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AI budgets have moved to the CEO and CFO, and they want proof. That was the clearest message at TSIA World 2026 in Las Vegas. "These budgets are at the C-suite. This is your customer now. The CEO, the CFO... they want to see the results." Thomas Lah, Executive Director, TSIA Most services firms aren't ready to give them that proof. TSIA's survey of its advisory board found: We spent three days in sessions, on the floor and at our booth.

This week at Dreamforce, we gave Slack one of its biggest upgrades yet, the connected interface for AI and Salesforce that works across your whole team. Every company is investing in AI right now, but they’re missing two things. First, the conversational context that adds long-term memory and insight that makes AI more accurate, actionable, and trustworthy. And next, the collaborative interface that allows employees to use these AI tools together and learn from one another.

Love Tomorrow isn’t your average enterprise summit. There’s no business casual, no anonymous venue. Just thousands of people gathered on the site of Europe’s largest EDM festival under the bold banner “Live today. Love tomorrow. Unite forever.” Miro was one of the few brands invited to partner with the summit.

Earlier this month, Miro hosted Canvas 26 at London’s Tobacco Dock. During the event, I hosted a design leadership panel, bringing together leading voices from the industry to share their thoughts on how the advent of AI is changing the face of design.

To help agile enterprises accelerate service transformation, company leaders unveiled new innovations in agentic AI and a unified platform approach.

Six conversations with tech outlet theCUBE on AI, IT, and doing the work that matters.

That’s a wrap on Canvas 26! Thousands of leaders, builders, and makers joined us in San Francisco and online to see what Miro’s shipping next. Building on last year’s launch of our AI platform, our Canvas 26 announcements address a problem most organizations are actively working through: AI is making people dramatically faster, but that speed isn’t compounding into impact at scale. Why?

At FOSDEM 2026, the world’s largest open source conference, Neil Johnson (Element’s Chief Engineering Officer) explored the critical role of sustainability in open source software - with a focus on decentralised networks like Matrix. Before we begin, most people can see why the sustainability of an open source software project is important. Open source software underpins almost all pieces of critical infrastructure, and we need to find ways to safeguard these projects.

At FOSDEM 2026, members of Element’s VoIP team - Robin Townsend, Timo Kandra and Valère Fédronic - presented a deep dive into the future of real time communication on Matrix. Their talk gave an update on MatrixRTC, Matrix’s framework for bringing voice, video, and other live, interactive experiences directly into rooms.

At FOSDEM 2026, Denise R. S. Almeida (Head of Policy & Compliance at Element and Data Protection Officer for the Matrix.org Foundation) presented a practitioner perspective on the recently proposed Digital Omnibus.