Our biggest user conference ever in beautiful San Francisco!

  • 7 Speaker Tracks
  • 43 Atlassian Speakers
  • 21 Customer Speakers
  • 6 Marquee Speakers
  • 2 CEO Keynotes
  • 8 Training Sessions
  • 1 Rocking Party

Atlassian's fourth annual user conference will bring together hundreds of customers, partners and experts to explore what makes a technical team work together artfully. Bring your team, or come be a part of ours, for three days of sessions, networking and, let's face it, a little Aussie-style fun!

Who Should Come?

Bring your whole product and services team! From developers and product managers, to tech writers to agile project managers, it takes a team to raise a product.

  • Technical Teams Get best practices for collaborating on product development
  • Agile Developers How to make your team lean and keep your scrum moving
  • Project Managers  Help your team work together with improved processes & issue tracking
  • Advanced Users Take it up a notch with customizations and plugins
  • Plugin Developers Learn how to build and market your extensions 

Venue & Hotel

This year's event will take place at the Design Center Concourse, located in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood (at 8th and Brannan – Map).

We have reserved a discounted roomblock at the Parc 55 Hotel. We'll be shuttling attendees to and from the hotel throughout the day. More details on shuttle service to come.

Meet the Speakers!

Jeff Atwood

Coding Horror

Pamela Fox

pamelafox.org

Michael Lopp

Rands in Repose

Dave Thomas

Bedarra Research

Jeff Ma

Jeff Ma

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Connect

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Why Attend

Need to convince your boss to let you come to Summit? Need to convince yourself first? We can help.

92.3%

A whopping 92.3% of attendees said the 2011 conference did an excellent job of meeting their objectives. We're going for 100% this year! Summit is your one-stop shop for getting the most value out of your Atlassian products.

Content, Content, Content

Through 80 Summit presentations, eight training workshops, demonstrations of plugins and add-ons, networking and more, you will learn:

  • How to become an expert user or administrator of Atlassian products
  • How to squeeze more value from your investment in Atlassian products via performance tuning, add-ons, and feature usage
  • How to leverage the tools for different use cases and in different industries – from software development and agile project management, to release management and help desk
  • How to increase adoption of the tools across different types of teams and users
  • How to make teams more innovative through better collaboration, product development, and support
  • How to plan, prepare (and get excited) for what we have cooking in future releases and roadmaps

Product Demos

Every year at Summit, we launch the latest versions of our core products, and introduce some new ones.

  • Grab a seat with our engineers and product managers for hands-on demonstrations of our products
  • Meet with our support engineers to get through roadblocks, or learn about new ways to approach common problems
  • Get demos of the latest and greatest add-ons – like time tracking, ideation, performance monitoring, and help desk – to Atlassian tools from our Sponsors

Networking

Attendees at Summit come from just about every industry, including technology, media & entertainment, publishing, higher eduction, gaming, government services, retail, and more. It's a great time to meet other customers that you can learn from, or teach. Lots of networking time is built in, and you'll leave with dozens of new relationships and Atlassian friends.

Gaggles of Atlassians

Let's face it, we don't get out of the house too often. But when we do, we're tons of fun and we're thrilled to meet you and learn about what we can do to improve your experience with our products and make your deployments rock.

Don't just take it from us...

From the Summit 2011 surveys:

  • This was my 3rd Summit and I'm already looking forward to the 4th!

  • Summit was fantastic! The networking was invaluable. I connected with people I wouldn't have met otherwise, and shared ideas for how to use Atlassian products. I also had a blast! I'll definitely be back next year.

  • Actions speak louder than words... Atlassian lives and breathes it all for their customers.

  • The Summit is a valuable knowledge sharing and networking event where you can learn a great deal of useful information based on the experiences of the many Atlassian customers, partners and staff attending. The connections you make at the event are invaluable to the betterment of the Atlassian tool implementations to enable the success of our business processes.

Who Should Attend?

Summit is for everyone who is involved in the lifecycle of a product, including:

  • Engineers
  • Product Managers
  • QA Engineers and Software Testers
  • DevOps
  • IT and SysAdmins
  • SCM Lead
  • Systems Analyst
  • Technical Support
  • Technical Writers
  • Agile Project Managers and Scrum Masters
  • Build and Performance Engineers
  • Business and Development Operations
  • Product Leads

Atlassian Summit 2012 Agenda

  • Wednesday : Training
  • Thursday : Sessions
  • Friday : Sessions
  • Wednesday : Training

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Time Topic

Registration

  Before you head to your training class, pick up your conference badge and goodies.

