Major Event Cancellations Due to Coronavirus

List of tech conferences that have been cancelled, rescheduled or moved to online-only due to concerns over COVID-19 virus

Last updated: 03.04.2020, 21:33 UTC.
Taking into account closing borders and government-issued limitations for in-person gatherings, effectively all events with over 100 attendees in Europe during March and April have been cancelled. Similarly, majority of large tech conferences in USA and around the world have been cancelled due to COVID-19.
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It all started when the GSMA cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because of the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak. While tech community in Barcelona promptly organised alternative Tech Spirit Barcelona festival which reportedly hosted more than 15k attendees (deep bow from my side), the shock wave sent ripples far and wide.

Event cancellations have not stopped since.

It is estimated that direct economic loss from the cancellation of major tech conferences over coronavirus has already passed half billion dollar mark. And this number includes only estimated losses by airlines, hotels, restaurants, and transportation providers that would normally make money from attendees’ purchases, without taking into account lost income for event organisers themselves.

List of major conferences pulling the plug in 2020:

• All of O’Reilly in-person events. Forever.
• Accelerate (Leipzig, Germany)
• AI & Big Data Expo Global, Blockchain Expo Global, IoT Tech Expo Global and 5G Expo Global (London, UK) — 2020 events cancelled, rescheduled for 2021
• App Design and Development Conference (Barcelona, Spain)
• Cisco Live Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
• CLOUDFEST (Europa-Park, Germany)
• CodeMobile (London, UK)
• DEVit (Thessaloniki, Greece)
• dHealth Summit (Vienna, Austria)
• Digital Women’s Day 2020 (Paris, France)
• E3 Expo (Los Angeles, USA)
• EMERGE (London, UK)
• EU Startups Summit (Barcelona, Spain)
• Facebook Developers Conference (San Jose, USA)
• Fifteen Seconds (Graz, Austria)
• Game Developers Conference (San Francisco, USA)
• Gartner Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation Summit (London, UK)
• Global Technology Governance Summit (San Francisco, USA)
• Google’s I/O (Mountain View, USA)
• hub conference & Big-Data.AI Summit (Berlin, Germany)
• Internet Week Denmark (Aarhus, Denmark)
• JavaLand (Phantasialand Brühl, Germany)
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2020 (Shanghai, China)
• MELT Innovatsioonifoorum 2020 (Tallinn, Estonia)
• Mind The Product (Singapore) — series of digital events planned instead
• MIPTV (Cannes, France)
• Mobile World Congress (incl. 4YFN and xside) (Barcelona, Spain)
• Mobile 360 Security for 5G (The Hague, Netherlands)
• Mobile 360 MENA (Cairo, Egypt)
• NetApp Insight (Paris, France & Berlin, Germany)
• North American Digital Media Awards (Austin, USA)
• NXT Global Summit (Las Vegas, USA)
• O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference (New York, USA)
• O’Reilly Strata Data Conference (London, UK)
• OnlineMarketingRockstars (Hamburg, Germany)
• React.NotAConf (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Retail Expo (London, UK)
• SaaStock North America (San Francisco, USA)
• Skinnovation (Innsbruck, Austria)
• Skoll World Forum (Oxford, UK)
• Smart Cities Connect Spring (Denver, USA)
• Spark The Change (Montreal ,Canada)
• START Summit (Saint Gallen, Switzerland)
• Startup Night (Dortmund, Germany)
• Startup Sesame Summit (Paris, France)
• Start Up Energy Transition 2020 (Berlin, Germany)
• Summit Summit (Reykjavik, Iceland)
• SXSW & SXSW EDU (Austin, USA)
• Technoport (Trondheim, Norway)
• The Apache Flink Forward North America (San Francisco, USA)
• TwitchCon Europe (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• UNLEASH America / Disrupt HR America (Las Vegas, USA)
• UNLEASH Spring (London, UK)
• Vienna UP’20 (Vienna, Austria) >> May 2021
• Webit (Valencia, Spain)
• Western Balkans Digital Summit (Tirana, Albania)
• White Nights CEO Summit (Barcelona, Spain)

Events that have cancelled in-person participation and moved all content online:

• HIMSS20 Digital (Orlando, USA) on 09–13 March 2020
• NDC DevOps (Oslo, Norway) on 11–13 March 2020
• Polar Bear Pitching (Oulu, Finland) on 12 March 2020, join here
• F5 Agility 2020 (Orlando, USA) on 16–19 March 2020
• AllFacebook MarketingConference (Munich, Germany) on 17–19 March 2020; in-person event postponed with dates TBD
• Domopalooza (Salt Lake City, USA) on 18–19 March 2020
• SMX (Munich, Germany) > virtual event will be held on 18–19 March 2020, physical event postponed to 24–25 August 2020
• inOrbit (London, UK) on 18–20 March 2020 + in-person event for 30 attendees in London on 20 March 2020
• All Influencer Marketing Conference (Munich, Germany) on 19 March 2020
• IEEE VR 2020 (Atlanta, USA) on 22–26 March 2020
• Atmosphere’20 Digital (Las Vegas, USA) > TBD
• Business of Software (London, UK) on 23–24 March 2020
• GPU Technology Conference (San Jose, USA) on 23–26 March 2020 > became GTC Digital (free)
• Bio-Europe Spring (Paris, France) on 23–27 March 2020
• Oracle Modern Business Experience (Chicago, USA) on 24 March 2020
• CYBERSEC Brussels Leaders’ Foresight (Brussels, Belgium) on 24 March 2020
• WOLVES Summit (Warsaw, Poland) on 24–25 March 2020
• DevOps Pro (Vilnius, Lithuania) on 24–26 March 2020
• World Summit AI Americas (Montreal, Canada) on 25–26 March 2020
• MIPTV ONLINE+ (Cannes, France) on 28 March — 10 April 2020
• Adobe Digital Marketing Summit (Las Vegas, USA) on 29 March — 02 April 2020
• UX Copenhagen 2020 (Copenhagen, Denmark) on 30–31 March 2020 > added LIVE streaming track
• Oktane20 LIVE (San Francisco, USA) on 30 March — 02 April 2020
• Atlassian Summit (Las Vegas, USA) on 31 March — 02 April 2020 >> became Atlassian Remote Summit 2020
• NDC Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark) on 01–03 April 2020
• The Big Squeeze Digital (Brussels, Belgium) on 02 April 2020
• Seedstars World Summit (Lausanne, Switzerland) on 03 April 2020
• Cloud Next Conference by Google (San Francisco, USA) > TBD
• Venture Day Minsk (Minsk, Ukraine) on 16 April 2020
• Remote AID 2020 (ONLINE EVENT) on 20 April 2020 > Replacing Running Remote as one day virtual conference for free. Physical conference rescheduled for 02–03 September 2020.
• Discover MarTech (San Jose, USA) on 21–23 April 2020
• NDC Porto 2020 (Porto, Portugal) on 21–24 April 2020
• WinDays Virtual Day (Rovinj, Croatia) on 22 April 2020 > In-person event postponed to Autumn 2020.
• NetApp Insight Digital on 23 April 2020 >> instead of cancelled in-person events in Paris and Berlin
• VB GamesBeat Summit (Los Angeles, USA) on 28–29 April 2020
• NOLA MusicTech Conference (New Orleans, USA) on 29 April 2020
• Dell Technologies World (Las Vegas, USA) on 04–07 May 2020
• #SMWONE (New York, USA) on 05 May 2020 >> ON DEMAND
• IBM Think (San Francisco, USA) on 05–07 May 2020
• Ethereal Summit (New York, USA) on 07–08 May 2020
• Consensus: Distributed (New York, USA) on 11–13 May 2020
• ICE North America (ex GiGse) (Miami, USA) on 11–15 May 2020
• Tech Inclusion Global Summit (New York, USA) on 12 May 2020
• EdTechXEurope (London, UK) on 12–13 May 2020
• Voice & Chatbot Summit (Las Vegas, USA) on 13–15 May 2020
• Startup Village (Moscow, Russia) on 21–22 May 2020
• AWE (Santa Clara, USA) on 27–29 May 2020
• VR/AR Global Summit Online (instead of VR/AR Europe Summit in Lisbon, Portugal) on 01–03 June 2020
• Adobe 99u (New York, USA) on 03–05 June 2020
• Tech Conference Europe (Tallinn, Estonia) on 09 June 2020
• Identiverse (Boston, USA) >> Becomes community-supported series of virtual events
• NDC Oslo (Oslo, Norway) on 08–12 June 2020
• Open Source Data Conference (Berlin, Germany) on 16–18 June 2020
• Collision Toronto (Toronto, Canada) on 22–25 June 2020 >> Streaming: Collision from Home
• The Europas (London, UK) on 25 June 2020

