Adobe Summit 2026 - outgoing CEO Shantana Narayen on the state of the Adobe nation he leaves behind

This might well be Shantana Narayen’s last Adobe Summit as CEO. The company veteran announced his departure from the top slot last month, but while the search for his successor continues behind the scenes, this week he was still front-and-center at this week’s annual conference in Las Vegas.

That being the case, Narayen took time out to discuss the state of the Adobe nation with analysts at a session alongside the main conference, beginning from a customer-first perspective:

We've been actually ensuring that all our innovation is really focused ruthlessly on the customers that we serve, the three key customer audiences that we serve on the business professional and consumers, making sure that we deliver these AI-powered new conversational quick and easy apps to ensure that we can actually deliver both creativity and productivity.

That last is a point of pride, it seems:

We've been the ...