Welcome to the latest edition of the Box Community Digest, your go-to source for the most recent updates, events, and achievements within our ecosystem. In this issue, we highlight the upcoming BoxWorks 2026 conference, celebrate our community advocates, and share key product updates designed to optimize your content and AI workflows.
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Reimagine Work with the Brightest Minds in Content and AI
Join us November 5–6 in San Francisco for BoxWorks 2026 to discover how leading organizations are connecting AI with enterprise content to transform the way work gets done.
Hear from industry leaders, including Box CEO Aaron Levie, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, and go deeper with customer-led sessions, hands-on demos, and Box Master Classes designed to help you put the latest AI innovations into practice.
Want to see how AI agents can securely unlock 85% of the web and turn it into actionable enterprise knowledge?
Join Browserbase and Box to learn how AI agents can securely access the web, navigate login-protected applications, and turn collected data into actionable intelligence. Discover how Box provides the secure file system layer to store, search, and reason over unstructured web content across agents and humans.
📣 Reserve your spot today to start building smarter, more capable AI agent workflows.
Exclusive BoxWorks 2026 Community VIP Happy Hour!
To thank our active community members, we are bringing back the exclusive Community VIP Happy Hour ahead of BoxWorks 2026!
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What to Expect: Complimentary food and drinks, networking with BoxWorks customer speakers and Box leaders, and exclusive VIP access perks during BoxWorks.
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Don't miss out—spots are limited. Email community-manager@box.com to RSVP before September 30, 2026.
Acknowledging Excellence!
🚀 @Aikokrishna Box and @bmalhotra
A massive shout out for leading an insightful roundtable on Box Agent Security and Governance. Thanks for breaking down critical enterprise risks such as prompt injection and detailed Box's four-pillar content-layer security framework (Protect, Control, Detect, and Govern), for showcasing upcoming roadmap capabilities, and for delivering a live demo of real-time classification-based access policies in action.
🚀 @Ben Weiner from Box , Katia Krasko, and Stuti Tandon
We would like to extend our sincere appreciation for hosting our community roundtable on mastering enterprise AI adoption. Thanks for demonstrating how the new Box AI Insights Dashboard empowers organizations to move from uncontrolled "token maxxing" to high-ROI optimization through precise forecasting, waste elimination, and innovation amplification.
🏆 @Jakub Piech PM Mobile
We are immensely grateful for your consistent updates on mobile enhancements—including the general availability of Hubs on Mobile, mobile task creation and approval workflows, and real-time Microsoft 365 co-authoring—which empower our community to stay productive from anywhere. Your detailed guides and feature walkthroughs ensure teams can seamlessly collaborate and manage critical projects directly from their smartphones and tablets.
🏆 @Scott Picanco Box
We want to express our deepest recognition for your invaluable deep dive into the integration between Box Sign and Box Metadata, detailing how standardized system metadata and forthcoming custom field mappings automate agreement tracking across downstream workflows. This comprehensive product walkthrough equips organizations to maximize efficiency, strengthen auditability, and prepare agreement data for AI-driven business processes.
🏆 @bmalhotra
Our heartfelt thanks go out to Bakhshi for delivering an exceptional, structured framework outlining five foundational guardrails—from least-privilege data governance to action auditability—essential for securely deploying enterprise AI agents. Drawing from recent community roundtable insights, your checklist provides administrators with actionable guidance to prevent agent hijacking and maintain rigorous oversight over sensitive data.
🏆 @ayoung Box
We are very thankful for bringing essential frontline guidance from customer success to help organizations protect sensitive content using Box Shield, Shield Pro, and Governance tools. By highlighting best practices for classification structures, threat detection, and compliance standards, you gave community members a clear roadmap for securing critical enterprise data.
🏆 @thomasdeely Box
Our warmest commendation for providing vital thought leadership by breaking down Box's commitment to open-weights AI alongside industry leaders and illustrating how enterprise architectures can balance frontier reasoning with domain-tuned models. Your analysis sparked an engaging discussion on navigating the economics, compliance, and deployment practicalities of intelligent content workflows.
🏆 @chriskim
We are incredibly grateful to Chris for engaging the developer community with an exciting invitation and technical overview for building real-world AI agents using Browserbase and Box. This upcoming live webinar promises hands-on demonstrations showing developers how to give agents secure browser access while leveraging Box as the authoritative, shared enterprise knowledge layer.
🏅 @Scott Sugimoto at Box
We appreciate your active engagement in the community, especially your post announcing the General Availability of Relay Point Migration to Box Automate. This guided, in-app experience is a game-changer for users looking to easily convert their existing workflows with just a few clicks.
🏅 @SaleaciaTaylor
We are incredibly grateful for your dedication to the community and for sharing the on-demand recording of the Secure AI for Nonprofit Operations session. Highlighting Morgane Bradley’s insights and the grant-to-delivery lifecycle demo by Behrad Mahdi and Andy Hayes provides immense value to our nonprofit members.
🏅 @LarsJ Box
Your active community presence and exciting update about the upcoming Q3 Beta for Audio / Video Q&A with the Box AI Agent are highly valued. This upcoming feature will greatly benefit Enterprise Plus users by allowing them to easily summarize and extract key insights directly from their recording files.
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Box Drive now integrates directly with the Claude and Cursor desktop apps, allowing you to open files or folders in Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or Cursor with a simple right-click.
This seamless desktop integration enables AI agents to instantly review contracts, flag clauses, build comparison tables, and save risk memos directly back to your Box folders without context switching or manual downloads.
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Product Updates, Feature Releases, and Announcements
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| Announcements/Release Notes | Description |
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| Introducing Updates to Box Automate Metadata, File, and Folder Event Triggers (Aug 2026) Update | GA | Added metadata and classification event triggers at both file and folder levels, plus sub-folder hierarchy cascading and field-level filter conditions for Enterprise plans. |
| New ways to view and navigate content in Box (Aug. 2026) Rolling out | Feature | Users can now rotate PDF/document pages in preview, use pinch-to-zoom gestures on touch devices, and navigate via a streamlined top header featuring a combined Tasks and notifications inbox. |
| Rolling out | Improved macOS upload experience by displaying transfer speeds and estimated time remaining during uploads. |
| Announcing End of Life for the Launch Zoom from Box Integration Deprecation | The legacy Launch Zoom integration will be retired on February 19, 2027. File storage and collaboration remain unaffected; meetings can be scheduled directly via the Zoom app or links. |
| File version limits now support up to 100,000 versions Rolling out | Admins on supported plans can now set custom file version limits ranging from 1 up to 100,000 versions. |
| Introducing References Tab in Manage Collaborators page Rolling out | Replaced the "Hubs" tab with a comprehensive "References" tab showing associated Hubs, Workflows, Extract Agents, and AI Sessions. |
| Introducing Relay Point Migration: Easily Migrate Your Relay Workflows to Box Automate (Aug 2026) Update | GA | Workflow owners on Business plans and above can now easily convert individual Relay workflows to Box Automate via a guided, one-click migration experience. |
Mark Your Calendar: Exciting Events Coming Up!
Don't miss out on our upcoming events! Check them out and subscribe to stay informed and connected 📅
| Date | Events | Event type |
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| August 25, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| August 26, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| August 26, 2026 | Developer | Webinar | |
| September 9, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| September 9, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| September 16, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| September 24, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| November 5-6, 2026 | In-person event |
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