Singles from Kongu Gounder community living, studying or working in USA and Canada. Admission restricted to people belonging to Kongu Gounder Community. Parents are not allowed to participate, this event is exclusively for eligible boys and girls from our community only.

Yes. This event includes those who born and raised outside of North America and currently studying/living/working in North America as well.

We want to provide equal opportunity to all participants; we would ask participants to meet all without any reservations and decide whom they would like to continue discussions further. This way everyone would get opportunities. With number of participants organizing team is planning to group participants based some guidelines such as age, koottam etc. People belonging to one koottam are considered as brothers and sisters, hence boy and girl will have to be from different koottams.

General model is to allot slots of 10-15mins to each set of participants so that they can meet and share their background, interests, learn about each other etc. If participants want to meet outside of their allotted time, they are welcome to do so; Minimum expectation is to honor the meeting slots, get introduced at least irrespective of their interests. Participants can plan on their own to meet the next day morning as well, if they wish to; We are keeping Sunday open for any personal preferences to spend additional time with anyone who they would want to.

Entertainment with DJ is planned after dinner 7pm – 11.30pm ( tentatively).

Age limit for participants is 20 to 35 Yrs.

We ask the participants to be open minded to meet other person based on allotted schedule; If the things do not work out , they still have the benefit of having met another Kongu relative at the event. Remember the networking can help in many ways in life, so we encourage make full use of the event.

The event planning is based on 100 participants based on the venue restrictions. If we get large number of participants, there are options being discussed by the organizing team. Decisions will be made based on registration closure date.

We have a negotiated rate with Embassy Suites (Event venue), discounted rate is available for the event 2 to three nights as the participant prefers. We are planning to encourage sharing rooms with fellow participants, but if the participant prefers separate room that will be available.

We do not expect the participants decide at the event, but we request everyone to come with open mind to meet everyone else/ at  least honor and engage on scheduled meetings and treat this as a networking event at least.

Registration fee covers will cover event venue and lunch and dinner on Saturday; Travel, hotel room expenses and any other expenses will have to be paid by participants; Embassy suites provides free breakfast for people staying at the hotel.

Participants are encouraged to stay at Embassy  Suites so that they will have more time at the event and avoid having to plan for additional local travel; Discounted rate is available only at this hotel. However, the reservations are based on first come first serve basis at the hotel, if there are no rooms available, then the participant would have to look for other hotels.

Based on the demand and the availability the organizing team may be able to negotiate a discounted rate at nearby hotels, but it is not guaranteed at this time.

Embassy Suites provides Shuttle service for pickup and drop off from the airport. However the hotel is very near (4 miles) from the Airport, the participant can also take a taxi/uber.

Yes, the discounted rate is available for the event with minimum of one night stay, you can plan to arrive/stay at your convenience.

Request everyone to be available at 10.30 am for check-in for the program, the program will sharply start at 11.00am.

Check-in time for the room is 3.00pm ; Early check-in ( as early as 9am on Saturday) is available at additional cost of $25, but subject to room availability.