Comment by sct202
6 days ago
Cancelling 2 weeks before a conference seems pretty dire. So sad for all the attendees who are going to be out for non refundable travel costs.
6 days ago
Cancelling 2 weeks before a conference seems pretty dire. So sad for all the attendees who are going to be out for non refundable travel costs.
According to the announcement, "individual registrations … came in significantly below prior years", so it seems few attendees will suffer financially.
No, it just means that fewer attendees will suffer financially compared to the number of attendees who would have suffered financially if this had happened in previous years. The number of attendees this year may still have been many, while still being significantly fewer than previous years and while not being enough to cover their costs considering the loss of their sponsors.
Very fair. Someone is disappointed and out of money. Still, there is a non-zero chance that attendees were extremely few; it's certainly happened in other cases. As long as communications like the press release are vague, we can't know.