Vancouver Convention Centre
Vanessa Atkinson is an experienced Catering Events Sales Manager currently at Vancouver Convention Centre since April 2023. With a solid background in catering and event management, Vanessa previously worked as the Catering Sales and Events Manager at Whistler Cooks from June 2021 to April 2023 and as the Wedding & Banquet Manager at Cheakamus Centre from July 2019 to June 2020, where all aspects of weddings were managed. Additionally, Vanessa has served as F&B Manager at Pan Pacific Whistler and held various roles at Whistler Cooks, Liberty Wine Merchants, and several restaurants, gaining extensive expertise in staffing, operation management, and customer service. Vanessa's education includes high school graduation from York House School, completed between 1986 and 1988.
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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.