From AI Ready to AI Enabled.
Build the skills. Earn the credential. Lead what's next.
ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional.
Six self-paced courses in AI Fluency and Using AI Agents at Work, in three levels. Every module has a knowledge check and every course ends with a final assessment. Finish all three levels to earn the certification.
Level 1: Foundations
AI Fluency: Foundations and AI Agents at Work: Foundations. About 3 hours.
Level 2: Practitioner
Expert-level briefs, working with files and data, agent specs, approvals and safe connections. About 5 hours.
Level 3: Advanced
Lead, scale and govern AI and agent workflows, ending with a capstone plan for real work. About 7 hours.
ETA Specialist courses.
Role-, tool- and industry-based courses, about 4 to 5 hours each, that build on Level 1: Foundations. Each ends with a capstone reviewed by ETA and earns an ETA Specialist credential. Included with Pro membership and above, or $149 each.
Microsoft Copilot at Work
Reliable, safe and measurable value from Copilot across email, meetings, documents, data and decks.
AI for People Leaders
Lead your team through AI adoption: norms, use cases, coaching and honest measurement.
AI Governance and Security
Inventory, policy, risk tiers, controls for assistants and agents, and incident response.
Credentials and certification.
AI Explorer, AI Empowered Professional, AI Empowered Leader
Earned with training credits from ETA workshops, AI Week sessions, masterclasses and courses. Credit builds across events.
ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional
Earned by completing a structured curriculum and passing its assessments, level by level: Level 1: Foundations, Level 2: Practitioner and Level 3: Advanced. Each level is recorded as you finish it, and all three earn the certification.
In person, online, and everywhere in between.
In person
Hands-on workshops and certification sessions at AI Week, Future Tech Forum and partner events.
Virtual
Live masterclasses, on-demand modules and self-paced online courses.
Who's eligible
ETA members at every level, AI Week attendees, Future Tech Forum participants and AI Ready Ohio participants. Credit builds across events.
Earn your ETA professional AI credential.
Credentials run from foundational AI literacy to advanced leadership and organizational transformation. Each credential builds on the last.
AI Explorer
An introduction to AI concepts, tools and applications. Earn credit at any ETA workshop or AI Week session.
AI Empowered Professional
AI tools, workflow integration, prompt engineering and practical implementation.
AI Empowered Leader
AI strategy, team enablement, governance, ROI modeling and change management.
Every session counts toward your hours-based credentials.
- Earn credits at workshops, AI Week sessions, Future Tech Forum programming and virtual masterclasses.
- Sessions are logged through the ETA mobile event app and count toward your hours-based credentials.
- Courses you complete on joineta.org or an AI Ready site count automatically. Log other training on My learning with a verification link or your certificate.
- Progress carries over between events until you earn each credential.
Attend or register
Join an AI Week, Future Tech Forum, virtual masterclass or ETA program.
Participate in workshops
Qualifying sessions are logged automatically through the ETA mobile event app.
Accumulate credits
Credits do not expire between ETA events.
Earn your hours-based credential
Receive a digital badge, a verification page and a LinkedIn credential.
Every way to learn, every stage of the journey.
Training in the formats that work for busy professionals.
Conference Workshops
Certificate-eligible afternoon workshops at AI Week and Future Tech Forum. All attendees qualify.
Virtual Masterclasses
Live and on-demand sessions open to all ETA members.
Cohort Learning Programs
Peer-supported cohorts through the National AI Accelerator and AI Ready Ohio, tied to real organizational AI projects.
Executive Briefings
Half-day or full-day programs for leadership teams, on-site or virtual.
Credential Programs
Multi-session programs leading to AI Explorer, AI Empowered Professional or AI Empowered Leader credentials.
Workforce Upskilling
Team-wide training through the AI Ready Ohio model and state partnerships.
AI Ready Ohio is growing.
Our flagship workforce program is expanding to new regions across Ohio in 2026, including Greater Cincinnati, Columbus and Toledo.
World-class partners, recognized credentials.
Microsoft
Copilot masterclasses and Microsoft AI training for teams.
Anthropic
Claude training for professionals and builders, including hands-on workshops.
Gemini and Google AI training, including community workshops with AI Tinkerers.
More partners
Including SkillSpout and Nexigen, with role-based, tool-based and industry-based credential tracks in development.
Training built for the full range of American leadership.
“AI literacy is the new digital literacy.”
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