About the Centre

“Build it and they will come!” Since the opening of the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in September 2000, over two thousand events have been hosted in Asia Pacific Hall alone, and the eleven additional rooms are in constant use by members of the business and professional community, government, community groups, and members of the university.

What is special about the Centre?

The award winning repurposing of a fine neoclassic bank building to provide comfortable and attractive meeting space, superb meeting technology, and highly trained staff all contribute to the experience of any gathering in British Columbia’s only centre dedicated exclusively to meetings certified by the prestigious International Association of Conference Centers (IACC). What is perhaps more special is the intention underlying the building of such a centre.

To create a home for dialogue which provides the best possible environment for interaction and full participation by all delegates was the goal of the university when the Dialogue Centre was planned. The Wosk Centre for Dialogue has hosted the heads of state, religious and political leaders, delegations, arbitrations, deliberations, private negotiations on environmental and legal concerns, annual general meetings conferences on a wide range of topics — all of which shared a concern for achieving a high level of communication among delegates.

Since 1989, Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus has opened its doors to the broader community and, through sharing lecture halls and meeting rooms at both Harbour Centre and the Segal Graduate School of Business, supported the educational goals of thousands of organizations annually. The Centre for Dialogue builds on that tradition, taking the art of the meeting to the next level.