<div dir="auto">Yeah, my company is having it's single biggest event next week. I've suggested to the publisher that we at least have a backup plan. She hasn't responded. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 6:30 PM Alan Zeichick via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">I can tell you, as a former event producer, this would have been devastating to BZ Media.<div><br></div><div>We did 6-8 tech conferences year. Because events are higher margin than publications, those conferences were essential to our success.<div><br></div><div>-A<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:20 PM, David Needle via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div>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>No announcement yet on Google I/O or Microsoft Build, but I imagine we'll hear something about them this month. </div><div><br></div><div>* Google plans to hold the conference as more of a virtual event with keynotes and other sessions online. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://9to5google.com/2020/03/02/google-cloud-next-coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://9to5google.com/2020/03/02/google-cloud-next-coronavirus/</a> <br></div></div>
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