Let’s celebrate Box being named a 2026 Best Workplace in Tech and get details on the exclusive Community VIP Happy Hour at BoxWorks 2026. Explore community spotlights honoring our Box champions, alongside key product updates plus upcoming community events and webinars.
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Celebrating Our Culture: Box Named a 2026 Best Workplace in Tech
Big shifts in technology are powered by people. As Box continues redefining enterprise work with AI, being named to Great Place to Work’s 2026 Best Workplaces in Tech is a moment to celebrate the people and culture behind that work.
Thank you to Boxers around the world for building what’s next and making this community what it is. 🙌
📌 Source: LinkedIn
BoxWorks 2026: Community VIP Happy Hour
Our most engaged community members are invited to the exclusive Community VIP Happy Hour on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 ahead of BoxWorks 2026. Enjoy complimentary food, an open bar, networking with Box leadership and customer speakers, and special VIP perks throughout the conference. RSVP by October 31, 2026 to secure your spot.
🥂 Visit the BoxWorks 2026 Community VIP Happy Hour page for all the details and exclusive perks.
Acknowledging Excellence!
Recognizing the Boxers who drive conversations, champion knowledge-sharing, and empower our Box community ✨
🚀 @Meena Ganesh Box and Roger Schmitt
A huge thank you for leading an incredible deep-dive into Box Agent capabilities, AI Studio, and secure RAG architecture — brought to life through live demos spanning RFP management, contract lifecycle, claims, lease abstraction, and engineering document workflows.
🚀 @protella and Chris Belle
We are so grateful for this engaging fireside chat on solving insurance operational bottlenecks in the AI era — pairing a compelling vision for moving from 'documents in motion' to 'intelligence in action' with real-world perspective on making daily work simpler, faster, and more consistent.
🏆 @Katherine Box
Kudos for the complete Enterprise Folder Structure Best Practices series — covering the basics and naming conventions, waterfall permissions and content placement, open vs. closed folder structures, and a hands-on exercise to design and refine your own structure using Box AI.
🏅 @LarsJ Box
Hats off for two weeks of sharp M&E Industry Briefs — covering AI authenticity, streaming fraud, broadcaster consolidation, the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, Walmart Connect's linear TV expansion, and Disney+'s Super Bowl streaming plans.
🏅 @Scott Sugimoto at Box
A big thank you for this thorough and community-friendly recap of the "Build Your First Agentic Workflow" office hours session, covering Box Automate fundamentals, AI agent best practices, and advanced CLM and records management use cases.
🏅 @Olga Adler
We sincerely appreciate the series of resources for the defense and federal communities — spanning Box Mobile workflows across aviation and remote operations, Box AI Home's secure content capabilities for federal agencies, and empowering builders to connect agents to Box via the new A2A API and Box Mount.
— in Defense Community (classified group)
🏅 @spencerbox
A warm thank you for welcoming attendees to the BoxWorks Master Classes community and setting the stage for a three-session series focused on leading AI transformation, designing AI solutions, and rolling out and governing AI across organizations.
🏅 @Casey Bigger Box
We're delighted to recognize the introduction of Session 1, where attendees will learn how to assess content readiness, evaluate AI fit, and connect use cases to measurable business outcomes — with a real-world perspective from LPL Financial.
🏅 @Erica
Heartfelt thanks for introducing Session 2, guiding participants through how to design scalable AI agents, configure Box AI Studio, and connect external AI tools to Box content via Box MCP.
🏅 @Jordan Liff_Box
We extend our appreciation for introducing Session 3, equipping attendees with strategies for phased AI rollouts, stakeholder communications, governance frameworks, and measuring business value — with real-world insights from The Team.
🏅 @Patrick Loomis PM Box
We're truly grateful for sharing the new app re-authorization configuration diff feature, which now gives admins clear visibility into added, removed, and unchanged permissions — empowering confident, security-informed approval decisions.
