Attending
EduCHI 2026 will be hosted by the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information at its historic downtown St. George Campus. The conference venue is within walking distance of the city’s downtown core, and a short subway ride away from the city’s major transportation hub at Union Station.
The University of Toronto operates on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, as it has been for thousands of years, this place is home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful for the opportunity to hold the EduCHI 2026 conference on this land.
Quick facts
- Canada’s currency is the Canadian Dollar, with 1 CAD = ~0.75 USD / ~0.6 EUR.
- Canada uses the metric system on its roads (litres of gasoline, speed limits in kilometers), Celsius for its weather, but it measures beers in pints and weights in pounds.
- Canada’s electrical system operates on 120 V and shares plugs and sockets with the US.
- Weather at the end of May in Toronto is generally warm with average daytime temperatures of 17 C (63 F) dropping to 13 C (54 F) at night. Interestingly, while May has the most rainy days of any month in Toronto (16 on average), it results in the lowest overall precipitation for the year.
- Canada is a federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, and its federal capital is the city of Ottawa, located ~400 km from Toronto.
- Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, and the home of Canada’s only NBA and MLB teams.
- Toronto’s name originated from the Kenien’keha word tkarón:to meaning “trees standing in the water“.