About Montréal
Montréal is a vibrant, multilingual city. With festivals year-round, a renowned food and arts scene, and endless outdoor activities in every season, there’s always something to enjoy. The city is welcoming, safe, affordable, and easy to navigate—visitors thrive here thanks to pedestrian and bike-friendly streets, great public transit, and its dynamic academic and creative communities. Rooted in a rich, diverse history, Montréal brings the world together.
What is now known as the city of Montréal exists on land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.
Plan Your Visit to Montréal
The city of Montréal provides useful resources for planning your travels, learning how to getting around while you're here, and discovering some of the many many things to see and do while you're here.
- Practical information (includes basic visa and customs details)
- Getting to Montréal
- Getting around the city
- Visitor resources
- Weather
Conference Venue
McGill University is a publicly funded research university, established in 1821, with approximately 40,000 students across undergraduate and graduate programs. McGill's downtown campus consists of approximately 80 buildings spread across 80 acres in the city's central business and cultural district.
The campus is located at the base of Mont-Royal, a 234-meter hill located in the centre of Montréal, featuring a large public park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and serving as the geographical feature from which the city takes its name.
Take a virtual tour of McGill's campus.
Read more about the history of McGill and Canada with Indigenous Peoples.
Lorne M. Trottier Building
Aside from the conference dinner, all conference events will take place in the Lorne M. Trottier Building. A modern facility on the east side campus, the Trottier Building houses McGill's Electrical and Computer Engineering departments.
Address (Google Maps link): 3630 University St, Montréal, Quebec, H3A 0C6
See where the Lorne M. Trottier Building is located on the McGill Interactive Map.
Plan Your Stay
Conference hotel:
Marriott Residence Inn, Montréal Downtown
Address (Google Maps link): 2045 Peel St, Montréal, Quebec H3A 1T6, Canada
Phone: +1 514-982-6064
