Analyst firm Gartner has cancelled the South African leg of its IT Symposium/Xpo event, which was due to take place in Cape Town in October, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

As a result of this, it decided to cancel the Cape Town event, which was to have taken place between 5 and 7 October.

It’s the latest event to fall victim to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has resulted in events around the world being cancelled this year, including high-profile conferences in the IT industry.

Many companies have taken to holding online events instead, including the developer conferences arranged by Apple (the Worldwide Developers Conference) and Microsoft (Build).

Google elected to cancel its annual I/O developer event entirely for this year.