Does COVID-19 Mark the End of the Convention?

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The events industry is perhaps the worst hit by the pandemic. The majority of conventions and conferences have been canceled or switched to purely virtual. In some cases, the pivot has gone well. In others…there were a number of issues with CoNZealand, the virtual WorldCon, which I won’t discuss here.

This has led to speculation: Will all future conferences be virtual?