It’s my favorite time of year — Wrike Collaborate season.
Designed for organizations ready to transform how work gets done, our 2026 event covered insights from customers like Yamaha Motor Manufacturing and Anaplan, our latest product roadmap updates, and so much more.
Collaborate 2026 was a roaring success and while we had so many join us live, we know schedules can get in the way. That’s why we’ve made the event available to everyone on demand. Watch the tracks you didn’t get to see live, or send it to a colleague you think would gain knowledge from it. Collaborate is the quintessential place to learn about the ways others are using Wrike so you can uplevel fast and build strategic transformation into your own roadmap.
I’d like to thank our customer speakers who gave their time and expertise to share advice, insights, and instances with attendees and viewers. Plus, I’d be remiss if I didn’t think all the Wrikers who had a hand in putting together this incredible event. I never fail to learn something new from Collaborate, and this year was no different.
Please take the time to watch Collaborate 2026 on demand — you’ll be glad you did. Not ready for it to be over? Check out our upcoming roadshows (more on that below).
Where AI and ambition meet action
AI is in every headline, but we know that the real story is happening inside your workflows, every single day. And for most teams, the real work of figuring out where AI fits into your workflows is just beginning.
That’s why we’ve focused on closing that gap at Collaborate. Our speakers, breakout sessions, and keynotes will all help you turn ambition into outcomes, and strategy into action. Collaborate 2026 will give you the tools you need to set your status to “transformation delivered.”
For Wrike users, that means being able to say: “I led the shift. And I have the results to show for it.”
For executives, that looks like: “We transformed but we also delivered, at every point along the way.”
Why watch Collaborate 2026?
The beautiful thing about Collaborate is that there’s something for every level of user. Whether you’ve never heard of us before or you’ve been using Wrike for a decade, we’ll deliver knowledge and insights you can take back to your team and put right to work.
Here’s what you can expect from the ultimate work delivery conference:
- Three theme-driven learning paths: Choose from three tracks to tailor your day to your role and skillset, each built around the specific ways you transform, configure, lead, and deliver work in your organization (more on that below).
- Real customer success stories from major brands: Get a firsthand look at how industry leaders like Yamaha Motor Manufacturing and Anaplan actually use Wrike, including insights into their workflows, governance strategies, and delivery excellence.
- An inside look at the Wrike product roadmap: Our Chief Product Officer, Alexey Korotich, unveils what’s new and next, including purpose-built capabilities designed to help organizations deliver transformation at scale.
- Direct insights from Wrike’s executive team: I joined Alexey and our CRO, George Saadeh, on the virtual stage, giving attendees a chance to hear strategy straight from leadership.
- An efficient, high-value format: Four hours, 15 sessions. It’s designed to pack in maximum insight without eating up your whole day.
Breakout sessions are back
The biggest feedback we heard after last year’s Collaborate was that attendees missed our customer-focused and Wrike expert and champion-led breakout sessions. So we brought breakouts back.
This year, we have three themed tracks, so you can choose and move flexibly between them depending on your role and how you deliver work.
Here’s a taste of what those tracks look like:
1. The Workflow Builder: For the people who make Wrike work
This track is designed for the hands-on practitioners, admins, project managers, and workflow architects who are closest to their organization’s work and responsible for making it run. In this track, you can expect live walkthroughs of active Wrike instances, practical configuration guidance, and a first look at what the new project manager agent means for how you work day to day.
2. The Transformation Leader: For the people driving change across the organization
This track is built for the program leads, operations directors, and change agents who are responsible for making transformation a reality and change a little less scary. The sessions in this track focus on strategic frameworks, cross-functional governance, and the practical steps that separate organizations that talk about transformation from the ones that actually deliver it.
Every example is grounded in a specific industry and workflow context, so you’ll be able to see exactly what transformation looks like in environments like yours.
