Ben Forta

Summary

I am Adobe Systems Inc's Senior Director of Education Initiatives. My primary responsibility is a focus on K-12 students (and their teachers) with an eye towards digital and visual literacy, creativity in the classroom, effective and meaningful use of AI, and the role that Adobe services and tools play in the future of creativity, communication, and collaboration. I am also an author, with over a million books in print, and with titles translated into 16 languages. I've written on SQL (including the best-selling SQL book of all time, a book used as a textbook in colleges and universities the world over), Python, Regular Expressions, Windows development, JSP, and more. I have also written guides for educators seeking to inject creativity into their classrooms, and recently published a book that introduces creative problem-solving via coding to young people. Combined, my books and videos have taught coding skills to over a million developers. I am an educator first and foremost, and while I don't get to spend much time in the classroom these days, I do lead a local high-school robotics and computing class. I'm also a blogger, a public speaker, and a lecturer who presents regularly at technical and education venues worldwide. I spend most of my time these times focused on digital and creative literacy in education. Specialties: Eliminating complexity!