Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

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.

An AI Innovation Workspace. Sidekicks. Flows. Canvas 25 had some huge product news. Kick back with the full keynote if you want to get the lowdown on absolutely everything we launched. But if you want to know what it means for IT leaders, here are the top six takeaways.

Three days of ideas, innovation, and inspiration: this year’s Smart Country Convention (SCCON) once again brought together public sector leaders, tech innovators, and policymakers in Berlin to shape the digital transformation of governments and public services.

That’s a wrap! Hundreds of leaders, innovators, and creators joined us in Brooklyn — with tens of thousands more online — for our biggest Canvas yet, where they discovered new ways for AI and teams to work together. Let’s take a closer look at ten products we highlighted at the event that deliver on that promise.