




We're coming back this summer! The Educators Summit is a unique opportunity for the advertising, media, and design education communities to come together.
Whether you're a tenured professor or interested in starting your career as an educator, we want you to leave this summit ready for the 2025-2026 school year with new insights on trending technology, creativity and equity in the classroom, and creating a career-ready creative. You should leave the Educators Summit with actionable takeaways for your students, your faculty, and yourselves.
This two-day event will be hosted at The One Club For Creativity (450 W 31st Street, New York, NY 10001) on July 24 and 25.
2025 SPEAKERS
Speakers were selected from our creative community and include both professionals and educators in the advertising and design space. Additional details on speakers, schedule, and site visits are coming soon.
Interested in getting your school or company involved? Email us at education@oneclub.org.
Decoding DEI & Disrupting Unconscious Bias in the Advertising Classroom
This interactive workshop equips faculty with a framework to evaluate and enhance course syllabi through a DEI lens while exploring strategies to incorporate DEI into assignments. Participants will engage in a structured approach to help students critically examine unconscious bias in creative work, moving beyond surface-level judgments of "good" or "bad" ads. By fostering deeper analytical skills, faculty will empower students to apply these insights throughout their careers in advertising, media, and design.
Process. Practice. Pitch. Closing the Soft Skills Gap in Creative Education.
Every designer has a story, a journey shaped by passion, refined through practice, and defined by their ability to pitch, connect, and belong. But while design programs often teach students how to make, they rarely teach them how to navigate. And in today’s creative industry, that’s no longer enough.



Rethinking Creative Pedagogy Through Immersive Student Events
This session explores how multi-day creative events—organized by students and supported by faculty—can serve as immersive teaching tools that build leadership, collaboration, and professional readiness. From branding and logistics to programming and public speaking, students take ownership of real-world deliverables while gaining hands-on experience that directly translates to industry skills. This session will share planning frameworks and adaptable strategies for educators, instilling confidence in their ability to implement these events into their curriculum.
Fearless Creative Leadership by Following.
We all know that leaders need followers. But how do you lead from an inappreciable or misunderstood position? It’s a challenging task. And it is exactly where creativity finds itself when your advertising department is housed in the journalism school of a university. This session will share and explore our experiences with the stories of our peers about how to make creativity a priority in an environment that doesn’t understand its importance.




From Practitioner to Teacher
This talk is meant for those who still have fresh wounds inflicted by clients from what it’s like “on the outside.” Being a teacher, especially a teacher in design, is not simply stepping into a classroom and spouting off knowledge. Students today can find any number of videos on the internet that can do that. This talk is about the journey and the meaning of becoming a teacher.
Age of CI: Creative Intelligence Amplified by AI
Led by educators from FIT’s Creative Technology & Design program, the presentation features award-winning student and faculty work that integrates AI into design, from concept generation to user experience and storytelling. It will highlight how curriculum aligned with industry prepares students to thrive in an AI-augmented creative landscape.




TICKETS & PRICING
Tickets: $199 (Member Tickets: $149)
DATES & DETAILS
Thursday, July 24 & Friday, July 25, 2025
New York, NY
Tickets to the Educators Summit include two days of summit access, off-site excursions and visits, post-event access to recorded content, plus breakfast and lunch.



If you have any questions please contact Jenna Brandvold, Education Manager, at jenna@oneclub.org