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Katiep36
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
September 1, 2026
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Meet the Adobe Champion Class of 2026-2027

  • September 1, 2026
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It's that time of year again: time to welcome a new class of Adobe Champions and celebrate the practitioners who make our community what it is. We're proud to introduce the Adobe Champion class of 2026-2027, a global group of product experts who go above and beyond to help others succeed with Adobe solutions. 

 

What makes a Champion 

Adobe Champions aren't just skilled users, they're connectors and advocates. The program gives participants a direct line to Adobe product teams, a chance to influence what we build next, and a community of peers who are just as invested in solving hard problems as they are. In return, Champions share their expertise generously, answering questions in Community, speaking at events, mentoring newer users, and helping shape the roadmap through feedback and beta testing. 

 

Welcome our new class 

The 2026-2027 cohort spans six Champion programs, each representing a distinct corner of the Adobe community: 

 

This year's class includes both familiar faces returning for another year and a strong group of new Champions joining for the first time. Together, they represent some of the most active, knowledgeable voices across Experience League: the people who show up in product forums, discussion groups, and events not because they have to, but because they genuinely want to help others get more out of Adobe products. 

 

Connect with the Adobe Champions 

Want to connect with a Champion or learn more about the program? A few ways to jump in: 

  • Join Champion office hours for your product area. Champions regularly host sessions where you can ask questions and hear directly from them. 

  • Say hello in the comments. Champions love hearing from the community, and this is a great place to introduce yourself. You’ll see many of them in the comments as well! Share what you’d like to learn from them. 

  • Identify them in the Community by finding the orange star on their profile. 

 

If you're curious about becoming a Champion yourself, keep an eye on Experience League. Applications for the next cohort will open in May 2027. 

51 replies

Robert-Nicholson
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
September 8, 2026

Hi everyone. Congrats to all Champions! Looking forward to learning from all of you!

AGritsenko1
Level 1
September 8, 2026

Hello all, my name is Arsen - long time listener first time Adobe (Workfront) Champion.

Wanted to introduce myself here and share that I'm very excited to be surrounded by all these brilliant ecosystem minds and can't wait to pepper you all with questions.

 

I've been in the Adobe Fusion niche since about 2020 when the Fusion 1 to the current Fusion version migration was happening, and I was fortunate enough to work with Adobe via some partners to migrate clients to the new instance and have been in the Fusion and Workfront space mostly ever since. If you have any Fusion related ideas or questions please throw them my way - looking forward to solving problems with others

- Not LLM generated post.
September 8, 2026

Huge congratulations to all the new and returning Adobe Champions! 👏🏻

Thrilled to be part of this cohort as a first-time Workfront Champion. I am Srinija Nandivada, based in Hyderabad, India 🇮🇳.

Excited for the journey ahead and looking forward to collaborating and learning with everyone!

LucasMa9
Adobe Champion and User Group Leader
Adobe Champion and User Group Leader
September 9, 2026

Congratulations to everyone in the Champion Class of 2026-2027! 🎉

I'm Lucas Gonçalves, SVP of AI & Automation at Revenue Pulse, a Marketing Operations and Automation agency working across Adobe Marketo Engage for clients in Canada, the US, and beyond. This is my third year as a Marketo Champion 😀

By study I'm a mathematician, and I'm currently finishing a master's focused on AI agent frameworks for B2B email hyperpersonalization in ABM contexts. Most of my days are split between running Marketo operations for multiple clients and building out AI automation and RevOps tooling across n8n, Clay, and a few others.

On the Marketo Engage side specifically, a lot of my recent work has been about making instances AI-ready, implementing the native and custom AI features to develop complex workflows such as AI scoring and Persona Classification. I've also been deep in the Marketo MCP ecosystem, setting up per-client credential bundles, building instance context and skill docs for an internal AI system, and using MCP to handle day-to-day work like cloning templates, setting tokens, and scheduling sends.

I've had the chance to speak at MOps-Apalooza, Adobe Summit, and a few Skill Exchange sessions this past year, and I'm looking forward to working with this group, especially anyone else experimenting with agents and AI inside RevOps!

VickerL
Level 2
September 9, 2026

Hi there~ Vicker here from Hong Kong.

