Guy Laflamme was the Director of the spectacular Ottawa 2017 year-long calendar of extraordinary events, which served as the centerpiece of Canada’s 150th sesquicentennial year celebration and left over 11 million attendees with memories to last a lifetime.

2016 Chair of the IFEA World Board, few professionals in our industry have imagined, produced and experienced the intense scope and scale of events that effectively changed how Canada’s capitol and other global event cities around the world now think of the power of events.

Guy Laflamme specializes in the creation, production and marketing of cultural, recreational and tourism products.  He has been managing large scale events for over 30 years and was also professor of management with the University of Ottawa for 25 years and University of Bucharest for 10 years. Guy was named person of the 2017 year for Ottawa-Gatineau by Radio-Canada/LeDroit, University of Ottawa Alumni of the year and received the Order of Ottawa and a lifetime achievement award by the Travel Industry Association of Ontario. He also managed, with his management students, a humanitarian project in West Africa over a 6 year period called Making Niger our Business which generated half a million dollars in support to the world poorest country. He has attended festivals and events in over 25 different countries, providing a global perspective on best practices in the industry.