Events that have been rescheduled to later dates:

• Blockchain Global Governance Conference -BG2C- (Tokyo, Japan) moved to 21–22 April 2020
• SHE leader@digital (Sofia, Bulgaria) moved to 14 May 2020
• The Marketplace Conference (San Francisco, USA) moved to 27 May 2020
• Techne Summit (Dubrovnik, Croatia) moved to 30–31 May 2020
• Scaleup Summit London (London, UK) moved to 08–09 June 2020
• RISK (Belgrade, Serbia) moved to 09–10 June 2020
• BCI Summit Fortune 500 CTO/CIO Edition (New York, USA) moved to 18–19 June 2020
• Digital Pharma Summit (Brussels, Belgium) moved to 29 June 2020
• StartmeupHK Festival (Hong Kong, China) moved to 06–11 July 2020
• Fortune Brainstorm Health (Marina Del Rey, USA) moved to 07–08 July 2020
• 48FRWD (Munich, Germany) moved to 13–15 July 2020
• Micromobility America (Richmond, USA) moved to 16–17 July 2020
• TC Early Stage SF 2020 (San Francisco, USA) moved to 21 July 2020
• The GeekWire Awards (Seattle, USA) moved to 23 July 2020
• HKTDC Hong Kong International ICT Expo 2020 (Hong Kong, China) moved to 25–28 July 2020
• TED 2020 (Vancouver, Canada) moved to 26–30 July 2020
• EmTech Asia (Singapore) moved to 04–05 August 2020
• Lesbians Who Tech + Allies (San Francisco, USA) on 06–08 August 2020
• AfroTech: Health (San Francicsco, USA) moved to 07 August 2020
• Silicon Valley AgTech Conference (Santa Clara, USA) moved to 10 August 2020
• AUVSI XPONENTIAL (Chicago, USA) moved to 10–12 August 2020
• re:publica (Berlin, Germany) moved to 10–12 August 2020
• Startup Elevate USA (San Jose, USA) moved to 10–13 August 2020
• IoT World Conference & Expo (San Jose, USA) moved to 10–13 August 2020
• Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (San Jose, USA) moved to 10–13 August 2020
• NXNE (Toronto, Canada) moved to 11–16 August 2020
• AWE Shenzen (Shenzen, China) moved to 15–16 August 2020
• SMX Summer Edition (Munich, Germany) moved to 24–25 August 2020
• Money 20/20 Asia (Singapore) moved to 25–27 August 2020
• Latitude 59 (Tallinn, Estonia) moved to 27–28 August 2020
• SaaStock LATAM (Sao Paulo, Brazil )moved to 31 August — 02 September 2020
• MOVE America (Austin, USA) moved to 01–02 September 2020
• GISEC (Dubai, UAE) moved to 01–03 September 2020
• Future Blockchain Summit (Dubai, UAE) moved to 02–03 September 2020
• Running Remote (Austin, USA) moved to 02–03 September 2020 + free online conference Remote AID on 20 April 2020
• The AI Summit London (London, UK) moved to 02–03 September 2020
• TechXLR8 (London, UK) moved to 02–03 September 2020
• Pirate Summit (Cologne, Germany) moved to 02–04 September 2020
• London Tech Week (London, UK) moved to 02–10 September 2020
• Product Camp (Gdynia, Poland) moved to 02–04 September 2020
• Dubai Lynx (Dubai, UAE) moved to 06–09 September 2020
• Arab Lab The Expo (Dubai, UAE) moved to 07–09 September 2020
• Seamless Middle East (Dubai, UAE) moved to 08–09 September 2020
• 4GAMECHANGERS (Vienna, Austria) moved to 08–12 September 2020
• Dublin Tech Summit (Dublin, Ireland) moved to 09–10 September 2020
• Startup Olé (Salamanca, Spain) moved to 09–11 September 2020
• PHP Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia) moved to 10–12 September 2020
• East Africa Com and AHUB East (Nairobi, Kenya) moved to 14–15 September 2020
• O’Reilly Strata Data Conference (San Jose, USA) merged with O’Reilly Strata Data and AI Conference (New York, USA) on 14–17 September 2020
• Vidcon Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico) moved to 17–20 September 2020
• Chief Data Officer Exchange 2020 (London, UK) moved to 21–22 September 2020
• Gartner Data and Analytics Summit (Grapevine, USA) moved to 21–24 September 2020
