Benefits
As a Leader in your field, hosting a conference in Ottawa will not only raise the profile of your own work but also elevate your entire industry.
Become a Think Ottawa Leader
Benefit from Think Ottawa’s comprehensive support services for conferences and events. Ottawa Tourism’s meeting professionals and destination experts will assist you throughout the bid and planning process, ensuring your bid stands out. Think Ottawa will guide you every step of the way. As a local, this is a powerful opportunity to showcase your pride for Ottawa on an international stage.
Benefits of hosting a conference in Ottawa
- Raised profile: Host an international conference in Ottawa to increase visibility for your work and industry, potentially generating additional research funding.
- Impact an industry: Win the bid for a worldwide conference to leave a lasting legacy in your industry.
- Networking: Lead an international bid to expand your network, develop relationships, and build research partnerships both locally and globally
- Recognition: Receive recognition for your efforts in championing an event at an annual awards gala attended by your peers, government Leaders, and other industry experts.
- Build connections: Partner with three of Ottawa’s leading organizations working to attract conferences and events to Canada’s Capital.
Think Ottawa partners
- Ottawa Tourism: Provides destination development, marketing, strategic direction and leadership in cooperation with its members and partners, welcoming leisure travelers, business travelers, group tours and conventions to Ottawa and Canada’s capital region.
- Rogers Centre Ottawa: An architectural icon, modern, spacious and centrally located event facility. It features state-of-the-art meeting spaces, leading-edge technological infrastructure and environmentally sustainable features and practices lauded industry wide.
- Invest Ottawa: The lead economic development agency for knowledge-based industry in Canada’s capital region. Invest Ottawa aims to help realize Ottawa’s full potential as a globally recognized, innovative and future-ready city.