🏅 @Damian
A special thank you for giving the developer community an early look at the upcoming Sandboxes page in the Developer Console and actively seeking feedback to shape a feature that will make accessing and managing Sandbox environments faster and far less cumbersome.
🏅 @Melissa Berkebile Box
We're so thankful for bringing the life sciences community this timely webinar on modernizing clinical site collaboration, covering streamlined site document exchange, automated tracking, AI-assisted CRA monitoring prep, and digital study sign-off.
🏅 @JohnCapers Box
Much appreciation for keeping the Courts community informed about BoxWorks and highlighting the Community VIP Happy Hour. It’s a great opportunity to connect with Box leadership and community VIPs before the registration deadline.
💡 @Jason S
We truly appreciate the thoughtful, step-by-step guidance provided to community members navigating account access issues — from 2FA troubleshooting and email suppression to Viewer Uploader permissions, shared link redirects, and Salesforce authorization errors.
💡 @Katherine Box
Many thanks for jumping in to support community members with hands-on help — from navigating the Box Certified Admin course path to pointing user straight to the AI Strategist exam workbook.
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Product Updates, Feature Releases, and Announcements
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| Announcements/Release Notes | Description |
|---|---|
| Feature | Phased GA | Box expanded its global footprint to ten regions by launching new Box Zones in Switzerland, Singapore, and Israel, while adding in-region compute processing for France and Canada. This allows organizations to satisfy local data residency requirements for storage, uploads/downloads, encryption, and previews within a single global Box deployment. |
| Box supports verified-domain controls for Claude and ChatGPT Launched | Administrators can now enforce verified email domain restrictions when connecting Box to Claude Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise. This control blocks unauthorized connections from personal accounts or unapproved workspaces and ensures work accounts connect only within designated enterprise AI environments. |
| Upcoming Updates to MCP Server Reporting (Oct 2026) Update | GA | Box launched the new MCP Server Platform Activity report, giving administrators high-level environment visibility and content usage metrics. In addition, the existing activity report was renamed to the MCP Server Tool Calls report to better highlight its granular, event-level execution tracking. |
| Box Mobile Update: Choose Where Your Box AI Conversation Is Stored Launched | Box AI on mobile now includes Destination Folder selection, enabling users to choose exactly where files generated during Box Agent conversations are stored instead of keeping them in the default session folder. |
| Improved Source Management in Box Shuttle Launched | Box Shuttle introduced a dedicated Source Management page, allowing migration operators to view, filter, edit, authorize, and remove connected data sources across past and active jobs without needing to open a specific migration job. |
| Box is implementing additional verification on new device activation Rolling out | To mitigate compromised credential risks, Box is rolling out an automated, one-time identity verification prompt whenever users attempt to log in from an unrecognized device. |
| This release adds a File Uploads tab to Box Utility in the Salesforce Utility Bar for direct record uploads (from Salesforce Files or local computers) and includes bug fixes for Doc Gen tag formatting and multi-level related object field merging. | |
| Box is adding new visibility into AI usage and entitlements Launched | Admins can now manage and expand daily Box AI allocations for individual users or across the entire enterprise via a new Usage tab in the Admin Console. The dashboard also supports configuring monthly overage caps using organization AI Unit pools to avoid service interruptions. |
| Multi-column layouts in Box Hubs Launched | Box Hubs now supports flexible two- and three-column section layouts with adjustable column widths, drag-and-drop block positioning, and automatic responsive stacking for mobile and narrow browser views. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| October 20, 2026 | From clinical study conduct to sign-off: Modernizing Site Collaboration | Webinar |
| October 21, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| October 21, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| October 27, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| October 28, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| October 29, 2026 | Building Headless Workflows: Box as the Content Layer for AI and Automation | Webinar |
| November 5-6, 2026 | In-person event | |
| November 5-6, 2026 | In-person event | |
| November 11, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| November 12, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| November 24, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) |
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