Free registration is open. Five live sessions, September 6 to 13, 2026.
The full explainer
A free, eight-day, fully online training event where Russell Brunson and Iman Gadzhi walk complete beginners through building an AI-powered side hustle - ending with one built live on camera.
The Side Hustle Summit 2026 is a free live virtual event running from September 6 to September 13, 2026. Five sessions, each starting at 1:00 PM ET and running about 60 minutes, hosted by Russell Brunson and Iman Gadzhi. The stated goal is to take somebody with no business experience and give them a working plan for an online side income built with AI tools.
Free online business events are not rare. What is rare is these two names on the same stage. Russell Brunson built ClickFunnels and reaches an established, older audience of operators. Iman Gadzhi reaches a much younger audience, most of whom have never sold anything. They have not taught together before, and their audiences barely overlap.
The practical effect is that the week covers a fuller arc than either would cover alone - Iman handles zero to one, then Russell handles one to scale.
Four sessions run close together from September 6 to 9. Then there is a deliberate three-day gap, and the finale lands on Saturday September 13. That gap is build time, not filler.
Saturday
September 6, 2026
1:00 PM ET
Pick the one opportunity worth your nights and weekends.
Iman opens the Summit by cutting a hundred make-money-online options down to the single model that works fastest for a complete beginner in 2026 - no audience, no capital, no camera required.
Sunday
September 7, 2026
1:00 PM ET
Watch the machine do the work you thought you had to learn.
The build session. AI collapses the parts of a business that used to take months - the offer, the copy, the assets, the delivery - into an afternoon. This is where a blank screen turns into something you can actually sell.
Monday
September 8, 2026
1:00 PM ET
The market nobody is fighting over yet.
Every gold rush has a stretch of river the crowd walked straight past. Day 3 is about demand that already exists, already has budget, and still has almost nobody selling into it.
Tuesday
September 9, 2026
1:00 PM ET
The funnel operator behind ClickFunnels takes the stage.
Two decades of ClickFunnels, Funnel Hacking Live and a very large amount of tracked customer revenue, compressed into one hour on how offers, funnels and storytelling actually convert.
Saturday
September 13, 2026
1:00 PM ET
Zero to a finished side hustle, on camera, in one session.
The finale. Russell and Iman build a complete AI-powered side hustle live from scratch - offer, assets, traffic and delivery - with nothing edited out. This is the session most worth blocking your calendar for.
No spin
It is worth understanding why a free event exists at all, because it changes how you should attend one.
This is a launch. The structure is old and it is well understood: give away several days of genuinely useful training, build trust and momentum, then present a paid program near the end while attention is highest. For this event the paid offer has been reported at roughly $1,995 for the core program with a companion offer near $995, and there is an affiliate network promoting it.
None of that makes the free training fake. The free sessions have to be good, because a weak free week produces no sales. What it does mean is that you should attend knowing the shape of the week in advance, so the sales portion reads as expected rather than as a bait and switch.
People who have been circling the idea of starting something online for a while, have a few hours a week they can actually defend, and want a structured week that forces the decision. If that describes you, the free ticket is one of the better uses of five hours this month. Here is the fuller breakdown of who it suits, and this guide defines the term itself.
Five live sessions, September 6 to 13, 2026 at 1 PM ET. Replays sent to registered attendees. No card, no catch, no camera.
Free general admission · No payment details required · Replays included
Free, no card needed
Sept 6 to 13 · 1 PM ET