I was here this past weekend for Pycon U.S. 2014 (totally in love with the idea of a US branded conference in a Canadian city). This is North America's premiere event celebrating the Python programming language and its community. I've had to miss it in years past, but was super-keen on it being held so close to my home in Toronto this year (you don't actually say "super-keen" in your everyday speech, do you, Andrew?)
This venue was really the perfect fit for this scale of event, with five massive conference rooms in continual use, several smaller board rooms for more focussed group work and discussions, and a great big dining hall to seat and feed every attendee.
WiFi was pretty reliable and easy to use every day. And the catered lunches were great for providing mostly vegan options. The salads weren't clearly labelled, which was a little inconvenient, but it was pretty easy to see which ones had dairy and which did not. Breakfast, on the other hand, was pretty abysmal, with only the dry, dry, dry home fries as a clear vegan option (they were very dry).
I care a lot about the food at my conferences.
There weren't too, too many coffee shops in the immediate vicinity of the venue, so I ended up getting a few Americanos at the centre's Van Houtte cafe, which, for reasons of capsulation, I shall not review here, in these lines. It was a short enough walk to some nearby great stuff, though, and an excellent entry point to the City of Montreal for anyone at the conference who hadn't been here before.