2025 was the year developers shifted from experimenting with AI to building mission-critical workflows with it.
During this time, the Box Developer Relations team focused on enabling this shift across various fronts — including our technical content, events, hackathons, amazing partnerships, improvements to our developer documentation portal, and more. To continue our team’s tradition, we’d like to recap and reflect on how we served our developer community in the past twelve months.
50+ transformative publications released
This past year, the Box Developer Relations team published an extraordinary 57 pieces of content, cementing 2025 as the year of Box AI.
Our content strategy reflected the transformative wave sweeping through enterprise development, with over 20 articles dedicated to AI integrations and innovative use cases. From deep technical guides on Box AI API capabilities to groundbreaking integrations with popular AI frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, Pinecone, and OpenAI, we’ve helped developers unlock new possibilities for intelligent document workflows.
We also embraced the emerging Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, publishing multiple guides on building AI agents that seamlessly integrate Box’s Intelligent Content Management capabilities with cutting-edge AI tools. Whether developers were building multi-agent workflows, extracting structured data from contracts, or implementing contextual retrieval for RAG applications, our content provided the technical foundation they needed to succeed.
Beyond AI, we maintained our commitment to making Box Platform more accessible and powerful for developers at every level. We published comprehensive guides on Box’s newest features including the Document Generation API, Box Hubs API, and enhanced UI Elements customization.
Our team demystified complex topics like service accounts, SDK migrations, and metadata extraction workflows while providing practical workshops on real-world scenarios from property lease management to insurance claims automation. Each article was crafted with the developer experience in mind — complete with code samples, step-by-step tutorials, and best practices drawn from real implementation scenarios.
As we look back at these publications, we’re proud to have served as a bridge between Box’s powerful platform capabilities and the innovative developers building the future of enterprise content management.
Events explored the future of AI
2025 was a transformative year for Box Developer Relations, marked by an ambitious calendar of events that brought together developers, partners, and industry leaders to explore the future of enterprise AI and Intelligent Content Management.
From intimate technical workshops and in-person Developer Days, to major industry conferences, our event strategy focused on three key pillars: hands-on technical education, strategic partner collaboration, and fostering a vibrant global developer community across multiple continents.
The year’s flagship event, BoxWorks in San Francisco (September 11-12), exemplified our commitment to developer success through its expanded two-day format. The Dev Zone featured strategic partner sessions from IBM, AWS, Pinecone, Autonomy, SoftServe, and Mistral, demonstrating real-world implementations of Box’s AI capabilities at enterprise scale.
Day two’s Master Classes transformed theoretical knowledge into practical skills, with developers working directly alongside Box engineers to build custom workflows with the Box MCP server, explore advanced Box AI API use cases, and create multi-agentic applications. Participants left with working prototypes and implementation roadmaps, embodying our philosophy of learning through building.
Beyond BoxWorks, we maintained an active global presence throughout the year. We launched our first-ever BoxWorks London Developer Summit in June, establishing Box Community as the UK’s first officially recognized AI community on the DevITJobs platform. Our virtual Content + AI Summit in May featured collaborative technical sessions with guest experts — like OpenAI’s Dmitry Pimenov, Anthropic’s Sam Flamini, and Salesforce’s Karan Sethi, who demonstrated Box’s deep integration with leading AI platforms.
We engaged developers at major industry conferences including Google Next in Las Vegas (April), LangChain’s Interrupt Conference in San Francisco (May), served as Platinum sponsor of Salesforce London’s Calling (June), and joined Zapier’s ZapConnect (July).
We closed the year strong with Scott Hurrey’s technical session at AI Dev Day in New York City (November) on scaling enterprise AI with MCP and agent-to-agent protocols, and hosted content.to_context(), our first full-day AI agent hackathon at AWS’s Palo Alto office (November). Additionally, partnered with DeepLearning.AI to create a short course on building AI apps with MCP servers, extending our educational reach to developers worldwide.
This comprehensive event portfolio reinforced Box’s position as the Intelligent Content Management platform for the AI era, while strengthening our global developer community through meaningful technical engagement, strategic partnerships, and a relentless commitment to practical, hands-on learning that empowers developers to immediately apply their knowledge.
Videos captured the pulse of AI innovation
This year marked an extraordinary expansion of our video content strategy, with the Box Developer Relations team producing an impressive collection that showcased the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-powered development with Box.
From exploring cutting-edge AI models like GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3, and Grok 3 through our “Model Behavior” series, to demonstrating practical implementations with GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Agent Builder and Responses API, and Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), these videos captured the pulse of AI innovation as it happened. Our “AI in Action” series provided real-world demonstrations of how developers can leverage Box’s AI capabilities in production environments, while our technical deep-dives explored integrations with emerging technologies like Claude’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Mistral’s Le Chat.
The crown jewel of this year’s video efforts was our comprehensive exploration of agentic workflows — a collection of hands-on tutorials that demonstrated how developers can build sophisticated AI agents using Box as their content layer. Videos covering LangChain, LangGraph, Pydantic, and OpenAI’s new Agents SDK showed the community how to construct intelligent systems that can process insurance claims, extract metadata from documents, generate code, and orchestrate complex multi-step workflows.
We also expanded our focus on practical developer tooling, with tutorials on setting up the Box MCP server with Cursor, building document generation apps with Claude Code, and leveraging Snowflake’s Openflow connector for automated metadata extraction. These 25 videos represent not just a documentation of the year’s technical innovations, but a commitment to empowering our developer community with the knowledge and tools they need to build the next generation of content-intelligent applications.
Hear from DevRel team members
And now, hear directly from our team members sharing their highlights and proud moments from this year.
