Leaving Las Vegas... for good? IT industry conference circuit won't look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic

O'Reilly has quit the events game, and it might not be the only one

Comment You've been there, done that and you quite literally have the T-shirt. Love them or loathe them, IT conferences are a feature of industry life. My first was CA World in New Orleans in 1998. In front of an audience of thousands, then Computer Associates CEO Charles Wang wandered across the stage pontificating as a chorus of children danced about him (no, really) and I knew I had indeed entered a whole new world of weird."