The Walk-Through in Fort Lauderdale
In mid-August, with the calendar reading 93 days out, Marline Paul walked the room where she plans to hold this year’s Get Equipped AI Summit and posted about it the next morning. “I knew almost immediately, this is the one,” she wrote on LinkedIn. She listed what sold her: close to the restaurants she wanted nearby, close to the mall, “a space with real presence,” and, in her words, “room to grow as this Summit grows.”
That last phrase is the whole story of this event. The Get Equipped AI Summit, produced by Paul’s Fort Lauderdale firm Enilram Creative Solutions, returns November 13 through 15, 2026, billed as its second annual edition. It asks a question most South Florida owners have asked themselves at least once this year, usually late at night with a dozen browser tabs open: “AI Is So Big. Where Do I Start?”
The organizer’s answer is a three-day format that splits the weekend into very different experiences. Friday, November 13, is a virtual day open to anyone with a laptop, and Saturday, November 14, is the in-person day in Fort Lauderdale. Sunday, November 15, is a VIP masterclass the organizer calls The Execution Room. Each costs a different amount of money and time, and each fits a different kind of business. This is a map of which owners belong in which room, and what each should carry home.
From 25 Seats to a Bigger Room
Paul came to AI education from the classroom, spending more than 16 years as an educator in the public school system, including teaching in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, before building Enilram Creative Solutions, which she founded in 2021. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Florida International University and a Master of Divinity from St. Thomas University. The firm describes itself as a woman-owned small business, a military spouse-owned enterprise and a federal government contractor, and Paul is an alumna of Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women program. Her organizing framework, the 3T Framework, reduces to three verbs: Transform, Train, Tool Up.
The summit’s first edition in 2025 was small. In a January 2026 release announcing Monarca Marketing as the 2026 marketing sponsor, the company said the inaugural event hosted 25 attendees and that this year’s summit aims for 100 to 200 in-person participants at a larger Fort Lauderdale venue. “The 2025 summit proved there’s tremendous appetite for practical, accessible AI education,” Paul said in that release. She added that scaling “from 25 to potentially 200 attendees requires serious marketing expertise.”
In a March LinkedIn post, Paul said she talked about this event for two and a half years before she ever held it. The pitch has stayed consistent. The summit page promises “three days of plain language, hands on AI for entrepreneurs, educators, and underrepresented business owners,” and says attendees will “leave with tools you can use on Monday morning, not a list of buzzwords.” The organizer credits the firm with training more than 1,600 professionals.
Two things were not public as of September 25. The summit site says the 2026 speaker lineup is set, but it has not published the names. And the ticketing listing still shows the venue as “Fort Lauderdale, Fl. | Hybrid” rather than a street address. Owners who need to plan parking, a babysitter or a Saturday shift swap should watch for both.
Three Days, Three Different Owners
The structure matters more than the branding, because each day asks something different of a business. Programming runs across three tracks: Education, aimed at educators, school leaders and nonprofit teams; Business Development, pitched as using AI to “win work, save hours, and grow without adding headcount”; and Workforce Development, for preparing teams and job seekers for changing work.
Most owners reading this will live in the Business Development track. But the Workforce track deserves a second look from any employer with more than a handful of staff. A restaurant group or a contractor with field crews does not just need an owner who understands AI. It needs a shift manager and an estimator who can use it without breaking anything.
The ticket descriptions also spell out the hours, and they shape the decision. Day 1 is an evening live session from 4 to 9 p.m. Eastern, with daytime access to the vendor marketplace and what the organizer calls pre-game content. Day 2 runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in person. The organizer has not posted hours for Day 3.
Friday Night on a Laptop: Who the Virtual Day Fits
The Virtual Experience Day 1 Only ticket is listed at $197 plus a $4.93 service fee. It includes the full evening session, the daytime vendor marketplace, speaker sessions and a closing panel, recording access to Day 1 sessions, and access to Get Equipped Academy, the firm’s free online community on Skool.
