The 2025 Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) Innovator Summit was held in San Francisco from July 16 to 18. It involved about 100 ACE Innovators (in-person) from the US & Japan as well as members of the Adobe Education Team and also included about 30 other ACE-Innovators from around the globe live online.

The 2025 ACE Innovators are members of the wider Adobe Creative Educator community who are prominent influences in K-12 education within their district, state and country. Find out more about the ACE-Innovators here.

This clip was filmed when everyone gathered together for the open reception event with many of the ACE-Innovators sharing what they were most looking forward to at the Summit.

This clip was filmed during the first full day of the Summit with the ACE-Innovators sharing some of their highlights.

Quotes from the Innovators …

… it was so heartwarming and fantastic to see all of the things that Adobe is doing to make sure that their products are meeting the needs of teachers.

One of my favorite highlights of today was getting to do the updates with the product developers and actually having them listen to real teachers and letting us voice our opinions–that is really great.

This conference has the heart. Other conference events do not have that feel.

The way we’ve been treated so well and been elevated– and this is making me think of how I can use my library ambassadors as teenage evangelists and showcase their amazing work.

So for me today listening to Charlie Miller and specifically when he said ‘lowering the floor while raising the ceiling,’ was very impactful as an ESL learner. I work with a lot of English language students and to be able to use these tools to lower the floor so that they can actually succeed to be able to raise the ceiling for them.

Have a look at the images taken by Claudio Zavala Jr.

An absolute highlight for me was working with amazing global Adobe Education Team …