Cancelled our 2nd Conference
by Rosie SherryOh what crazy times we are in.
Earlier this week we cancelled our first conference (TestBash Detroit) due to coronavirus impact..
Then today we announced the decision to cancel TestBash Brighton. This one is a specifically hard one for the team. It is our biggest and longest running conference.
We have another conference in May in the Netherlands that is at risk too. 3rd time unlucky perhaps. 😭
The financial impacts are pretty devastating. The stress on the team is super hard too. Turns out it takes a lot of effort to cancel a conference that is due to happen in 2 weeks.
We remain optimistic for the future. We have a strong and supportive community behind us.
We're pretty well placed to do more stuff online, we've meant to do that for a long time, but we've often drowned in event organising.
Now we have no choice but to push that to happen quicker.
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I had no idea that you were coming to Detroit! I would have loved to come :)
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Tough times. What's the best solution for doing this online? Sure it would be a reduced experience, but running something will be better than nothing. Wishing you the best of luck in finding something that works out.
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Really sorry to hear @rosiesherry! I work for an event ticketing company and it's been bad for us as well. We'll all come out of this stronger in the end but it's tough right now.
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Hang in there Rosie.
I believe you and your team will learn tons from this experience and become even stronger!
