Status of Tech conferences due to COVID-19
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6 min readApr 7, 2020
Tech conferences canceled, postponed, or going virtual
- Adobe Summit (Mar. 29-Apr. 2 in Las Vegas) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Apple WWDC (June) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Aruba Networks Atmosphere 2020 (Mar. 23–26) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Atlassian Summit 2020 (Mar. 31-Apr. 2 in Las Vegas) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Black Hat Asia 2020 (Mar. 31-Apr. 3 in Singapore) — Postponed until Sep. 29-Oct. 2
- CanSecWest (Mar. 18–20 in Vancouver) — Held as scheduled
- Cisco Live (May 31- Jun. 4 in Las Vegas) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Cisco Live Melbourne (Mar. 3–6 in Melbourne) — Canceled
- DEF CON China (Apr. 17–19 in Beijing) — Postponed TBD
- Dell World (May 4–7 in Las Vegas) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- DocuSign Momentum (Mar. 4 in San Francisco) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Domopalooza (Mar. 18–19 in Salt Lake City, UT) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- DrupalCon (May 18–22 in in Minneapolis, MN) — Postponed TBD
- E3 (Jun. 9–11 in Las Angeles) — Canceled
- EmTech Asia (Mar. 24–26 in Singapore) — Postponed to Aug. 4–5
- Enterprise Connect 2020 (Mar. 30-Apr. 2 in Orlando) — Postponed to Aug 3–6 in San Francisco
- ESRI Developer Summit (Mar. 10) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- F5 Agility 2020 (Mar. 16–19 in Orlando, FL) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Facebook F8 (May 6–8 in San Jose, CA) — Canceled
- Facebook Global Marketing Summit (Mar. 9–12 in San Francisco) — Canceled
- Future Vision: DTG Summit 2020 (May 6 in London) — Postponed until Oct. 5
- Game Developers Conference (GDC) (Mar. 16–20 in San Francisco) — Postponed to Summer 2020
- Forrester CX Sydney (Apr. 29–30 in Sydney) — In-person canceled; online-only event Apr. 20
- Forrester CX North America (Jun. 16–18 in New York) — In-person canceled; online-only event Jun. 16–18
- Forrester SiriusDecisions Summit (May 3–6 in Austin, TX) — In-person canceled; online-only event May 4
- Gartner CIO Symposium/ITxPo (Oct. 18–22 in Orlando) — Being held as scheduled
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit (Mar. 9–11 in London — Postponed
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit (Mar. 23–26 in Grapevine, TX) — Postponed
- Google Cloud Next (Apr. 6–8 in San Francisco) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Google I/O (May 12–14 in Mountain View, CA) — Canceled
- Google News Initiative Summit (Late Apr. in Sunnyvale, CA) — Canceled
- HPE Discover (Jun. 23–25 in Las Vegas) — Being held as scheduled
- Infor Inforum 2020 (Sep. 14–16 in Las Vegas) — Being held as scheduled
- Ingram Micro Cloud Cloud Summit 2020 (May 12–14 in Miami Beach, FL) — Postponed until early 2021
- IoT World Developer Conference (Apr. 6–9, 2020 in San Jose, CA) — Postponed until Aug. 10–13
- Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit (April 6–9 in Barcelona) — Postponed until Fall 2020
- Microsoft Build (May 19–21 in Seattle) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Microsoft Ignite (Sep. 21–25 in New Orleans) — Being held as scheduled
- Microsoft WSLConf (March 10–11 in Redmond, WA) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Microsoft MVP Global Summit (Mar. 15–20 in Bellevue & Redmond, WA) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Mobile World Congress MWC Barcelona (GSMA) (Feb. 24–27 in Barcelona) — Canceled
- MSPWorld (Mar. 15–17 in New Orleans) — Rescheduled for June 2020
- Mobile World Congress MWC Americas (GSMA) (Oct. 28–30 in Los Angeles) — Being held as scheduled
- NAB Show — National Association of Broadcasters (Apr. 18–22 in Las Vegas) — Canceled; possible rescheduled for Fall
