@Ruggy-Joesten I see your comment. In fact, I was approved to attend shortly after registering.
But consider this: when I see there is a waitlist for an event that is only 2 hours old, it does NOT make me want to give you my email to join the waitlist. It makes me want to go about my day and save my future calendar time for something more valuable. My coda-post-traumatic-stress-disorder (c-PTSD) from the past 2 years makes this my immediate reaction 
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Whomever decided to limit the number of participants who can attend is being short-sighted. STOP reinforcing the culture of excluding your users. Ask any long-time Codan, there are Coda table building-blocks that allow for unlimited people to join a webinar and interact with a Coda doc where attendees can vote for the best questions and the best feedback to rise to the top of the coda table to be addressed by the presentor in the webinar. There should NEVER be a limit of who can attend a live, public webinar about the future of the Coda product.
If the purpose of the waitlist is so that a Codan can prevent bots from registering, that is fine. But that decision needs to be stated in the initial announcement post.
“The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” - William Gibson
It is
time for Coda to start sharing.