Entrepreneurs Toronto - Startups and Beyond

Free AI Certification by AI Professionals Network: Use It, or Build a Business On It.

Join us as we work through Google's AI Professional Certificate on Coursera — completely free. We're working together, live, one course a week, for 7 weeks.
At the end of the 7 weeks, you'll walk away with an AI Fluent certificate from AI Professionals.

Want the actual Google AI Professional Certificate as well? Coursera offers that for $49 USD for the one month you need it. Totally optional, and by week 7, you'll already know the material cold, so it's a fast finish if you choose to add it."

Whether you want to put AI to work in your business, or build a brand-new AI service offering as your business, this is the on-ramp.

Two ways this pays off:
1. Use AI to run your business better.
Walk away knowing how to use Gemini, NotebookLM, and AI Studio for the stuff that eats your week: research, content, data, planning, communications. Real prompts and workflows you'll use the next morning — not theory.

2. Turn it into a new offering for your business.
The Google name carries real weight on a profile. If you choose to get the official certificate, you have a credible, recognizable badge to anchor an AI-consulting service: helping other business owners do what you just learned. We've watched this exact path work for people in our other AI sessions; this is the structured, certified version of it.

What you'll walk away with:

• AI Professionals Network's AI Fluent Certificate
• Full fluency with the Google AI Professional curriculum
• [Optional, paid] A Google-issued AI Professional Certificate (You'll need to pay for one month of Coursera membership)
• A portfolio: research hub, content assets, a data project, a working AI-built app
• Real workflows for your own business, or a packaged offering to sell to others
• 7 weeks of momentum instead of a free course that sits half-finished

The format:

• 🗓️ Every week for 7 weeks: 1 to 3 hours per week
• 🕙 10:00 AM EDT | 3:00 PM BST | 7:30 PM IST
• 💻 Live walkthrough + Q&A, work alongside the group
• 🆓 100% free — Google's course, free Meetup, just show up

Who this is for:
Business owners (or recent grads) curious about AI who haven't found the time to dive in solo — and business owners who see AI consulting as their next revenue line. No coding background needed. No prior AI experience needed.

Group accountability beats solo procrastination. Every time. Let's learn together.

Note: This event is being shared across multiple groups, including AI student groups - we're expecting a mix of attendees at various levels in their careers. Get AI Certified by Google with AI Professionals' July 2026 Cohort .

Study for the Google AI Professional Certificate in just one weekend.
6 Courses, 6 hours of live, interactive workshops. Done in 2 days
Saturday: July 11
3 Courses:
1. AI For Brainstorming and Planning
2. AI for Research and Insights
3. AI for Writing and Communicating
Sunday July 12
3 Courses:
1. AI for Content Creation
2. AI for Data Analysis
3. AI for Building Apps
How do you get certified?
* Attend the trainings
* Do the workshops live in class
* Get your questions answered live
* AFTER the training, sign up for the 7 day free trial at Google Skills (use a Gmail account where you haven't yet activated your one month free trial of Google AI Pro.
* Enroll in the Google AI Professional Certificate path at Google Skills
* Complete all the courses (sorry - that's mandatory) and the quizzes.
* Claim your badges and the final achievement certificate.
* Share your badge on your LinkedIn profile and wherever else you wish
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Study for the Google AI Professional Certificate in just one weekend.
6 Courses, 6 hours of live, interactive workshops. Done in 2 days
Saturday: July 11
3 Courses:
1. AI For Brainstorming and Planning
2. AI for Research and Insights
3. AI for Writing and Communicating
Sunday July 12
3 Courses:
1. AI for Content Creation
2. AI for Data Analysis
3. AI for Building Apps
How do you get certified?
* Attend the trainings
* Do the workshops live in class
* Get your questions answered live
* AFTER the training,
* Sign up for the 7 day free trial at Google Skills (use a Gmail account where you haven't yet activated your one month free trial of Google AI Pro.
* Enroll in the Google AI Professional Certificate path at Google Skills
* Complete all the courses (sorry - that's mandatory) and the quizzes.
* Claim your badges and the final achievement certificate.
* Share your badge on your LinkedIn profile and wherever else you wish

Discover how AI can be leveraged more in your business with Claude Cowork.
Most small businesses have not seen AI in action to automate repetitive tasks, act as a member of staff (e.g. a VA), a strategic and tactical thinking partner and more.
Claude Cowork can do something very different from other AI models. It can work directly with the files on your computer and handle real tasks for you — closer to a member of staff than a chatbot.
What we'll cover
• The "AI ladder" — the difference between chatting with AI and having it actually do the work
• A tour of what Claude Cowork can do for your business
• A live walkthrough of a real, working setup: AI drafting documents, pulling from a calendar and inbox, and running jobs on a schedule — on its own
• How a solopreneur or small team can easily get started leveraging AI
Who should attend?
Solopreneurs, micro-business owners, freelancers and consultants — anyone wearing too many hats who'd like AI to take a few off. No technical experience needed.
You will leave with a solid grasp of the current capabilities of Claude Cowork and how to get started to use it in your business.
NOTE: This workshop is also being shared by our other groups.