- Nvidia GTC — GPU Technology Conference (Mar. 22–26 in San Jose, CA) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference (Mar. 15–18, San Jose, CA) — Postponed; Merged with Strata Data & AI (Sep. 14–17); online-only
- ODSC East 2020 — Open Data Science Conference (Apr. 13–17 in Boston) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- OFC 2020 (Mar. 8–12 in San Diego, CA) — Held as scheduled
- Oktane Live — (Mar. 30-Apr. 2) Online-only event
- Oracle Code One (Sep. 21–24 in Las Vegas) — Being held as scheduled
- Oracle Modern Business Experience (Mar. 23–26 in Chicago) — Postponed until Sep. 21–24 to coincide with OpenWorld
- Oracle OpenWorld (Sep. 21–24 in Las Vegas) — Being held as scheduled
- OSCON (Jul. 13–16 in Portland) — In-person cancelled; online-only TBD
- Paris Blockchain Week Summit (Mar. 31-Apr. 1 in Paris) — Postponed until Dec. 9–10
- Percona Live Open Source Database Conference (May 18–20 in Austin, TX) — Postponed; new date TBD
- Pwn2Own (March 12 in Vancouver) — In-person canceled, online-only event
- Qualtrics X4 Summit (Mar. 10–13 in Salt Lake City, UT) — Postponed to early Fall 2020
- Recode Code Conference 2020 (May 26–28 in Beverly Hills, CA) — Rescheduled; Sep. 8–10
- Red Hat Summit 2020 (Apr. 27–29 in San Francisco) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- RSA Conference (Feb. 24–28 in San Francisco) — Held as planned (IBM, AT&T, Verizon, and other vendors withdrew)
- SaaS Connect — Cloud Software Association (Apr. 15–16 in San Francisco) — Postponed until Oct. 5–6
- SaaStr Annual 2020 — (Mar. 10–12 in San Jose, CA) — Canceled; rescheduled Sep. 2020, SF Bay Area
- Salesforce World Tour Sydney (Mar. 4 in Sydney) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- SAP Ariba LIVE (Mar. 16–18 in Las Vegas) — Canceled
- SAP Concur Fusion (Mar. 9–12 in Orlando) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- SAP NOW (Mar.) — Canceled
- SAP SAPPHIRE NOW (May 12–14 in Orlando) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- SAS Global Forum (Mar. 29-Apr. 1 in Washington, DC) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference (May 6–8 in Toronto) — In-person canceled; online-only event
- SXSW (Mar. 12–22 in Austin, Texas) — Canceled
- TNW Conference (Jun, 18–19 in Amsterdam) — Postponed until Oct. 1–2
- VMworld (Aug. 31-Sep. 3 in San Francisco) — Being held as scheduled.
- Linux Foundation Member Summit: March 10 to March 12, Lake Tahoe, Calif. — Canceled
- Netdev 0x14: March 17 to March 20, Vancouver — Virtual.
- Automotive Grade Linux: March 18 to March 19, Honolulu — Canceled
- SUSECon: March 23 to March 27, Dublin, Ireland — Virtual
- March Open Source RTP meetup: March 24, Durham, NC- Still running.
- Linaro Connect: March 24–25, Budapest, Hungary — Virtual
- KubeCon: March 30 to April 2, Amsterdam — Postponed until July/August
- Open Data Science Conference: April 13 to April 18, Boston — Still running
- Open Networking & Edge Summit: April 20 to April 21, LA — Postponed to the fall
- Red Hat Summit: April 27 to April 29, San Francisco — Virtual
- LinuxFest Northwest: April 24 to April 26, Bellingham, Wash. — Still running
- Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit: April 27 to April 29, Palm Springs, Calif. — Still running
- DataStax Accelerate: May 11–13, San Francisco — Virtual.
- RedisConf: May 12–14, San Francisco — Virtual.
- OpenDev + PTG (formerly OpenStack Summit): June 8 to June 11, Vancouver — Still running
- SouthEast LinuxFest: June 12 to June 14 — Still running
- Open Source Summit North America: June 22 to June 24, Austin, Texas — Still running
- Cloud Foundry Summit: June 25, Austin, Texas — Still running
- FIRST CTI — March 9 to March 11, Zurich — Current status: Canceled.
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