# Creating a meeting for the Amazon Chime SDK
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A [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_meeting-chime_CreateMeeting.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_meeting-chime_CreateMeeting.html) API call accepts a required parameter, the `ClientRequestToken`, that allows developers to pass in a uniqueness context. It also accepts optional parameters such as `MediaRegion`, which represents the media services data plane region to choose for the meeting, the `MeetingHostId` used to pass in an opaque identifier to represent the meeting host, if applicable, and the `NotificationsConfiguration` for receiving meeting lifecycle events. By default, Amazon EventBridge delivers the events. Optionally, you can also receive events by passing an SQS queue ARN or an SNS Topic ARN in `NotificationsConfiguration`. The API Returns a Meeting object that contains a unique `MeetingId`, plus the `MediaRegion` and the `MediaPlacement` object with a set of media URLs.

```
   meeting = await chime.createMeeting({
                ClientRequestToken: clientRequestToken,
                MediaRegion: mediaRegion,
                MeetingHostId: meetingHostId,
                NotificationsConfiguration: {
                   SqsQueueArn: sqsQueueArn,
                   SnsTopicArn: snsTopicArn
                }
            }).promise();
```