Wednesday offers training sessions as a $400 add-on. Includes 1 morning session and 1 afternoon session, with lunch. Learn More

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Time Topic

Training: JIRA Fundamentals

Audience: JIRA beginners ClearVision

  Our most popular end-user training option, the JIRA Fundamentals course is designed with new users in mind. We will cover the most popular features of the JIRA product, including creating issues, using the workflow, assigning issues to other users, attachments, bulk operations, linking issues, searching for issues, saving searches for later use and setting up a personal dashboard. Once you've taken this course, you'll not only be a more efficient user of JIRA, but you'll be able to leverage the sharing capabilities of JIRA to make the the rest of your team more efficient!

Training: Confluence Fundamentals

Audience: Confluence beginners Stepstone

  This course is aimed at both end-users and administrators of the Confluence product, and focus on some basic concepts, while explaining best practices for wiki adoption. Our instructors are experts in the deployment of wikis in both large organizations and small teams, and can guide attendees through some common pitfalls and give personalized recommendations. Topics include editing pages in wiki markup and rich text, embedding images, using macros, labels, templates, tiny links, searching for content, daily email reports and using page restrictions. A must for new users of Confluence!

Training: Automated Testing with Bamboo and Manual Testing with Bonfire

Audience: QA Leads, Build Engineers, Sys Admins. No prior knowledge of Bamboo or Bonfire needed.

  In this course you will learn how to set up an automated build, test and deployment infrastructure for a software development team. We will explore the latest in automated testing and continuous deployment approaches as well as learn how to setup these processes in Bamboo. We will also look at manual testing with Bonfire, running blitz tests and ensuring quality.

Training: Git/DVCS Training with Bitbucket

Audience: Developers ClearVision

  This course is meant for the developers out there. Interested in moving your team to a distributed version control system like Git? This course takes you from creating and setting up a Git repository to understanding key concepts like cloning, forking and merging. After setup we take you take you through the key Git workflows and walk you through how Atlassian tools like Bitbucket can fit your teams development process.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Time Topic

Lunch

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Time Topic

Training: Advanced JIRA

Audience: JIRA Admins, advanced users (prior knowledge of JIRA required) ClearVision

  This class is for users who are comfortable using JIRA and want to take their knowledge and usage to the next level. Some of the topics will include tips and tricks for setting up workflows for different use-cases, schemes and dashboards/wallboards. You will learn how to use JQL to write effective queries and make interesting reports with sample queries. The class will dive into custom plugins that enhance workflows like JIRA suite utilities, and use workflow to create custom edit dialogs.

Training: Advanced Confluence

Audience: Confluence Admins, advanced users (prior knowledge of Confluence required) Stepstone

  This class is intended for those with a basic understanding of Confluence who want to take their knowledge and use to the next level. Some of the topics covered will include best practices for setting up a space for your team, making the most of macros, popular add-ons, adoption tips and strategies, connecting to JIRA and various use cases.

Training: JIRA Plugin Development

Audience: Developers

  This was the most popular class at Summit last year, so we're bringing it back again. Some of the topics covered in this course include setting up the plugin SDK, how to create a plugin from scratch, sample development and automated testing. This is a very technical course, so we do recommend attendees have some prior knowledge of JIRA coding techniques, Java, Velocity and JavaScript and Eclipse.

Training: Agile: Scrum and Kanban with GreenHopper

Audience: Scrum Masters, or anyone in a queue-based role (no prior knowledge of GreenHopper needed) cPrime

  This class will give you an introduction to Agile best practices and how to use Atlassian tools to implement them. Topics include planning feature development for a Scrum team, applying Kanban for maintenance releases or queue based teams, and scaling Agile in an Enterprise. You will learn how to interpret reports and drive continuous improvement within your teams.

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Time Topic

Industry Mixer

  Start your networking early, meet your industry peers and enjoy a few drinks before the Summit Welcome Reception. Industries will be organized as follows: Startups Enterprise Finance Gaming Education Media/Entertainment Mobile Consumer/Retail Technology, Other.

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Time Topic

Opening Summit Reception

  Join us and our amazing sponsors for some cocktails and munchies to kick off the conference right!

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Time Topic

Kick-Off Party, sponsored by Gliffy at the Mars Bar & Restaurant

  Gliffy is sponsoring drinks at a nearby bar after the opening reception. Join them (and us!) at 798 Brannan Street at the Mars Bar.
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FAQ

How do I purchase training?

Click on the "Register Now" button above, or click here.

What if I already purchased my Summit ticket, but now I want to add on training?

No sweat, just contact summit@atlassian.com and we will get you sorted in no time.

How many classes are being offered?

We're offering 8 classes this year, broken out into a morning and afternoon session.  All classes are 3 hours long.

How many classes can I attend?

You can choose a total of two: one morning session and one afternoon session.