• Big 5G Event (Dallas, USA) moved to 22–24 September 2020
• infoShare (Gdansk, Poland) moved to 23–24 September 2020
• Unternehmertag (Tegernsee, Germany) moved to 23–25 September 2020
• OFFF (Barcelona, Spain) moved to 24–26 September 2020
• Brand Minds (Bucharest, Romania) moved to 25 September 2020
• UK Investor Show (London, UK) moved to 26 September 2020
• TEAMZ Blockchain Summit (Tokyo, Japan) moved to 28 September 2020
• Hong Kong Blockchain Week (Hong Kong, China) moved to 28–30 September 2020
• ConnecTechAsia (Singapore) moved to 29 September — 01 October 2020
• CommunicAsia (Singapore) moved to 29 September — 01 October 2020
• TechXLR8 Asia with Startup Elevate, Network Virtualization & SDN Asia, IoT World Asia, Broadband Forum Asia, 5G Asia, AI Summit Singapore (Singapore) moved to 29 September — 01 October 2020
• Black Hat Asia (Singapore) moved to 29 September — 02 October 2020
• LendIt Fintech USA (New York, USA) moved to 30 September — 01 October 2020
• The Next Web (Amsterdam, Netherlands) moved to 01–02 October 2020
• LEAP Summit (Zagreb, Croatia) moved to 01–02 October 2020
• TechSauce (Bangkok, Thailand) moved to 05–06 October 2020
• Asia Crypto Week (Hong Kong, China) moved to 05–11 October 2020
• TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 (San Jose, USA) moved to 06 October 2020
• Savant Supply Chain Congress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) moved to 06–07 October 2020
• TOKEN2049 (Hong Kong, China) moved to 07–08 October 2020
• Tech Jobs Fair Berlin (Berlin, Germany) moved to 08 October 2020
• Afrobytes (Paris, France) moved to 08 October 2020
• Reflect Festival (Limassol, Cyprus) moved to 08–09 October 2020
• #SheStartedIt LIVE 2020 (London, UK) moved to 09–10 October 2020
• New York Fintech Week (New York, USA) moved to 12–16 October 2020
• CRAFT (Budapest, Hungary) moved to 13–16 October 2020
• Empire Fintech Conference (New York, USA) moved to 14 October 2020
• Engage Invest Exploit (Edinburgh, UK) moved to 14 October 2020
• Empire Banking and Fintech Innovation Roundtable (New York, USA) moved to 15 October 2020
• Women of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, USA) moved to 15–16 October 2020
• Reboot Develop Blue (Dubrovnik, Croatia) moved to 15–17 October 2020
• Webiz Conference (Zrenjanin, Serbia) moved to 15–18 October 2020
• Fast Growth Icons (Paris, France) moved to 21 October 2020
• ANON Summit (Vienna, Austria) moved to 21–22 October 2020
• Hello Tomorrow Global Summit (Paris, France) moved to 21-23 October 2020
• Bank+Fintech 2020 (Madrid, Spain) moved to 21–23 October 2020 and Madrid (instead of Berlin)
• Africa Tech Summit London (London, UK) moved to 22 October 2020
• TechDay NYC (New York, USA) moved to 23 October 2020
• HITEC Entrepreneur20x (San Antonio, USA) moved to 26–29 October 2020
• Cannes Lions Conference (Cannes, France) moved to 26–30 October 2020
• The Arch Summit (Luxembourg) moved to 28–29 October 2020
• Future Human (Dublin, Ireland) moved to 29–30 October 2020
• World Bio Markets 2020 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) moved to 02–04 November 2020
• eMerge Americas (Miami, USA) moved to 04–05 November 2020
• The Big Squeeze (Brussels, Belgium) moved to 12 November 2020
• CB Insights Future of Fintech (San Francisco, USA) moved to 16–18 November 2020
• automatica (Munich, Germany) moved to 08–11 December 2020
• Fortune Brainstorm Design (Singapore) moved to 09–10 December 2020
• Paris Blockchain Week Summit (Paris, France) moved to 09–10 December 2020
• Innov8rs (Barcelona, Spain) moved to 09–10 December 2020

