Amazon won’t hold its annual robotics and AI conference re:MARS this year

Amazon has confirmed that it will no longer host the re:MARS conference this year, a summit dedicated to exploring cutting-edge technologies such as robotics and space technology. Instead, the subjects traditionally discussed at this event will be diffused among various other engagements.

Inaugurated in 2019, the re:MARS conference derived its name from the initial letters of Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space Technologies. Originally presided over by Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, it invited a diverse group of innovators, scholars, researchers, and corporate executives to participate. Over time, however, the event evolved into a private affair extended only to specific invitees.

Nevertheless, Amazon emphasizes that the discontinuation of the re:MARS conference was not a budgetary decision but an effort to streamline the annual calendar of events. The objective is to enrich the knowledge gleaned by participants at each meeting, hence the decision to scatter the subjects typically addressed at the re:MARS conference across various other occasions.

Nonetheless, many market opinions posit that Amazon’s announcement to cease the re:MARS conference is linked to the current economic deceleration, coupled with a general lack of optimism among many businesses about impending growth performance.