[PradeetPatel]

Change the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish.

It's no replacement for an in-person conference, but this approach is better than straight up cancelling everything.

[eduction]

It's Friday and the conference is Tuesday. Half their people, it sounds like, at least, are on the ground in Zambia already.

You'd take a conference a year in the making and shift it online over a weekend from your hotel room in a developing country? No you would not. I don't blame them for not doing that.

[cubefox]

It was actually less than eight days out before they knew they were cancelled. It's hard to do something in so little time.