What should I bring with me?

Please bring your laptop and powercord.  We will have tables, chairs and outlets and most of the classes will involve live interaction.

Are there any breaks?

We will be stopping for lunch from 12:00pm-1:00pm.  It is up to the instructor if they will be offering any other breaks in the middle of their class.

Who are the instructors?

We have carefully chosen select experts to collaborate with us on content creation for these classes.  The experts have each chosen their own instructors to lead the classes. 

I still have questions, who do I contact?

You can contact summit@atlassian.com and they will route you to the person in charge of training.

  • Thursday : Sessions

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM

Time Topic

Breakfast

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Time Topic

Keynote: Day 1 

  Welcome to Summit! If this is your first Summit, brace yourself for a lot of information and a whole lot more fun. And if you're coming back for a second, third or fourth Summit, we're absolutely delighted to have you back. Join Atlassian co-founders and co-CEOs, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, for a morning of big announcements, an introduction to the "Art of the Team," our product roadmap, and a few surprises.

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Time Topic

Break

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Time Topic

Launchpad Event

  One of the most popular sessions two years running, the Launchpad event features 10 developers showing off their latest/greatest add-ons and integrations with Atlassian tools. You, the audience, get to vote in real-time on the best demo.

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Time Topic

Lunch

  • Art of Collaboration
  • JIRA Everywhere
  • Scrum & Kanban
  • Art of Dev Ops
  • Art of Dev Speed
  • Plugin Developer

1:30 PM – 2:10 PM

Time Topic

Confluence State of the Union

Bill Arconati & Sherif Mansour, Atlassian

  Confluence 4 was a game changer in content collaboration. Think that's radical? Come to the Confluence State of the Union to hear what's next on our roadmap, get demos of the latest and upcoming features, and learn about new Confluence add-ons for your team.

Swamp Thing - Draining Technical Debt

Stuart Carmichael, MDA Corporation

  When building software systems with several million lines of code, paying down your technical debt is like draining a swamp. It is messy, difficult and without the right tools you will drown. Learn how MDA uses JIRA for change control in a way that lets teams recognize the swamp, find its edge and stay out of it. Using JIRA to embrace three things: compact communication, pulsed decision making and ritualized meetings, helps MDA make durable decisions that stick throughout the organization.

Scaling Kanban in the Enterprise with GreenHopper

David Jellison, Constant Contact

  Balancing the coordination of many Agile product delivery teams on the same major release cycle -- and still allowing these teams to self-organise -- is a craft Agile Enterprises must master. JIRA, GreenHopper and Confluence provide a rich platform that accommodates cross team co-ordination and the flexibility required for teams to self-organise. In this talk, David will walk the audience through the process of breaking down a Kanban value chain into steps and transitions, mapping out compatible workflows, and building the combined board. David will also share details of how Constant Contact provides visibility into the progress of teams and the release cycle. Constant Contact was able to deliver 15% more often in 2011 than prior years by refining their Agile practices.

DevOps is a Verb

Patrick Debois, Atlassian

  "Ah almost done. Check in code, run tests, all green, job done". Really? Until code runs in production, you're code is just inventory. As Agile once bridged the gap between developers, testers and the business, devops sets out to extend that cycle to the last mile: "production". This session will give: - an overview on how different historical threads came together and started pushing the notion of "devops". - what devops is and isn't - how devops is changing the game within the IT industry and the benefits - how development and operations are not different from each other anymore, both in technology and management - the role tools play and how they fit in with the culture - how to get you bootstrapped and start collaborating now (devops cookbook) - the direction devops is growing and the challenges it's facing.

Hacking the Dev Cycle with Atlassian Tools

Nabeelah Ali, Atlassian

  It doesn't matter whether you're a developer or product manager: you have a lot of stuff to keep on top of. Dev speed isn't just about optimising how fast you complete tasks, it's also about setting yourself up to identify what's really important and keep track of your builds, code, issues and the bigger product picture all at once. This talk will take you through the dev cycle with Atlassian tools, and set you up with productivity hacks you can get started with right away, as well as insights into how some of the most prolific teams at Atlassian get stuff done.

Road to Client Side Programming with Closure Templates

Wojciech Seliga, Atlassian

  Traditionally the UI of Atlassian plugins have been based on a typical old-school MVC frameworks (webwork, Struts) with little client-side logic. But no more! JIRA Team Lead Wociech Seliga will show you how Atlassian has been evolving plugin framework to let you easily develop richer, more secure and responsive plugins based on a modern client-side stack using Soy templates.

