Hello everybody! G’day Los Angeles! And welcome to everyone tuning in right around the world! It’s so good to be back with you all for our fifth Canva Create, broadcasting live from the Youtube Theatre in Hollywood Park. And a special thank you to our house band Wolves of Glendale! Wolves, how are you going? We’re stoked to be here. The audience is electric, let’s make some noise! When I feel this energy at Canva Create, it reminds me that we truly have the best community in the world. Thank you for being here, whether you’re joining for the first time, or you’ve been creating with us for years. From the very beginning, our mission has been to empower the world to design. Today, more than a quarter of a billion people create with Canva! Individuals, small businesses, classrooms, nonprofits, and thousands of enterprises across 190 countries. Together, you have all now created over 47 billion designs! That’s 463 designs every second! And over the years, you've shown us that “design” looks different for everyone. For some of you, it’s how you grow your business. Turning an idea into something real that you can share with the world. For others, it’s how you teach, bringing lessons to life for your students. For some, it’s deeply personal... like designing every detail for a big celebration, exactly the way you imagined it... But underneath all of that… every single one of you comes here with the same goal: to turn an idea into reality. For us, design has never just been about making something look good. Design is about giving form to an idea. It's how your imagination becomes reality. Before Canva, creating a design was incredibly complex and fragmented. You had to use one tool to find a template, another to source fonts, another for stock photography, another for editing, and on and on. We thought there was a better way, so we brought everything you need to design into one platform, making it simple and accessible to the whole world... We’ve always believed that productivity and creativity shouldn’t live in separate tools. That the magic is in the middle. So for the past decade, we’ve been bringing them together in one place. But now we’re seeing something familiar again, at a much larger scale. This time, it’s not just design. The entire process of creation is broken across too many tools, tabs, and workflows. Think about what it takes to create something today. You might get a great result from an AI tool, but it's one shot. You have to prompt and prompt again. Then you need another tool to manually format it. Now it’s completely off brand, because your brand guidelines live in a different place. Your data is scattered across platforms…so you’re copying, pasting, copying, pasting. Running your 20th AI search. Copy and pasting that too. Every time you switch apps, you lose the context you built up. Every time the format changes, you start again. And then tomorrow? You do the whole thing over. Sound familiar? At Canva, we love to make complex things simple... and just like a decade ago, we think there's a better way. This is something our community has been asking for, with so many of you wishing for more ways to use AI to get your jobs done. Already, our AI products have been used more than 27 billion times. Thanks to all of you, we've become the third most used AI product in the world, which is pretty incredible. But as we often say, we feel like we're just 1% of the way there. So today, we're incredibly excited to unveil... a generational leap forward for Canva... Our biggest launch ever. Something that will save you countless hours... something that will transform the way you work. Something that answers a lot of the wishes you have been making. Can I get a drumroll? Canva AI 2.0! Canva AI is now a true creative partner, bringing everything into one place so you can bring your imagination to life like never before. And it’s built on the platform you already know and love. So now you can collaborate with your team wherever you’re working in the Visual Suite. You can use Canva AI in your Docs! It can take a meeting transcript and turn it into a clear summary for your team. You can use it in your Presentations! Just write a prompt, and it can create your strategy deck, it can even help you make edits. You can even use Canva AI in your Sheets! Ask it to create a budget planner for a party, then jump in with your team to collaborate. The world’s best AI now lives right where you’re already creating. You can start right here on the homepage and Canva AI will do whatever you want it to do! Canva AI has nine powerful new capabilities that reimagine the entire process of creation. Our team has been working extraordinarily hard on what we're about to share with you. But before we do... one of our incredible engineering leads, Rafa, had a beautiful analogy that really touched our team. I think he’s in the audience, I wonder if he’d share it with us now?
Hey Mel! I’d love to. When building Canva AI 2.0, we realised its strength is found when its individual powers work as one. And, it got me thinking, it’s just like how an orchestra works. Each instrument with an important role to play, all coming together to create something extraordinary.
We loved that so much. So much so, that we have a little surprise for you all today… Everybody ready?! Let's show you how each of these instruments works, shall we? First up is… Conversational Design. With Canva AI 2.0, you can design through a simple conversation. Just describe what you want to create, share a rough idea, or tell it your goal... and Canva AI will bring it to life. You’re no longer limited by a blank page or a template. Everything starts with one conversation. Our next upgrade is Agentic Orchestration. This means Canva AI can now take actions on your behalf. Say you need to design a campaign. Canva AI can create, access, and tweak every element, so it's able to decide on which texts, fonts, and colours are best. It can even choose you an entirely new layout. You can use it to start a new design, or edit something when you're halfway through. Agentic Orchestration is what turns Canva AI into a true creative partner. Next up we have the Memory Library. When you come to Canva AI for the first time, you’ll be able to create your About Me. It will look at all of your existing designs and create a Canva Doc about who you are, and how you like to work. Here’s mine. Canva AI will use my About Me to personalise my Canva AI experience. And it will continue to update as I use Canva. Your About Me is the first book in your Memory Library. Over the coming months, you’ll be able to add more books to your Library. Core memories like your ideas, goals and preferences. Shared Memories with others, and even your Knowledge Base so that Canva AI has the most up to date information to help you and your team achieve your goals. Canva AI now also has Layered Object Intelligence. Thanks to our unique, in-house Canva Design Model, (which we launched back in October), Canva AI now generates fully layered designs. This means everything you generate is fully editable. For years, Canva has partnered with creators around the world to build a library of more than 150 million photos, illustrations, and templates. Today, we are bringing the full power of Canva AI to this incredible library. That means your next design can start with inspiration from our Marketplace, then come to life with Canva AI. You can jump into the editor, change any aspect of the design, and collaborate with your team at any time. Our creators remain at the heart of this experience, continuing to earn royalties as they always have. These first four capabilities give you a completely new way to design with Canva. But we’re only just getting warmed up! To share the next five with you, welcome to the stage Stef, Kerry, and Jess!
