeable when one of them carries Owa’w and the other doesn't. You offer your guests something they cannot reproduce alone, and something most other events still don't propose.
A signal of seriousness for your reputation — Owa’w only carries events that pass identity verification, ownership confirmation, and adaptive moderation. The fact that your event is on Owa’w is itself a signal — it says, without you having to say it, that your event is real, that you're identified, that you take your audience seriously enough to vet what surrounds them.
Zero technical integration — Owa’w does not require an SDK, a widget, a webhook, or any modification to your existing setup. Your event keeps living on Bizouk, Shotgun, Eventbrite, Instagram, your own site — wherever it already is. You add Owa’w by submitting your event and pasting a verification code once. That's the entire technical footprint.
Control of the perimeter and the moment — Owa’w only activates within the geographic perimeter of your event, during a window that opens thirty minutes before the start and closes shortly after the end. There is no Owa’w "outside" of your event. The platform exists for the time that your event lasts, and disappears with it.
None of this requires anything more than the four steps that follow.
How Owa’w works, in detail
The path from "I want to add Owa’w to my next event" to "my event is live on Owa’w" goes through four steps. Most organizers complete it in under fifteen minutes the first time, then in under five minutes for each event after that.
Create your account
Four fields: name, first name, email, password. You verify your email via a confirmation link sent immediately. Then comes the identity check. We use Stripe Setup Intent — a mechanism designed to confirm the identity of a card's owner without ever charging it. No card is debited. No document is uploaded. No biometric check is performed. The only information we retrieve is the name on your card, as confirmed by your bank, which we compare to the name you declared. If the names match, your account is verified. If they don't, you're invited to correct your declaration or to use another card. The whole process takes less than two minutes.
Submit your event
You fill in the essentials of your event: title, description, date and time of start and end, location (a precise address that we use to calculate the geographic perimeter), and category. You can choose a primary category and, if relevant, a secondary one. We do not invent typologies that don't correspond to anything — there are ten categories, none of them is "Other," and you choose the one that fits best. Then you provide the URL of your event's public page. This can be a ticketing page (Bizouk, Shotgun, Eventbrite, Dice, Ticketmaster…), a post on a major social network (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn…), or a page on your official website. The URL is the public reference for your event. It is also, as you'll see in the next step, the place where you'll prove that this event is indeed yours.
Confirm it's yours
Owa’w generates a unique code, specific to your event and your account. The code looks like `OWAW-X7K9P2-63735E2`. You copy it, then you paste it on your event's public page — in the description of your Bizouk page, in the caption of your Instagram post, or wherever the textual content of your page is editable. Once pasted, you return to Owa’w and trigger the verification. We check that the code is indeed present on your URL. If it is, the verification is validated and the code can be removed from your public page — it has served its purpose. This mechanism is the same principle Google Search Console uses to verify ownership of a domain. It works because only the legitimate organizer has access to the editable areas of their own ticketing back-office, their Instagram account, or their website. A fraudster cannot reproduce that access. The verification is short, and only needs to be done once per event.
Publication
Most events go live automatically as soon as the bidirectional verification is complete. Some events go through manual review when the moderation system detects signals that warrant a closer look — a freshly created account submitting a last-minute event, a URL on a domain we don't yet know, an event close to a previously reported one. Our moderation commitments adapt to the proximity of your event: 24 hours of internal review for events that are more than seven days away, 12 hours for events between three and seven days, 6 hours for events less than 72 hours, and 1 hour for events on the same day. You see your event's status at every step — pending verification, in manual review, published, or refused with reason.
That's how Owa’w works. Now, here are the kinds of events it works for.
Owa’w fits the kind of event you organize
Owa’w accepts ten categories of events. They were chosen to cover the contexts where in-situ connection actually makes sense: real places, real moments, real audiences. If your event fits one of them, Owa’w fits your event.
Nightlife and music — Club nights (the venues where Owa’w was first imagined, and where the mechanism works most naturally), concerts and live performances (from intimate sets to large venues, the perimeter adapts), music festivals (multi-stage events benefit from the same perimeter logic, scaled to the venue).
Culture, sport, and knowledge — Cultural events (art openings, theater, exhibitions, screenings, literary gatherings), gastronomic events (tastings, dinners, food fairs, culinary experiences), sports events (community sports gatherings, runs, tournaments where attendees actually meet), conferences and networking (professional summits, panels, industry meetups), workshops and training (small-group learning, masterclasses, hands-on sessions).
Community and engagement — Community events (associative gatherings, civic meetings, neighborhood initiatives), charity events (fundraisers, benefit galas, awareness gatherings).
No "Other" category, and no plan to add one. If your event genuinely doesn't fit any of these, the answer is probably that Owa’w isn't the right tool for that event — not that we should stretch our definitions. Clarity beats compromise.
Whichever category your event belongs to, the trust mechanisms that surround it are the same.
Trust, cost, and conditions
Owa’w only works if the trust around it is real. This section explains what we guarantee, what it costs you today, and what we don't accept. No fine print, no surprise later.
What we guarantee
Your guests are verified adults — Every participant on Owa’w goes through the same identity verification as you, via Stripe Setup Intent. The platform is 18+, by structure. No anonymous accounts, no fake profiles created in two clicks. The people who appear in your event's perimeter are real people who have committed to who they are.