Proud to join the Adobe Champion family and be one of the AEMers. 2 decades ago, I was a Flash, Flex and AIR Evangelist, good old days doing “Rich Internet Applications”. Couldn’t believe that after Flash was gone, I would be able to rejoin the Adobe community wearing another hat.

Currently working at the Hong Kong Tourism Board, managing probably one of the largest AEM sites in Hong Kong, providing attractions, events, food and travel tips to global visitors who are planning to visit Hong Kong. Still learning all the best practices and tricks around AEM from the pros, and recently excited about all the possibilities using Adobe Business Visibility and Coworker.

Looking forward to bring some impact to the community with everyone else.

Cheers~

Meghan_Powers
Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
Adobe Champion and Community Advisor
September 9, 2026

Hello everyone!  I’m a 5th time Adobe Analytics Champion, and an Experience league Advisor for Analytics and Target.  I am former/2-time Analytics Rockstar winner, and have been going to Adobe Summit way back since it was in Salt Lake! I lead Customer Data & personalization, and live in Richmond, VA with husband and 2 kiddos, where I enjoy playing and coaching softball, water sports and snow sports.

TyronPr
Adobe Champion and User Group Leader
Adobe Champion and User Group Leader
September 10, 2026

Nice to see some familiar faces and meet the new champs, looking forward to another year

uni-adam
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
September 10, 2026

Congratulations to all my fellow Adobe Champions for 2026-2027!

G’day I’m Adam, an Adobe Analytics Champion and Analytics Lead Developer at UNSW Sydney in Australia.

I’ve worked with Adobe Analytics for around a decade, covering the full process from implementation through to reporting and dashboards. More recently, my focus has shifted towards implementation, data governance and building a reliable foundation for analytics.

At UNSW, I led the transition from AppMeasurement to Web SDK, which gave me experience with both the technical and organisational sides of that change. I’m also currently going full tilt on integrating AI into my workflows across Adobe Tags, Analytics, AEP and CJA.

As a Champion, I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve learned, hearing different perspectives from other practitioners and providing practical feedback to Adobe’s product teams. I’m also interested in helping myself and others navigate the move from Adobe Analytics to Customer Journey Analytics.

I enjoy deepening my knowledge and being curious of the discourse in the Experience League of course, and the many informative blog posts from Pedro Monjo, Frederick Werner and thanks to becoming a Champion have now started reading Martine Jorgensen’s as I embark on the journey from AA → CJA!

“Mastery isn’t a destination; it’s the discipline of staying curious.”

- ads
LanggCass
Adobe Champion and User Group Leader
Adobe Champion and User Group Leader
September 10, 2026

Hi, everyone! I’m Cassandra Lang, a 2x Adobe Champion and proud co-host of the Content Supply Chain Workfront User Group. I’m excited to be back for another year of learning, sharing, and connecting with this incredible community. I’m based in (not always sunny, but always warm) Miami, FL.

As Manager of Marketing Technology at Baptist Health, I lead work focused on improving how our marketing and creative teams plan, manage, and move work from idea to final asset. That means a lot of time in Workflow, Planning, AEM Assets, and the ever-evolving world of content supply chain. I love figuring out how the right process and technology can make work a little clearer, easier, and more connected for the people doing it.

I’m especially passionate about bringing people together to swap real stories, lessons learned, and the occasional “has anyone else run into this?” moment. That is what makes this community so valuable.

Looking forward to reconnecting with familiar faces, meeting new ones, and learning alongside all of you this year!

Dimitri64
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
September 14, 2026

Congratulations to all the Adobe Champions for 2026-2027! 🎉

I'm Dimitri Cazenave, based in the Bay Area, and this is my first year as a Marketo Champion!

I started in marketing operations in France, then moved to the U.S. I've worked on Marketo in-house ever since, at a few different companies. Every one of them sold in a different way, so every instance had to be built differently.

At Snowflake I'm Marketing Automation Operations Manager and System Architect. I look after the foundation our regional teams build campaigns on: the Marketo architecture, the Salesforce sync, data hygiene, and the integrations around all of it.

This year I want to spend real time on the Marketo MCP and AI agents. Mostly the governance side, and what it takes to trust an agent anywhere near a production instance. Curious how others are approaching that.

Looking forward to learning from this group and sharing what I pick up along the way.