Our first (but not last) Education Customer Summit

A few weeks ago we held our first Google Apps Education Customer Summit here at the Googleplex (our Mountain View main campus), where we hosted 58 of the newest members in our Education Edition family. These customers represented 27 universities, community colleges, and K-12 schools from across the U.S. who recently moved over to Google Apps Education Edition. This Education Customer Summit provided these schools an opportunity to network with each other, hear from product specialists, and meet other customers who have been using Google Apps since the early days.

We kept the participants busy all day with many lively sessions kicking off with a customer panel that included Columbus State University, Boise State University, and San Mateo Community College District providing insights into Google Apps successes on their respective campuses.

Next, product managers and engineers led a discussion about products and features, answering a range of audience questions. This let everyone learn about some new features in detail, including improved contact sharing, the updated start page in Sites, and the new reporting in the control panel.

We hope this day was as fun and valuable for the customers as it was for us, and enabled the school representatives to go back to campus with new contacts and ideas about how to make the most of Google Apps for their students, staff, and faculty. Check out the pictures below, and maybe we'll see you at the next Summit.

Jeff Keltner, Google business development manager, kicks things off and welcomes new members of the Apps Education Edition family.

Jeff and Tudd Sutton (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) field audience questions during the customer panel.

It was a busy day for the 58 participants, but we made sure to give a refreshment break or two...

Product engineers discussed Google Apps in depth and shared insight about what's in the works.

Posted by Lauren Miskelly, Enterprise Sales Representative