Edinburgh Ambassador Programme

Become an Edinburgh Ambassdor and help to bring conferences to your city.

The Edinburgh Ambassador Programme plays a vital role in promoting the city region as a conference destination. A well-organised conference is the perfect way to draw attention to the exciting developments in your industry or academic field, and to put your research and colleagues on a world stage.

Edinburgh Ambassadors are members of professional associations from such diverse sectors as life sciences, commerce, higher education, sport and the law.

The award-winning Edinburgh Ambassador Programme is managed by Edinburgh Convention Bureau (ECB). It provides free support to attract conferences to the city and showcases Edinburgh as a conference destination.

Edinburgh Ambassador insights:

Chris Hodgson, Moredun Research Institute

“I am impressed by the detail, quality, speed, scope and professionalism of assistance provided by ECB and am pleased to help promote the organisation and bring it to the attention of others here at Pentland Science Park for whom it is likely to be extremely beneficial and helpful in the future.”

Professor Angus Wallace, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

“In my bid to attract the International Congress on Surgery of the Shoulder to Edinburgh, the team at the Edinburgh Convention Bureau gave me tremendous help in preparing a bid. The printed brochure and the information provided by the Convention Bureau were invaluable. We have won the bid to host this event with around 1,000 attendees, for the year 2010.”

Professor John Monaghan, University of Edinburgh

“We won the International Mass Spectrometry bid because of the quality of the material that we provided and in all of this activity, Edinburgh Convention Bureau’s support was invaluable: Conference venue selected (EICC), budget in place, and hotels and cheaper student accommodation provisionally booked. Edinburgh was shown to be a top quality city to visit.”