The Glasgow Convention Bureau (GCB) has acknowledged the hard work of its Conference Ambassadors for the Brain Awareness Week, 14-20 March 2022. These Ambassadors are mainly academics that work alongside venues and with the GCB team to host their academic meetings.
Glasgow’s Conference Ambassadors create collaboration and debate to share knowledge and research innovations through the medium of the conference session room.
Over 70% of meetings held in Glasgow are led, or supported by, one of the city’s academic institutions, and in 2022 a significant number of conferences taking place in Glasgow are in the field of neurology.
Aileen Crawford (pictured), head of tourism and conventions at GCB, said: “An ask is often made of the meetings industry to align closer to policy and with key sector strengths within the destination. For the meetings industry, it’s important that we’re clear where the conference world and innovation meet for the betterment of society. When we look at the prestigious neurology and neuroscience meetings taking place in our city this year, they represent the research successes from our academic past, present and future.”
Professor Craig Ritchie, director of Brain Health Scotland, stated: “This week more than ever is a fantastic time to raise awareness of the benefits of achieving and maintaining great brain health. This will have benefits for Scots of all ages and help reduce the number of people getting dementia in the years ahead.”
This year, Glasgow will welcome seven leading neurology or neuroscience related meetings, attracting approximately 10,000 delegates, which will boost the city’s economy by more than £15m (US$20m) through delegate spend. Neurology and Neuroscience conferences being held in Glasgow in 2022 include:
- The Congress of the European Paediatric Neurology Society (April)
- BRAIN & PET BRAIN – The International Conference on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (May)
- The Scottish Dementia Research Consortium (May)
- The International Behavioural Neuroscience Society (June)
- The Conference of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (June)
- The International Congress of Neuroendocrinology (August)
- The Glasgow Neuro Society (November)
Neil Brownlee, head of business events at VisitScotland, commented: “VisitScotland’s ‘Journey to Change’ campaign champions the fact that we meet today, to change tomorrow. For Glasgow, the specialisms of neurology and neuroscience are great examples of academic success from a city that understands the impact of research excellence and innovation and how that can be championed through the meetings industry.”
