100 best virtual event examples to model in 2026
Explore 100 best virtual event examples to help you plan and run a successful online summit in 2026.
Looking for the best virtual event examples to model in 2026?
You’re in the right place.
Virtual events are one of the fastest ways to grow your audience, build authority, and generate serious revenue.
Over the past few years, they’ve brought in tens of millions in sales and millions of email subscribers. They still work, if you do them right.
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel… just model what already works.
That’s why I put together this list of 100 of the best virtual event examples. These are real online events that were planned strategically and got results.
Some are from my own students. Others are standout examples worth learning from.
Use this list for inspiration, clarity, and momentum as you plan your next virtual event.
Let’s dive in.
What is a virtual event?
A virtual event is an online experience where you bring people together to learn, connect, or solve a specific problem.
This can be an online summit, workshop, webinar, live training, or even a multi-day online conference. The format depends on your goals.
Done right, a single event can grow your email list by tens of thousands, generate six or seven figures in revenue, and create long-term momentum for your brand.
You’ll see online event examples throughout this guide, from health and marketing to parenting, SaaS, education, music, and more.
Whether you’re just starting out or ready to scale, a virtual event gives you a smart, proven way to accelerate your growth.
Virtual events aren’t just online meetings. They’re business accelerators. One well-executed summit can build your list faster than 2 years of content, put you alongside industry leaders and create relationships that last decades. You don’t need a big audience to start. You need the right strategy.
Pros and cons of virtual events
Virtual events aren’t perfect for everyone.
But when done right, the benefits far outweigh the challenges.
Here’s what you need to know before you start:
Pros
- Build massive email lists in weeks, not years
- Generate revenue while you build your audience
- Reach a global audience from your laptop
- Position yourself alongside industry experts
- Create content that works for months after the event
- Build real relationships with influencers in your niche
- Cost a fraction of in-person events
- Work from anywhere with internet connection
- Scale without hiring a big team
- Convert warm leads into customers at higher rates
Cons
- Can take weeks or months to plan properly
- Technical issues can disrupt your event
- Harder to create personal connections than in-person
- Digital fatigue means more competition for attention
Virtual events are the only marketing strategy where you get paid to build your audience. Everything else costs money upfront. One summit: 10,000+ emails, 6-figure revenue and industry authority, in 30 days.
100 top virtual event examples for 2026
I measured the names of all of them for my free event name generator: 97 end in Summit, and the median name is 3 words.
Here are the top online event examples of 2026:
AI Creator Summit
My AI Creator Summit is the summit I host now, and the first one I’d model.
The 2026 edition ran for 7 days, June 22 to 28, with 30+ AI experts and creators, including Sabrina Ramonov, Chris Winfield, Scott Oldford, Dennis Yu, Alicia Lyttle and Corey Haines. Every session shows how to build, grow and monetize a creator business with AI, taught by people who do it, not from theory.
It’s free to watch while it’s live. After that, every session lives inside AI Creator OS, my membership, with the tools and training that go with them.
100,000+ creators tuned in across 2024 and 2025, before this year’s edition even started.
AI for Creators Summit
The first edition, in February 2024, was the AI for Creators Summit. It sold a bundle offer alongside the free event, and these are the Stripe and PayPal notifications from my phone that week.
List Building School
List Building School 1.0 leveled up my business big time. It was targeted at online entrepreneurs who wanted to grow and monetize their email list.
The summit grew my list by 26,000+ subscribers and sold 2,100+ All-Access Passes to bring in $200k+ in revenue, just from pass sales.
I opened up my premium program, Virtual Summit Mastery, twice shortly after the summit concluded to make an additional $350k in revenue.
This one summit has contributed to well over $1 million in total revenue for my online business over the years (since the lifetime-value of a summit attendee / customer is extremely high).
The Branding Summit
My very first summit that kick started my business. It was the largest personal branding conference in the world. 88 world-leading online entrepreneurs reveal their biggest personal branding secrets to help you make more impact in your business and life.
