Venue: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Conference this year will be hosted at the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University, within walking distance of each other, in the vibrant university town of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. These two universities each provide an attractive campus with state-of-the-art facilities including accessible lecture theatres for plenary and parallel sessions, in close proximity, such as the impressive Davis Centre of the School of Computer Science, on-campus dining and diverse, nearby restaurants.

Locale and Surroundings: Canada’s Waterloo-Toronto corridor is the vibrant Silicon Valley of Canada with the premier engineering school University of Waterloo in Canada, and also popular with geese and other North American wildlife. The University of Waterloo hosts Canada’s largest engineering school, ranking among the top 50 engineering school worldwide with more than $96 million in research funding per year. The University of Waterloo has 42,000 students and 238,000 alumni in 151 countries. It is home to 74 Canada Research Chairs and is well-known for its 100% creator owned IP policy. Operating world-renowned co-operative education programs, Waterloo partners with more than 7,000 employers worldwide. The campus covers 1,000 acres in the heart of the Region of Waterloo (population 600,000) which is integral to the Waterloo-Toronto tech corridor. The area is served by international airports, rail links and modern road systems. Attractions include the nearby thriving multi-cultural metropolis of Toronto, the picturesque theatre town Stratford, Ontario, and is within driving distance of the sandy beaches such as Grand Bend Beach on Lake Huron.

Plenary and parallel sessions will mainly be held at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics of W. Laurier University.

Local hotels: In walking distance are many excellent local hotels and restaurants such as the Delta Hotel, Waterloo, as well as university accommodation.

For accommodation and hotels, including special conference rates, follow the advice from the AMMCS-ALIFE Congress Venue & Accommodation webpage:

Accommodation

Visa Requirements

In order to determine whether you require a visa to enter Canada, please refer to the Government of Canada’s page Find out if you need a visa to enter Canada as a visitor. Nearby Canadian embassies and consulates may be found through the Government of Canada’s Canadian Offices Abroad information.

If you require a visa to enter Canada in order to attend the AMMCS–ALIFE 2026 Congress, invitation letters can be issued for ALIFE participants.

To receive such a letter, you must submit the following:

a scanned copy of your passport,
your institutional postal address,
your institutional email address,
the title of your paper(s), if submitted/accepted, and/or
the workshops or sessions you are organizing, if applicable.

This documentation should be sent to ammcs@wlu.ca with the subject line:

Request for AMMCS-ALIFE 2026 Convention visa invitation letter

The request cannot be processed if any required documentation is missing.

If you require an official document for funding or administrative purposes stating that you will be travelling to Canada to attend the AMMCS–ALIFE 2026 Congress, please also send that request to ammcs@wlu.ca.

Please ensure that these matters are addressed as early as possible in order to allow sufficient time for any unexpected difficulties or delays.

Check out the AMMCS Local Info page for main conference building and more travel information: https://ammcs.wlu.ca/2026/travel-local-info