Scott Hurrey, Director Developer Relations
2025 was a big year for Box and AI. Our team was incredibly active in building demos, connectors, and content. To see value from AI, context is key, and Box has more than an exabyte of unstructured data and the tools you need to turn that content into context.
I’m especially proud of our team for adjusting to the new normal, adopting AI as a core part of what we do, even as we strive to demonstrate AI capabilities with Box in the form of videos, blogs, and workshops. We also made several strategic pivots in how we work to better the output and focus on what’s important.
We also had a great year for events. The highlights for me were our AI developer-focused BoxWorks Masterclass with standing room only attendance, the content.to_context() hackathon with our friends at AWS and SoftServe, and sponsorship at both LangChain Interrupt and AI Dev NYC. I can’t wait to build on this in 2026!
We saw a valued team member, Alex Novotny, move on to a new opportunity to grow his talents. I’d like to share a warm congratulations to Alex. I know he will knock it out of the park.
We also welcomed Andrew Wong to the team, a fantastic advocate with killer video skills. Andrew stepped in on day one (literally) to take the reins on our video practice and has become an integral part of our content engine.
Olga has done a fantastic job stepping up and out, releasing a Box connector for LangChainJS. If you have read Olga’s content, you know she is an amazing front-end developer. LangChainJS was her chance to show off her back-end skills. She also continued the amazing work she does in her community, as well as in the Box community, which culminated in a nomination for the WomenTech Network Leader of the Year Award.
And of course Rui did what Rui does: Build a ton of code to help developers pull Box content into AI applications easily, allowing them to focus on the problem they are trying to solve. And of course all of this came with engaging content to help you use and understand these tools.
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention our fantastic writers. Justi, Ian, and Ana have done tremendous work documenting all of our releases so developers can easily understand and get started with new and existing APIs, and Rene and Charles teamed up with them to make sure every product feature and enhancement is documented on time to help all Box users make the most of the product. Łukasz has done an amazing job managing the team and keeping our users engaged and informed. We couldn’t do this work without all of our team members.
Andrew Wong, Senior Developer Advocate
Since joining the Box Developer Relations team last summer, 2025 has been the year that let me fully combine the things I love: teaching, building, and experimenting. I focused much of my energy on creating technical video content that walked developers through everything from new AI models (GPT-5+, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro) to hands-on demos with tools like MCP connectors, OpenAI Agent Builder, Google ADK, Claude Enterprise Search, and ChatGPT Company Knowledge.
I also loved getting to speak at Zapier’s ZapConnect conference, another chance to tap back into my teaching side and connect with builders in a different context. And co-hosting the Box + AWS Hackathon (my first in years!) reminded me how energizing and fun that kind of creative, high-velocity environment can be.
I’m deeply grateful for the support, collaboration, and humor across our DevRel team, and for the developers who engaged with the demos, asked thoughtful questions, and pushed the ideas further. Looking ahead, I’m excited to keep building things that help people learn, experiment, and ship even faster in 2026.
Rui Barbosa, Senior Developer Advocate
This year marked a transformative period in my work with the Box Developer Relations team, driven by an intense focus on AI integration and developer tooling.
My primary achievement was authoring the Box MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, which became a cornerstone project that generated significant community engagement and adoption. This foundational work opened new possibilities for developers to integrate Box seamlessly with AI applications, sparking a wave of activity across the ecosystem.
Throughout the year, I published over 20 technical articles, each accompanied by practical code samples demonstrating Box features in action. My work spanned the full spectrum of modern AI development, from building multi-agent workflows with OpenAI and LangGraph to creating enterprise-grade AI agents combining Box with MongoDB Atlas and LangChain.
I explored cutting-edge integrations with platforms like n8n, Airbyte, and MotherDuck, while also diving deep into specialized use cases such as OCR-powered metadata extraction, insurance claims automation with DocGen, and structured data extraction from contracts.
A recurring theme in my articles was making complex AI workflows accessible — whether teaching Claude to use the Box API, demonstrating LangChain integrations, or showcasing Box AI’s capabilities for document analysis and generation.
Beyond technical tutorials, I also contributed to community enablement through workshops on property lease management and document automation, ensuring developers had both the knowledge and hands-on experience to leverage Box’s powerful API and AI features effectively.
Olga Stefaniuk, Developer Advocate
Serving the Box developer community this year has led me to exploring a lot of new areas. Not only have I successfully led our first developer track at BoxWorks London, but also I explored new technical domains including the LangChain ecosystem by delivering a JavaScript loader for Box content.
It’s been an intense year full of collaboration with multiple teams to ensure we deliver outstanding developer experiences. Thanks to a joint effort of several teams, we delivered the new developer blog and an updated UI of the developer portal enhanced with an AI-first approach.
I also had a chance to tighten collaboration with our Box Platform Tools team to launch the v10 of Box SDKs. I’m lucky to create our developer newsletter that is sent monthly, so you can stay up to date with the latest product updates, releases, tutorials, and videos our team creates throughout the whole year.
Box Developer Community
Our team is extremely grateful for all interactions and time spent in person and online with developers driving solutions based on Box Platform. You’ve showed up at our events, asked questions, interacted with our content, and provided valuable feedback that resulted in many product improvements and shaped our solutions. As always, we stay open to your feedback on how we can improve in the upcoming year.
We’d like to also thank our partners for an opportunity for collaboration, pushing boundaries and building impressive solutions. We look forward to next year that will lead to multiplying the latest trends and exploring new patterns of working with Box Intelligent Content Cloud. We’ll continue to deliver outstanding developer-focused content, improve developer experience and help you to create integrations at a faster pace.
Thank you for being a part of this journey and we wish you all the best in the upcoming new year.