The summit grew my list by 3,000 subscribers and brought in $20,000 in revenue from selling the All Access Pass + VSM pilot program to my new list of engaged subscribers.
I got my first digital product sale ever from this summit (felt incredible)…
And it got even better from there…
Teacher Summits
Dog Detox Summit
Tennis Summit
Mehrban Iranshad hosted the Tennis Technique Summit with 30 world-class tennis coaches to help players improve their technique and develop their gameplay.
The summit generated over 3,600 email opt-ins and sold 266 All-Access Passes to bring in over $20,000 in revenue.
VSM graduate & Host of Tennis Files Summit
Herbal Entrepreneur Summit
Dog Nutrition Summit
Mindvalley’s Social Media Summit
Here’s an example of Mindvalley’s promo video for the Social Media Summit event:
Creator Path Summit
Professional Artist Summit
Work-At-Home Summit
Caitlin Pyle hosted the Work-At-Home Summit for people who are thinking about making the leap to working at home and earn a full-time living.
The summit brought in 60,000 highly engaged email subscribers and made over $500,000 in revenue.
VSM Graduate & Host of Work at Home Summit
AI Writing Summit
Influential Personal Brand Summit
Mastering Diabetes Online Summit
Robby Barbaro and Cyrus Khambatta co-hosted the Mastering Diabetes Online Summit with 25 experts to help people with diabetes to learn how a low-fat, plant-based, whole-food diet can help.
They had 26,000 participants for the summit and doubled their email list. They also almost doubled the customer base and generated significant revenue with All-Access Pass and backend sales.
Fiction Marketing Academy
Fasting Summit
Mitch Asser has hosted several successful summits, including the Fasting Summit with 30+ experts to deliver insights into the techniques, tools and strategies to fasting for health benefits.
This summit generated over 15,000 new email subscribers and $55,000+ from All-Access Pass sales. He has now hosted multiple summits and has generated over 6-figures in revenue from the summit model.
“If there is ONE thing that has changed my life more than anything else online… it’s [virtual summits](/articles/what-is-a-virtual-summit). I’ve never seen or heard of a program that is as value packed full of awesome content that literally hand holds you through the whole process to virtually ensure your success. I’ve generated over 30,000 email subscribers and well over 6 figures in revenue using his Virtual Summit Mastery Method. I can’t recommend VSM enough!“
Mitch Asser
Summit host & founder of BigMoves.io
Women’s Strength Summit
Steph Gaudreau hosted the Women’s Strength Summit to build an entirely new audience around a topic she was passionate about. She brought together 24+ world-class female experts to help other women build a strong body, mind and spirit.
The first summit she hosted grew her email list by 19,560 highly engaged email subscribers, got 100’s of All-Access Pass sales and many pre-sales for her coaching program to bring in $50,000+ in revenue. She loved the summit model so much that she hosted the Women’s Strength Summit again the year after with similar results (and even higher conversion rate).
VSM graduate & host of Women’s Strength Summit
SIBO SOS Summit
VSM graduate & host of SIBO SOS Summit
Play Therapy Summit
Jen Taylor hosted the Play Therapy Summit with 20+ psychotherapists who shared techniques for clinical of play therapy. Something unique about this summit was the inclusion of continued professional development points for all access pass buyers, which increased the value proposition a lot.
There were over 4,500 registrations for the summit and revenue from All-Access Pass sales alone was over 6-figures.
Marketing Evolution Virtual Summit
Neil Patel hosted the Advanced SEO Summit for online entrepreneurs who were looking to improve their SEO and growth marketing skills. He brought together 30+ experts to talk about the topic.
He has now held multiple summits in similar niches, with the first one generating 30,000+ registrations and more than 2,000 customers to bring in well over 6 figures in revenue from All- Access Pass sales alone (and even more in the backend).
