Vancouver Convention Centre
Claire Smith is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in sales and marketing within the event management and convention industries. Since June 2008, Claire Smith has held the position of Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Vancouver Convention Centre. Prior to this role, Claire Smith served as VP Marketplace Performance at MPI from 2008 to 2009 and was the Principal at Claire Smith Solutions, providing consulting services to various organizations from June 2004 to June 2007.
Vancouver Convention Centre
The Vancouver Convention Centre is the world’s first double LEED Platinum certified convention centre. Located on Vancouver’s downtown waterfront with a dramatic mountain backdrop, the facility offers one of the most beautiful settings in the world. The award-winning Convention Centre features two connected buildings with a combined total of 466,500 ft2 (43,340 m2) of flexible meeting, exhibition, ballroom and plenary space. The facility is committed to environmental sustainability as well as unparalleled service, technology offerings and culinary excellence. The first-ever repeat winner of the International Association of Congress Centres’ award for “World’s Best Convention Centre”, the Centre has an extraordinary team that brings together event details. They also offer five-star cuisine from a “scratch” kitchen philosophy of using fresh, local, and seasonal ingredients and industry-leading technology with connection speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second.