If you are interested in meeting up with Greg and me and spending a weekend chatting points and miles with our Canadian friends, registration is open for Points Travel Festival Toronto, which will be happening on April 18, 2026 (with an optional add-on party the night before). Super Early Bird pricing is available through today, so if you are interested, you may want to consider registering before the price increase.
Ticket information
- Through 1/31/26, Points Travel Festival Toronto is offering a $20 CAD discount on tickets to the coming Toronto event (taking place on 4/18/26). Greg and I will be among the speakers at this event. Current event pricing is:
- $279 CAD (~$205 USD at the time of writing) for the one-day event ticket, to include 9am-5pm sessions, lunch, two networking snack breaks, and an evening event to include one drink ticket and hot appetizers. Note that the price will increase to $299 CAD on 2/1/26.
- $99 CAD (~$73 USD) for an optional Friday evening party to include two drinks and hot appetizers
- Direct link to this deal (our affiliate link)
Points Travel Festival Toronto Event Details
Location and schedule
Friday, April 17 (add-on ticket required):
Location: Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto International Airport, Terminal 3 Toronto Amf, Toronto, ON L5P 1C4
- 6-9 pm evening party, including two drinks and hot appetizers
Saturday, April 18:
Location: Hilton Garden Inn Toronto Airport, 3311 Caroga Dr, Mississauga, ON L4V 1A3
- 8-9 am registration and networking
- 9-5 pm conference sessions, including lunch and two networking snack breaks
- 5-6 pm pre-party networking
- 6-9 pm evening party, including one drink ticket and hot appetizers
Speakers
- Greg Davis-Kean (Frequent Miler)
- Nick Reyes (Frequent Miler)
- Patrick Sojka (Rewards Canada)
- Reed Sutton and Josh Bandura (co-founders Frugal Flyer)
- Peter Suen, Amy Tung and Rachel Yuan (Prince of Travel)
- Andrew D’Amours (Flytrippers)
- Ben Komenkul (Ben’s Big Deal)
- Tara McAndrew (Travel with TMc)
- Moli (Maple Miles)
- Sarah Ramkissoon
- Graeme Bligh (The Canadian Jetsetter)
- Shabbir Hakim (cardZtravel)
- Jayce Loh (PointsNerd)
- Sash Bhavsar (Points Partners)
- Barry Choi (Money We Have)
- Advait Vaidya (Miles Beyond Borders)
- Fatima (Fatima Flying Free)
Topics
Topics covered are expected to be Canada-centric, though we expect there will also be a fair amount of content that is more broadly rewards program-based and as such may be of interest. Some of the topics likely to be discussed include:
- Maximizing Aeroplan Stopover Awards
- RTW with BA Avios Multi-Carrier Awards
- Buying Groups
- ITIN for US Credit Cards in 2026 – Challenges and Workarounds
- Booking First Class Awards for Family Travel (2+ seats)
- Booking All-Inclusive Resorts on Points
- The Ultimate Flexible Points Travel Program
- Airline Status Match and Why It Matters
- Earning Airline Elite Status in Canada
- VIPorter Airline Partners, and Redemption options
Quick Thoughts
Greg and I will be speaking together at this event (topic forthcoming) and we look forward to meeting readers and listeners and chatting points and miles.
While I expect that the topics at this event will lean toward being more Canada-focused, there are numerous broadly-useful topics like Aeroplan stopovers and Avios multi-carrier awards that will surely appeal across borders. I spoke at last year’s Travel Summit in Toronto and met many US-based readers who seemed to find that conference broadly useful. I imagine that many folks will find enough topics of interest to fill a day, even if they are coming from the US.
While most of the speakers hail from Canada, there are nevertheless some names on the list that you may recognize. I love following Ben’s Big Deal on Instagram, and have learned some great tips from Ben over the years. Tara McAndrew of Travel with TMc was one of my favorite presenters at Travel Summit, and it’s great to see her in the lineup. Prince of Travel has a few speakers in the list, and I have long found their content helpful in learning to maximize opportunities like Aeroplan stopovers and the British Airways multi-carrier award chart.
It’s always hard to answer whether or not a points-and-miles conference will be worthwhile to you, but my experience has long been that attending conferences like these has helped me build valuable connections with folks from whom I have learned a ton (not just during the conferences, but often in message exchanges afterwards). Obviously, the Canadian topics covered may not be of interest to many readers this time around, so whether or not this is a fit for you really comes down to how much you value spending a weekend around other miles-and-points folks. If spending all day talking about miles and points sounds like fun to you, you’ll probably enjoy being surrounded by like-minded, friendly folks for the weekend. If your primary goal is to learn the deep secrets of the local credit union cards of the American Southwest, this probably won’t be the conference for that (no, that isn’t really a thing…to my knowledge, anyway).
Both Greg and I will be attending the Friday evening event for those who buy the add-on, and we will obviously be around all day on Saturday. If you attend, please come say hi; we love meeting folks from our community!
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No chance of StubHub ticket sales??? 😉
Weekend at the Hilton garden Toronto airport shoot me now lol
*pew pew*
“…topics of interest to (film) a day even if they are coming from the US.”
Hmmm…I’ll bring my. VHS camcorder!
Definitely meant fill a day — I’m sure that speakers will not want their sessions filmed :-). Thanks for the correction – fixed!
Although, that said, if you bring a VHS camcorder, maybe I’ll make an exception for you :-).