Google has decided to do that even slow down the digital version of the largest conference of the year, the entrepreneurial Cloud Next conference, as the severity of the coronavirus crisis increases.
The company originally canceled the physical conference that would take place in downtown San Francisco in downtown San Francisco in early April. Later, it did the same for its more consumer-oriented I / O developer conference. The plan was to digitally host Cloud Next, with Google promising a “free, global, digital first, multi-day event that would connect our attendees with Next ’20 content and each other through streamed keynotes, breakout sessions, interactive learning and digital queries “an expert session with Google teams. ‘
Google now says it will postpone the event indefinitely ‘out of concern for the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees and local communities, and based on recent federal and local government decisions regarding the coronavirus (COVID -19). “The company says it is” fully committed to bringing Google Cloud Next “20: Digital Connect to life, but will hold the event when the timing is right.”
While the company is not explicit about the decision, it appears to be directly related to yesterday’s “shelter in place” order for the San Francisco Bay Area. That means it’s likely to be prohibitively expensive to record and stream live sessions, under the guidance of local governments and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have been rapidly moving towards extreme social distancing in the past two weeks. Monday also President Donald Trump advised citizens to avoid gatherings of 10 or more people when bars, restaurants and many other core functions of social life in the major American cities began to close.