<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I can tell you, as a former event producer, this would have been devastating to BZ Media.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We did 6-8 tech conferences year. Because events are higher margin than publications, those conferences were essential to our success.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-A<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:20 PM, David Needle via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" class="">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="">I won't keep reporting these, I think it's safe to assume any conference of any size near term is probably not happening.</div><div class="">No announcement yet on Google I/O or Microsoft Build, but I imagine we'll hear something about them this month. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Google plans to hold the conference as more of a virtual event with keynotes and other sessions online. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://9to5google.com/2020/03/02/google-cloud-next-coronavirus/" class="">https://9to5google.com/2020/03/02/google-cloud-next-coronavirus/</a> <br class=""></div></div>
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