AI Ready Ohio Expands AI Training and Cert Program to Cleveland This August!
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AI Ready Ohio expands to Cleveland with a full day of training
A fully virtual day of training on August 26, 2026: seven online trainings plus a town hall open to all Ohioans. Free to attend for Ohio residents and ETA members, sponsored by JobsOhio. Registration is required at joineta.org. Our goal is at least 500 certified across the Cleveland area.
- Date
- Aug 262026, 9 AM to 5 PM ET
- Format
- VirtualEight sessions, all online
- Cost
- FreeOhio residents and ETA members
- Register
- Requiredjoineta.org
AI Ready Ohio is expanding to Cleveland, and we are celebrating with a fully virtual day of AI trainings, workshops, and engagements on August 26, 2026. Every session is online, so you can join from anywhere in Ohio. Registration is required and open now at joineta.org.
Sponsored by JobsOhio, these sessions are free to attend for Ohio residents and ETA members. Credit hours you earn apply directly toward your AI Ready Ohio certificates. Take one session or take all eight. The day is built so you can drop in for the hour that matters most to your role, or stay from 9 AM through the afternoon and stack the credit. Our goal for this launch is at least 500 people certified across the Cleveland area.
The goal is straightforward: help Ohioans level up their AI skills, help Ohio businesses level up in the AI economy, and move the state from AI Ready to AI Enabled.
The schedule
All eight sessions are delivered online. Join from your desk, your home office, or anywhere in the state.
All times are Eastern. Each session runs one hour, and every session is virtual.
The town hall is open to every Ohioan. You do not need to sign up for a training session, live in Northeast Ohio, or hold an ETA membership to join at noon. You do need to register, same as the trainings, so we can send your access link. If you want to hear where AI Ready Ohio is headed and ask questions directly, the door is open.
Credit toward your certificate
Every one hour session contributes to the credit hours you earn toward AI Ready Ohio certificates:
AI Explorer
For anyone starting out. Build working fluency with AI tools, prompting, and safe everyday use.
AI Empowered Professional
For individual contributors ready to apply AI to real workflows, analysis, and daily output.
AI Empowered Leader
For managers and executives setting strategy, policy, and adoption across a team or organization.
Expanded certificate pathways are coming soon.
Cannot join live? No worries. Recorded sessions will be available in the member portal, so you can take advantage of them whenever you are ready. Recorded hours count toward your certificate credit the same way live attendance does.
Who should attend
- Professionals who want AI skills that apply to the job they already have.
- Managers and executives responsible for AI policy, governance, and rollout.
- Small business owners and their teams looking to compete in the AI economy.
- Public sector, nonprofit, and education staff serving Northeast Ohio.
- Job seekers, career changers, students, and recent graduates.
No technical background is required. The 9 AM session assumes no prior experience.
Why Cleveland, why now
AI Ready Ohio was built with JobsOhio to make AI skills available to every part of the state, not just the largest tech employers. The program piloted at Great Lakes AI Week and Future Tech Forum in 2025 and expanded across Ohio in 2026 with a goal of 3,000 Ohioans certified.
Cleveland is the next stop, and the goal for this launch is clear: at least 500 people certified across the Cleveland area. Northeast Ohio has the manufacturing base, the health systems, and the professional services depth where AI fluency turns into real productivity.
Running the day virtually is how we get there. An online format means a shift worker in Lorain, a nonprofit director in Shaker Heights, and a small business owner in Akron can all attend the same session without losing a day to travel.
The program is built in Ohio: the AI Navigator Portal by Big Kitty Labs, the curriculum through Ohio institutions and national certification partners, and delivery by a coalition of community partners across the state.
How to register
Registration is required for every session, including the town hall, and is open now at joineta.org. Use the form at the bottom of this page: tell us which sessions you plan to join, and we will email your virtual access links ahead of August 26. Registering five or more people from one organization? Note that in the form and we will coordinate a group session for your team.
Save your spot for August 26
Eight virtual sessions, one day, free to attend for Ohio residents and ETA members. Sponsored by JobsOhio. Registration is required and open now at joineta.org. Every hour counts toward your AI Ready Ohio certificate, and we are aiming for 500 certified across the Cleveland area.
Register now See the certificate tracksRegistration is required. Sign up using the form below or at joineta.org. Questions about the Cleveland sessions or interested in registering a team? Email hello@joineta.org. AI Ready Ohio is powered by the Enterprise Technology Association and JobsOhio.
Complete this form to register. Can’t attend live? Registration grants you access to the recorded sessions!