Online marketing rockstar Neil Patel hosted an incredible virtual summit, Growth Hacking Secrets. 30,000+ people registered for free, and over 2,100 customers upgraded to his all-access pass… and then he did it again for two other successful summits, like the Advanced SEO Summit and Advanced Content Marketing Summit. Neil and his team trusted my proven step-by-step Virtual Summit Mastery Method to put together their online summits with ease.
Out of all the channels I tested as a marketer, email continually outperforms most of them.
Virtual Harp Summit
As a musician and teacher, Diana Rowan decided to expand her business with an online summit for harpists, something that hadn’t been done before. She loved the idea of replicating a live harp conference online so people all over the world could access the latest harp knowledge regardless of where they live or their financial situation.
The summit generate 2,111 email subscribers and over $40,000 from All-Access Pass sales. Diana has relaunched the summit since the first event to grow her email list and revenue even more.
Self-Publishing Success Summit
Chandler Bolt brought together 47 world-changing authors and entrepreneurs to reveal how to write, market and publish your first book and use it to get to 6 figures for the Self-Publishing Success Summit,
The summit skyrocketed his business, bringing in 25,000+ email subscribers. In total, he made over $300,000 in revenue from selling the summit All Access Pass and his high end program Self-Publishing School at the end of the summit. The summit model has now helped him to build a multi-million dollar online business with over 100,000 highly engaged email subscribers.
VSM graduate & host of Self-Publishing Success Summit
Seller Fest Online
Fourth Trimester Summit
Lisa Chin hosted The Fourth Trimester Summit with 40+ experts who shared advice for new mothers to feel healthier and more confident as they make the transition to motherhood.
The summit was a success bringing in 3000+ email subscribers and over 100 all access pass sales to bring in revenue. It has now been converted to evergreen and continues to bring in leads and sales for her business.
Online Powerlifting Summit
Martijn Koevoets hosted the Powerlifting University Summit with 20+ athletes and coaches to help people gain more strength and muscle.
His first summit brought in over 6,000 new email subscribers and he made $45,000 from All- Access Pass sales.
Food Revolution Summit
Social Media Church Summit
Alejandro Reyes hosted the Social Media Church Summit with 35 experts to help churches to utilize social media reach more people and connect with them.
He got 4,000 new email subscribers to begin building email list in the niche and sold over 200 All-Access Passes to generate around $20,000 in revenue. He also got a $10,000 sponsorship deal, which brought the total revenue for the summit up to $30,000.
Tapping World Summit
Social Ads School
Verick Wayne hosted Social Ads School for online entrepreneurs looking to learn the paid advertising strategies that are most successful right now, with top Facebook Ads experts.
This summit had 10,000+ registrations and made over $30,000 revenue from sales from the All- Access Pass, in addition to more sales on the backend with high-end services.
Autism, ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder Summit
Tara Hunkin hosted the Autism, ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder Summit for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorder to help them identify opportunities to help their children.
The summit generate 10,000+ highly engaged email subscribers and made over 1,000 All- Access Pass sales and multiple 5-figures in revenue.
Webinar Mastery Summit
Jon Schumacher hosted Webinar Mastery Summit with the goal to position themselves as the go-to expert in the industry and increase exposure to their coaching program. He has now hosted the summit a second time with even better results that with the original.
Their first summit helped them to grow their list by 2,854 email subscribers and they generated $26,000 from All-Access Pass sales. They also filled up their group coaching program with ideal clients, providing a recurring revenue source for their business. The summit model has now added more than 7,000 subscribers to their list and well over 6 figures in revenue.
Crohn’s & Colitis Summit
Joel Sprechman hosted the Crohn’s and Colitis Summit with 30+ health experts who shared tips for patients to discover how to heal their gut and break the cycle of pain.
The summit grew his email list to over 7,000 subscribers and generated over $28,000 in revenue from All-Access Pass sales alone.
