If you're calculating the odds of your personal death, or any one individual's, you're still not getting it.
The issue is, is there any chance this conference could be, or even be perceived to be, or even be perceived just to be a risk to be, a vector for helping to spread this virus into new cities and countries.
As made obvious by this thread, there are at least some people who believe the answer is yes.
Given the potential stakes there, what could you hope to achieve at a regular conference that is remotely in the same league as to justify that risk?
If your aims at the conference are primarily related to public relations and marketing, that goes double. You are risking your announcements and your brand becoming attached to public discussions of corporate irresponsibility in spreading a deadly disease. No one should want to touch that with a ten foot pole.
As to other companies going ahead, we'll see what the following weeks bring. Barring break-throughs in understanding or controlling the virus, I doubt this will be the last announcement on this topic.
I also doubt there is any major project that will fail to consider Nvidia silicon because they weren't at this one conference. There's only so many major players and if they have the winning solution for a given need, the customer will find them wherever they are.
