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> This kind of no-notice cancellation of a contract is unheard of in the conference business. That's a big claim to make. Can someone with relevant experience
by p-e-w 3y ago
> This kind of no-notice cancellation of a contract is unheard of in the conference business.
That's a big claim to make. Can someone with relevant experience confirm whether this is true?
- caymanjim 3y agoIt's seven months away. It's not like it's seven weeks.
- QuinnyPig 3y agoFor a conference at this scale, there's not a huge difference between seven weeks and seven months.
- lmm 3y agoThere's a huge difference even at this scale. Seven months was apparently long enough for them to make arrangements to hold it at another venue nearby (I'm sure rearranging it is/will be a lot of hard work, but they're doing it); would seven weeks have been?
- tptacek 3y agoI mean, they've been running this event, which has topped 20k attendees, for something like 30 years. So one entity with the relevant experience is... them?
- dclowd9901 3y agoI don’t think it’s that bold of a claim. Organizers ask attendees to spend a lot of money to attend, buy lodging and everything else, not to mention pay a lot to organize and it takes a lot of time and effort to line up all the required facilities. I’ve been part of organizing at least a few big events and if we had a late stage hard cancellation, there probably would’ve been lawsuits.
- ghaff 3y agoIn 20+ years of attending events events regularly I have never heard of a venue change on relatively short notice. In fact to the degree some conference moves from, say, SF to Vegas, they usually announce that at the previous year's conference.