[Ipg-smz] Adobe cancels Adobe Summit

[Chris J. Preimesberger]

This thing is putting a lot of people out of work.
Wow.

Chris Preimesberger
Editor, eWEEK

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:00 PM David Needle via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> And another one bites the dust.
>
> I heard a Bloomberg reporter on their channel posit the main reason for
> the conference closures is no one wants to risk being be the place where an
> outbreak occurred and be associated with that. Imagine a headline, for
> example:
> *14 People Catch Coronavirus at Adobe Summit*
>
> It's not a good time to be in the conference biz. Here's Adobe's
> statement:
>
> From Adobe: Each year, we look forward to hosting our customers, partners
> and employees from around the world at Adobe Summit to talk about the
> future of customer experience, unveil the latest product and platform
> innovations, and get inspired together as a community.
>
>
>
> 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. 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.
>
>
>
> While we are disappointed that we will not be together in-person with our
> community this year, we are excited to host Adobe Summit as an online
> experience. We will share additional updates on the online event soon.
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