diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3ce9518bd..e9a5ee0bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 ### Bug fixes
 * Fixed the default naming of multiple electrical series in the `SpikeGLXConverterPipe`. [PR #957](https://github.com/catalystneuro/neuroconv/pull/957)
 * Write new properties to the electrode table use the global identifier channel_name, group [PR #984](https://github.com/catalystneuro/neuroconv/pull/984)
+* Fixed a check in `_configure_backend` on neurodata_object ndx_events.Events to work only when ndx-events==0.2.0 is used. [PR #998](https://github.com/catalystneuro/neuroconv/pull/998)
 
 ### Improvements
 * The `OpenEphysBinaryRecordingInterface` now uses `lxml` for extracting the session start time from the settings.xml file and does not depend on `pyopenephys` anymore. [PR #971](https://github.com/catalystneuro/neuroconv/pull/971)
diff --git a/src/neuroconv/tools/nwb_helpers/_configure_backend.py b/src/neuroconv/tools/nwb_helpers/_configure_backend.py
index a67308d43..3ae0a7db9 100644
--- a/src/neuroconv/tools/nwb_helpers/_configure_backend.py
+++ b/src/neuroconv/tools/nwb_helpers/_configure_backend.py
@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@
 from typing import Union
 
 from hdmf.common import Data
+from packaging import version
 from pynwb import NWBFile, TimeSeries
 
 from ._configuration_models._hdf5_backend import HDF5BackendConfiguration
 from ._configuration_models._zarr_backend import ZarrBackendConfiguration
-from ..importing import is_package_installed
+from ..importing import get_package_version, is_package_installed
 
 
 def configure_backend(
@@ -53,13 +54,14 @@ def configure_backend(
                 dataset_name=dataset_name, data_io_class=data_io_class, data_io_kwargs=data_io_kwargs
             )
         # Special ndx-events v0.2.0 types
-        elif is_ndx_events_installed and isinstance(neurodata_object, ndx_events.Events):
-            neurodata_object.set_data_io(
-                dataset_name=dataset_name, data_io_class=data_io_class, data_io_kwargs=data_io_kwargs
-            )
-        # But temporarily skipping LabeledEvents
-        elif is_ndx_events_installed and isinstance(neurodata_object, ndx_events.LabeledEvents):
-            continue
+        elif is_ndx_events_installed and (get_package_version("ndx-events") == version.parse("0.2.0")):
+            # Temporarily skipping LabeledEvents
+            if isinstance(neurodata_object, ndx_events.LabeledEvents):
+                continue
+            elif isinstance(neurodata_object, ndx_events.Events):
+                neurodata_object.set_data_io(
+                    dataset_name=dataset_name, data_io_class=data_io_class, data_io_kwargs=data_io_kwargs
+                )
         # Skip the setting of a DataIO when target dataset is a link (assume it will be found in parent)
         elif isinstance(neurodata_object, TimeSeries) and is_dataset_linked:
             continue