16 Ambassadors Honored For Their Contribution
Press Release
Quebec, January 29, 2018 - Québec City, January 29, 2018 - At the Homage to the Ambassadors event held on January 26 at the Entourage sur-le-lac Resort, the Ambassadors’ Circle honored 16 of its members who, in addition to their regular professional activities, helped promote the Québec City area by organizing an international conference. These events generated $20 million in economic spinoffs in 2017.
Ambassador of the Year
This designation recognizes the outstanding efforts of an ambassador who, through their commitment, perseverance, and determination over the years, has made a remarkable contribution to showcasing the Québec City area as a business destination.
Louis-Philippe Boulet, a pulmonologist at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute and full professor at Université Laval’s Faculty of Medicine, was named Ambassador of the Year for 2017.
He has organized many international congresses, conferences, and symposia, including the following events in Québec City: 2nd Biennale de l’Espace francophone de pneumologie in 2017 (800 attendees), the World Asthma Conference in 2012 (1,000 attendees), and Congrès Québec-France en santé respiratoire in 2008 (600 attendees).
Event of the Year
This distinction recognizes the outstanding work of the ambassador responsible for hosting the North American or international event that generated the most economic spinoffs in the Greater Québec City area in the past year.
Angel Ruiz and Irène Abi-Zeid of the Operations and Decision Systems Department in the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval and Bernard Gendron of Université de Montréal won the 2017 Event of the Year award for the 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. The event drew 1,528 attendees to the Québec City Convention Centre in July 2017 and generated $5.4 million in economic spinoffs for the region.
Winners – Events Held in 2017
MARIA IZQUIERDO
Federation of International Sport Climbing Annual General Assembly and Conference
March, Hôtel Delta Québec
MOHAMMED BENYAGOUB
Franco-Canadian Symposium on Natural Antimicrobials
June, Château Frontenac
CARLOS SILVA
12th International Conference on Optical Probes of Organic and Hybrid Semiconductors
June, Hôtel Le Concorde
JEAN-PIERRE DESPRÉS
6th ICCR Congress on Chronic Societal Cardiometabolic Diseases
May, Hôtel Le Concorde
ZHAN SU
The Development of SMEs and entrepreneurship in the new context of globalization
May, Université Laval
PIERRE MURRAY
SIGNIS World Congress/Catholic Media Conference
June, Université Laval
PETER VANROLLEGHEM
12th IWA Specialized Conference on Instrumentation, Control, and Automation
June, Québec City Convention Centre
MICHÈLE AUGER
20th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance
July, Québec City Convention Centre
ANGEL RUIZ, IRÈNE ABI-ZEID, and BERNARD GENDRON
21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
July, Québec City Convention Centre
NORMAND LABERGE
5th International Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference
August, Québec City Convention Centre
GEORGES BEAUDOIN
14th SGA Biennial Meeting
August, Québec City Convention Centre
SIMON DUCHESNE
20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
September, Québec City Convention Centre
FERNAND GERVAIS
5th International Congress of the International Society for Cultural-historical Activity Research
September, Québec City Convention Centre
YVES DESJARDINS
8th International Conference on Polyphenols and Health
October, Québec City Convention Centre
MOHAMED A. MADÈNE
3rd International Conference on Immigration, Integration, and Inclusion (C4i)
October, Université Laval
LOUIS-PHILIPPE BOULET
2nd Biennale de l’Espace francophone de pneumologie
October, Québec City Convention Centre
About Cercle des ambassadeurs de Québec
Created in 1995, Cercle des ambassadeurs is a joint initiative of Québec City Business Destination, the Québec City Convention Centre, the city’s chamber of commerce and industry, and Québec International intended to encourage business tourism in the Québec City region by facilitating the hosting of North American and international conventions and business meetings. cercledesambassadeurs.com
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