Apple is taking its Worldwide Developers Conference online-only due to coronavirus concerns.
“The current health situation has required that we create a new WWDC 2020 format that delivers a full program with an online keynote and sessions, offering a great learning experience for our entire developer community, all around the world," Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said in a statement, "We will be sharing all of the details in the weeks ahead.”
With businesses across the country limiting travel to keep their employees safe and mitigate further spread of the disease, more cancellations are likely. These gatherings can cause further transmissions. Officials in Massachusetts, for instance, linked a single conference to 70 cases in the state.
Here’s a full list of all the gatherings that will no longer be going forward. We’ll update this list as we hear more.
February
24–27 Mobile World Congress
March
3–5 Zendesk Relate
3–7 Expo West
2–6 American Physical Society March Meeting
6–8 Amnesty International Annual General Meeting
9–13 CERAweek Energy Conference
9–12 Facebook Global Marketing Summit
10–12 London Book Fair
13–20 SXSW
14–17 The Inspired Home Show
15–20 Microsoft MVP Global Summit
16–20 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
16–20 Game Developers Conference (postponed)
22–26 NVIDIA GTC
3/29–4/20 Adobe Summit (online-only)
April
1–2 Oktane20 Live (online-only)
3–6 Society for News Design (postponed)
6–8 Google Cloud Next (online-only)
13–19 The World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings
20–24 TED (Either postponed or online-only)
23–25 Lesbians Who Tech & Allies (postponed)
25 A&E Upfront
TBD Ralph Lauren April Fashion Show
May
1–2 Facebook F8 (virtual and local events replace the San Jose gathering)
5–6 Shopify Unite (online-only)
5–7 IBM Think
12–14 Google I/O
13–15 Clear 2020
June
9–11 E3
TBD WWDC (online-only)