Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

The "rationality-based, user-centered approach" has been the gold standard in business, product development, and marketing for decades. But it's hitting its limits — and AI is accelerating that reckoning. In this closing keynote from Canvas 26 Tokyo, Yuichi Inobori, Ph.D. reframes the role of the objects and tools we create in sparking human and organisational creativity, through the lens of Ontological Design. As AI — itself an artifact — weaves itself into the fabric of everyday life, what does creativity truly mean for us now? And how should we design the organisations of the future?

AI is taking root differently across every organisation — faster among younger generations in some places, driven top-down by leadership in others, and complicated everywhere by the question of how to balance development speed with cultural change. In this panel from Canvas 26 Tokyo, leaders from three professional services firms come together to share what AI adoption actually looks like when you're running large-scale projects: the hands-on realities, the Miro use cases, and what it takes to make the shift stick across an entire organisation.

Building is happening everywhere. But just because you can build it doesn't mean you should ship it. The teams pulling ahead have figured out how to move quickly from idea to validated direction — aligning before building, not after. In this product spotlight from Canvas 26 Tokyo, Mathias Davidsen (Solutions GM, Prototypes at Miro) shows how Miro Prototypes acts as the decision layer in your product development workflow.

AI is no longer confined to screens. It's becoming a partner in how we think, collaborate, and create. In this fireside conversation from Canvas 26 Tokyo, Hidetoshi Kikuchi (General Manager, BUSINESS INNOVATION LOUNGE TOKYO, Ricoh), Masumi Harazuka, and Kosaku Nakajima explore what it actually takes to build effective human-AI collaboration — in meeting environments, in product development, and in everyday decision-making.