Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Adobe pull out of more conferences as coronavirus spreads
on Monday announced their decisions to cancel, alter or pull out of various upcoming conferences due to the spreading of the coronavirus.
Google announced that its Google Cloud Next 2020 event that was scheduled for April 6 through April 8 in San Francisco will now"out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety." Facebook, meanwhile, said it had decided not to participate in SXSW, the conference and festival event that is held in Austin, Texas, every March.
"Over the past few weeks, we have been closely monitoring and evaluating the situation around COVID-19 to ensure we are taking the necessary measures to protect the health and wellbeing of Adobe Summit attendees," Adobe said in a statement. "As a result, we have made the difficult but important decision to make Adobe Summit 2020 an online event this year and to cancel the live event in Las Vegas.
The companies' decisions are the latest in a series of cancelations to major annual events held by the tech industry each year.
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