16 Ambassadors Honored For Their Contribution

Press Release

Québec City, 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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