2025 UCDA Creative Summit

Tuesday, April 1 & Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The 2025 UCDA Creative Summit is a two-day virtual event providing inspiration to refill your creative fuel tank. Programming is curated to spark your imagination and facilitate ideas that can help be a catalyst for your next project or even give you the inspiration to seek out and try new techniques or embark on a new creative path.  

Attendees engage virtually in a casual, friendly setting with creative professionals across North America and beyond. Illustrators, photographers, designers, and creative thinkers will share their inspiring work and stories. We also include workshops and hands-on activities as well as time for open discussions to share experiences and ideas. The virtual format makes it easy to attend from your office, studio space, or home. Come prepared to learn, share, and grow your creative potential—you will walk away with new ideas, fresh perspectives, and inspiration to fuel your next creative endeavor.

The UCDA Creative Summit is an opportunity to discover, create, and connect.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

While UCDA’s programming is designed for creative professionals working in education, design faculty, and students, the Creative Summit is for anyone who needs a creative boost. If you’re a writer, marketer, creative manager, illustrator, photographer, or any other creative professional (or student), this event is for you!

TOP REASONS TO ATTEND THIS SUMMIT

Education: Carefully curated presentations and workshops over two days
Community: Connect and exchange ideas with the folks who do what you do
Affordable: Without the need for travel or lodging, the UCDA Creative Summit is budget-friendly.

AGENDA

The Creative Summit takes place over the course of two days. All times are in North America Central Standard Time (CDT). We start mid-morning at 10 a.m. CDT (we have found this is the best overall time to allow those in different time zones to join us). Given this start time, we have only scheduled short breaks between sessions (no long lunch break), so plan to have water, coffee, and snacks on hand.

We’ll begin each morning with a keynote presentation with an opportunity for Q&A with the speaker, followed by casual conversation with fellow attendees and exercises to get your creative juices flowing. We’ll round out the day with a hands-on workshop to help you flex your maker muscles. 

SCHEDULE

Join us for two fulfilling days of creativity and inspiration:
Tuesday, April 1, 2025: 10:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. (CDT)
Wednesday, April 2, 2025: 10:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. (CDT)

Preliminary schedule:

SPEAKERS

Speakers will be announced soon. 

REGISTRATION

Registration Deadline: March 25  

Digital recording available for a period of not more than one year.
See UCDA’s Cancellation Policy
See UCDA’s Inclusiveness, Code of Conduct, and Anti-harassment Policy.