On: DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it

[p-e-w]

The simplest explanation is often the correct one. Casinos aren't exactly known for having moral qualms. They are, however, known for caring about their bottom line. They probably analyze every single event they host and then shuffle things around to maximize their expected revenue based on their past experiences with the same type of event.

[metabagel → p-e-w]

Put another way, they got a better offer

[Eji1700 → metabagel]

That’s the weird part. I doubt they’re using the space so this strikes me as “think of the money we’ll save on hours” bean counting

[alephnerd → Eji1700]

Companies/Vendors usually host corporate conferences around this time as well.

A large company has probably decided to move a conference to Caesar's during that period, and that got Defcon bumped. Especially because DefCon has become massive, so the RoI has shrunk due to staffing overhead.