--- title: "The Chairman's Table — 12 Seats" url: https://mkelango.com/events/chairmans-table/ description: "Twelve family business principals, one structural question, Chatham House rule. ₹75,000 a seat, dinner included. Next: Coimbatore, 14 November 2026." site: mkelango.com author: M. K. Elango updated: 2026-08-26 evidence_standard: "Every figure carries a grade [A] verified / [B] claimed / [C] estimate and an as-at date. See https://mkelango.com/evidence/" --- IN-PERSON Chatham House rule # The Chairman's Table Twelve principals, one table, one structural question. Nothing said in the room is attributed outside it. What you leave with The one question about your own group you had been avoiding, asked by someone with nothing to sell you. 12 seats · **4 open** - **Dates:** Quarterly · next: 14 November 2026, Coimbatore - **City:** Rotating · Coimbatore, Chennai, Madurai, Tirupur, Dubai, Singapore - **Shape:** Dinner + roundtable · 12 seats - **Who it is for:** Family business principals - **Price:** ₹75,000 Per seat, per table. Includes dinner. Not a subscription. Private dining room, disclosed on confirmation. As at 26 August 2026. In short Updated 2026-08-26 The Chairman's Table is a quarterly dinner and roundtable for twelve family business principals, held under the Chatham House rule at ₹75,000 per seat, dinner included. One structural question is circulated a week ahead; each principal describes their portfolio in ninety seconds and the table says what it appears to be optimising for. The room ## Dinner + roundtable · 12 seats A table for twelve. One structural question, tabled at the start, argued through dinner. Chatham House rule, which here means the ideas travel and the attributions do not. The recurring format is simple and slightly uncomfortable: each principal describes their portfolio in ninety seconds, and the table says what it appears to be optimising for. It is remarkable how often the answer surprises the person who built it. No presentation. No slides. No pitch at the end. Seats 12 seats · **4 open** Coimbatore, 14 November 2026. No countdown timers on this site — real scarcity, stated plainly. Register Payment is taken after the seat is confirmed, never before. The running order ## Published in advance. You should be able to decide whether a day is worth your time from the agenda rather than from the promise. 19:00 The question, tabled One structural question. It is circulated a week ahead. 19:30 Ninety seconds each Your portfolio, described. The table responds. 21:00 The argument Where the table disagrees, which is the useful part. 22:15 What each of us will change One sentence each, spoken aloud. The one question about your own group you had been avoiding, asked by someone with nothing to sell you. Every event page on this site carries the same five things: a date, a city, a price, a seat count, and this line. If any of them is missing, the event is not ready to be sold. [Full calendar](https://mkelango.com/events/calendar/) [All events](https://mkelango.com/events/) FAQ ## Questions about The Chairman's Table Answered plainly, with the real figures. If something here is wrong, [tell us and it goes in the log](https://mkelango.com/evidence/). ### How much is a seat at the Chairman's Table? ₹75,000 per seat, per table, dinner included. It is not a subscription — you pay for the table you attend. There are twelve seats in total, of which four were open for the Coimbatore table on 14 November 2026, as at 26 August 2026. Payment is taken after the seat is confirmed, never before. ### Where and how often does the Chairman's Table meet? Quarterly, in a private dining room, rotating between Coimbatore, Chennai, Madurai, Tirupur, Dubai and Singapore. The next table is in Coimbatore on 14 November 2026. The venue is disclosed on confirmation rather than published, which is consistent with the Chatham House rule the table runs under. ### What does the Chatham House rule mean at this table? The ideas travel and the attributions do not. Nothing said in the room is attributed outside it, which is what makes a principal willing to describe a portfolio honestly rather than the version prepared for a bank. There is no presentation, no slides, and no pitch at the end of the evening. ### What actually happens over the evening? One structural question is circulated a week ahead and tabled at 19:00. From 19:30 each principal describes their portfolio in ninety seconds and the table says what it appears to be optimising for. At 21:00 the table argues where it disagrees, which is the useful part. At 22:15 each person says aloud one thing they will change. ### Who is the Chairman's Table for? Family business principals — the person who controls the portfolio, not the person who reports on it. Twelve of them to a table. What you leave with is the one question about your own group you had been avoiding, asked by someone with nothing to sell you. Other rooms ## A different shape of commitment. 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