Pod Summit 2026

PodSummit 2026 - Sasquatch Syndicate Stampedes Calgary, AB

Canada called. We answered.  Sasquatch Syndicate is heading to Calgary.  PodSummit returns October 16–17, 2026, at The GRAND in Calgary, Alberta — Canada's premier podcasting event, built on community and driven by the craft of audio and video storytelling. Two days of conversation, learning, and collaboration among Canada's leading voices and emerging creators. And this year, the Sasquatch Syndicate will be in the room.

We want to say something directly to the Canadian listeners who made this happen, because it matters and it deserves to be said plainly: this invitation exists because of you.

The Sasquatch Syndicate's presence in Western Canada — particularly across Alberta and British Columbia, and deep into the Fraser Valley — has been something we have watched grow organically over the years with a mixture of gratitude and genuine awe. The Fraser Valley, for those who may not know, is Sasquatch country in the most literal sense. The region sits in the shadow of the Coast Mountains, laced with old-growth river corridors and documented encounter history that stretches back generations. The word Sasquatch itself is derived from the Halkomelem language of the Indigenous peoples of that very region. The Fraser Valley did not discover Bigfoot — Bigfoot, in every meaningful cultural sense, comes from there.

So it is perhaps not surprising that the Sasquatch Syndicate's message resonates strongly with listeners across AB and BC. What may be more surprising — and what we find genuinely moving — is how loudly and consistently those listeners have shown up for us. They found the show. They shared it. They wrote to us, talked about us, recommended us to their networks, and over time built a Canadian audience that is one of the most passionate and engaged the Syndicate has. When the opportunity to attend PodSummit came into view, it was that community — those listeners, in those regions, doing what communities do when they actually care about something — that put us in the conversation for an invitation.

PodSummit is not a Bigfoot conference. It is not a paranormal convention. It is not the AlienCon circuit or the International Bigfoot Conference or any of the other environments where the Sasquatch Syndicate has built its live presence over the years. PodSummit is a podcasting event — a gathering of Canada's audio and video storytelling community, from established voices to emerging creators, focused on the craft and the conversation of what it means to build something worth listening to in 2026.

And that is exactly why we belong there.

The Sasquatch Syndicate began as a podcast. Everything we have built — the conferences, the comic, the film work, the expedition documentation, the relationships with Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Derek Randles and the Olympic Project and the broader research community — all of it grew from a microphone and a conviction that the story of Sasquatch research, told seriously and with genuine curiosity, was a story worth telling to anyone willing to listen. Showing up at PodSummit is a return to that foundation. It is the Sasquatch Syndicate sitting down with the storytelling community and talking about what we have learned — about audio, about building an audience, about what it takes to sustain a creative and research project over years of production — in an environment built specifically for those conversations.

Calgary itself is a fitting location for this chapter. The GRAND is exactly the kind of venue that a serious creative event deserves — a space with character, in a city that sits at the edge of the Rocky Mountain front and understands instinctively that the wilderness just beyond its western limits is real, vast, and full of things that haven't been fully catalogued yet. We are going to feel very much at home.

We are also looking forward to the conversations that happen outside the formal programming — the hallway exchanges, the evening discussions, the kind of collaborative thinking that only happens when you put a room full of people who are all building something together and give them two days and a common language. The Canadian podcasting community is one we have admired from a distance and are eager to engage with directly. The crossover between what they are building and what we are building is more significant than it might appear on the surface, and PodSummit is the room where we find out exactly how significant.

To our listeners in Alberta, in British Columbia, across the Fraser Valley, and throughout Canada — thank you. This is your invitation as much as it is ours. You built the audience that built the relationship that earned the seat at the table. We will represent you well in Calgary.

To the PodSummit team — thank you for the invitation and for building something that genuinely serves the Canadian creative community. We are honored to be part of the October 2026 chapter.

If you are going to be in Calgary on October 16–17, come find us. The conversation is always better in person.

We will see you at The GRAND.

By Chanelle Elaine Chief Marketing Officer, Sasquatch Syndicate Inc.