Content Promotion Summit
Cody Lister hosted the Content Promotion Summit for entrepreneurs, marketers and bloggers looking to get more customers and sales by creating and promoting more engaging content. He brought together 70 industry leaders on the topic for the summit, establishing himself as an expert and forging strong relationships with others in the niche at the same time.
The summit completely changed his business, doubling his email list from 15,000 to 31,000+ and generated $56,000+ revenue from All-Access Pass sales. He’s now turned the summit evergreen so it’s working on autopilot, continuing to bring in new leads and customers and has made multiple six figures from the summit model!
Remote Forever Summit
Molood Ceccarelli hosted the Remote Forever Summit primarily for professionals working at IT companies around the world with a focus on agile coaching for remote teams. She didn’t use any paid advertising and mainly relied on word-of-mouth and promotion at in-person conferences to get people interested in the event.
The first summit she hosted brought in over 2,000 new email subscribers and she made $18,000 from All- Access Pass sales and $2,500 from sponsorships of the summit. Her most recent summit went even better with several thousand new email subscribers and multiple 5-figures in revenue.
Event Marketing School
Hyvinvointi Summit
Sami Vesamo hosted the Hyvinvointi Summit, which was Finland’s biggest online health event with leading prosperity experts sharing practical tips for a happy and healthy life.
The summit had over 5,000 email registrations and over 400 All-Access Pass sales. Sami made revenue from the pass sales, in addition to $6,000 from sponsorship deals.
One of his virtual events even got featured on Times Square NYC (seriously, how cool is that…).
Bestseller Summit Online
Jesse Krieger hosted the Bestseller Online Summit with 25+ authors, entrepreneurs and marketing experts to help people to write and publish a best selling book.
This summit generated 8,500+ new email subscribers and sold 400+ All-Access Pass to bring in $30,000 from pass sales. He also promoted his high end training program Author To Entrepreneur Experience after the summit to make multiple 5-figure in the launch. He has now hosted multiple summits to grow his email list to over 15,000 and brought in over 500 new customers to his business.
Speaking & Influence Summit
Mindvalley’s AI Summit
Advanced Content Marketing Summit
Advanced SEO Summit
Growth Hacking Library
Embodied Movement Summit
Continuity Summit
Online marketing veteran
Online Course Success Summit
Online Course Creation Summit
Devin Slavin hosted the Online Course Creation Summit with 40+ entrepreneurs and experts who shared insights for people looking to design, build and launch their own online course.
The summit grew his email list by 4,000 subscribers and he made $45,000 in revenue from all access pass sales and registration for his high-end Creators Bootcamp course after the summit was over.
JV Success Summit
Marie Grace Berg hosted the Joint Venture Success Summit with 58 entrepreneurs and experts who shared tips to help people to package, promote and profit from JV partnerships.
The summit brought in 4,222 subscribers, and generated $30,000 in All-Access Pass sales. She also earned affiliate commissions that doubled her total revenue to $66,000 from the event.
Transformational Author Experience
Digital Marketing Summit Asia
Sharon Neo hosted the Digital Marketing Summit Asia to bring together the best digital marketers in Asia and share their expertise with other marketers and business owners.
An interesting thing about this summit was that they relied almost entirely on FB ads to bring in new leads, rather than relying on speakers sharing with their audience, because the cost per conversion was comparably low for their target audience located in Asia.
The summit was a big success, generating 10,000+ email subscribers and brought in over $50,000 in revenue from All-Access Pass sales alone.
“I hosted an online summit for the Asian market, and was able to go from zero to over 10,000 email subscribers and $50,000+ in sales. Virtual Summit Mastery made the process so much easier and he provides all the resources you’ll ever need to host a profitable virtual summit.“
Sharon Neo
VSM Graduate & Host of Digital Marketing Summit Asia
Build. Brand. Bank It Summit
Shadé Adu hosted the Build Brand Bank It Summit for online entrepreneurs who want to have greater influence, impact and income from their online business.
She tripled her mailing list and got two paid speaking engagements as a direct result of hosting the summit. She also launched her Branding Academy program on the backend to bring in an additional 5 figures in revenue.
