The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of tech events this year. We are almost half-past 2020 but the only major tech event hat has taken place so far is CES 2020. But the situation may change in the second half of the year as IFA 2020 has been confirmed to take place with some restrictions.
Yesterday, IFA held a virtual press conference in which the executive director Jens Heithecker confirmed the 2020 show to run from September 3rd to 5th in Berlin. He also revealed that they are working closely with public health authorities in Germany to ensure social distancing, careful crowd control and other effective public hygiene measures.
IFA 2020 will include four events, out of which three events will be held parallelly in a different building for three days. Also, the attendees to each of these events will be limited to 1,000 at a time. Most importantly, all these events will be invite-only and thus they will be closed for the public,
The four IFA 2020 events are as listed below.
- IFA Global Press Conference
- Limited to two to three keynotes stages
- Opening keynote by Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon
- About 800 journalists
- IFA Next and Shift Mobility
- For startups and automotive companies
- IFA Global Markets
- For OEMs and ODMs to build their supply chain
- IFA Business Lounges
- Meeting spaces and lounges for companies
CES, IFA, and MWC are the largest annual tech events that help companies to build new relationships and further their businesses. These conferences play a key role in the products general public have access to in their daily lives.
With all that being said, COVID-19 cases are still rising across all regions and thus many people may not attend IFA 2020. Anyway, we will have to wait and see as the event is scheduled to take place after four months from now.
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