We are getting ready to ring in another wonderful year! Coming off a record-high of 31 city wide conferences hosted in 2018, we’re heading into this year with big shoes to fill. Here are a few highlights for 2019.
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A colourful parade led by First Nations performers, followed by masses of people flapping and squawking in bird costumes? Not your usual conference kickoff – but perhaps more meeting planners should take note.
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One of our very own Masterminds, Dr. Lakshmi Yatham, was awarded the 2018 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Colvin Prize for Bipolar Mood Disorder Research
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World Cities Day celebrates urbanized communities internationally. It is meant to promote opportunities, address challenges and encourage cooperation among countries and cities alike. ‘Better City, Better Life’ is the general theme for October 31, 2018 with a focus on ‘Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities’ as a sub-theme.
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Ambassador programs are responsible for bringing hundreds of conferences to Canada each year, and advancing the knowledge economies of the communities they are hosted in. Tourism Vancouver's MIND Partnership is discussed in the video and blog article below, along with three other ambassador programs in Calgary, Winnipeg and Toronto…
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Every year on March 8th, we take the opportunity to celebrate the contributions of women and to recognize their successes. International Women’s Day highlights women as epitomes of intelligence and leadership on a global scale and to celebrate, the Be a Host team at Tourism Vancouver would like to acknowledge three of the many women who have demonstrated their leadership as conference local hosts…
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Simon Fraser University has been selected as the lead host for Vancouver 2020, the Asia Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) conference in Vancouver, Canada on March 23–26, 2020…
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MIND Partnership is proud to work with a variety of industry experts to bring future national and international conferences to our city. These leaders and elite thinkers invite their professional colleagues from all over the globe to participate in world renowned meetings here in Vancouver…
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On September 24th, Vancouver welcomed individuals from all over the word to participate in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). This meeting successfully drew about 1500 people who had the chance to experience IROS 2017’s theme, “Friendly People, Friendly Robots”…
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For August, Andrea Heaney, Manager of MIND Partnership at Tourism Vancouver has secured the coveted title! Here's what Andrea had to say...
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On September 12th, 2017, Vancouver is going to welcome academics from all over the world to participate in the 35th World Congress of Endourology. This is the premier international meeting in the study and treatment of kidney stone disease as well as robotic surgery for the treatment of kidney, prostate and bladder diseases…
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