2:20 PM – 3:00 PM

Time Topic

Confluence for the Evolving Project Management Office (PMO)

Sandra Toner, Special Operations Technology

  This presentation tells the story of a Confluence makeover that involved taking a failing, misused wiki and transforming it to support the needs of an evolving Project Management Office (PMO). From this case study, themes emerged that illuminate the practices which turn a wiki from the wrong side of the tracks to an indispensable resource for the PMO. I align features (and plug-ins) in Confluence with the practices I learned that will make projects run smoothly. I describe how Confluence can be used to enhance the mission of the Project Management Office (PMO). I identify different PMO value models and outline the major functions in relation to how they can be facilitated by Confluence. I compare varying approaches to the use of Confluence from small to large knowledge management needs. I describe how transparency can be achieved in project governance with the use of Confluence. I offer some insight into project auditing and business alignment using Confluence. I also describe how confluence can be used to strengthen operational resiliency. Through my description of this authentic case study, I lay-out best practices to using features in Confluence to support the functions of a Project Management Office.

Concurrent Product Release Planning with JIRA

Ian Wells, Telogis

  Coordinating product releases that include hardware, software and firmware is no doubt a team effort. Learn how to use JIRA to track concurrent product releases by coordinating multiple hardware versions, OS releases in different languages, shared software components and various software products all at the same time with engineering work spread across the globe.

Lessons for Large Scale Lean and Agile Product Development

Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs

  There is lots of positive experience introducing Agile into small independent teams, but less experience scaling Agile to large scale product development organizations. In this talk we look at key management principles essential to enabling and empowering a lean and agile large scale product development software organization. We discuss examples of how successful managers employ these ideas to realize systemic continuous improvement yielding more flexible, transparent and productive organizations.

Aligning Continuous Integration Deployment: Automated Validation of OpenStack Deployments

Teyo Tyree & Dan Bode, PuppetLabs

  Ever think to yourself...how can my team automate the processes for my complex system? How does Continuous integration and Continuous Deployment fit in? In this talk by Teyo and Dan you will dive into world of automation using Puppet and OpenStack. Start off with brief overview of Puppet and OpenStack, then dive into examples of how you model complex deployments of OpenStack using Puppet.

How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead

Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror

  If you're reading this abstract, you're not awesome enough. Attend this session to unlock the secrets of Jeff Atwood, world famous blogger and industry leading co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Learn how you too can determine clear goals for your future and turn your dreams into reality through positive-minded conceptualization techniques.* Within four to six weeks, you'll realize the positive effects of Jeff Atwood's wildly popular Coding Horror blog in your own life, transporting you to an exciting new world of wealth, happiness and political power. (*May or may not also include working hard on things that matter for the rest of your life.)

Extend Your Use of JIRA by Solving Your Unique Concerns: An Exposé of the New JIRA 5 REST API

Abhinav Keswani, Trineo

  The existence of an API allows developers to extend software so as to cater for unique use cases beyond the software's original scope. Administrators and end users of JIRA 5 can expect its REST API to enable the creation of integrated applications to solve their unique concerns. This presentation aims to describe ways in which the JIRA 5 REST API can be used to make a tangible impact for the end user. Several use cases will be discussed, ranging from running simple command line apps, through to creating web applications that integrate with the JIRA 5 REST API.

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Time Topic

Break

  • Art of Collaboration
  • JIRA Everywhere
  • Scrum & Kanban
  • Art of Dev Ops
  • Art of Dev Speed
  • Plugin Developer

3:30 PM – 4:10 PM

Time Topic

A Communication Cadence

Michael Lopp, Author of www.randsinrepose.com

  "A Communication Cadence" talks about how good teams are the teams that communicate well -- lots of good practical advice.

Enabling Design Reviews with JIRA and Confluence

Howard Tiersky & Shaun Collins, Moving Interactive

  Learn how Moving Interactive designs brilliant user interfaces for web and mobile applications with clients such as Universal Studios, Conde Nast, and Readers Digest using JIRA, Confluence, and Bonfire. This talk will share insights into the process of creating and documenting client feedback, and how the development team incorporates this feedback into their product backlog.

Evolving Your Agile Process with Atlassian Tools

Jordan Dea-Mattson, Numenta

  Jordan Dea-Mattson has driven the deployment of Agile processes and Atlassian tools at four companies and consulted with close to a dozen others on their efforts. Few of us have a "green field" when it comes to the process, tooling, or infrastructure in our organization. We have to work with the hand we are dealt and make the best of it. Drawing on his past experience Jordan will discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly involved in creating and evolving Agile processes. Jordan will show how to implement Atlassian tools to support those processes, and how the two can support one another. After this talk, you will have a great "do", "don't do", and "continue doing" list to guide your implementation of Agile and Atlassian tools.

