New pneumonia outbreak of the current Chinese people's health, social life and various industries have had a serious impact. To the movement of people and build as the main feature of the exhibition industry, bear the brunt of the impact of new coronavirus hardest hit by the epidemic, (Beijing time) statistics, there were already 451 exhibitions deferred as of 2020-03-11 11:01, 29 Show canceled, rescheduled the event 217. Exhibition mode plight under the traditional line makes many show organizers are turning to online activities.
Cloud Next is a cloud-based activities organized by Google, this session was originally expected to be the largest ever first Cloud Next General Assembly, planned on 6 April Month - April 8, held about 30,000 participants By. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, Google canceled the annual general meeting of cloud computing Cloud Next once the line was originally scheduled to be held in San Francisco, California, announced live online Assembly organized way.
Google I / O 2020 developer conference following the Google Cloud Computing Conference also announced the cancellation of the General Assembly scheduled to be held on 12 to 14 May, Google said it made the decision to consider the safety of the participants. However, Google will by organizing an online Assembly, to introduce new content through a live way.
Facebook held F8年度开发者大会原定于 May 5 to 6 at the McKinney Convention Center, San Jose, California, which is Facebook's highly anticipated annual event last year attracted more than 5,000 developers from around the world , content creators and entrepreneurs. Facebook said the company plans to live through online forms, will gather developers, rather than hold F8 similar large-scale events.
IBM announced that it will cancel the live event scheduled to be held in San Francisco in May this year, IBM Think 2020 General Assembly. IBM had expected about 30,000 people to attend the IBM Think 2020 General Assembly. While cancel the live event, which will take place through other online video broadcast and interactive activities.
According to NVIDIA official sources, due to the fears of coronavirus growing, after a measure of the seriousness of the NVIDIA GTC General Assembly has decided to hold 2020 March 22 to 26 changed the form of online activities.
After the 2020 February 7 announced the cancellation of the original 2020 Art Basel Hong Kong in March this year organized by the art world caused a sigh, the official Art Basel has recently issued a notice online Art Basel exhibition upcoming March 20 on the line, held online exhibition, the parallel digital experiences that people bring to the art of waiting day and night.
Fearing the spread of coronavirus and other reasons, GSM Association, GSMA canceled the hosting of the 2020 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (MWC2020) of. Earlier, including Google, Facebook, Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, Amazon, LG, dozens of companies have already announced the cancellation participate MWC2020 Mobile World Exhibition. Huawei, ZTE, millet and other raw exhibitors respond quickly to this, the world held a "line of Pakistan Exhibition" and the "digital industry transformation General Assembly 2020" by way of online live for.
February 28, Geneva Motor Show organizers officially announced as the new crown on pneumonia outbreak, originally scheduled for March 3 opening of the auto show officially canceled. In this case, many car companies have opted for the "cloud publishing", was released to the outside world through online video, pictures, etc. live.
Exhibition expert, Department of the Expo (Beijing) Exhibition Co., Ltd., chairman Yao Rui said: "The field can not be held during the exhibition epidemic, in the form of online exhibition (online exhibition) to make up the current exhibition industry is facing can be solved to a certain extent the top priority. "
President of the China Internet Industry Research Institute, believes Xu Xiaolan "If 2003 SARS stimulated the development of consumer Internet, the new crown after the 2020 crisis brought about by the industrial pneumonia interconnected rise."
Yaorui combined convention and exhibition industries affected by the situation in the epidemic, give advice on the survival and development direction holds many lessons for the domestic exhibition industry: "to explore the integration of online and offline at the show, to create online exhibitions to meet market demand, realization of exhibition digital development, get rid of various diseases of the exhibition industry, exhibition industry to improve their own security, is China's exhibition industry chain parties current priority. "
China Exhibition portal founder Huang Yong said: "The traditional exhibition combined with the Internet is the trend .O2O is the use of Internet technology to serve exhibitors and professional buyers, may expand the influence of the exhibition by O2O, to promote the exhibition to enhance value.
