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A Year After a Close Call with COVID, the Montgomery Summit Goes Virtual
A Year After a Close Call with COVID, the Montgomery Summit Goes Virtual
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"We probably all underestimated the perniciousness of the virus."
When one of Southern California's largest gatherings of tech investors and executives of the year begins Wednesday, it will be held virtually, just every other event these days. As the Montgomery Summit kicks off, Senior Reporter Ben Bergman looks back at last year, before the pandemic changed the world.
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Last year's Montgomery Summit, also held during the first week of March, brought together hundreds of tech titans to Santa Monica. It was the last time many people saw each other in person. Read more>>
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The influential Montgomery Summit, which since 2004 has been held every year at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica, will go largely behind paywalls next week because of the coronavirus. We look at some of the major themes up for discussion. Read more >>
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