This is the natural entry point for the solo founder who cannot close the shop on a Saturday, and for the owner who is still in the “what even is this” stage. It also fits restaurant and hospitality operators unusually well, at least on paper. A 4 p.m. start collides with dinner service, which is exactly why the recording matters. An owner can let the evening run on a second screen in the back office and rewatch the one session that mattered on Sunday morning.
One detail to confirm before buying: the ticket lists “recording access to Day 1 sessions,” while the attendee hub describes live sessions with “a 24 hour replay window after each session ends.” Those may describe different things, but a working owner who plans to watch later should ask how long the replays stay available. The summit’s contact address, hello@enilramcreative.com, is on every page.
What to bring home from Friday is modest and useful: a short list of the tools that came up repeatedly, one workflow you want to test the following week, and a sense of whether the in-person day is worth your Saturday. If the answer is no, the free community keeps the conversation going without another ticket.
Saturday in the Room: The Fort Lauderdale Day
The Saturday Summit Experience ticket is $297 plus a $7.43 fee. The organizer describes it as “for the person who wants to be in the room, not watching a replay later,” with the opening keynote and panel, direct access to speakers, and hands-on Implementation Sessions across all three tracks.
This is the day built for owners whose problem is not awareness but execution. Think of a five-person creative agency deciding how to fold AI into proposals and client reporting, or a professional-services firm, whether accounting, legal support or insurance, trying to decide what client information should and should not go into a chatbot. Those are conversations that go better face to face, with a speaker who can look at your actual workflow.
Contractors and trades owners should weigh Saturday carefully. An estimator or office manager who spends hours on quotes, scheduling and follow-up emails is precisely the audience the Business Development track describes. Film and content creators, a growing part of the Broward and Miami-Dade economy, will likely find the in-room sessions more valuable than the livestream, because the tools that matter to them are hands-on.
The Complete 2 Day Experience, at $497 plus a $12.43 fee, bundles Friday’s virtual evening with recordings and Saturday in person, and its listing adds networking and lunch on Day 2. Do the arithmetic and the Complete ticket costs about the same as buying the virtual and Saturday tickets separately. For most owners who were going to attend Saturday anyway, it is the cleaner purchase.
What to bring home from Saturday: one workflow rebuilt during the session rather than described in it, the names of two or three people in the room who run a business like yours, and a clear no-list of tools you have decided not to chase. The last item may save more money than the ticket costs.
Sunday’s Execution Room: When VIP Makes Sense
The VIP Experience: The Execution ticket is $697 plus a $17.43 fee. It includes everything in the Complete ticket plus Day 3. “Not a mastermind. This is The Execution Room,” the listing reads. The organizer says attendees will walk in with a plan they started building on Day 2 and “walk out with a real 90-day AI execution strategy, ready to run through Q1.”
The math is simple: Sunday costs about $200 more than the Complete ticket. The question is whether your business can actually spend the next 90 days executing. For an agency owner planning first-quarter services, a restaurant group heading into season, or a professional-services partner who wants to arrive in January with a written plan, the answer may be yes. For a solo founder who is still testing a first tool, Sunday is probably premature, and the free community is a reasonable place to keep learning before paying for a pressure test.
The top tier, VIP + Protégé, is $997 plus a $24.93 fee for two people. The organizer frames it for “a business partner, a mentee, or a rising star on your team,” and lists full VIP access for both, a swag bag for each person and one joint one-on-one session with Paul. At roughly $500 per person before fees, it is the value play for the owner who wants a second-in-command to carry the plan forward, which is often the difference between an AI strategy and an AI binder on a shelf.
Reading the Ticket Ladder Like a Budget Line
Seen as a budget decision, the ladder breaks cleanly. Just under $200 before fees buys a guided evening and a recording. Around $300 buys a Saturday in the room, and around $500 buys both. Around $700 adds Sunday, where the plan gets pressure-tested into a 90-day strategy. The service fees listed on each tier are separate from the base price, and the VIP tier’s listing shows sales ending November 14 at 2 p.m. Eastern.
