TPI Moves Summer Colo. Conference Cross-Country to Va. in Fall Amid COVID-19
The Technology Policy Institute is the latest organization in media, technology and telecom to reschedule an event due to COVID-19 (see 2004140019). TPI moved its annual conference from Aug. 16-18 in Aspen, Colorado, across the country to Boar's Head Resort…
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in Charlottesville on Oct. 16-18, we were told this week. It's one of the furthest out on the calendar events to be rescheduled in the TMT sector due to COVID-19. The change is because of "ongoing uncertainty about the feasibility of travel" by August, emailed TPI President Scott Wallsten Tuesday. "The Democratic Convention is now scheduled for that weekend, and we don't want to compete with that." Wallsten said his group's gathering will partly focus on COVID-19. "The theme will be tech policy lessons learned from the pandemic," he said. See more remarks along these lines on a recent podcast and 2004080042. The Democratic National Convention Committee said April 4 it rescheduled the 2020 Democratic National Convention to the week of Aug. 17 in Milwaukee. The DNCC cited "the unprecedented health crisis facing our country," saying this gives "convention planners more time to determine the most appropriate structure." It said "convention planners continue to monitor the unpredictable and unprecedented public health emergency." The DNCC and Democratic National Committee didn't answer our questions now.