Brussels appoints 14 new PCO Event Ambassadors at evening in Forest National

Fourteen congress and conference organisers became Brussels ambassadors at the Brussels Events Ambassadors Evening hosted at Forest National arena. The new ambassadors are organisations that have all helped put Brussels on the map as an international MICE destination over the past two years. The 18 May event was the fifth edition of the Brussels Events Ambassadors Evening. Brussels boasts over 900 international professional events each year and claims to be Europe’s leading city for conference hosting. The city’s ambassador programme is part of that success and forms a network that counts more than 150 ambassadors from various sectors including medicine, science, technology, art and the economy. The new ambassador laureates met at Forest National in the presence of Rudi Vervoort, minister president of the Brussels Capital Region and Patrick Bontinck, CEO of visit.brussels. The audience heard that, thanks to the support funds made available by visit.brussels and the Brussels Capital Region, many meetings were able to go ahead despite all the challenges in 2020/21. The 14 organisers honoured as new ambassadors, had won bids to organise professional international events in Brussels. The list is as follows:

1. European Symposium on Calcified Tissues 2021 – ECTS: Jean- Jacques Body
2. IAH Congress 2021 – International Association of Hydrogeologists: Olivier Lagneau
3. The Continental European Division of the International Association for Dental Research Meeting CED-IADR 2021 – Hanne Van den Keybus
4. EU Lesbian Conference 2021 – Leila Lohman
5. Moving Picture Experts Group Congress 2020 – Gauthier Lafruit
6. CILANE Congress 2020 – Commission d’information et de liaison des associations nobles d’Europe – Henri de Beauffort
7. AutoSens 2021 – Sense Media: Robert Stead
8. Human Brain Project Summit 2021 – France Nivelle
9. International Congress of Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study Group 2021 – Jan Lerut
10. react.brussels 2021 – Aymen Ben Amor
11. IIRB 77th congress 2020 – International Institute of Sugar Beet Research: Stephanie Kluth
12. Brussels Fashion Week 2020 – Melani Barnes-Jaftha
13. SCIC Child Forum 2020 – 13th European Forum on the rights of the child – Valeria Setti
14. Junior Enterprises Europe Winter Conference 2020 – Miguel Bernardo

Photo: Eric Danhier/Visit Brussels