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AI Adoption in Professional Services: Lessons from the front lines

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.

Decide What to Build Faster with Miro Prototypes

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.

Physical × Human × AI - The Future of Business Collaboration

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.

Where does your SaaS Data Actually Live

Where your SaaS data actually lives refers to the physical and legal locations where your organization's cloud data is stored, processed, backed up, and shared across infrastructure and third-party services. Understanding these data locations is essential for maintaining regulatory compliance, strengthening security, supporting digital sovereignty initiatives, and deciding when cloud or on-premise deployments are the better choice for sensitive business information.

How to Automate Employee Onboarding : Step-by-Step Guide

Learning how to automate employee onboarding starts with connecting the entire employee journey. A hiring event—such as an accepted offer or a new employee record—can trigger coordinated workflows across HR, IT, identity management, payroll, compliance, and employee-support systems. BambooHR notes that onboarding should continue for at least three months. When such an extended process depends on spreadsheets, repeated data entry, emails, and manual handoffs, it becomes a serious cost burden.

Keeping Teams in the Flow of Work with Miro AI Workflows

Every organisation has AI. Almost none have AI that works across teams. The gap between individual productivity and organisation-wide impact is where most companies get stuck — and it's exactly what Miro built AI Workflows to close. In this product spotlight from Canvas 26 Tokyo, Product Management Director Joe McLean shows how teams are moving from isolated AI experiments to connected, automated systems that everyone can see, run, and build on together.

Jira for AI-native software development

Jira is the new system for AI-native software development. Turn ideas into agent-ready technical specs with Jira Planner. Assign work to any agent, including Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Jira Coding Agent, and more. Track, review, and iterate on agent output in one place. Scale agentic work with by automatically assigning tasks to coding agents.

Sovereign communications platform: how to choose one

‍ A sovereign communications platform gives your organisation control over where its communications data lives, who can access it, and how it is protected. Getting that right matters more than it appears. Sovereignty in communications comes down to one thing: being in charge of your own data. Organisations manage that control in different ways.

Data Security Tips for Remote Workers: Best Practices to Protect Sensitive Data

Data Security Tips for Remote Workers are essential for protecting sensitive business information in today's hybrid and work-from-home environments. As cyber threats continue to evolve, remote employees must adopt strong cybersecurity practices to safeguard company data, devices, and online communications.

Slack School | Your Work OS with Vercel

Turning a great idea into a real, working web page usually involves a lot of heavy lifting. Lines of code, specialized software, endless design handoffs. In this episode, we’ll show you how to skip all that by bringing Vercel’s v0 agent into Slack — where you, your team, and v0 can build functional web apps together in real time. Class dismissed!