APAC AEC Summit – Day 1

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Brett Kent’s t-shirt summed up a major theme of the first full day of the Adobe Education Community Leadership Summit.

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The day began with a series of Creative Catalyst Talks that were inspiring and informative. Then we heard from Adobe Industry Specialist Mark Henley who gave the educators a perspective of creativity from a corporate view point.

You can hear today’s talks via:

http://livestream.com/WilkarProductions/AdobeLeadershipSummit15

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Daniel Budd (AEL, WA) doing his Creative Catalyst Talk

Henrietta Miler (AEL, NSW) Creative Catalyst Talk

Henrietta Miler (AEL, NSW) Creative Catalyst Talk

Chris Woldhuis (AEL, NSW) Creative Catalyst Talk

Chris Woldhuis (AEL, NSW) Creative Catalyst Talk

Mark Henley - Adobe Industry Specialist

Mark Henley – Adobe Industry Specialist

Pip Cleaves and Megan Townes (both AEL’s from NSW) coached the educators though a series of activities to help them think about ways that they can help spread the message of the importance of creativity in education.

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We finished the day with a beautiful dinner cruise on Sydney Harbour.

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It was great to show Matt Niemitz (Adobe Education Exchange Manager) around the beautiful Sydney Harbour.

APAC Adobe Education Summit – begins

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About 40 Adobe Education Leaders and Adobe Campus Leaders from all over Australia joined Aussie & US Adobe Education staff to officially open the 2015  APAC Adobe Education Leadership Summit. This opening reception event was held at the Adobe Sydney office in Darling Harbour.

It is especially great to have Matt Niemitz (manager of the Adobe Education Exchange) and Remy Mansfield (new Adobe Education Programs Coordinator) from the USA with us for this event over the next two days.

Join parts of the Summit live via Live Stream and/or Adobe Connect, details of how and when to join are found via:

https://edex.adobe.com/resource/d53b087f/

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By the way – the Adobe Education Exchange has just hit over 230,000 members