THE TECHNOLOGY INTERVIEW
W hen Duncan Clark set out to build Flourish, his goal was simple: make data communication as intuitive as storytelling. Today, as Head of EMEA at Canva and CEO of Flourish, Duncan operates across two areas transforming how people work – visual communication and data‐driven decision‐making.
“ Almost every presentation is actually a data story,” Duncan says.“ And yet the tools we use for visualisation and those we use for storytelling have traditionally existed in two completely separate worlds. What we’ ve been trying to do is bring them together – everything in one place – and that’ s exactly the Canva product philosophy.”
That“ one place” ethos now stretches across the entire Canva platform. From enterprise teams to educators and small businesses, Canva’ s mission remains unchanged: to empower the world to design. However, under Duncan’ s leadership – especially in EMEA – it’ s evolving into something broader, redefining how creativity, AI and data come together.
The growing visual, data-driven world From where Duncan sits, he sees two“ mega trends” shaping modern communication: firstly, that the world is becoming more visual and more data‐driven. Every few months, Canva releases new features designed to bridge those worlds.
28 February 2026