Thinkific’s YouTube Creator Summit
The Membership Summit
DotCom Secrets Summit
Work By Design Summit
Claire Diaz Ortiz hosted the Work By Design Summit to help people to find their purpose, increase their productivity and make a profit from it.
She brought together 45+ experts for the event and got 13,000+ email registrations to build her list and made multiple 5-figure in revenue from All-Access Pass and backend sales.
Profitable Musician Summit
Bree Noble hosted her first online summit called Profitable Musician Summit.
And the results?
Bree was able to exponentially expand her audience and email list very quickly… the summit added almost 3,000 targeted people to her list and a lot more revenue to her business.
Free to Focus Productivity Summit
Affiliate Bootcamp Summit
The Building Confident Kids Conference
Law Firm Growth Summit
Eat Your Dirt Summit
Amanda Smith brought 30+ speakers together for the Eat Your Dirt Online Conference about sustainable gardening. The organic gardens, permaculturists and soil experts she invited shared tips for people to grow their own food and control their health no matter where they live.
The summit helped her to grow her list from 132 to 5,089 subscribers and she made 200+ All- Access Pass sales, bringing in close to $20,000 in revenue.
Aggressive Growth Trading Summit
Russell Lundstrom brought together 15 world-class experts in trading and investing to host the Aggressive Growth Trading Summit. It helped people to improve their financial independence by trading and investing smartly.
The summit had almost 6,000 email registrations and made about $55,000 in revenue from All- Access Pass sales alone.
Elevate Pharmacy Virtual Summit
Blair Green hosted the Elevate Pharmacy Virtual Summit for pharmacists who are looking to stand out and try new innovative practices in the industry. The sessions covered practice tips, ways to overcome challenges in pharmacy services and how to identify new revenue opportunities in the industry.
The summit surpassed her goals with over a thousand highly engaged email subscribers and over 150 All-Access Pass sales. The first time she launched it revenue was primarily from all access pass sales but she is relaunching it now with sponsors for additional revenue. She also opened the doors to her digital course and membership on the backend for additional recurring revenue.
Menopause Weight Loss Summit
Julie Dargan hosted the Menopause Weight Loss Summit for women over the age of 50 who are struggling with their weight. She has now hosted several summits for the same audience.
Hosting online events have more than doubled her email list to more than 6,000 subscribers of loyal fans who are becoming repeat and lifetime customers. Her most recent summit brought in more than $18,000 revenue from All-Access Pass sales, in additional to backend sales for other summits such as ebooks.
Insurance Agent Summit
Brian Appleton brought together 60+ top agents and thought leaders in the insurance industry for the Insurance Agent Summit. The aim of the summit was to help insurance agents to generate more leads, close more sales and automate their business, ultimately so they can have more time, money and freedom.
The summit grew his email list from scratch to 3,500 email subscribers and he sold 465 All- Access Passes. Additionally, he got a new recurring revenue stream with more than 55 new clients on a monthly retainer.
The summit helped him to experience massive growth in his first year of business, growing his email list to over 9,000 people and generate $225,000 in revenue.
EMS Leadership Summit
Digital Nomad Summit
Airbnb Mastery Summit
Eric Yang and Eric Moeller hosted the Airbnb Mastery Summit for property owners who are looking to make more income on their rental properties with short term rental sites such as Airbnb.
The summit generated 7,700 email subscribers and sold 400 All-Access Passes. They also secured a $20,000 sponsorship deal before the summit even launched to cover their expenses, bringing their total revenue from pass sales and sponsorships to almost $90,000.
Maker’s Biz Summit
Déborah Engelmajer hosted the Maker’s Biz summit with 25+ successful entrepreneurs and experts who shared systems and strategies to help people looking to launch, grow and profit from their own handmade shop.
Her first summit brought in 5,400+ registrants and 400+ new customers to bring in $34,000+ revenue from All-Access Pass sales.
