Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Due to Coronavirus

Facebook has canceled its annual F8 developer conference citing the outbreak of coronavirus. The upshot was scheduled to exist held on the 5th and 6th of May in San Jose, California.

"Every twelvemonth, we look forward to connecting with our global developer community at F8 and sharing our vision for the time to come that nosotros're building together. But given the growing concerns around COVID-19, we've made the difficult conclusion to cancel the in-person component of F8 2020.", wrote the company in a blog post.

In the same weblog post, Facebook's director of developer platforms Konstantinos Papamiltiadis mentions that the visitor will be organizing a "combo of locally hosted events, videos and live streamed content" to make its announcements.

Co-ordinate to Papamiltiadis, the social media behemothic was exploring other ways to motion forrad with the in-person part of the F8 conference simply didn't go on further as it "didn't feel right to have F8 without international developers in attendance".

This is the 2d Facebook event to be canceled because of coronavirus concerns. Final calendar week, Facebook announced that PlayStation, Facebook Gaming, and Oculus will not be attending the Game Developers Briefing (GDC) 2020.

F8 developer conference is not the only major tech event that got canceled lately due to coronavirus. GSMA was forced to cancel MWC 2020, the globe'southward biggest phone bear witness earlier this month and from the looks of it, Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020 is likely to be canceled as well. For now, organizers of GDC 2020 are planning to motility forward with the event despite major tech giants pulling out, the latest 1 being Microsoft.