IBM said Wednesday that the growing coronavirus crisis has led it to cancel its upcoming Think 2020 event in San Francisco, and place stringent new business-travel restrictions on the tech giant’s workforce.

IBM said that while it won’t hold the Think 2020 conference at the Moscone Center as planned, it will be “recreated as a global, digital-first event” that will still take place from May 5-7. The Think 2020 conference was in line to be one of the largest tech industry events around the Bay Area, as IBM said more than 30,000 people attended last year’s event.

The spread of coronavirus, which has included the first death from the disease in California, in Placer County, has led to several big tech companies to cancel conferences that were to be held across the region in the coming months. In addition to IBM, Google has canceled its I/O conference in Mountain View, Nvidia said it won’t hold its GTC conference in San Jose, Facebook has dropped plans to hold its F8 developers conference in San Jose, and a marketing summit in San Francisco, and organizers also canceled the annual Game Developers Conference that was to be held from March 16-20 in San Francisco.

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Coronavirus rates soar in college towns as students return to campus IBM is also severely clamping down on business travel both within and outside the United States. Effectively immediately, IBM is suspending all domestic travel for internal company meetings and all external events that include more than 1,000 attendees. International travel will be allowed only for what IBM called “business-critical situations when virtual methods are insufficient.”

Additionally, IBM will require employees who engage in personal travel to restricted locations to inform their company managers about their trips and self-quarantine themselves for 14 days following the end of their trips.