Creative Developers Summit

Wednesday/Thursday, July 10–11
Washington, DC + Online

The Creative Developers Summit is the premier annual event for anyone who creates or implements custom software solutions for creative professionals. The Summit is the place to meet, share, and learn about our industry’s tools, resources, and direction.

This Dev Summit Is For You

You know the Creative Developers Summit is for you if:

you write software to extend the functionality and/or automate tasks or workflow by creating scripts, extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, or custom applications;
you are responsible for ensuring that technical infrastructure is functioning, so that creative minds don’t have to worry about it;
you deal with software updates, OS compatibility, and Creative Cloud teams;
you’re new to the world of Creative Cloud development, and want to get up to speed quickly.

The Creative Developers Summit offers something for all levels of experience and all specialities. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a beginning scripter, a C++ developer, or a seasoned IT manager!

At the Creative Developers Summit you’ll find solutions for problems you encounter every day, and you’ll learn about current and future technologies.

Why spend hours scouring search engines for solutions, when you can attend The Creative Developers Summit?

Come away with time-saving know-how and a brand-new support network of knowledgeable peers!

Read what Kris Coppieters from Rorohiko has to say about why developers should attend the Creative Developers Summit.

Registration

Very Important:

Please read the registration instructions below carefully.

For in-person attendance:

You must register for a pass to CreativePro Week.
Developers attending the DevSummit are eligible for 50% off the normal registration rates for the one- or two-day event. Please contact one of the conference organizers to get a discount code.
You must use that discount code when you register. The discount cannot be applied or any partial refund given after registration is complete.

For online attendance:

There is no fee for attending online, but you must be approved by the organizers.
Please register here: https://bit.ly/creativedev2024

About Us

While The Creative Developers Summit is sponsored and developed in collaboration with Adobe, it is an independent event, run by, and for, developers, DevOps and IT professionals who build and support extensions that integrate with Adobe Creative Cloud.

Sessions

All times are Eastern (Washington DC) time zone

Wednesday, July 10

9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

In this hands-on workshop, we will get first-hand experience with Adobe’s Firefly and Creative Cloud APIs, which make it possible to sprinkle “Adobe Magic” into creative and marketing design and workflow systems.

You will see examples that bring new workflows and features to Photoshop, Slack, and PowerPoint, as well as take a look at tight integration between Workfront, Creative Cloud, Express and these APIs.

We will then break out the laptops and create a new Photoshop extension using UXP and Firefly.

Folks should bring their laptops, github, VS Code, and an open mind. We will provide any certificates/project assets needed for the workshop.

Folks will come away with a Photoshop UXP extension that does something interesting with Firefly and/or the Creative APIs

Thursday, July 11

9:00 a.m. — Welcome and introductions
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sessions

Presentations from Adobe and our developer community. Speakers include Caleb Clauset (Typefi), Keith Gilbert, Colin Flashman (colecandoo), Justin Taylor (Hyper Brew), Gabe Harbs (Santa Cruz Software), Kris Coppieters (Rorohiko Ltd.) and several members of the Adobe team.

9:00-9:30	Welcome, introductions, debrief	Kris	Amble in and introduce yourself!
9:30-10:15	Bolt UXP: Build Adobe UXP Plugins Faster	Justin	Everything you need to start building Adobe UXP plugins faster with our free & open source framework Bolt UXP streamlining the whole development process from start to finish.
10:15-11:00	Adobe Express Add-ons: Spark Creativity with Powerful Gems	Hamza	Discover how simple it is to create your first add-on in just 10 minutes. Learn how to incorporate these integrations into your workflow like storage connectors, design elements, and accessibility tools.
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-11:45	First hand experience building Express Add-ons	Harbs	Getting started with Express add-on development coming from a Creative Cloud perspective. What is different? What’s familiar? The good, the bad and the ugly.
11:45-12:15	Typefi’s dev tools	Caleb	Typefi is known for its bespoke automated composition system, but we also offer plug-ins and tools to extend your own workflow automations. We’ve given away AutoFit for InDesign for almost 20 years, but we never licensed it for third party automation workflows until now. RunScript, our InDesign Server as a Service offering, is turning two and offers contract-free, unfettered access to IDSvr at only $0.05/sec. And we’re still tinkering with running InDesign Server on Linux VMs (and are very curious about whether we’ll see InDesign Server on Windows Server ARM)…
12:15-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:00	Esko without a Budget	Colin	How I used ExtendScript and ScriptUI to handle complex label impositioning
14:00-14:30	From the trenches	Keith	Perspective from a successful custom script developer
14:30-14:45	Break
14:45-15:00	InDesign Meets Express	Max	Discussion and developments from Silicon Publishing
15:00-15:15	A first look at the Adobe Firefly and Creative Cloud APIs	James	Summary of the workshop on wednesday. Business opportunities for Creative Developers in a Cloud-first world.
15:15-15:45	Creative Developer Tools: realizing the Tightener Technology Stack, three years on.	Kris	Creative Developer Tools has reached MVP. How does it work, and how to take advantage of it. https://PluginInstaller.com
15:45-16:00	Adobe Creative Cloud Developer Champion Program	Erin	We just launched a new program to reward and support developers. Learn about our goals, how to apply, and help influence the direction of the program by letting us know what motivates you!
16:00-16:30	What’s new in InDesign	Vidya and Pradeep
16:30-17:00	Q&A
18:30	Adobe Reception for Community Experts and Developers

Speakers

Here are a few of the amazing speakers who are presenting at this year’s Creative Developer Summit:

Jim Birkenseer
Premedia Systems

Caleb Clauset
Typefi

Kris Coppieters
Rorohiko

Erin Finnegan
Adobe

Colin Flashman

Keith Gilbert

Hamza Habeeb
Adobe

James Lockman
Adobe

Justin Taylor
Hyper Brew

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Arizona Marketing Lead, DPR Construction

2019-10-02T12:42:59+00:00

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Senior Graphic Artist, UC Davis

2019-10-02T12:52:44+00:00

Senior Graphic Artist, UC Davis

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2019-10-02T12:51:25+00:00

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President, CMC Pension Professionals

2019-10-02T12:50:15+00:00

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Graphic Designer, Schaefer

2019-10-02T12:48:55+00:00

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2019-10-02T12:46:56+00:00

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2019-10-02T12:44:09+00:00

Graphic Design and Production Specialist, NorthWestern Energy

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Owner,  CRE8 Design LLC

2018-11-11T06:12:54+00:00

Owner,  CRE8 Design LLC

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2019-10-02T12:41:58+00:00

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2019-10-02T12:40:14+00:00

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2018-11-11T06:08:33+00:00

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