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COVID-19 Prompts TPI to Reassess Focus of Annual Conference

Coronavirus prompted organizers of an annual technology conference in Aspen, Colorado, to reconsider the event's focus. The Technology Policy Institute event is slated for Aug. 16-18. TPI President Scott Wallsten said on a TechFreedom podcast released Wednesday that he hopes…

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the event, which would be the 11th, occurs. "We're still planning on having" the gathering, he said. "None of us know what the future will be with the coronavirus." TPI is "reworking it now to have it be more of a lessons-learned from the coronavirus," Wallsten said: "What we’ve learned from tech and tech policy from this experience. Because we're going to have an awful lot to discuss." TPI will announce its final plans for the summer conference later, Wallsten emailed us.