She has since hosted another summit in the same niche to bring in an additional 7,000 registrants and $72,000 in revenue, so she’s done well over 6-figures from the summit model in less than a year.
Crypto Virtual Summit
Eric Yang and Amateo Ra jumped on the rising trend of investing in cryptocurrencies to host the Crypto Virtual Summit with 22 experts sharing secrets about how to master the new money game and the modern day digital gold rush.
Something cool about this niche was that they were able to get financial backing before the summit even launched by securing a $50,000 sponsorship deal. They were able to use this as an investment to reach more people with the summit and generate more revenue with All- Access Pass sales. The summit brought in 4,000+ new subscribers and generated over $80,000 in total revenue.
Parenting Teens Summit
The Parenting Teens Summit was an online conference that brought together Christian leaders and authors to give practical advice to teenagers about living with faith.
The summit brought in 20,000 new email subscribers and well over 6-figures in revenue from All-Access Pass sales. They also promoted other products to their engaged email list after the summit to make more revenue.
Sales Funnel Success Summit
Homeschool Summits
Daniel Craig hosted the Homeschool Summits for Christian families who are looking for resources and encouragement as they homeschool their children.
The summit was a great success, growing his email list by 30,000 new email subscribers and bringing in $85,000 in revenue from just All-Access Pass sales alone.
The Productivity Spark
Get Booked Solid For Photographers Summit
Lisa Edwards hosted the Booked Solid Summit for photographers looking to level up their business and get more clients. She did 14 value packed sessions with experts in photography and marketing.
The summit generated over 5,000 email subscribers and over $30,000 in total revenue from All- Access Pass sales and backend sales for her course after the summit.
Early Childhood Leadership Conference
Chanie Wilschanski hosted the Early Childhood Leadership Conference with 22+ experts to help early childhood school directors to build a school of excellence.
The summit has been launched several times and brought in 3,000 email subscribers and generated about $40,000 in revenue from its inception, just from All-Access Pass sales. She also promoted her high end membership site to the engaged list after each launch, to generate more recurring monthly revenue.
Learn OneNote Conference
Jared DeCamp hosted the Learn OneNote Conference for professionals who want to learn how to use Microsoft OneNote to improve their organization and productivity.
The summit had over 4,300 email opt-ins and sold over 150 All-Access Passes to bring in over $20,000 in revenue, without spending a cent on advertising.
Agency Summit
Get Listings Summit
Andrey Polston hosted the Get Listings Summit with 35 stars in the industry to help others get new listings and level up their mindset to take their business to the next level.
The summit had over 3,000 email subscribers and made almost $60,000 in revenue from All- Access Pass sales and sponsorships. Something unique about this summit was that Andrey had a charity component and was able to donate $20,000 to charity with some of the profits.
Start Your Ecommerce Business 2025
Ecommerce Sourcing & Manufacturing Summit
Peak Work Performance Summit
Ron Friedman hosted the Peak Work Performance Summit with top productivity experts who shared strategies for people to achieve health, happiness and success at work.
The summit was successful in generating 40,000 email subscribers and over $100,000 in revenue for its first launch, and it continues to make profit today as it has now been converted to evergreen.
Notary Success Summit
Dean and Steve hosted the Notary Success Summit with industry influencer to help people to stand out, get more signings and run a more successful, stress-free business.
The summit was a success and brought in several thousand new email subscribers and sold over 100 All-Access Passes.
Ad Universe Virtual Summit
Influence & Impact Summit
Big-time online influencer Michael Hyatt put together the Influence & Impact Summit as a way to market his membership program, Platform University. Approx. 100,000 people signed up, and Michael enjoyed a massively successful launch because of it.
In fact, it was so successful that Michael and his team repeated the process with similar results.
I have literally built a multi-million dollar business on the strength of my email list. Ninety percent of my income comes from it. Even today, my email list is still my number one business priority, and asset.