Events that have been postponed without setting dates yet:

• 5G Latin America (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) TBD
• 5G MENA (Dubai, UAE) TBD
• ad:tech New Delhi (New Delhi, India) TBD
• AI Everything (Dubai, UAE) TBD
• AIM Startup (Dubai, UAE) TBD
• AI/SUM (Tokyo, Japan) TBD
• and& (Leuven, Belgium) TBD
• Bitcoin 2020 Conference (San Francisco, USA) TBD
• Berlin Travel Festival (Berlin, Germany) TBD
• Bold Awards (Venice, Italy) TBD
• C2 (MIXED EVENT) (Montreal, Canada) TBD
• C3 Crypto Conference (Berlin, Germany) TBD
• CES Asia (Shanghai, China) TBD
• CoinFestUK (Manchester, UK) TBD
• Data Science Conference Croatia (Zagreb, Croatia) TBD June 2020
• DC Blockchain Summit (Washington DC, USA) TBD
• Digital Advertising Week (London, UK) TBD Summer 2020
• Digital Asset Summit (New York, USA) TBD
• Digital Takeover (Zagreb, Croatia) TBD
• EG Conference(Carmel-by-the-Sea, USA) TBD
• EMERGE (Turkistan, Kazakhstan) TBD
• European AI Policy Conference 2020 (Brussels, Belgium) TBD
• Experiencia Endeavor (Santa Fe, Argentina) TBD
• Fortune Brainstorm A.I. (Boston, USA) TBD
• Game Connection (San Francisco, USA) TBD > virtual meeting support during 16–20 March 2020
• HIMSS Saudi Arabia 2020 (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
• HITEC Europe (Mallorca, Spain) TBD
• IDTechEx Wearable Europe (Berlin, Germany) TBD
• iforum (Kiev, Ukraine) TBD Autumn 2020
• Insurtech Insights Europe (London, UK) TBD
• Internet World Expo (Munich, Germany) TBD
• ITEC (London, UK) TBD
• JavaSkop (Skopje, Macedonia) TBD
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe (Amsterdam, Netherlands) TBD July/August
• LOGIN (Vilnius, Lithuania) TBD Autumn 2020
• Mallorca Blockchain Days (Mallorca, Spain) TBD
• Mobile Growth Summit Singapore (Singapore) TBD
• Open Ocean CEO Summit (London, UK) TBD
• OpenSUSE Summit (Tirana, Albania) TBD
• OSCAL (Tirana, Albania) TBD
• Oslo Freedom Forum (Oslo, Norway) TBD
• Prepare 2020 (St. Louis, USA) TBD Summer 2020
• Pubcon Florida (Miami, USA) TBD
• Residential Energy Storage Forum (Munich, Germany) TBD Nov 2020
• Robotex Greece (Athens, Greece) TBD
• SaaStr Annual 2020 (San Jose, USA) TBD Sept 2020
• SHIFT AI (Dublin, Ireland) TBD September 2020
• South Summit Health and Wellbeing (Valencia, Spain) TBD
• Startup Europe Week (Multiple locations, Europe) TBD
• Startup Week Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf, Germany) TBD Autumn 2020
• Tech Conference Europe (Tallinn, Estonia) TBD
• The Northern Tech Awards (Leeds, UK) TBD
• The Turing Presents: AI UK (London, UK) TBD
• Trend Hunter’s Future Festival (Los Angeles / Boston / Cincinnati / Atlanta, USA) TBD
• UpFront Conf (Manchester, UK) TBD
• VB BLUEPRINT (Green Bay, USA) TBD
• Viva Technology (Paris, France) TBD
• X4 London (London, UK) TBD Autumn 2020
• Wall Street Journal Future of Everything Festival (New York, USA) TBD
• WinDays (Rovinj, Croatia) TBD Autumn 2020
• WIRED Health (London, UK) TBD
• Women in Tech Africa (Cape Town, South Africa) TBD
• World AI Show (Dubai, UAE) TBD
• WSJ CIO Network (San Francisco, USA) TBD

List will be updated. We are combing through rumours, whispers and chatters trying to verify information.

Are we missing something? Comment under the article or tweet at us at @AisteLehmann & @reevent_me.

P.S. Events that have been rescheduled for 2021 have been put under category “cancelled” in 2020.