Happy Friday, Community!
How are you all feeling? This week has been a blast, and this might be the last day of Jumpstart Festival 2026, but the party isn’t over until it’s over! Let’s dance until the very last song, shall we? 💃🕺
Thank you for joining our games, attending the virtual events, and bringing your brightest energy to share with everyone. 💙 Before the festivities are over, what do you say we celebrate our winners, relive the best moments… and close up the week with one more surprise?
👋 But first, are you new here?
WELCOME! We hope the Jumpstart Festival was the perfect introduction to the Community for you. We would love to hear a bit more about you, and also invite you to check out more Community Events here.
Highlights
Loved seeing how many of you participated in our giveaways in Community and during the virtual events! Join us in congratulating our lucky winners:
New & Upcoming
- You met the newest class of Community Champions before anyone else (public announcement coming soon!).
- We invited you to our brand new Community Events, led by your peers. 🤩
- Ambassadors got a new badge, and all attendees got the Jumpstart Festival 2026 badge!
- The new homepage is clean, intuitive, and with simplified navigation.
- You can mute posts and select different cadences for the Digest.
- Live Today - We have a new Community tagline, picked by you — Connect.Share.Inspire ✨
- Coming soon - AI Search Assistant, Smartsheet University + Community, the ability to follow other members.
Roadmap Preview Summary
During the events, our special guest, Olen Ronning, Senior Director of Product, shared highlights from the Smartsheet Roadmap, including:
- A list of over 80+ features shipped in 2025.
- Insights into how the transformation on to the new Smartsheet platform is enabling greater scale, speed, and innovation in the experience.
- Updates on Table view and our commitment to bring all grid capabilities into that experience - with greater scale and speed - this year.
- Upcoming new core features like custom views, dependent filtered dropdowns, simplified chart creation and dashboard filtering.
- Preview of the new version of Control Center called "Portfolios" as well as Scenario Planning.
- A preview of new AI features coming soon including Smart Assist and Smart Columns.
Got feedback on what’s coming or new ideas? Share them with us on the Smartsheet Product Feedback & Ideas topic.
The 2026 Vision Board Map 🌎
This week, we had people from all corners of the world sharing moments of joy together. During the virtual events we celebrated that diversity with our very own 2026 Global Vision Boards, where we shared our dream locations, and places where we want to accomplish something special. These maps we made together are one more gift from us to you this week.
If anyone is planning to add the maps to their scrapbooks or junk journals, I would love to see that. 👀
Be Our Valentine?
Thank you so much for joining us this week, and for being the most amazing Community out there! Please remember to answer our post-event survey to share your feedback to help us make next year even better. Because you're our Valentines, we want to give you one more sweet surprise. This week was all about kickstarting 2026, so how about a backpack to accompany you on your adventures this year? 😎
How to win: Share your favorite moments from Jumpstart Festival 2026 with us in the comments below and you’ll be participating. We’ll share the winner right here on Monday, February 16.
Wishing you all the most wonderful weekend and Valentine's day. Thank you again for celebrating with us! 🥳
