[jaworrom]

I just got word that the Adobe Summit 2020 conference I was set to attend has been canceled. I believe the event had ~17,000 attendees last year, which is but a fraction of the SXSW attendance. Most of the attendees are based in the US too...

[karlding]

Adobe Summit 2020's cancellation was also discussed on HN yesterday [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22470462

[fortran77]

These get canceled because employers don't want the liability if they require attendance at a conference and a person gets very ill.

The majority of people at SXSW are there for recreational/personal reasons and are not directed to go there from an employer.

[dvtrn]

Except, you know...for the people working local venues and establishments during SXSW, right?

[fortran77]

And these people will lose big-time if it gets canceled. What's your point?

[michaelt]

I think it's that employees who get flown to $1000-a-ticket conferences by their employers get treated better by their employers than food service workers.

[dvtrn]

I wholly understand that, I'm speaking directly to the employees who live and work in Austin and very likely wont have their shifts cancelled like those $1000-ticket holders would (speaking from experience).

Sorry, somehow I keep forgetting that trying to bring up the fact that there are classes of people not making software engineer money that would be just as affected by some of the hypotheticals on HN is a no-no.

[ghaff]

They don’t really enter into the calculus for running or not running these events but there are a huge number of local people who provide food/drink, security, audio, janitorial, registration, etc. for these events who lose a week of work when events are canceled—probably with no compensation.

[SilasX]

lol yeah I have a hard time imagining food service's actual cost (not what the hotel bills, but what they actually pay the workers and managers of that part) as being more than a rounding error, and still "sorry workers, can't do anything for you".