Preparing Future Creatives for an Al-powered career - Adobe Firefly & Adobe CC Pro Plus

Afternoon Session: Preparing Future Creatives for an Al-powered career - Adobe Firefly & Adobe CC Pro Plus

Focus: Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Plus & Firefly for Teaching and Learning

Join us for lunch from 12:45pm - 1:30pm (participants attending the afternoon session are welcome to arrive at 12:45pm for lunch - afternoon session starts at 1:30pm)

This FREE in-person workshop supports higher education design faculty and academic leaders with practical workflows and teaching strategies for modern creativity.

Explore Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Plus and Adobe Firefly's generative AI tools. Through demonstrations and activities, learn how AI supports ideation, iteration, and production in design, film, and digital media while maintaining creative authorship.

Sessions will include:

• Generative AI and Ethics: The Evolution of the Digital Creative: Explore how generative AI is transforming creative workflows in higher education, with a focus on AI literacy, ethical practice, and responsible integration into teaching and learning.
• Intro to Adobe CC Pro Plus: Discover enhanced features included in Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Plus including Adobe Stock, Acrobat Studio, and expanded generative AI credits.
• Introduction to Adobe Firefly: Gain hands-on experience using Adobe Firefly for higher education, branding, and packaging design. Explore logo development, mockups, and the Firefly tools and design methodology behind these outcomes.
• Rapid Prototyping for Digital Storytelling with Adobe Firefly & Creative Cloud: Explore rapid digital storytelling prototyping using Adobe Firefly and Creative Cloud tools.
• Wrap up and final Q&A
  The day concludes with reflection, discussion on curriculum integration, and final Q&A

Please bring your laptop fully charged - Demo licenses will be provided so you can actively work with Adobe Acrobat Studio and Creative Cloud Pro Plus during the sessions.

Location: Adobe Offices, River Haus Room - 420 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

Register for the Morning Session here.

If you can't join us for this in-person event, sign up for our webinar on 17th November.

Matt Dombrowski

Matt is a Professor of Emerging Media and Associate Director at the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) School of Visual Arts & Design (SVAD) in Orlando, Florida. He aims to empower others through creative practice while delivering arts and cultural impact to underserved communities. Matt has been awarded the UCF Undergraduate Teacher of the Year and the Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching.

Matt serves as Creative Director of Limbitless Solutions, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower confidence and increase accessibility in the limb difference community through providing art-infused bionics. At Limbitless, he leads developing and producing expressive 3D-printed bionic limbs, interactive alternative controllers, and bionic training video games for children.

Matt strongly believes that the influences and implementation of digital creative practice should be used for the betterment of our society and to help positively shape its future.

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