Marketing Sheffield’s conference team recently celebrated 15 years of the Sheffield Conference Ambassador Programme, with a gathering of ambassadors at one of the city’s venues, The Forum.
The anniversary event also coincided with news that the National Centre for Child Health Technology (NCCHT) had secured a final £6m in funding.
The NCCHT will be a global-first, as a centre dedicated to developing the world’s most advanced and integrated healthcare system for children and young people.
Conference Ambassador Programme
The NCCHT was an idea devised by one of the Conference Ambassador Programme’s advocates, Professor Paul Dimitri, director of research and innovation at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Sheffield’s Conference Ambassador Programme has underpinned the long-term success of the city’s conference calendar by supporting academics, medical specialists, and experts from industry sectors, in attracting major conferences to be hosted in the city.
Since the pandemic, Sheffield ambassadors have secured conferences and events worth £4.6m to the local economy.
This includes several national and international sector-specialist events set to take place over the next couple of years, including the Annual International Stillbirth Alliance Conference; the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons Annual Congress; NDE In Nuclear Conference; the International Society for Study of Celiac Disease General Assembly and the 52nd Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes.
Emma France, marketing manager for business tourism and trade at Marketing Sheffield, said: “We are fortunate to have a network of ambassadors with endless enthusiasm for telling the world where Sheffield leads the way.
“They’re also supporting us as we launch a new drive to find the next generation of conference ambassadors in the city and look towards the movers and shakers, who will be the experts of the future and can help us grow the programme.
“Establishing a national centre of excellence in Sheffield like the National Centre for Child Health Technology, creates even greater opportunity for us to attract major national and international conferences to the city, in this highly competitive sector.”
The 2023 edition of the Child Health Technology Conference (CH2023) will take place from 8-9 November.