Team Branches and CI using Git and Bamboo

Bryce Johnson, Atlassian

  As a team grows larger, especially with a lot of automated tests, the rate of commits becomes too heavy for a traditional set of CI builds to give developers fast feedback. They need a way to break up this higher rate of commits to identify problems sooner. One solution is to form team iteration branches to limit the amount of change and still provide the high quality CI on those branches. Learn about the risks involved in this approach, how to mitigate them, what kind of benefits your team could expect to see.

Building a Giant Atlassian Universe to Take Over the World

Glenn Bingham and Chris Macharia, FIS Global

  Fidelity Information Services uses Atlassian tools to manage its software lifecycle from end to end, for massive, multi-million LOC financial applications including core banking and channels products. In this session Glen and Chris will share the high-level process flow for development at Fidelity. Attendees will leave with the tools to implement change in their own environments while maintaining control and assuring quality in a regulated environment.

Dev Ecosystem State of the Union

Jonathan Nolen & Rich Manalang, Atlassian

  It's been a busy year for the Ecosystem team at Atlassian – two AtlasCamps, several SDK releases, new developer documentation site, a new Marketplace, and more. Join Jonathan and Rich as they take us through the state of the Atlassian Developer Ecosystem.

4:20 PM – 5:00 PM

Time Topic

Rock Your Wiki

Tom Crespi, Graybar

  Tom's Rock Your Wiki story will show how persistent application of a handful of core strategies plus a few key plugins can take adoption from "Yawn" to "Wow" and get business units clamoring for more. Learn how a Fortune 500 Enterprise used organic adoption and guerrilla marketing techniques to gain users throughout the organization.

Mobile App Dev with Atlassian: How Team Productivity Drives Product Quality

Tarun Nimmagadda, Mutual Mobile & Josh Devenny, Atlassian

  Imagine a world where the entire software development lifecycle gets shrunk down to hours and no one but the software developer has to use a laptop or a PC. Learn how Mutual Mobile use Atlassian tools to build 50+ mobile apps in parallel at any given time. Apply these same concepts to increase the productivity of your own organization, establish greater rigor with your mobile application lifecycle management, and ultimately improve the quality of your application.

Agile for Enterprise Panel

Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs
Randall Ward, Appfire
Jean-Michel Lemieux, Atlassian
Plus more

  Come hear a panel of customers and Atlassians talk about best practices for implementing agile in the enterprise.

Inside the Atlassian OnDemand Private Cloud

George Barnett, Atlassian

  In order to launch Atlassian OnDemand, we needed to rethink the way we did infrastructure. Join Atlassian SaaS Platform Architect, George Barnett as he discusses how we delivered a scalable platform that runs tens of thousands of JVMs, all while reducing the cost by ten-fold. This talk will cover design decisions, technology choices and the lessons learned during the build out.

Continuous Delivery: 98 Days to 1

Jonathan Gilbert, Atlassian

  Over the past year Atlassian has gone from producing quarterly feature releases to delivering them everyday into the OnDemand hosted platform. Learn how we changed our culture, processes, and tools to achieve continuous deployment. The talk will cover operations, issue driven development (IDD), architectural tips, analytics and much more.

Introducing the Atlassian Marketplace

John Kodumal, Atlassian

  The Atlassian Marketplace helps add-on developers build a thriving business on top of Atlassian's huge customer base and powerful sales engine. In this talk, we'll walk through all the steps required to sell a plugin on the marketplace--- from adding licensing to your plugin with our brand-new licensing API, to listing, pricing, and marketing your plugin on the newly revamped Atlassian Plugin Exchange.

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Time Topic

Summit Bash!

  The Summit Bash is our annual party at Summit. Food, drink, karaoke, fun.
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  • Friday : Sessions

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM

Time Topic

Breakfast

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Time Topic

Keynote: Day 2

  Rise and shine! We re-group on the last day of Summit for another morning of big announcements and a few (more) surprises.

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Time Topic

Break

  • Art of Collaboration
  • JIRA Everywhere
  • Scrum & Kanban
  • Art of Dev Speed
  • Admin
  • Plugin Developer

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM

Time Topic

Kick-Ass Collaboration Everywhere with Confluence

James Dellow, Headshift | Dachis Group

  We all know that Confluence is a world-class enterprise wiki, right? So it may be hard to believe but for non-technical users the power of the Confluence platform isn’t always immediately obvious. This means Confluence can be wildly successful with the IT users in your organization but never reaches further than those technical folks who “just get it”. James will share tips and techniques to help create kick-ass collaboration EVERYWHERE in your organization with Confluence.

