Each year, the Vancouver Convention Centre welcomes select students from the British Columbia Institute of Technology for a nine-week internship blending classroom learning with real-world experience.

Imagine Van Gogh – The Immersive Exhibition recently celebrated its 100th day in operation in June, and it has since become a vibrant source of history, art and culture for British Columbians eager to have a unique live experience at a time when it’s needed the most.

With everything that takes place in a facility like ours, it is critical that our team has a firm grasp of everything that is taking place in order to maintain a safe environment for our guests and provide support where needed. That’s where our Guest Services Operations Centre comes in.

We've all learned about the importance of conserving water in our homes. Clean water is a limited resource, after all. So whether it's remembering to turn off the taps or taking shorter showers, anything you can do to reduce water usage and waste goes a long way. Now imagine applying that mindset to a convention centre with 466,500 ft2 of function space.

The Quest is complete! After 1,100 entries from British Columbians representing over 80 communities across the province, Convention Quest came to a close on Saturday, September 7th with our winner from Smithers, BC accepting her ‘VIP Vancouver Experience’ Grand Prize.

The Vancouver Convention Centre and BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo) are proud to employ a dedicated team of diverse professionals who work to bring leading global events and meetings to our province. With our Team Meeting series, we want to highlight the people who help us shine on the local and world stage.

At the Vancouver Convention Centre and B.C. Pavilion Corporation, we're lucky to employ so many hard-working, dedicated British Columbians with backgrounds as diverse as their roles within the facility. With our new Team Meeting series, we want to highlight the people who help us shine and share their unique experience in bringing events to life.

It might be cliché to say, but art can bring us together. For Art Vancouver taking place at the Vancouver Convention Centre starting today, their goal is to make that connection on a larger scale.

In honour of International Women’s Day, we want to celebrate all of the strong, talented women in our fast-paced, complex events industry. To put perspective on the current landscape for women in our industry, we have invited several female leaders from across the Vancouver Convention Centre and our wider organization of B.C. Pavilion Corporation (PavCo) and sister-facility BC Place for a timely roundtable discussion.

Conferences across the globe are increasingly opening their doors to let the public in.

Incredible ideas and outcomes result when a community pauses to listen to advice from their own clients. As a result of my experience in Vancouver, I’ve come to believe there is a role for Customer Advisory Boards in every destination.

We live in a self-absorbed time where madly taking selfies and posting our lives on social media are the norm. While this is a way of life now, it’s important not to forget that this “all about me” mentality should not be translated into our business life.