MELBOURNE has nabbed the rights to host the International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) in May 2019.
This conference will see 1,000 international delegates in the city for six days, with an estimated economic contribution of approximately A$5 million (US$4 million) to the state.
Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) CEO Karen Bolinger said that the process used to win the IPAC 2019 conference was a good illustration of the collaborative nature of all Melbourne bids.
She said: “MCB has collaborated with the Synchrotron team – all leaders in their respective fields – to prepare a comprehensive bid proposal that demonstrated the intellectual capital available to delegates attending the conference. IPAC 2019 is our seventh collaborative win and the biggest so far.”
Dean Morris, head of corporate services at the Australian Synchrotron, said: “In its seven years of operation, the Australian Synchrotron – one of only two such facilities in the Southern Hemisphere – has helped forge many international partnerships and collaborations between Australia and other researchers around the world.”
“Most recently, it has been a founding partner in the Australian Collaboration for Accelerator Science, which seeks to raise the profile of Australian Accelerator Science in the world community. Hosting IPAC in 2019 would be the flagship event for this collaboration, and would firmly place Australia on the world science map.”