30 Days Summit
Healthy Gut Experts Summit
Aliky Kouroupis hosted the Health Gut Experts Summit with more than 35 top health experts featured to help people to health their digestion naturally.
The summit brought in 15,000+ email subscribers and and multiple five figures in revenue from All-Access Pass sales from the initial launch and she’s since turned the summit evergreen to grow the success from the summit into the future.
Adoption Heart Conference
Penelope Webster was passionate about foster and adoptive parents and created the Adoption Heart Conference for the community she’d built around her blog on the same topic. It was also her first “real” online business model to bring in income.
The summit doubled her email list (over 1,000 new email subscribers from the summit) and generated $5,000+ in All-Access Pass sales. As it was her first ever online product, she surpassed her expectations.
Dream College Summit
Jessica Yeager hosted the Dream College Summit for parents who would like their children to be accepted into the college of their choice. She brought together 20+ experts who shared the inside scoop on what really impresses admissions committees.
The summit generated 1500+ new email subscribers for her list and sold over 50 All-Access Passes to generate revenue for her business.
Positive Parenting Conference
Sumitha Bhandarkar hosted the Positive Parenting Conference with 16 parenting and psychology experts who shared tips on raising happy and well-adjusted kids.
The summit had more than 9,630 email registrations and sold over 400 All-Access Passes, which was the main source of revenue.
Shooters Summit
Arik Levy hosted the Shooters Summit with 30+ world class firearms instructors to help other shooters to improve their game.
He has hosted this event twice now, the first time generating over 4,000 email opt-ins and $11,000 in revenue from selling 570 All-Access Passes. For the second event, he increased the price of the All-Access Pass to generate about $17,000 revenue, with additional revenue from sponsors who came on board.
Entrepreneurial Muslim Summit
Online Guitar Summit
James Taylor hosted the Online Guitar Summit with 30+ world-class guitarists to help other guitar players to improve their skills with the instrument.
The summit generated 10,000 email subscribers and hundreds of All-Access Pass sales. He was also able to market his future courses to his email list to make more revenue and was approached by several people about JV partnerships.
VSM Graduate & Host of the Online Guitar Summit
Future of Communities Summit
Foundr’s Ecomm AI Summit
Influencer Summit
IG Summit by Manychat
Mindvalley’s Manifesting Summit
Social Confidence Summit
Revolution Strong Summit
Scott Iardella hosted the Revolution Strong Summit with 30+ experts in strength and performance to educate, inspire and empower attendees.
He described the summit as a “smashing success” for his brand and audience and exceeded his goals in terms of list growth and revenue to bring in 4,000 email subscribers and over $20,000 in revenue from All-Access Pass sales.
“My first summit was a major win… I added 4,000 new email subscribers and over $20,000 in sales. On top of that, I provided a massive valuable learning experience to my market, getting more connected to all the great thought leaders in my space, and creating a high-value product. I’m already planning for my 2nd summit… thanks for the great program, and of course, the private VSM Community has been totally awesome!“
Scott Iardella
VSM graduate
Feldenkrais Awareness Summit
“Navid’s Virtual Summit Mastery program resulted in growing our audience from 2,500 to 30,000 people. We now have a true community wanting to move better and feel better!“
Cynthia Allen
VSM Graduate & Host of Feldenkrais Awareness Summit
The Plant Spirit Summit
New Year, New Language Summit
The Appreneur Summit
*“I grew my email list 15x with my virtual summit, became an influencer in my field, and hit #1 on Amazon as a bestselling author.
When I saw Navid’s Branding Summit, I immediately knew I had to follow his model. My email list was tiny, and I had few contacts in the industry. Navid helped me build a solid strategy, line up expert speakers, and navigate the tech needed to run a global event.
By the time my summit launched, my list had grown 15x, with attendees from 87 countries. I became recognized as an industry influencer and built real relationships with top leaders in the space.
