The Fairmont Winnipeg, the Conference site, is Winnipeg's premier hotel, located in the heart of downtown Winnipeg at the corner of Portage Avenue and Main Street, a short walk to the historic Forks, the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, where Winnipeg began. It is also a short walk to Winnipeg's Scots Monument, and connected by a series of underground and overhead walkways, to all of downtown's major stores and shopping centre.