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susanaziz
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
January 20, 2026

Welcome! Introduce Yourself to the Let's Talk AI Community

  • January 20, 2026
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I’m Susan (no, not Susan AI-Aziz… yet 😉). I’m based in NYC, a foodie at heart, a fantasy-book lover, and always in the middle of binge-watching a new show.

 

I’m part of the Marketing team here at Adobe, where I get to support marketers as they learn, experiment, and build confidence with AI (what it is, how it works, and how to use it responsibly in real workflows).

 

We’re so excited to have you here and to build this community together. This space is all about learning from each other, sharing what’s working (and what’s not), and making AI feel more approachable and practical.

 

I’d love to hear from you. Introduce yourself below! Tell us where you’re based, what you do, and one thing you love using AI for.

 

I’ll kick it off: I love using AI to create slides faster and with way more confidence. 

 

Can’t wait to get to know you all!

21 replies

emmalockwood_adobe
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
January 20, 2026

Hi ​@susanaziz 👋 

Excited to kick off this group! I work with Susan on AI marketing at Adobe. I’m super excited to hear how y’all are using AI and learn some new tricks & tips together. 

I’m based in Charlotte, NC (so this will not be the last time you see me type y’all!!) and I love to use AI to help me get started on writing briefs, copy variations, and messaging tests. Nothing scarier than a blank page… 🙈

gkalyan
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
January 20, 2026

Hi everyone!

Thrilled to be joining the group. I’m Kalyan, based in the Bay Area and a big sci-fi fan.

 

I’ve spent 15 years working across Adobe Experience landscape, and for the last 3 years, I’ve been focused specifically on the intersection of Marketing and AI.

My main focus is building internal AI applications to level up our web experiences and speed up operations to help our teams move faster and work smarter.

 

I’m really excited to be here, to learn from your experiences, and to share, to make AI a little less "black box" for everyone.

 

My favorite use of AI: I love using it for deep research, brainstorming new ideas, and rapid prototyping for POCs.

 

Huge shoutout to ​@susanaziz  and ​@emmalockwood_adobe  for creating this space!

LaurenClev
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 5, 2026

Hey! Welcome, @gkalyan. So glad you’re here!

You caught my eye with the “rapid prototyping for POCs.” I’d love to hear more about what that looks like for you.

Do you have a favorite example or a recent prototype you spun up quickly? 

Excited to learn from you (and everyone in this group!) 😀

kautuk_sahni
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
January 21, 2026

Hi everyone!

I’m Kautuk, based in New Delhi, India. I work with Adobe as Sr. Product Community Manager.

Apart from community management, my interests lie in tech, web, and digital spaces and I love diving into web optimization and AI-powered tools to make workflows smoother and more efficient.

Outside of work, I’m a sports enthusiast 🎾 and love playing tennis. I also enjoy cooking 🍳 and trying new cuisines 🍲, so if you have any great recipes, I’d love for you to share!

Excited to connect with you all and learn how you’re using AI in your work and everyday life.

Kautuk Sahni
January 29, 2026

Hi everyone, I’m Ant, based in NY. I work as a marketing developer and have spent the last few years working hands-on with Adobe products. We were early adopters of the AI Assistant and newer AI agents, and I’ve been using them a lot at work (along with other AI tools) to try out ideas and see where they actually help. Lately, I’ve been especially interested in how people are using AI to smooth out workflows and make data easier to work with, so I’m looking forward to learning from everyone here. What I enjoy most about AI is treating it like a thinking partner, bouncing ideas around, speeding up research, and turning half-formed thoughts into something more concrete much faster(more formally as a personal at home assistant, and project planner 😂). Excited to be here and to share what’s working (and what isn’t) along the way.

kautuk_sahni
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
February 9, 2026

@AntRod Welcome, Ant! Treating AI as a “thinking partner” is such a great way to frame it and very real-world. Out of all the workflows you’ve tested, where did AI surprise you the most (either positively or negatively)?

Kautuk Sahni
Shashi_Mulugu
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
February 2, 2026

Hello Everyone, I am Shashi Kanth Mulugu working at Deloitte based out of Maryland,  USA. I am Adobe Community Advisor for AEM and Adobe AEM User Group Leader for DMV (DC, Maryland and Virginia states). Happy to be part of this group and learn AI marketing together.

LaurenClev
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 5, 2026

Welcome ​@Shashi_Mulugu! What’s one thing you love using AI for? 

EstebanBustamante
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
February 3, 2026

Hi all!

 

I’m Esteban—Adobe Champion and Community Advisor. I spend most of my time with AEM Sites and DAM, but I also like to roam around other Adobe products from time to time. I’m based in Uruguay, and I’m very excited about Adobe Summit… and yes, the FIFA World Cup later this year ⚽

 

English is my second language, so I happily team up with AI to keep my grammar behaving itself 🤖✨

 

Hope to see many of you at Adobe Summit and to geek out together about AI!

Esteban Bustamante
gregd59500919
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
February 3, 2026

Futbol!  Yessssss ⚽🤘🏻

gregd59500919
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
February 3, 2026

Hey everyone! Some ‘discovery agents’ 😎 pointed me here. 
 

I’m Greg and I’m based somewhere between the Washington D.C. and Baltimore areas, in Maryland. ​@Shashi_Mulugu and I are Delaware, Maryland, Virginia (DMV👊🏻) user group chapter co-leads.

Just like ​@gkalyan and others who will probably pipe in here shortly I’m a long-time Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) practitioner and AEM champion with a growing appetite for real-world AI that actually helps marketing, content, and technology teams move faster.

In AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMaaCS), agentic AI isn’t just a buzzword — we now have things like Discovery Agents to surface the exact assets or content you need with natural language, Content Optimization Agents to auto-generate channel-ready visuals and variants, Experience Production Agents that automate repeatable content tasks, and even Development and Governance Agents that help devs/admins with code and keep brand rules in check.

I’m also particularly interested in the recently announced MCP server with AEMaaCS. This is going to be an amazing new capability. Who doesn’t want to create, read, update, and delete pages and page content using natural language? 

I’m here to share experiences, learn from others’ use cases (especially around how teams leverage AI across marketing, authoring, QA, development and dev ops), and help spark conversations that cut past the hype into what really works day-to-day. Looking forward to connecting! 

Also, thank you to the Experience League and product teams ​@kautuk_sahni , ​@emmalockwood_adobe, ​@susanaziz and many more for putting a lot of work into these new features in the Adobe Experience League!
 

kautuk_sahni
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
February 9, 2026

@gregd59500919 , this is gold, thanks for breaking down agentic AI in AEM in such a concrete way.
With discovery and optimization agents now in play, where do you think teams need the biggest mindset shift to actually trust these workflows?

Kautuk Sahni
gregd59500919
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
February 9, 2026

@gregd59500919 @gregd59500919 ​@kautuk_sahni Thank you! 

If my post was gold, your question is multi-platinum. That question alone, “what’s the biggest mindset shift to actually trust these workflows,” is the genesis of viewing agentic Ai under the lens of its current capabilities (things move really fast, models are updated very frequently, so my view will most probably be different in six months’ time.)

I’ll leave the developer agents outside of the equation for the moment, because the users of the dev agents (devs, engineers, architects) are capable of steering the agents to do what they want them to do, prompting has existed inside their heads for a while 😉.  “I know you know what I know, so let me tell how I want things done here...”. 

Now, on to the mindset shift for the rest of the agent target users (POs, marketers, content authors, admins). :

  • First, if, as a team, org, structure you find yourself asking: “Is this allowed?” or “Could use this to achieve XYZ without getting in trouble” or similar questions, then you’re failing to see why agentic Ai exists and what it’s supposed to do.
  • AEM agents are enterprise-ready, secured, approved sets of knowledge boxes that your org can use: Trust the system to explore inside the box you designed, instead of micromanaging every move it makes.
  • If the agent isn’t 100% correct, we can’t use it.” Value signal over certainty. You are still the decider in the loop, you have the critical knowledge to make what the agent gives you even better, more accurate, more appropriate for your org.
  • Finally, watch the agent earn your trust. You are the driver, you control the outcome.

That’s mostly as far as the trust is concerned. I also suggest looking at our own (as AEM practitioners) understanding of workflows, within the AEM space and what role do workflows play overall (huge role). Reverse engineer. Understand workflows, triggers, participant steps, etc. Then use the agent to refine, look at alternative outcomes, test and experiment. 

Again, this is a platinum, multi-platinum even (because of the number of agents available) question. ​@Shashi_Mulugu and I will navigate similar questions during our user group chapter session on February 26. Feel free to RSVP and join us! https://aem-augs.adobe.com/events/details/adobe-experience-manager-aem-user-group-dmv-area-chapter-presents-agentic-ai-in-aem-from-hype-to-practical-workflows/

Happy to share more and keep the conversation going in this extremely important topic. Thanks for reading my views on this!

Wilson-Faure
Adobe Champion
Adobe Champion
February 4, 2026

Hello Everyone, 

Very cool to be part of this group so I can learn a lot from the experts here. 

I am based in Atlanta, GA. I work for Cox Communications as the Director of Digital Marketing Platforms and I am on my 3rd year as AEM Champion. 

AI is helping with my team's efficiency, productivity, taking the manual tasks to the next level, allowing them to focus on the strategy, design approach and less hand on the keyboard writing code. 

 

Looking forward to it

kautuk_sahni
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
February 9, 2026

@Wilson-Faure Great to have you here,! Love how you framed AI as freeing teams from the keyboard and pulling them back into strategy. Has that shift changed how your team thinks about skill development or role boundaries?

Kautuk Sahni
Meghan_Powers
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
February 5, 2026

@susanaziz , what AI tool do you use to create slides?  That’s the one thing I’ve found my current tools don’t do a great job of - creating slides, especially using company templates.

 

susanaziz
Adobe Employee
susanazizAdobe EmployeeAuthor
Adobe Employee
February 5, 2026

Hey Meghan,

I love using Gamma for slide creation! It’s a great way to move quickly. If your company hasn’t approved it, be sure not to upload any sensitive data. I’ve found it helpful for early inspiration, then refining and editing the slides to align with my own brand guidelines. I hope this is helpful! 

 

Meghan_Powers
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
February 5, 2026

Hello Everyone,
I’m Meghan Powers from CarMax in Richmond, VA and am excited to join this group and learn from everyone.
I’m a 4-time Adobe Analytics Champion and Community Advisor.

I’ve been using AI for everything under the sun - most recently used it to create a “Fantasy Winter Olympics” draft for the team-building efforts I lead side of desk. :)

LaurenClev
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 5, 2026

@Meghan_Powers  I’m obsessed with the Fantasy Winter Olympics draft idea!! That sounds like such a cool team building exercise 💜

Would you be open to sharing your template or prompt(no pressure if not!)?