https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-facebook-cancels-f8-conference-due-to-disease-fears/

Facebook on Thursday cancelled its annual F8 conference on the grounds that the potential spread of coronavirus raises too much of risk to hold such a large gathering of attendees both from the Bay Area and beyond.

The F8 conference, which is typically one of Facebook’s most-prominent annual events, was scheduled to be held May 5-6 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Facebook’s director of developer platforms, said the decision to cancel F8 more than two months in advanced of the conference was made around “growing concerns about COVID-19 (coronavirus)” and wanting to reduce the risk of people’s possible exposure to the respiratory disease.