The 2025 Adobe Educators’ Conference was a live and on-demand professional learning event run by the ANZ Adobe Education Team aimed at K-12 & Higher Ed teachers with a focus on encouraging creativity in the teaching & learning process with the use of a range of Adobe applications.

Just over 4,000 teachers viewed the Conference site in anticipation of this event with hundreds registering to watch sessions live or on-demand.

Click here to see the recordings of each session

Most of the workshop/presentation sessions were run and moderated by Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) Leaders and Innovators.

Conference opening video

Opening plenary session

K-12 Keynote 1

Improving Student Outcomes with Adobe Express for Education with Therese Adams (Global Adobe Edu Team)

HED Keynote 1

Future-Ready Learners: Embedding Digital and Transferable Skills in Tertiary Education with Cherie Diaz (Western Sydney University)

K-12 Keynote 2

An AI Odyssey: Navigating the Future of Education with Brett Salakas (HP Education Ambassador)

HED Keynote 2

Storytelling as a Skillset: Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Digital Fluency in Action with Manuela Franceschini (Adobe Senior Business Developer – Education)

Final plenary session

View all sessions here

Feedback

• 93% agreed that the overall quality of this event was excellent. 
• 95% agreed that the content of this event met their expectations.
• 93% agreed that they will be able to apply much of what they learned in their work.

Highlights (key comments)

• The Adobe session was definitely well presented, engaging, and very informative. The presenters explained concepts clearly, and I learned valuable strategies that I can apply in my work. Overall, it was a great and inspiring online session. 
• All the sessions that I attended were very well-presented with hands-on demonstrations and plenty of interaction. 
• The range of seminars covering range of creative digital elements that can be applied in a classroom – so inspiring – love the mini workshops and useful links provided 

Other comments

• This is a brilliant initiative which brings like-minded educators of the future together to learn and share ideas.
• Thank you very much appreciate being able to attend and be inspired
• The information gathered from both sessions will enable me to effectively help my students use Adobe Express and support my colleagues through teaching and knowledge sharing.
• I needed this PL to give my teaching some more flavour and to answer some of my concerns about AI 

Special thank you to the ANZ Adobe Education team