Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

For many teams, client collaboration still follows a familiar pattern: long discovery, heavy specs, and a polished "ta-da" moment at the end. That model is starting to break. Big reveals stack risk at the end, delay meaningful feedback, and expose misalignment when it's most expensive to fix. In a world of faster change, AI-accelerated delivery, and hybrid product teams, collaboration needs a different rhythm.

@maddyzhang shows how Sidekicks helps turn AI conversations into shared team context. Instead of your best thinking staying in a chat window, it becomes something your whole team can react to, refine, and build on together.

Ben Newell, Geckoboard's VP of Product, on how real-time data changes the way a team performs, and the thinking behind how Geckoboard is built.

Ben Newell, Geckoboard's VP of Product, on why building your own dashboard with an AI agent looks fast until you need to trust the number. AI has no underlying data model, so getting a metric to come back right, and the same every time, is the hard part. Geckoboard has already done that work.

Zendesk now enables businesses to deliver customer support directly within ChatGPT using their company knowledge and processes. Customers can get trusted business answers, complete support tasks like delivery changes, and escalate to human agents when needed — all within the ChatGPT experience. Best of all, every interaction is tracked in Zendesk for unified reporting, governance, and quality assurance so your business has visibility into this emergent channel.

Automate high-volume customer service emails with Freshdesk's AI agent that resolves repetitive queries, maintains context across follow-ups, and escalates only when human intervention is needed. See Freshdesk's Email AI Agent in action. What is an AI agent in customer service? An AI agent is software that independently understands customer queries, retrieves answers from a knowledge base, and responds conversationally, without needing a human agent for every interaction.

Every AI journey starts with knowing where you stand. This video walks through the M-Files AI Readiness Guide, a framework for assessing your organization's current stage and identifying the next steps toward trusted AI. Take the free 5-minute AI Readiness Assessment to see where you land across five maturity stages, from Scattered to Sovereign, and get a personalized roadmap for closing the gaps that matter most.

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?