- American Physical Society

"Due to rapidly escalating health concerns relating to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the 2020 APS March Meeting in Denver, CO, has been canceled."

- Adobe annual summit

"Over the past few weeks, we have been closely monitoring and evaluating the situation around COVID-19 to ensure we are taking the necessary measures to protect the health and wellbeing of Adobe Summit attendees. As a result, we have made the difficult but important decision to make Summit/Imagine 2020 an online event this year and cancel the live event.”

- Facebook’s F8 conference 

"In light of the growing concerns around COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel F8, in order to prioritize the health and safety of our developer partners, employees and everyone who helps put F8 on."

- Ultra Music Festival

"Our main responsibility is to the health, safety and welfare of our citizens.” 

- The Mobile World Congress 

“The global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event.”

- Workday’s annual internal sales conference

"The well-being of our employees and communities is our top priority, and out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to make our global sales kickoff a virtual experience to ensure we rally our team in the safest way possible."

- Shopify annual developer conference

“Due to the evolving public health concerns around COVID-19, we’ve made a hard but necessary decision to cancel the in-person element of Shopify Unite this year.”

- Google News Initiative Global Summit

“We regret that we have to cancel our global Google News Initiative summit but the health and wellbeing of our guests is our number one priority.” 

 

- Apple 

- Amazon Studios 

- Intel 

- Facebook

- Twitter 

- Mashable 

- Netflix

- TikTok

- Vevo

Have all dropped out of SXSW due to COVID-19 concerns  

I challenge the City of Austin and SXSW to do the right thing at this sensitive time.

I'm not advocating for fear, I'm advocating for precaution.

 

 

 

 

 

CDC Director, Nancy Messonnier 

Phone (404)-639-4734

E-mail nar5@cdc.gov

Mayor Steve Adler

Phone (512)-978-2100

E-mail Steve.Adler@austintexas.gov

SXSW

Phone (512) 467-7979

E-mail info@sxsw.com