Free AI Training in Toledo: AI Week Wraps Thursday With a Business Summit at UT
Here’s a sentence you don’t hear every day: free training that could actually raise your pay. Toledo AI Week is offering free, hands-on AI training and free AI Ready Ohio certification all week long — and it wraps Thursday with the AI for Business Summit at the University of Toledo. The timing couldn’t be better: AI-skilled jobs pay a 62% premium, according to EIN News.
Toledo skyline — Wikimedia Commons
Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz proclaimed this week “Toledo AI Week” for the second consecutive year, as Great Lakes AI Week runs Nov. 10–12 across northwest Ohio. The week is produced by the Enterprise Technology Association (ETA), with JobsOhio as Headline Partner and Bowling Green State University (BGSU) and the University of Toledo (UT) as host partners. More than 120 speakers — university presidents, employers and community leaders — are taking part.
Free training for workers, students and small businesses
The training is aimed at workers, students, job seekers and small business owners — no background in tech required. Sessions cover practical, hands-on AI skills, plus the free AI Ready Ohio certification, a credential workers can carry into a job search or a promotion conversation.
What happened Wednesday
Wednesday brought AI Week Community Day to One SeaGate in downtown Toledo, with virtual sessions from 9 a.m. to noon and in-person programming from noon to 5 p.m. The day featured hands-on AI Ready Ohio workshops, office hours and a live AI coding session with Toledo Codes.
Thursday: the AI for Business Summit at UT
The week wraps Thursday, Nov. 12, with the AI for Business Summit at the Lancelot Thompson Student Union on the University of Toledo campus, 2801 W. Bancroft St. The day opens with the Women in AI and Business Breakfast, followed by remarks from UT President Dr. James Holloway, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and JobsOhio’s Chris Abrams.
Tuesday kicked off the week with the Great Lakes AI Leadership Summit at BGSU’s Bowen-Thompson Student Union in Bowling Green.
How to register
Registration is open at greatlakesaiweek.com. Sessions are free, but spots for Thursday’s summit are limited — if you’ve been thinking about adding AI skills to your resume, this is the week to do it.
