--- title: Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled | daily.dev description: AnitaB.org has cancelled the Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA, citing insufficient individual registrations and sponsorship commitments to cover... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/grace-hopper-celebration-cancelled-yy9rjaiue twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled | daily.dev og:description: AnitaB.org has cancelled the Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA, citing insufficient individual registrations and sponsorship commitments to cover... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/grace-hopper-celebration-cancelled-yy9rjaiue og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yy9RJAIUe.png og:image:alt: Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AnitaB.org has cancelled the Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA, citing insufficient individual registrations and sponsorship commitments to cover operating expenses. Attendees are urged to cancel their own travel and hotel reservations independently, while AnitaB.org will contact registrants about registration fees by October 26. The organization says GHC has been central to its mission and its finances have been adversely affected, with further announcements expected as it evaluates strategic alternatives and future programming. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why was the Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim cancelled? AnitaB.org cancelled Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA because it lacked the funds required to produce the event. Individual registrations and sponsorship commitments came in significantly below prior years and below the level needed to cover basic operating expenses, making it financially impossible to proceed. _Tech conference attendees tracking event changes and cancellations can follow updates like this on daily.dev._ ### What should I do if I already booked travel for the cancelled Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim? Attendees should cancel or modify airline, train, hotel, and other travel reservations directly with their providers, since AnitaB.org cannot process those changes. AnitaB.org will contact registrants about registration fee refunds by October 26, and questions about the cancellation should go to GHC@AnitaB.org. _Developers navigating conference disruptions can find practical updates like this through daily.dev._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 2 discussions and 161 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-10-14). **TL;DR:** Discussion largely centers on why funding and sponsorships collapsed, with many attributing it to the broader pullback from DEI initiatives and corporate caution, alongside sharp criticism of the organization's financial management and last-minute cancellation; a large portion of the thread devolves into a heated political argument about DEI itself rather than the event. **Sentiment:** 10% positive · 15% mixed · 75% skeptical **The case for** - Some say the event was historically valuable for recruiting and fostering women in tech, with no real equivalent. - A few note the cancellation wasn't necessarily due to international travel declines, since broad US arrival/business travel data doesn't show a dramatic drop. **The pushback** - Many argue the collapse reflects a broader corporate retreat from DEI funding and sponsorship under political pressure. - Criticism of the organization's financial management, including a CEO salary seen by some as excessive relative to revenue and the lack of a contingency fund. - Frustration that cancellation came only two weeks before the event, after still selling tickets days earlier, suggesting denial or poor planning. - Concern that attendees may not get registration fees refunded given the organization's apparent financial distress. - Some dispute whether reduced international travel to the US was actually a significant driver, citing broader travel statistics. **By community** - hackernews (heated): Splits between financial/operational critique of the organization and a long, contentious political debate over DEI's decline that dominates much of the thread. **Hottest debate:** Whether the cancellation is primarily fallout from the broader anti-DEI political climate versus internal financial mismanagement by the organization. **Open questions** - Why did the organization not maintain a contingency fund despite being an established annual event? - Did any major sponsors actually pull out, or was funding simply never secured? - Will registrants actually receive refunds given the organization's financial condition? - What exactly went wrong with the organization's financial management in recent years? **Highlights** > https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/770... The “president and ceo” is bringing in over $500K a year. Total nonsense. > — [ehwa37 on hackernews · 3 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082093) > Someone never learned the "you don't fund this year's conference using this year's signups and sponsorships, you fund NEXT year's conference using this year's signups and sponsorships" rule that applies once your conference is an established yearly event. How the hell was there no contingency fund? > — [TheRealPomax on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082191) > They were advertising tickets three days before they announced everything was cancelled: https://archive.ph/Uimqj > What happens to my in-person or virtual registration fee? > Information regarding GHC registration and other financial matters will be communicated to you promptly once we obtain a clearer understanding of AnitaB.org ’s financial condition. Incredible. > — [murderfs on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083508) > If your event has historically gotten a lot of last minute (e.g. a month before the event) sign ups, your error bars for how underwhelming turnout is going to be might be really large until then. Presumably when that happens you don't immediately cancel, but rather try some last ditch efforts with sponsors, vendors, etc and then you wind up 2 weeks out in a shitty situation. Though looking at their filings, it seems like they did not adapt to reduced revenues starting in 2023, so maybe denial and an inability to cut costs is a bigger explanation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/770... They also stopped posting audited financials around then: https://anitab.org/audited-financials > — [Eridrus on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082286) > > People don't want to travel to the U.S. right now Not enough to break a conference. “International arrivals to the United States in 2025 decreased 5.5% from 2024” [1]. (HY1 2026 is basically in line with 2025 [2].) [1] https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12589#:~:text=There%2... [2] https://roadgenius.com/statistics/tourism/usa/#:~:text=In%20... > — [JumpCrisscross on hackernews · 1 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082133) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080007) · 170 points · 82 comments - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070918) · 67 points · 79 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Python Software Foundation News: PyCon US 2026: Why we're asking you to think about your hotel reservation](https://daily.dev/posts/python-software-foundation-news-pycon-us-2026-why-we-re-asking-you-to-think-about-your-hotel-reser-nj5gqa5it) · Python Software Foundation · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [An Anonymous Donation to Help More Rubyists Get to RubyConf 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/an-anonymous-donation-to-help-more-rubyists-get-to-rubyconf-2026-86mqo6xqk) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Procrastineers Rejoice\! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended](https://daily.dev/posts/procrastineers-rejoice-2026-supercon-call-for-participation-extended-pibkk3lxz) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 attendance drops 30% to 20,000 visitors](https://daily.dev/posts/gdc-festival-of-gaming-2026-attendance-drops-30-to-20-000-visitors-iojuafmyb) · GamesIndustry.biz · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/grace-hopper-celebration-cancelled-yy9rjaiue) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/grace-hopper-celebration-cancelled-yy9rjaiue","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/grace-hopper-celebration-cancelled-yy9rjaiue"},"datePublished":"2026-10-14T05:10:19.825Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T08:54:08.433Z","description":"AnitaB.org has cancelled the Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA, citing insufficient individual registrations and sponsorship commitments to cover...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--0_ODbtD2--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2008","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--0_ODbtD2--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2008","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/grace-hopper-celebration-cancelled-yy9rjaiue","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"career","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/grace-hopper-celebration-cancelled-yy9rjaiue#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Why was the Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim cancelled?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"AnitaB.org cancelled Grace Hopper Celebration in Anaheim, CA because it lacked the funds required to produce the event. 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