The summit was even featured in Business Insider and other major outlets. I also became a #1 Amazon bestselling author after the event. Navid’s Virtual Summit Mastery gave my career an incredible boost.”*
Charlyn Keating
VSM graduate
The WP Summit
Automated Conference by Drip
Saas Marketing Summit
One day only virtual summit featuring four roundtable discussions with your favorite marketers. No pre-recorded fluffy talks. 100% live.m/summit
The Mindfulness Summit
Launch with Partners Summit
Ciprian Șoleriu hosted the Launch with Partners Summit for digital product creators who are looking to expand their reach and launch their product to more people with partners. He brought together 30 speakers to discuss different aspect about partnerships and launching products.
The summit brought in over $15,000 in revenue with its initial launch and is now evergreen so continues to bring in new email subscribers and customers each day.
Publishing Success Summit
Movement Marketing Summit
*“I earned $16,000 and 2,400+ subscribers thanks to Navid’s proven Virtual Summit Mastery system. Before hosting the Movement Marketing Summit, I had no idea how to host a virtual summit. It had taken me years to build a list of just 1,800 subscribers.
By following Navid’s 7-step system, I eliminated the guesswork and knew exactly what to do. In just 90 days, I went from zero experience to hosting one of the most talked-about summits that year.
I more than doubled my email list and generated $16,000 in revenue, all from a 14-day virtual summit. Hosting a virtual summit has been one of the most effective marketing strategies I’ve ever used. I’ll definitely do it again.”*
Anthony John Amyx
VSM Graduate
Business Building Rockstar Summit
Teachable’s Online Course Summit
Women Who Create Summit
Virtual SlideShare Summit
VSM graduate
Online Business Superhero Summit
FAQs about virtual events
Below you’ll find answers to some common questions people ask about the best virtual event examples.
A virtual event is an online experience where you bring people together to learn, connect, or solve a specific problem. This includes virtual summits, workshops, webinars, and online conferences.
Virtual events let you build massive email lists fast, generate revenue while growing your audience, position yourself as an authority, and reach a global audience from your laptop.
Virtual event examples are real online events you can study and model for your own success. They show proven formats, promotion strategies, and monetization approaches that actually work.
Studying what works saves you time and money. Instead of guessing, you can model proven strategies and adapt them for your niche and audience.
Look for events that generated measurable results: high registration numbers, strong engagement, revenue growth, or significant list building. Focus on strategy over production value.
Simple summit formats with 15-25 speakers over 3-7 days work well for first-time hosts. Look for events with clear positioning like “Women’s Strength Summit” or “Self-Publishing Success Summit” rather than broad topics.
Search for “[your niche] summit” on Google. Check speaker lineups and registration pages to understand their positioning and approach. You can also use AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude to brainstorm event names or search terms for your specific industry.
Study their positioning, speaker selection, pricing strategy, registration page copy, and promotion timeline. Don’t copy, adapt their approach for your audience.
Health, business, marketing, personal development, and education tend to have strong examples. But virtual events work in every niche from harp music to insurance.
Look for social proof like attendee numbers, speaker quality, follow-up events, and testimonials. Successful events usually run again the following year or inspire similar events in the same niche.
Model proven formats that have worked consistently over time. Recent examples show current trends, but established formats like multi-day summits have staying power.
List building events focus on free value and premium passes priced around $37-97. Sales-focused events use the event to promote higher-ticket coaching programs or courses as the main revenue source.
Final thoughts
There you have it: 100 inspiring virtual event examples to model for your own success in 2026.
These aren’t just random events that happened to work.
They’re strategic summits that generated real results: massive email lists, 6- and 7-figure revenue, and long-term business growth.
The best part? You can model what they did.
Here’s what to do next:
- Pick examples that match your niche and goals.
- Study their positioning and speaker lineup.
- Analyze their promotion strategy.
- Adapt their approach for your audience.
Virtual events work in every industry. They work for beginners and experts. They work whether you have 100 subscribers or 100,000.
What matters is execution.
Start planning your first (or next) online event today.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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