Silicon Valley’s spring collection of tech exhibits continues to dwindle within the face of communicable illness: Google’s I/O developer conference for 2020 has now been canceled as the corporate cites coronavirus concerns.

“As a result of concerns across the coronavirus (COVID-19), and in accordance with well being steerage from the CDC, WHO, and different well being authorities, we now have determined to cancel the bodily Google I/O occasion,” the corporate stated. In lieu of bringing an entire bunch of respiratory, doubtlessly coughing individuals collectively in a single place, “we’ll discover different methods to evolve Google I/O to greatest join with our developer group,” doubtless with a heavy give attention to on-line supply.

Anybody who bought a move to the 2020 I/O will obtain a full refund by March 13, Google’s web site says, and all registered attendees for the 2020 present will mechanically be “prolonged an invite” for the 2021 version.

Google is the most recent, however doubtless not the final, Silicon Valley agency to desert stay, in-person conference plans for this spring. Fb final week canceled its F8 developer conference, scheduled to start Might 5. The following day, the Recreation Builders Conference, which was to have begun Might 16, canceled.

Numerous different industries and sectors are following go well with. The auto trade, for instance, scrapped this 12 months’s Geneva Auto Present. Neither is academia immune—one of many world’s largest physics conferences, the March assembly of the American Bodily Society, was supposed to start this week and was as an alternative canceled on the final minute for a similar cause.