With LinkedIn Events, you’ll be able to seamlessly create and join professional events, invite your connections, manage your event, have conversations with other attendees, and stay in touch online after the event ends.
Looks like LinkedIn is now trying to compete a little more with Facebook. Good initiative, I would say it's a bit late, but LinkedIn is just different enough where this will still be very effective
Imagine now all of the events we're going to be sold to disguised as a sales pitch for some company :/
the spam of messages and meaningless connections are going to get worse..