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Find Your Value
Break down your experience, skills and knowledge to discover the problems you are already equipped to solve.
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EITDA 2026 · Second Edition
Your experience.
Can earn more.
EITDA helps professionals, business owners, workers and everyday people discover where their existing knowledge is valuable, how to package it, and how to position themselves for companies and opportunities willing to pay for it.
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Why EITDA 01
You don't have to
start from zero.
Too many people think earning in the digital economy means learning to code, becoming a creator or starting an entirely new career. EITDA starts with what you already know and shows you how experience from banking, medicine, teaching, trading, public service, business and other fields can become valuable to startups, companies and growing teams.
The EITDA journey
From experience
to market value.
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Package What You Know
Turn your experience into a clear service, role, solution or contribution that a company, founder or organisation can understand and use.
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Take It To Market
Learn how to position yourself, find the people who need your expertise, communicate your value and turn opportunities into income.
Before you arrive
What can you already sell?
Choose the role closest to your work and start with the value hidden in your everyday experience.
Your starting point
As a banker, you may already sell reporting, risk judgement, process improvement and financial operations.
Bring this question to EITDAPhysical or Virtual · EITDA 2026
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experience EITDA.
Saturday28November 2026
VenueWomen War
Memorial
Memorial
Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom
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The people
behind the room.
Founders, operators and professionals with real experience turning knowledge into market value will be joining EITDA 2026. Speaker announcements begin soon.
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Founder / Operator
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Industry Professional
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Builder / Advisor
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Market Expert
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Announcement coming soonWhat you leave with 03
Leave with direction,
not just inspiration.
EITDA is designed to move you from a good idea about your experience to a clearer understanding of where it fits, who needs it and what you can do next.
A Clearer Positioning
You will know what part of your experience is valuable and how to describe it in a way companies, founders and organisations understand.
A Market To Target
You will know the types of startups, businesses, teams and opportunities that are most likely to need what you already know.
A Practical Next Move
You will leave with a clearer offer, positioning, outreach direction or career path you can start acting on immediately.
First Edition · December 2025
Where the journey
began.
These moments are from our first edition—real rooms, real conversations, and a community moving from possibility to practice.
Community participant
I left with language for what I already know.
The first edition helped a participant connect everyday work with a clearer contribution they can explain to a team or client.
Early-career builder
The conversations made the next step feel practical.
A first-edition reflection: meeting people across different fields made digital opportunity feel closer and easier to act on.
Professional / founder
I saw that my experience has a market.
The room created space to test ideas, ask better questions and see how existing skills can serve a changing economy.
First edition · Dec 2025 ↗
From the first edition to EITDA 2.0
We've seen what happens when people see their value.
The first edition of EITDA brought people together to learn, connect and discover new possibilities in the digital economy.
EITDA 2.0 builds on that foundation with a sharper mission: helping people recognise the market value of the knowledge, skills and experience they already have.
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The EITDA journal
Stories for your
next chapter.
Work & careers
Experienced, employed—and ready for more.
What recent research tells us about work in Nigeria, and why your next step can begin with the experience you already have.
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Digital economy
Why stablecoin builders belong in the EITDA room.
The stablecoin market is crowded. The opportunity is in understanding the real problems underneath the products.
Read story
EITDA 2026
Come to EITDA knowing what you want to learn.
EITDA should begin before the event date. Here is the preparation we want every attendee to make.
Read storyKeep your place in the room
Ready to see where your experience can go?
Our belief
Talent is everywhere.
Access should be too.
Good to know 03
Questions,
answered.
Everything you need to know about attending EITDA 2026 in Ikot Abasi.
01What is EITDA?+
Earning in the Digital Age is an Eshiet Foundation initiative designed to help young people understand, navigate, and benefit from the opportunities created by the digital economy.
02Is this the first EITDA edition?+
No. The upcoming event on 28 November 2026 is the second edition. The first edition was held in December 2025, and the photographs on this website are from that inaugural gathering.
03Who is the programme for?+
EITDA is for curious young people who want practical exposure to digital work, enterprise, and the skills shaping today’s economy.
04Do I need previous experience?+
No. The learning journey is designed to be approachable for beginners while still giving participants practical ideas they can build on.
05When and where is EITDA 2026?+
EITDA takes place on Saturday, 28 November 2026 at Women War Memorial, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom.
06How much are tickets?+
General Access is free and available for both physical and virtual attendees. The ₦15,000 VIP Experience is also available physically or virtually. Physical VIP includes reserved front-row seating, while all VIP attendees receive premium access, the full event recording, private VIP community access, speaker access, and more intimate networking and Q&A opportunities.
The next chapter
Ready to earn
in the digital age?
Join EITDA 2026 physically in Ikot Abasi or virtually from anywhere. General Access is free; the VIP Experience is ₦15,000.
Choose your ticket