Beanfield Centre

The entire experience with Beanfield was wonderful. Don was extremely helpful and prompt with his responses and the process to book meeting space was easy. Michelle also went out of her way to adapt to our needs, which were a bit different than your average event. We were also impressed with the in-house AV and Courtney and her Freeman team were quick with their set up and available if we needed them. Extra shout out to the catering dept. for providing us with tables numbers on the house! The venue was clean and beautiful and quite economical for all the extras such as lounge space, water stations and Wifi that's included. My only suggestion would be to make all the signage larger but otherwise would be more than happy to hold more events at Beanfield in the future.

We have held an 1,800 person conference at Beanfield for two years. The staff was responsive - particularly our main contact Nancy, the food good and the IA crew were great this year. What we like about this venue is that we can "own" the space, allowing us to brand and create an intimate atmosphere. We work in convention centres everywhere and this is one of the best ones - clean, good wifi for free!, lots of parking, adaptable space and nice people.

Our organization has been using the Beanfield Centre for several years to hold our annual conference. At our last conference, with about 500+ attendees, all the catering and venue services were excellent with the exception of the show services. The conference presentations were to be recorded so that the videos could then be posted to a website as part of a large open access educational initiative project. Not only were there several missing videos that were not even in sequence (indicating several errors occurred), no one informed us that any issues had occurred in the first place. It was not discovered until we went to edit the videos. Once we inquired about this, it took some time to find out that we would not even be able to get backup recordings. We still have no explanation as to how the filming could have gone so wrong and we had to ask for a refund of money paid for the show services. Beanfield did eventually agree to refund for those services. Obviously, we would have just rather had better technicians so that we could have those videos but did appreciate the gesture. Unfortunately, it's the negative experiences and the response to them that often remain clearer than the positive ones. Would be willing to give this venue another try, however.

I had the pleasure of working at the Beanfield Centre at the beginning of May for a 200 attendee reception followed by a plenary session. It was a great experience. The team was informative, engaged, quick and great to work with. Food was delicious. Venue is beautiful! We did have a few challenges working with their unionized AV team when it came to the production of the event but other than that, the event went very well.

We hosted our annual conference (RightsCon) to the Beanfield Centre for 2018 and were thrilled. The venue was perfect for our large conference, hosting 2500 participants easily. It's a sprawling space, with 20+ breakout rooms spread across one simple rectangle space on the second floor, with the main floor consisting of massive ballrooms and lounge spaces. We seamlessly hosted 20 simultaneous sessions, 5 lounges, and a community village at the event no problem. There's even terrific outdoor space to host cocktail receptions.

The staff are also very responsive, accommodating, and professional. Catering staff is terrific, and I even had participants telling me how good the food was (which never happens). Rooms had great AV equipment, and the internet was fantastic, with more than enough bandwidth to deal with a huge tech event with lots of devices.

Would highly recommend!