Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2009 Cancelled
Web 2.0 Expo Europe was widely known as an outstanding event for the European tech community with a host of excellent speakers, but like many companies O’Reilly and TechWeb are feeling the sting of the declining economy and are being forced to make difficult decisions. Obviously, this is bad news for European entrepreneurs and startups.
We’re still trying to get an official comment at this point.
The blog post reads that Europeans who would like to visit Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco can register using the code “websf09eu” and thus enter a lottery to win a free entrance ticket plus 3 free nights at a hotel and $1000, but also acknowledges this is not a real substitute for a full-fledged European counterpart of the Web 2.0 Expo.
Let’s hope it’ll be back once we get through the storm.
(Disclosure: I run Plugg, an alternative European Web 2.0 conference, and Web 2.0 Expo SF is one of our sponsors here at TechCrunch)