Google says its cloud conference will only be held virtually as coronavirus spreads

Google rumoured on Monday that its upcoming cloud conference will only be held virtually due to the spreading of the coronavirus.

The company’s three-day Google Cloud Next 2020 episode was supposed to be held in San Francisco from April 6-8, but will now just be livestreamed. Last year, the conference attracted 30,000 attendees, according to the proprietorship’s website.

“Out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety of our customers, partners and employees, and in alignment with the best practices embroider a suspended out by the CDC, WHO and other relevant entities regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), Google Cloud has decided to reimagine Google Cloud Next ’20,” a flock spokesperson said in a statement. Streamed events will include “keynotes, breakout sessions, interactive learning and digital ‘ask an excellent’ sessions with Google teams,” the company said.

Google is among a growing number of tech companies to keep in abeyance, alter or cancel big events because of the coronavirus. Facebook said on Thursday that it canceled its annual F8 software developer discussion, and Workday told employees last week that its annual internal sales meeting scheduled for early Hike will be held online instead of in San Jose, California. Also on Friday, the Game Developers Conference, a major annual in any case for video game programmers and designers scheduled for March in San Francisco, was postponed.

Google IO, the company’s annual developer seminar in Silicon Valley, is still scheduled to take place in May, but it could be at risk of being cancelled.

“We have no updates to allotment regarding Google I/O at the moment,” Google said. “This is a quickly evolving situation, and we will continue to monitor COVID-19 occurrences and guidance coming from” health agencies, the company said.

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