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Hi Blake! I attended a couple of sessions that mentioned AI but none of them gave a true timeline. I like to think of Summit as the preview of where things are going and note that we'll see updates between now and Summit 2025. There is a Workfront roadmap session next month that might give us a bit more insight but I would pay attention to posts on Community to see if anyone from Adobe mentions Alpha or Beta testing or "provide your feedback". That's how I've been able to get updates over the years.

@BlakeCo to follow-up on Monique's post above, here is the link to the upcoming Workfront Roadmap Webinar on Wednesday, May 8 at 8am PT / 11am ET. Since this will be Workfront specific, it should hopefully help clarify what you can tap into as a current Workfront customer! 

Hey @BlakeCo ! I haven't watched this session and not sure if it's one of the ones you watched or not... but this Simplifying the Adobe Workfront Experience Through AI session might have some interesting nuggets on using AI in Workfront. The only tagged products are Firefly and Adobe, so you might see some use cases that don't necessarily involve other products. Again, I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but thought it was worth putting out there for consideration!

Hey there! Quick answer on the last question first - Proof isn't going away. What will happen is that the Proof approval functionality will work with the Frame.IO functionality.  The best session that illustrated this (fantastic demo!) is this session: 
Revolutionizing Content Production with Adobe - S305 

We should see more information about this enhancement later this year!

Hi!  I did watch that session and didn't quite understand the connectivity between the two.  I thought I heard a couple different times that Frame would be launching as early as end of Q2 this year.  Thank you for answering my quesitons!

Hey @NikkiGinley1 - if I remember correctly, it'll launch in the next month or so for new customers but if you're an existing WF customer, it's looking like the end of the year (potentially).

From memory, Frame.IO will eventually replace proof but the two will co-exist for the foreseeable future. On the topic of Frame.IO this was a great teaser on the release of Frame.IO v4.

Introducing Frame.IO v4 

During the Revolutionizing Content Production with Adobe - S305 session. Someone asked this during the Q&A and Etienne said, if you currently use Proof. All of that functionality will be moved to native Workfront (Document Approvals). It's a long process but that is what they are doing. If you also purchase Frame.io you will have additional functionality but you will not need to buy Frame to continue doing what you can today.

These are great action items! As you start checking things off your list or have questions in the process, be sure to reach out to other Workfront Admins here on the Community forum or in any of the free workshops/webinars published to the Events page on Experience League! 

Hi Michael, 
Regarding bullet #1
This is very interesting to me as I managed a couple of instances where we reduced the available hours from 8 to 6 (with varying levels of resistance) to allow for indirect work for more accurate resource management and planning. It was not difficult to convince workers (e.g. creatives and developers) this was a good idea but a harder sell for leadership. I'd be interested in what arguments you used to support a 4 hour day?

1. There was a great stat I saw in a few sessions where they said creatives only spend about 43 percent of their time on creative work. Obviously, we all want to see that increase, but for now it is what it is. 

2. We want to acknowledge the need for creatives to be involved in planning and concepting at the earliest stages. This means meetings. This means time away from actual asset creation. But if we can put more emphasis on concepting and pre-work -- and get creatives to use their tasks to take good notes from these meetings -- we think it should make the actual work go more smoothly anyway. 

3. We are desperate to get our creatives to engage more with their tasks. They tend to just mark things off after they are done - maybe. So this is a bit of a carrot. We won't overload you if you use the tool to properly track work. Also we want to stress that we aren't trying to make anyone look like they aren't working a full load. We know everyone is slammed and that a lot of work isn't accounted for anywhere. So we want to push for more accuracy in planned hours. 

BTW, I should mention that we don't log actual hours. That is a longtime consensus around here. But we need to agree to a higher level of engagement with tasks so that we can measure effort in some meaningful way. 

@MattMc2 I will follow up with the Fusion/Product for more information. Stay tuned! 

@MattMc2 It is available! Here is the Photoshop API Documentation - there is a beta label in the connector in Fusion, but it's usable today. 

Hi Monique, so glad you were able to join us! I was a TA in this lab and everyone asked great questions. Thanks so much for calling it out as your most memorable!

Speaking of labs @LeslieSpier, @NicholeVargas, @CynthiaBoon could you reach out and see if there's a way to get a copy of the lab books? Last year there was a printout and I still use them. This year they were PDFs on the lab computers and I didn't receive a follow-up email with the materials.

@MoniqueEvans We can ask! We'll ask about the one you mentioned above. What are the other ones you're looking for?

That was the only lab I did, but I was interested in the Supercharge Your Business Processes with Workfront Board Automations [L313] lab as well.

@MoniqueEvans I received an email on 4/2 from the Adobe Summit Lab Team with the Lab Workbook link. I don't know if it is ok to just attach here but if there are no issues I can. Just let me know.

Bummed you weren't able to be there @CynthiaBoon but really glad you were able to see the dry run. The day-of presentation was so fun. The audience was fantastic! Thank you for having us!!!

I got to spend some quality time with the Mattel folks at lunch one day, and it was a highlight of the week! I love how they are using boards. And with the Fusion connector in place now ... my wheels are turning! 

Having lunch with you was a highlight for us too. Thank you for sharing your POV. So excited you're excited about Boards!  

I was able to go and I have to say when it comes to the presentations I got to see the one @nealgardner_mattel and @JennaEd did was one of my favorites!

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for showing up early in the AM after a night of super fun beats provided by DJ Diesel  

This is definitely what we want for all of you! Workfront is such a fantastic community because of you and all our wonderful users. Summit is such a great opportunity to meet others, exchange ideas, and connect with product folks. Hopefully @NicholeVargas, @CynthiaBoon and I will get to join you all in the future!

And I will say this. I was the only Workfronter from my company to go. We had others there for other parts of the Adobe stack, but I was on my own all week. I thought I would regret that, but it actually forced me out of my comfort zone and into the Workfront Community. Not having an obligatory work buddy there with me freed me up (forced me?) to learn from some awesome people from Mattel, Caterpillar, Vanguard, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Western Alliance Bank, Mayo Clinic, Jewelers Mutual, CVS and Kohler -- to name a few. 

I agree completely, Monique. I wish there was a lab-setting show-and-tell session. And a quick way to share text mode and json recipes for Fusion, etc. The conversations between sessions are golden, but finding a way for those to lead to an actual exchange of information would be ... Platinum, I guess? 

That's so fun!!!