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A running list of cancelled or postponed tech events due to COVID-19

As health officials work to keep the COVID-19 outbreak under control, numerous events all around the world have been cancelled, postponed, or altered to be carried out in a digital format.

By now, the sheer amount of altered events has likely got your head spinning, so we compiled a complete list of those changed events to help you keep track.

This list will be updated daily. If there’s a tech event that’s been cancelled and you don’t see it below, please let us know in the comments. Or Tweet us @itworldca

February

February 24 to February 27: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (cancelled)

March

  • March 3 to March 6: Cisco Live Melbourne (in-person cancelled, online only from June 2 to June 3)
  • March 4: DocuSign Momentum in San Francisco (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 4: Salesforce World Tour Sydney (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 9 to March 12: Facebook Global Marketing Summit in San Francisco (cancelled)
  • March 9 to March 12: SAP Concur Fashion (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 10 to March 11: Microsoft WSLConf in Redmond, WA (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 10 to March 13: Qualtrics X4 Summit in Salt Lake City (postponed until Fall of 2020)
  • March 10: IDC Directions, Boston (cancelled, keynotes still being livestreamed)
  • March 10 to March 11: Cisco Devnet Create (postponed until further notice)
  • March 10 to March 11: DX3 in Toronto (second day cancelled)
  • March 12 to March 14: Women in Cybersecurity event, Denver (cancelled)
  • March 15 to March 17: MSP World in New Orleans (rescheduled until Sept. 30 to Oct. 2)
  • March 15 to March 18: O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference in San Jose (postponed until September 14 to September 17)
  • March 15 to March 20: Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Bellevue and Redmond, WA (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 16 to March 18: SAP Ariba LIVE in Las Vegas (cancelled)
  • March 16 to March 19: F5 Agility 2020 in Orlando (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 18 to March 19: Domopalooza in Salt Lake City (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 22 to March 26: Nvidia GTC – GPE Technology Conference in San Jose (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 23 to March 26: Aruba Networks Atmosphere 2020 in Las Vegas (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 23 to March 26: Oracle Modern Business Experience in Chicago (postponed until Sep. 21-24 to merge with OpenWorld)
  • March 23 to March 24: Y-Combinator Demo Day (in-person event cancelled, online only event)
  • March 24 to March 26: EmTech Asia in Singapore (postponed until August 4 to August 5)
  • March 29 to April 1: Adobe Summit in Las Vegas (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 29 to April 1: SAS Global Forum in Washington, DC (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 30 to April 2: Oktane Live (was planned as an online-only event this year)
  • March 30 to April 2: Enterprise Connect in Orlando (rescheduled to Aug. 3 – 6 at the Moscone in San Francisco)
  • March 31 to April 1: Paris Blockchain Week Summit in Paris (postponed until December 9 to December 10)
  • March 31 to April 2: Atlassian Summit 2020 in Las Vegas (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • March 31 to April 3: Black Hat Asia 2020 in Singapore (postponed until September 29 to October 2)

April

  • April 5 to April 8: The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit in Washington (cancelled)
  • April 6 to April 7: InsurTech North (postponed until Nov. 9 to Nov. 10)
  • April 6 to April 8: Google Cloud Next in San Francisco (postponed until further notice)
  • April 6 to April 9: Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit in Barcelona (postponed until Fall 2020)
  • April 6 to April 9: Internet of Things World (postponed until August 10 to August 13)
  • April 7: IDC Directions, Toronto (postponed to the fall)
  • April 14: Open Source 101 2020 in Austin (in-person event cancelled, online-only event, named Open Source 101 at Home, to be held on May 12)
  • April 17 to April 19: DEF CON China in Beijing (postponed until further notice)
  • April 24 to April 26: Techstars Startup Weekend in Zurich (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • Late April: Google News Initiative Summit in Sunnyvale, CA (cancelled)
  • April 28 to April 29: Red Hat Summit 2020 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)

May

  • May 3 to May 7: ServiceNow Knowledge 2020 in Orlando (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • May 4 to May 6: OpenWorks ’20 (in-person event cancelled, virtual starting in May)
  • May 4 to May 7: Dell Technologies World 2020 in Las Vegas (in-person event cancelled, online-only event –  rescheduled for October)
  • May 5 to May 7: IBM Think 2020 in San Francisco (in-person event cancelled, to be live-streamed)
  • May 5 to May 8: FMX Visual Effects Conference in Germany (cancelled)
  • May 6: Future Vision, the DTG Summit in London (postponed until Oct. 5)
  • May 4 to May 6: VeeamON 2020 in Las Vegas. Turned to a virtual event for June 17-18
  • May 6 to May 8: Facebook F8 in San Jose (cancelled)
  • May 6 to May 8: Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference in Toronto (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • May 12 to May 14: Google I/O in Mountain View, CA (cancelled)
  • May 12 to May 14: Ingram Micro Cloud Summit 2020 in Miami Beach, FL (postponed until early 2021)
  • May 13 to May 14: Rise of AI conference (cancelled)
  • May 19 to May 21: Microsoft’s Build developer conference in Seattle (turned to a digital event)
  • May 20 to May 21: Intel Partner Connect (virtual)
  • May 24 to May 26: QED Quality in Enterprise Development (cancelled)
  • May 25 to May 27: Core C++ (postponed until further notice)
  • May 25 to May 29: Public Safety Canada’s annual Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Symposium in Toronto (cancelled)

June

  • June 1 to June 7: True North Festival in Waterloo (cancelled)
  • June 2 to June 4: DCD Tech Showcase North America (online event with live Q&A)
  • June 2: Computex  (postponed until Sept. 22 to Sept. 30)
  • June 2 to June 4: Mendix World 2020 (cancelled)
  • June 3 to June 4: The Global Online Digital Transformation Conference 2020
  • June 9: LiveWorx 2020 (virtual event)
  • June 10: Women Tech Global Conference (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)
  • June 8 to June 11: DevOpsCon Berlin 2020 (now rescheduled for Oct. 12-15)
  • June 15: SAP Sapphire Now Converge virtual event
  • June 18 to June 19: TNW Conference in Amsterdam (postponed until October 1 to October 2)
  • June 22 to June 23: Collision 2020 in Toronto (turned to virtual event)
  • June 23 to June 25: HPE Discover in Las Vegas (in-person event cancelled, online-only event starting June 22)

**Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 will take place in June with an all-new online format. No specific date has been set.

September

  • Sept. 4 to Sept. 9: IFA Berlin 2020 (in-person event cancelled, online-only event – details to follow)
  • Sept. 21 to Sept. 25: Microsoft Ignite in New Orleans (in-person event cancelled, online-only event)

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