There is also a second ladder aimed at businesses that want visibility. Sponsorship runs from a $250 Friend level, which includes a virtual booth and website recognition, up to a $5,000 Diamond level, with Community at $1,000, Supporting at $2,500 and Premier at $3,000. Separate lunch, swag bag and marketing sponsorships are listed at $1,500, $1,000 and $1,250. For a local agency, a bookkeeping firm or an IT consultant whose customers look like the summit’s attendees, a lower tier can function as a low-cost introduction to a room full of owners. That is a marketing decision, not an education one, and it should be judged that way.
Where November Sits After October’s AI Calendar
South Florida owners have had no shortage of AI options this fall. The Gazette has mapped the October run: FIU Business’s AI 305 conference on October 2, The Gator Effect visibility lab in Miramar on October 3, the Greater Delray Beach Chamber’s Chasing AI session on October 16, the Mandel Public Library’s Intro to AI in Small Business day in West Palm Beach on October 22, and the Miami AI Summit on October 23. The Fort Lauderdale summit arrives three weeks after the last of them, which gives an owner who attended one October session time to test what they learned and bring real questions to November.
What Owners Take Home From Fort Lauderdale
The honest measure of any AI event is what changes in a business the following Monday. The Get Equipped AI Summit has framed itself around exactly that test, and its three-day structure lets an owner decide how deep to go. A solo founder can buy an evening. A team can buy a Saturday. An owner ready to commit can buy a 90-day plan.
For Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade owners, the practical steps are the same whichever tier fits. Pick one process that eats hours every week, whether quoting, scheduling, client reporting, content or hiring, and bring it with you. Decide in advance who on your team will own the follow-through. And watch the summit site for the venue address and speaker names before committing a Saturday.
November 16 is a Monday. The organizer is betting that the owners who spend the weekend in Fort Lauderdale, or on a laptop at home, will open that week with something working. That is a promise every attendee can hold the summit to.
Key Facts for Owners and Search
- Event: Get Equipped AI Summit 2026 (second annual), produced by Enilram Creative Solutions of Fort Lauderdale; founder and CEO Marline Paul.
- Dates: Friday, November 13 (virtual, open to everyone); Saturday, November 14 (in person, Fort Lauderdale); Sunday, November 15 (VIP masterclass, The Execution Room).
- Hours as listed on ticket descriptions: Day 1 live virtual session 4–9 p.m. ET, plus daytime vendor marketplace; Day 2 in person 9 a.m.–4 p.m. ET; Day 3 hours not yet posted.
- Venue: Fort Lauderdale; specific venue not yet published on the ticketing page.
- Tracks: Education, Business Development, Workforce Development.
- Tickets (base price plus listed service fee): Virtual Experience Day 1 Only $197 (+$4.93); Saturday Summit Experience $297 (+$7.43); Complete 2 Day Experience $497 (+$12.43); VIP Experience: The Execution $697 (+$17.43); VIP + Protégé, two people, $997 (+$24.93).
- Sponsorship levels: Friend $250, Community $1,000, Supporting $2,500, Premier $3,000, Diamond $5,000; Lunch $1,500, Swag Bag $1,000, Marketing $1,250.
- Links: Summit site · Tickets · Sponsorship levels · Contact: hello@enilramcreative.com
Is the virtual day enough for a solo owner? For an owner starting from zero, the $197 evening with recordings is the lowest-cost way in. Confirm how long replays remain available.
Which ticket covers both Friday and Saturday? The Complete 2 Day Experience at $497 plus fees, which also lists networking and lunch on Day 2.
What does VIP add? Sunday’s Execution Room, which the organizer says ends with a 90-day AI execution plan for the first quarter.
Who are the speakers? The organizer says the 2026 lineup is set but had not published names as of September 25, 2026.