JIRA State of the Union

Bryan Rollins, Atlassian

  JIRA 5 introduces a platform for integration and collaboration to help teams work together in innovative ways. We have ambitious plans to keep add features to help you build great software even faster. Come learn about the latest features and future plans for JIRA, GreenHopper, and Bonfire.

Scaling a Global Support Team to Resolve 1,500 Requests a Week Using Kanban and GreenHopper

Chris LePetit, Atlassian

  The Atlassian Support team consists of over 100 support engineers in five locations providing legendary service 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Providing Legendary Support necessitates accurate responses provided fast. Legendary Support became even more important in February when we announced our Enterprise offering. In this talk Chris will share how the Atlassian Support team has scaled to 1,500 support requests each week while reducing the average response time and maintaining accuracy. Chris will leave you with key steps to introduce Kanban into your own support or operations environment.

Making the Switch to DVCS: Subversion to Git in 14 Days

Jonathon Creenaune, Atlassian

 

  Thinking of making the switch to distributed version control (DVCS)? You've considered migrating to Git, but it's scary! Get a first hand look at how Atlassian's JIRA product team moved from Subversion to Git with zero downtime and remove the "scare" factor. Summiters will walk away with a - "Migration recipe" to switch from Subversion to any DVCS - Benefits of switching to a Distributed Version Control - Examples of how a large project (JIRA) switched to Git with no downtime

Implementing Confluence at Harvard

Carter Snowden, Harvard

 

 

  Implementing Confluence as an enterprise service in a highly decentralized university setting presents a number of technical and organizational challenges. We'll touch on the customizations we've made to integrate Confluence with both the Harvard infrastructure in general and with our course management system, iSites, in particular. We'll discuss our technical requirements going in and our experience meeting those requirements by implementing SSO, group management, auto provisioning and categorization, and FERPA compliance by means of custom plugins and other techniques that we believe will continue to be sustainable as we move forward. We'll also discuss organizational requirements around support and provisioning and our experience with the support model we're using. Finally, we'll discuss the ways in which Confluence is being used across the university, for both academic and administrative purposes.

Plugin UI with AUI

Ben Buchanan, Atlassian

  The Atlassian User Interface (AUI) is a set of reusable, cross-browser tested UI components (markup, CSS and Javascript). It's a great resource for plugin developers to tap into when generating UI for plugins. This session will dive into how you can use AUI in your plugins.

11:20 AM – 12:00 PM

Time Topic

How Atlassian Makes Its Wiki Sticky

John Rotenstein, Atlassian

  Wouldn't it be great if your wiki was as "sticky" as Facebook? Wish no more! John will reveal how Atlassian makes its own internal wiki so sticky that people "live in it" all day. You'll walk out with a long list of ideas on how to improve wiki adoption in your own company.

JIRA at Your Service: 10 Tips & Tricks for Improving Your Service Desk

Jeremy Largman, Atlassian 

  While JIRA is built to manage software development projects, we know you also use it to support your customers and colleagues. In fact, we use JIRA internally for both our customer helpdesk and internal service desk. Come learn 10 tips and tricks for improving the quality of your service using JIRA.

15 Patterns for Agile Culture Success

Jay Rogers, Atlassian

  Over the last decade software teams have deconstructed Agile and UX processes trying to find a way to gene-splice them into something that delivers functioning software and a great user experience. Jay believes a purely process-based approach misses the point of the Agile philosophy and in this talk he will share 15 patterns for Agile and UX success in your team. This talk will help you identify (sometimes subtle!) cultural syndromes and assumptions that can hold your team back and you'll leave with a kit of tools for getting things back on track. Come and learn about the Rapid Board and how your team can start using it to gain better visibility into what you will deliver to your customers and when.

Developer Tools State of the Union

Justen Stepka and Jens Schumacher, Atlassian

  The Atlassian suite of developer tools has grown in the last year, and we have some juicy new products to demo. Hear and see the latest on Stash, Bitbucket, FishEye, Crucible, Bamboo, and SourceTree.

Because you have ____!

Michael Tokar, Atlassian

  JIRA newbies and veterans alike will see real examples of how JIRA can be used "in the wild" to implement non-software business processes. Learn how to make use of advanced configurations to convert other business processes and systems into JIRA projects, and walk away with some actionable ways to make your team and your business run better.

Plugins on OnDemand with Remote Apps

Don Brown, Atlassian & Brian Pugh, LucidChart

  Atlassian OnDemand brings all the features of Atlassian applications to the cloud except one - plugins. This session will show you how to extend OnDemand through Atlassian Remote Apps, our new framework that provides plugin-like functionality in OnDemand. This session will explain the limitations of traditional plugins in OnDemand, show what a Remote App is and how it works, and share the vision of how we plan to integrate Remote Apps into the Atlassian Marketplace for you to share and even sell your integration to thousands of OnDemand customers.