3. The Outcome Driver: For the people delivering results
The third track is built for the users, managers and team leads who live in Wrike’s dashboards, boards, and Gantt views and are accountable for what their teams deliver. Sessions go deep on the tools you already touch every day:
- Using dashboards, Wrike Copilot, and scheduled reports to replace status-chasing with real visibility
- Putting baseline analytics and variance tracking to work so you measure outcomes, not activity
- Using the new Gantt’s critical path, float, and cross-team dependencies to catch schedule risk before it becomes a missed deadline
You’ll see how teams like yours have configured Wrike to deliver, and leave with techniques you can apply in your own workspace as soon as you return.
Speaker lineup
Our team put so much care and consideration into building an agenda for Collaborate 2026 that truly reflects what our customers have told us matters most: practical guidance they can act on immediately, not abstract predictions about where the industry is headed.
This year, attendees and viewers have the opportunity to hear from some of our most successful, innovative, and forward-thinking customers about their playbooks, their workflows, their must-have agents. I feel confident that you will finish watching Collaborate with a brain full of ideas you can’t wait to put into practice for your team.
On our speaker lineup are organizations like SharkNinja, WebMD, and R1 RCM, whose team members share the specifics of how they’ve approached transformation in their own organizations — including what worked, what didn’t, and what they measured along the way.
We believe there is more value in an honest account of a real implementation than in a polished case for what’s theoretically possible.
Several sessions this year focus specifically on how organizations have put AI into practice. Chris Tinsley, Director of Creative Production & Operations at SharkNinja, walks through how his team moved beyond individual projects to operationalize transformation at an enterprise scale, and touches on the reporting structures they built to measure impact along the way.
We’ve also organized sessions around the more operational aspects of delivering work. Renee James, Senior Program Manager at R1 RCM, and Abbas Sangi, Manager of Continuous Improvement at RWS Global, joined Wrike’s own Lynette Mutungi to discuss how program leaders can build a defensible plan for mission-critical work. They address an essential question facing businesses worldwide: how do you identify and address risk before it affects a deadline or your bottom line?
In another session, Jessica Flannery of Finance of America and Hayden Waugh of Trane Technologies discuss how their teams moved from having limited visibility into their work to a clearer, metrics-based understanding of their own performance. They’ve put in the work and their methods are ones you’ll definitely want to replicate.
I’m glad we’re able to bring perspectives like these to Collaborate 2026, and I look forward to what I know will be a valuable set of conversations following the conference as well.
Elite 100 winners
Last month, we announced the winners of the Wrike Elite 100 — the users pushing Wrike further than we ever imagined and transforming how their organizations work. Now, you can hear directly from several of them at Collaborate 2026.
First up, Savannah Scofield, Director of Operations, Creative at Sur La Table, who took home this year’s AI Strategy Award. At Collaborate, she joined a panel of powerhouse Wrike users in Getting Started with Agentic Project Management. She and her fellow panelists broke down practical approaches to AI implementation. Whether you’re AI-curious or actively hunting for your next use case, this is your chance to get an inside look at the AI ecosystem that made Savannah a winner.
Then there’s Val Rivera IV, Project Analyst at Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America, recipient of this year’s Results Award. In the Main Stage Customer Spotlight, Val is joined by Yamaha’s CEO and their recently formed PMO team to talk about why executive buy-in is make-or-break for real transformation. If you’ve ever struggled to get user adoption off the ground, you won’t want to miss how Val turned that challenge into measurable results.
And for anyone thinking about scale and governance, don’t miss Cécilia Gauffre, Assignment Advisor at Moment Factory and winner of this year’s Innovation Award. In Real Customer Environments: A Behind-the-Scenes Walkthrough, Cécilia and a fellow expert Wrike user pull back the curtain on the integration and automation architecture that sets her work apart — including the governance and data guardrails that keep it all safe at scale.
Three award winners. Three completely different challenges. One conference where you can learn exactly how they did it.
Collaborate 2026 roadshows: You’re invited
And we’re not finished yet — we’re taking Collaborate 2026 on the road! If you’re in the following cities (or nearby), join us for an evening of insight, innovation, and connection.
- London — October 13
- Paris — October 15
- New York — October 20
- San Francisco — October 22
- Tokyo — November 5
You’ll get the chance to connect with our Wrike executive team, as well as local powerhouse customers, and get a firsthand look at what’s next for Wrike, live demos of AI agents and workflows, and real stories of real results. See you there!