Your events are protected against impersonation — The bidirectional verification — the code placed on your public page — means that no one can create a Owa’w listing for your event without your consent. If someone tried, they could not produce the code. If someone legitimate is wrongly impersonated on Owa’w, our reporting system handles the case within the same SLA windows as moderation.
Your image is protected by our moderation — We refuse events that target minors, that promote illegal content, or that present clear signals of fraud. The fact that your event sits on Owa’w means it has passed these filters — which means, by extension, that your event is not associated with content that would damage your image. This is a positive externality of moderation: it protects you not only from being defrauded, but also from being placed near events that would harm your reputation by adjacency.
What it costs you today
Owa’w is free for organizers during our initial phase. This is a deliberate choice, not a temporary trick.
We want to first prove that Owa’w brings real value to your events. We want organizers to discover the platform without the friction of a price they cannot yet evaluate. And we want to build a quality signal that becomes recognized by participants before any monetization comes into play.
When pricing is introduced, organizers already on Owa’w will receive complete visibility in advance — what is being introduced, when, and at what conditions. No retroactive billing. No surprise plans activated without consent. The transparency we expect from our users, we apply to ourselves.
What we don't accept
Two categories of events are excluded by structure, with no exception:
Events that explicitly target minors. — Owa’w is 18+. An event clearly aimed at a minor audience cannot be listed on the platform. This isn't a moral position — it's a structural one. The mechanics of in-situ matching are designed for adults capable of consenting to their own choices.
Events that promote illegal content under the law applicable to the place where the event happens. — We do not arbitrate opinions, practices, or political affiliations — that is a principle we hold publicly. But we apply the law of the territory, in the country where the event takes place. What is legal where you are, is acceptable on Owa’w.
Beyond these two structural exclusions, we do not refuse events based on subject, audience, taste, or affiliation. Our role is to provide an infrastructure. Your role is to use it responsibly, as the adult organizer you are.
If after all this you still have questions, here are the most common ones from organizers.
Frequently asked questions, for organizers
Is Owa’w compatible with my ticketing platform?
Yes, with all of them. Owa’w doesn't connect to your ticketing platform via integration — it uses the public page of your event (a Bizouk page, a Shotgun page, an Eventbrite event, etc.) as a reference and as a verification surface. As long as your event has a public page where you can edit the textual content (description, caption), Owa’w works with it. No SDK, no API connection, no plugin.
How long before my event goes live?
In the most common case — your verification is complete, your URL is recognized, no signal triggers manual review — your event is published automatically within minutes. When manual review is required, the wait depends on the proximity of your event: up to 24 hours if your event is more than seven days away, down to 1 hour if your event is on the same day. You always see the current status of your event on your dashboard.
And if I need to modify my event after publication?
Most modifications are accepted without friction — description, image, contact information, organizer display name. Date, time, or location changes are accepted within reasonable bounds (date moved by less than 24 hours, location moved by less than 500 meters cumulatively, before the matching window opens), with automatic notification of registered participants and one-click unsubscription. More substantial changes (event title, primary category, public URL) go through a brief manual review. After T-30 minutes from the event start, modifications are frozen — the only option is to fully retract the event.
My event spans multiple days or multiple locations. How does this work?
A multi-day event at a single location can be submitted as a single Owa’w event, with the matching window spanning the entire duration. A multi-location event (a festival across several venues, for example) is submitted as several Owa’w events, one per location, all attached to the same organizer account. This keeps the geographic perimeter of each session accurate to the actual venue, and avoids creating an artificial perimeter that wouldn't reflect physical reality.
How do my guests install the app?
Your guests install the Owa’w mobile app (iOS or Android) on their own — there is no installation step you need to manage. To make discovery easier, we provide you with optional communication material (a short text, a QR code, a link) that you can include in your event communications. But this is optional: any guest who simply has the Owa’w app installed and is physically present at your event during the matching window will be eligible to discover other guests, with no further action required from you.
What happens if one of my guests reports inappropriate behavior?
Reports filed during the event are handled by our moderation team according to the same SLA windows as event submissions. A serious report (harassment, threats) is escalated within minutes; less urgent ones are processed within hours. The reported person can be suspended from the event, and from the platform if the case warrants it. As the organizer, you are not personally in charge of moderation — but you can consult the report history of any event you organized, after the fact, on your dashboard.
How do I delete my account if I want to leave?
From your account settings, in one click. We process the deletion request within 30 days, in compliance with applicable data protection law. Past events you organized remain visible on Owa’w (anonymized: your name is replaced by a generic identifier), because participants have a right to access the history of events they attended. All your personal information — name, email, identity verification data, communication history — is permanently erased. You can also request a complete export of your data before deletion, in a machine-readable format.
Every event you organize is already a place where people decide to come together. Owa’w simply helps them recognize each other.
Other questions? Our complete FAQ has them. Otherwise, here's how to start.
Create an organizer accountOr talk to us first →Free during our initial phase. No credit card required for the account itself. Identity verification through Stripe, with no charge. You can submit your first event in under fifteen minutes.