As I mentioned in my last post, I was due to spend the day today at the Geneva Motor Show. It’s been 6 years since I participated in the event: I was there with Morgan back in 2014 (and then as a guest in 2015).
Over the weekend, however, Switzerland’s Federal Council made the (hard, but probably correct) decision to ban events with 1,000 or more attendees. Which of course included the Geneva Motor Show. It’s a very strange feeling to see all these events – including many smaller gatherings – being cancelled due to concerns about Covid-19. I was actually surprised our annual Sales conference (called One Team Conference or OTC) went ahead this week in Las Vegas, but I think it just made the cut: I’m guessing it would have been cancelled if held 2 weeks later. Hopefully things will have settled down before our annual internal TechX event in May – or AU London 2020 in June – but we’ll have to see how things go from here.
The reason I was heading to Geneva was to…