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Time Topic

Lunch

Lightning Talks! Running from 1:30–3:20, Lightning Talks are condensed 10-minute presentations.

  • Art of Collaboration
  • JIRA Everywhere
  • Scrum & Kanban
  • Art of Dev Speed
  • Admin
  • Plugin Developer

1:30 PM – 1:40 PM

Time Topic

From 0 - 100 Million with No Salespeople Takes Awesome Collaboration Tools

Kelvin Yap, Atlassian

  Reaching $100M without any salespeople requires a unique approach to selling software. Learn how Atlassian uses a combination of collaboration tools – including Confluence and HipChat, to enable effective communication and collaboration between geographic locations and teams, providing awesome service to customers and feeding their input back into Atlassian's various marketing, support and development initiatives.

Simple Task Management with Bonfire & GreenHopper

Christina Bang, Atlassian

  Many of us live in JIRA every day, but when it comes to simple and lightweight task management, we turn to third party apps, or dare I say it, a text file or pen-and-paper list! A combination of Bonfire and GreenHopper has eliminated 90% of this for one JIRA fan. Come learn how to get yourself set up for lightweight task management in an existing JIRA instance in 10 minutes.

A Filter Junkie's Guide to Increasing Productivity and Visibility

Reese Gibbons, uShip

  Reese will share tips and tricks to managing and responding to a large number of incoming requests - a common problem facing ScrumMasters and Product Owners. Learn how to configure filters and dashboards to provide visibility and manage your personal queue.

Git Ready in 10 Minutes

Steve Streeting, Atlassian

  Steve will show you how SourceTree, a Mac DVCS client, can help you and your team get going with Git. No command line, no fear!

To Host or Not to Host?

Jeremy Johnson, Healthonomy

  While the JIRA and Confluence OnDemand are similar in functionality to the installed versions, there are some important differences. Considerations include total cost comparison, Google apps integration, application response time, the migration process and pitfalls such as data encryption, plugin use, and integration with in-house authentication. Come learn how and why Healthonomy migrated to Atlassian OnDemand versions of JIRA, Confluence, and FishEye (SVN) after 2 years of self-hosting.

JavaScript? In MY Confluence?

Simon Tower, Atlassian

  Confluence provides a powerful feature in the HTML macro, but did you know that you can use the HTML macro to make functional, interactive forms and pages in Confluence using JavaScript? It's more likely than you think!

1:50 PM – 2:00 PM

Time Topic

Going Mobile with Confluence

John Masson, Atlassian

  If we told you more we'd be giving too much away... :)

Digging for Gold: Using JIRA Query Language to Learn from Your Past

Tony Atkins, Atlassian

  Your JIRA instance is a virtual goldmine of information. Searching issue change history in JIRA 5 provides new possibilities to learn about the past. Come learn how to mine your JIRA instance for valuable information to set up your team and business for success in the future.

Scrum Shock Therapy: Going Back to Basics

James Hatherly, Atlassian

  Late last year, the GreenHopper team underwent "Scrum Shock Therapy", a guide for bootstrapping high-performing scrum teams which imposes a number of non-negotiable rules, in particular the banning of tools such as GreenHopper. This was not without pain, however some important lessons were learnt. Join me as I wax lyrical on this experiment, sharing our findings - good and bad.

Atlassian Bootcamp: How We Onboard New Developers

Ted Tencza, Atlassian

  One of the "Secrets of a Highly Productive Development Team" is to get new team members as productive as possible as quickly as possible. This presentation will detail how we get new hires up to speed quickly, and give some tips and tricks to setting up a new hire induction program.

The End of Stupid Atlassian-related Questions

Jesse Katz, Atlassian

  Proper usage of Atlassian University can cut down on JIRA, GreenHopper and Confluence questions to you as an admin, and get your team flying with Atlassian tools. We'll also show some new features that will make it easier to track and manage your teams learning progress.

User Macros: Making Your Own Improvements to Confluence

Steve Goldberg, Venda

  For those not on the OnDemand platform, the powerful possibilities of User Macros enable administrators to add their own functionality and modifications into Confluence are endless. But it's in this boundlessness that it is easy to get lost, or not know how to start. This presentation will share the benefits of my 18 months as a Confluence administrator, writing User Macros. Despite Atlassian's documentation on them, they can be an impenetrable aspect of Confluence.

2:10 PM – 2:20 PM

Time Topic

Immigration to Confluence: A Journey Through Foreign Customs

Kelly McDaniel, Rockwell Software

  This is the exciting saga of an adventurous explorer who, with great trepidation, traversed the arid Adobe Outback, through the darkness of Total Eclipse, to emerge, caked in Scrum, scarred, beaten, bruised, yet Agile, where the tributaries Collaboration, Knowledge Capital, and Information coursed the Straits of Budget to witness him navigate joyous and thankful to the delta of the Great Confluence.

