Google has decided to put off even the digital version of the largest conference this year, a company focused Cloud conference Next, as the severity of the deepening crisis of coronavirus.
The company was initially canceled physical conference, which will take place in April in downtown San Francisco’s Moscone Center, at the beginning of this month. It then does the same thing for more consumer-facing I / O developer conference. The plan is to host Cloud Next digital, with Google promising “free, global, the first digital, multi-day event connects attendees with our Next ’20 content and each other via streaming lectures, breakout sessions, interactive and digital learning ‘request session experts’ with the Google team. ”
Now, Google said it would postpone the event indefinitely “of concern for the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees and the local community, and based on recent decisions made by the federal and local governments regarding coronavirus (COVID-19).” the company said it was “fully committed to bringing Google Cloud Next ’20:. Digital Connect for life, but will hold the event when the time is right ”
Although the company is not being explicit about the decision, it appears directly related to “shelter in place” so yesterday instituted for the San Francisco Bay Area. That means the possibility prohibitively difficult to record and stream live session guidance given from the local government and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention that is rapidly moving towards the extreme social distance in the last two weeks. On Monday, President Donald Trump also advised citizens to avoid meetings of 10 people or more as bars, restaurants and a variety of other core functions of social life began to close in the largest American cities.
