Explore this edition to discover upcoming events like the virtual Box Growth Summit and the exclusive BoxWorks 2026 VIP Happy Hour. You'll also find essential product updates—including the general availability of Box Agent in Apps—and well-deserved recognitions celebrating our standout community champions.
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Box Growth Summit: Drive growth with AI that knows your business
Join us for a free, virtual summit designed for growing teams ready to turn business content into practical AI results.
Highlights:
- Executive Keynote: Box Global CIO Ravi Malick on securely connecting AI models and agents to your business content.
- Real Customer Results: Hear how NOVO Construction and Strategic Wealth Designers streamline workflows and save hundreds of hours using Box.
- Live Use Cases: See AI workflows in action across contracts, RFPs, invoices, and vendor onboarding.
Save your spot and explore the full agenda: Register Here
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!
🚀 @Scott Sugimoto at Box and @asubramanian Box
Huge appreciation for hosting an insightful session on “Build Your First Agentic Workflow: A Hands-On Workshop.” Their live demonstration and collaborative approach made demystifying Box Automate and building intelligent workflows accessible and engaging for everyone.
🏆 @Joshua Daudt
We extend our sincere gratitude to Joshua for providing invaluable information on FedRAMP's 2026 Consolidated Rules and what the updated certification terminology means for federal cloud security. His comprehensive breakdown equips our community to smoothly navigate compliance requirements, system impact levels, and Box's ongoing Class D high-baseline assurance.
🏆 @Katherine M Box
Heartfelt thanks for delivering practical guidance through Box University on pinpointing high-impact AI opportunities centered around repetitive, document-heavy workflows. Her structured evaluation checklist and curriculum insights empower organizations to move purposefully from initial AI curiosity to strategic, outcome-driven implementation.
🏆 @Piotr Kowal Box
We truly appreciate Piotr's exceptional expertise in demystifying the intricacies of in-region processing, cross-zone governance, and international data residency trade-offs. By outlining critical questions every organization should ask their cloud provider, he has given our community an essential roadmap for managing regional compliance without compromising global collaboration.
🏆 @Jason S
Enormous recognition goes to Jason for sharing candid, front-line insights that distinguish the purposeful reasoning of AI Home from conventional search retrieval. His actionable recommendations on scoping context and curating Hubs provide our members with immediate clarity on how to unlock the true potential of Box AI.
🏆 @Scott Picanco Box
A big shout-out for empowering the Box Community by sharing insightful guides on the new streamlined Custom Extract Agent builder and automated subfolder extraction capabilities in Box Extract. His contributions showcase how teams can effortlessly configure and test custom agents while automating metadata extraction across complex, nested folder structures at scale.
🏅 @LarsJ Box
Huge applause for sparking vital discussion around how the media and entertainment sector quantifies the real-world value of artificial intelligence. His insightful post prompts our community to look beyond standard efficiency gains and examine broader metrics like revenue growth, quality, and overall innovation.
🏅 @Viktar
Kudos for delivering major upgrades to the Platform Apps management experience in the Admin Console. By bringing pending app approvals front and center and introducing intuitive navigation and filtering, his efforts significantly streamline governance for administrators.
🏅 @Patrick Loomis PM Box
We are exceptionally grateful to Patrick for introducing direct search capabilities within the Platform Apps page. This enhancement eliminates tedious scrolling and empowers admins and co-admins to locate critical server and user apps in seconds.
🏅 @Scott Sugimoto at Box
Warmest appreciation for empowering Box users with versatile new Metric Card, Media, and Breakdown Blocks that bring calculated numbers, inline previews, and data visualizations directly onto app pages. He also delivered immense value across intelligent workflows by introducing advanced metadata and classification triggers in Box Automate alongside native PDF and PowerPoint template generation in Box Doc Gen.
🏅 @Olga Adler
Special praise to Olga for sharing high-level insights into expanded administrative governance and compliance standards across Box AI models in our private group. She also demonstrated practical automation techniques by highlighting how Box APIs can seamlessly convert CSV data into organized folders and structured documents.
Celebrating our Community Champion!
🌟 @marksmyth
Hats off to Mark for his outstanding engagement and leadership in exploring real-world workflows with Box Automate, Extract, and Metadata to streamline contract management. His feedback and thoughtful feature recommendations—such as adding a file picker to Box Forms for existing content—provide invaluable insights that enrich our entire community.
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Meet Box Agent—a new autonomous reasoning agent built directly into Box Apps. Instead of manually digging through files, Box Agent breaks your goal into subtasks, searches across your content, analyzes documents, and delivers traceable answers in minutes.
From reviewing contract compliance to extracting key data, all work happens securely inside Box under your existing governance policies and access controls—with zero data movement.
Box Agent in Apps is available now! Read the full announcement on our blog:
📌 Introducing Box Agent in Apps: Deep agent capability across your workflows
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Product Updates, Feature Releases, and Announcements
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| Announcements/Release Notes | Description |
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| New Box MCP server admin controls for unpublished platform apps Launched | Admins can now set granular tool permissions for internal, custom-built apps connecting via Box MCP Server, enforcing least-privilege access either through global policies or custom app-specific controls. |
| Introducing Box Agent in Apps (Sept. 2026) Feature | GA | Box Agent is now generally available within Box Apps, delivering an autonomous reasoning agent that automatically breaks down complex tasks, searches and analyzes multi-document sets, and generates traceable answers directly in your workflow. |
| Launched | Box Shuttle now supports spreadsheet-based bulk mapping, enabling administrators to easily map thousands of users, groups, and directory structures from source systems to Box in a single upload for faster, simpler migrations. |
| Box Zones supports metadata in-region for ANZ Launched | Box Zones is expanding data residency support in the Australia Zone to include metadata in-region, helping organizations meet regional compliance and privacy requirements. |
| Introducing New Blocks in Box Apps: Metric Card, Media, and Breakdown (Aug. 2026) Feature | GA | App builders can now add Metric Cards for live metadata calculations, Media Blocks to embed and interact with rich content inline, and Breakdown Blocks for visual metadata distribution charts directly on app pages. |
| The latest integration update delivers key reliability and functional fixes across Box Sign sync, Box Doc Gen template resolution, and automated folder collaboration management. | |
| Streamlined agent builder experience in Box Extract (Aug 2026) Update | GA | Box Extract features an intuitive split-screen Custom Extract Agent builder, allowing users to easily select existing metadata templates, configure prompts, upload sample files, and test extraction accuracy in real time. |
| Admin model controls for the Box Agent Rolling out | Admins gain centralized governance to enable, disable, and filter foundation AI models powering Box Agent across their organization based on compliance levels (including FedRAMP High and DoD IL4), tiers, and providers. |
| Share a link to a specific page in a Box Hub Launched | Users can now copy and share direct anchor links to specific pages within a Box Hub, ensuring recipients land exactly on the intended page with nested navigation expanded automatically. |
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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| September 9, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| September 16, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| September 17, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| September 22, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| September 23, 2026 | Virtual Summit | |
| September 24, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| September 30, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| October 1, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| October 7, 2026 | Virtual workshop | |
| November 5-6, 2026 | In-person event |
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