EduTECH 2025 was back at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre on June 11 & 12 involving about 10,000 delegates and 280 vendors.

Following a wonderful opening keynote presentation at EduTECH 2024, Sal Khan (the founder and CEO of the Khan Academy) returned as the opening keynote again this year.

Another highlight was hearing former AFL star Adam Goodes sharing his story as he developed his leadership skills while being interviewed by the wonderful Annabel Astbury (Head of Education at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Adobe’s main involvement this year was to partner with Lenovo to do a presentation at their stand titled Making the most of Adobe with Lenovo.

It was great seeing a number of members of the Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) – Leaders and Innovators community involved running presentations. One of the highlights was watching Krissa Diamate share about her recent trip after winning a NSW Premier’s award.

ACE-Innovators Matt Esterman, Brett Salakas and Michelle Dennis were involved in a number of session throughout the conference.

A unique part of the EduTECH conference for 2025 in Sydney was the NSW EduTECH Summit, an education technology festival, showcasing NSW capabilities as a leading Asia Pacific destination for EdTech.

Western Sydney University (WSU) partnered with Adobe to offer it’s pre-service teachers, education faculty staff as well as teachers from Western Sydney an opportunity to do the Adobe Creative Educator Level 1 micro-credential course.

This was held at the WSU Kingswood campus on Tuesday 10th June and involved about 20 participants.

A special thank you to Jo Dunbar and her team at WSU as well as Kaitlin Hartley from the Adobe Edu team for organising this opportunity.