Gerald Howard has been working in the domain of events and congresses for the last 19 years. His professional experience was developed in and with three main professional categories of actors in events: International organisations (ITU, WHO, UNAIDS), corporate entities (MCI-group) and associations (Society Petroleum Engineering, Lausanne Tourism and Congress Bureau). He specializes in congress management (committees, sponsoring & exhibition, speakers, social events, abstracts, registration). Since 2012, he has been in charge of the congress market with the Lausanne Tourism and Congress Bureau. His main task is to support clients with the development of events and conferences in Lausanne. In January 2017, he has taken over the sales’ development of a new alliance called the Lausanne-Montreux Congress unit.