Side Hustle Summit 2026 — Russell Brunson & Iman Gadzhi, Live For The First Time Together

The seven facts that matter, ranked

1. Dates: September 6–13, 2026 — five live sessions (Sept 6, 7, 8, 9 and 13), each at 1 PM Eastern. Fully virtual, replays within 24 hours.
2. Cost to attend: free. The official page confirms no paid tickets and no card required.
3. Hosts: Russell Brunson and Iman Gadzhi. Two of the biggest names in online business education, on one stage for the first time. Attendees of Iman's three previous free events have a tracked $55.6M in results.
4. Topic: building an AI-powered side hustle from scratch — the official framing is a challenge to reach $373/day.
5. The business model: the summit leads into a paid program. Partner documentation shows a $1,995 core offer plus a $995 companion offer sold during the event.
6. Guest speakers: the official page lists three: Myron Golden, Eileen Wilder and Eric Thomas. Details in the speakers section below.
7. Registration: opens August 17, 2026 (moved from Aug 9 by the official program announcement on Aug 7). We update this site the day the official registration page goes live.

What the Side Hustle Summit actually is

Most "summit" pages you'll find in September will be affiliate pages shouting hype. Here's the straight version, assembled from the event's official partner documentation and the hosts' own announcements.

The Side Hustle Summit is a launch-style virtual event in the same format Russell Brunson has run for years (Funnel Hacking Live, the AI Secrets Challenge, the 5 Day Lead Challenge). You register, attend live training sessions across a week, build alongside the hosts, and near the end of the week the hosts present a paid program for people who want to go deeper.

What makes this one different is the pairing. Russell Brunson is the funnels-and-offers guy: ClickFunnels co-founder, three bestselling marketing books, two decades of launch experience. Iman Gadzhi built his audience teaching agency owners and young entrepreneurs, and now co-owns Whop, the marketplace where thousands of internet side hustles get paid. Their audiences barely overlap, which is exactly why this event is expected to be big.

The five sessions run September 6–13 — daily Sept 6–9, then the live build finale on Sept 13, all at 1 PM Eastern. Read our honest preview review for what we expect episode by episode, and the cost page for what's actually being sold.

The parts the hype pages won't tell you

• The free training funds a paid pitch. Partner documents show a $1,995 core program (plus a $995 companion offer) sold during the event. That's the model; walk in knowing it.
• Affiliates are everywhere. Promoters earn up to $1,032 per customer, with a $122,500 prize pool on top. Most "reviews" you'll read in September are written by people competing for those prizes. So is the wider ecosystem this site sits in; we keep the facts first anyway, because that's what actually ranks and converts.
• Live means live — but replays are confirmed. Sessions run Sept 6, 7, 8, 9 and 13 at 1 PM Eastern, and the official page says replays go up within 24 hours if you miss one.
• The headline result is an outlier. The official page's flagship proof is a 19-year-old with no experience who made $111K in 45 days after Iman's first event. Tracked and real, but it's the top of the curve. The $55.6M total is spread across three events' worth of attendees.
• A summit won't build the hustle for you. Both hosts are excellent teachers, but the median attendee of any free event implements nothing. The value depends entirely on what you do in the two weeks after.