EARN
Make money with AI.
Two days of labs, clinics and a live Exchange floor built around one question: what can you charge for on Monday that you couldn't charge for on Friday?
Getting in: The labs and clinics in this room need a Pro pass ($149), or a $79 add-on for a single session. General admission ($39) covers the Exchange and expo floor and every main stage talk — but not this room.
Offers, made live.
Certification labs, freelance workshops, pricing clinics, portfolio makeovers, and the live hiring floor.
You walk out with
Four things you didn't have Friday morning
A rate you can say out loud
The pricing clinic ends with a number, a scope, and the sentence you use when somebody asks what you charge.
A portfolio page that exists
Not a plan for one. You build it in the clinic with an editor sitting next to you, and it is live before you leave the room.
An Exchange profile that keeps working
Built at check-in. Companies post paid work to the board all year, and your profile is already on it.
Three people who saw your work
The Exchange floor is open both days. You leave with names, not a stack of cards you never follow up on.
What this costs everywhere else
We are not discounting anything. We put the things you leave with into one room, on one weekend, and charged for the room instead of the pieces.
Inside the room
What it actually looks like
Lab in session
Room-scale. Screens visible, an instructor at a shoulder.
Portfolio on screen
Over-shoulder, finished page.
Exchange floor handshake
Two people across a table, badge visible.
The rate, written down
Close crop of a notebook with a number on it.
The Opportunity Board
People standing in front of it, reading.
The EARN schedule
Sessions drop in October
Times, seats and session leaders
We publish the full run of show in October, along with seat counts for every capped session. Labs fill first, so the list goes to the mailing list before it goes on the site.
Get your passWhat will be in this room
- Hands-on labs — capped, first come
- Pricing and packaging clinics
- Portfolio and profile makeovers, walk-up
- The Exchange floor — open both days
- Employer office hours
The Exchange Floor
Companies post real work with a real budget on the board. You bid on it in person, in front of the person who wrote it. Fifteen minutes, a portfolio, a rate, a yes or a no. Every conversation is logged to your Exchange profile and keeps working after you go home.
What you walk out withOffers, made live.
Companies come to the floor to hire, and they do it in the open. Real offers and real contracts get made in front of the room — not a résumé workshop, an actual hire happening twenty feet from where you're standing.
Is this your room?
Who EARN is built for
You'll fit right in if
Mid-career operators, analysts, marketers and coordinators. Freelancers and consultants. Career pivoters and job seekers. People converting AI into income this year rather than waiting to be retrained by an employer.
And if it isn't your room
A Pro pass covers all five. Start here, walk out, try another. Most people spend a day in one room and an afternoon in a second — and the Exchange sits in the middle of the floor on a general pass, connecting all of them.
You're good at your job and not sure it exists in five years.
You're already freelancing and you want to charge more.
You got laid off and you're applying into a void.
You've watched AI take over every conversation and gotten nothing out of it.
Passes
$39 gets you in the building.
$149 gets you in this room.
The Exchange and expo floor both days, every main stage talk, and your profile on the Opportunity Board. Does not include labs or clinics.
Adds one capped lab or clinic, in any room, to a general pass. Buy as many as you like.
Every lab and clinic in all five rooms, included. This is the pass that opens the room, and it pays for itself against two add-ons.
Everything in Pro, plus the executive track. Day Zero on Wednesday is invitation only.
For companies
Two ways to own this room
EARN experience partner — not yet claimed
One company owns this room outright for both days: the signage, the schedule, the showpiece and a 20x20 footprint inside it. There is no second EARN partner. A staffing or recruiting firm, a workforce platform, a jobs marketplace, or a bank that sells to independent operators.
Partner with EARNTraining partner — open
The labs and clinics in this room need curriculum, instructors and tooling. We are looking for one training partner to build that with us and put their name on what people actually learn. An AI platform's skills or education arm. This room is where their curriculum reaches working adults who will pay for the skill and use it commercially within a month.
Talk to us about trainingWalk in with a question.
Walk out with work.
April 14–16, 2027 · POST HTX, Houston
Get a Pro pass — $149General admission from $39 — expo floor and main stage.