[thedevindevops]

Identify who invited you, confirm that your presence is actually required. Two important questions, what decisions will you be needed to weigh in on, and what information do they need from you.

You can ask these under the umbrella of 'meeting notes' and often you can just brief the person who invited you with the relevant facts better yet give them something to shuffle at the meeting - printed notes.

That should get you out of them.