Labels v. Custom Fields

Jay Ballinger, Eyefinity

  Jay will debate the pros and cons of using Labels versus Custom Fields to flag issues in JIRA for reporting and issue retrieval. This talk will cover when it makes sense to use labels instead of common custom field requests and how to us JQL in the Issue Navigator.

Building an Effective Customer Feedback Loop

Sherif Mansour, Atlassian

  Capturing customer feedback is essential for bringing customers closer to the team, and enabling the team to get a good understanding of the customers problem. Learn how to scale to capture and respond to feedback effectively.

Moneypenny Speaks! Getting the Most From (Bamboo) Agents

Sarah Goff-Dupont, Atlassian

  Who are these mysterious operatives we call Agents? Learn about the different types of agents and how to best put them to work for your team. (Spoiler alert: they can un-clog your build queue and broaden your test coverage!)

Plugin Play

Sandra Toner, Special Operations Technology

  How do you choose new plugins and manage user training? The plugin adoption process includes assessing the benefit, reviewing the plugin specs, set-up compatibility, identifying plugin related configuration dysfunction, notifying users, and training. At SOTECH, this is managed start to finish by the in-house Minister of Plugins, whose duties include preventing the damages of over-plugin-ification and translating plugin functionality to end-user-lingo.

Minecraft and JIRA: Behind the Scenes

Joe Clark, Atlassian

  Find out how to use JIRA inside the wildly popular virtual world of Minecraft. Joe will show you how to use JIRA in ways you might never have imagined.

2:30 PM – 2:40PM

Time Topic

Assembling Ad-Hoc Teams for Fun, Profit and National Security

Daniel Green, Wikistrat

  Wikistrat is the world's first massively multiplayer online consultancy, leveraging a global network of subject matter experts. War-games, simulations and client engagements all take place inside Confluence. This relies on assembling disparate groups of people, quickly bringing them up to speed, rewarding them for their efforts and finally capturing their knowledge before the team disbands. We'll share with you the methods used to facilitate this process. In addition we'll look at ways of extending your wiki with automation through the API, visual hacks in user macros, a chat system powered by Crowd, and adding gamification elements.

All Your Issues are Belong to HipChat

Rich Manalang, Atlassian


  Ever want to automatically notify your dev team about a new Blocker issue? Rich will share the ins and outs of JIRA's HipChat integration to ensure your team always stays in the loop.

Agile is as Agile Does

Martin Jopson, Atlassian

  The GreenHopper team live and breathe Agile so they can both understand the methodologies and build a tool that supports them. In this session Martin will share how Agile principles are utilized by the team to make Agile software whilst enjoying Agile's benefits.

It's About People, Stupid! True Collaborative Coding.

Rick Arends, Cloud9 IDE

  While trendy development concepts grab headlines, developers really need something much more effective: the wisdom and experience of their peers. Collaborative editing offers the solution to this age-old problem. Join Cloud9 CTO Rik Arends as he demos Cloud9's new collaboration features and how you can achieve instant peer reviews and awesome productivity gains. This lightning talk will cover chatting, collaborative editing, code reviews and explain how Cloud9's online presence can start benefiting your distributed team immediately.

Retro-Fitting Atlassian Products into a Code-Cowboy Research Culture

Anna Lyons, NICTA

  At Australian research org NICTA, in the lab that produced the words first formally verified operating system kernel, many of the researches are serious hackers, with little experience with cutting-edge development tools. Come learn tactics for migration and adoption from home-grown and ill-used legacy systems and processes: driving Confluence adoption and migration using templates & landing pages, blogs for meeting notes, and how to motivate people to think about content structure; how to get JIRA working for people who never want to leave emacs or their mail client; and our use of the Atlassian product APIs.

You've Got Plugins in Your Plugins: Bundling Plugin Dependencies

Jonathan Doklovic, Atlassian


  Have you ever built a plugin that depends on other plugins? Find out how to bundle those dependencies in your plugin.

2:50 PM – 3:00 PM

Time Topic

How HipChat Powers the HipChat Team

Pete Curley, Atlassian

  Straight from the horse's mouth – HipChat's very own Pete Curley shares how his team uses HipChat to collaborate and drive the future development of Atlassian's newest family member. So meta.

How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (Or Any Other Natural Disaster) Using JIRA

Jeremy Neuharth, Sycorr

  Not only is JIRA a great project management tool, it makes for a killer asset in fighting a disaster. Learn how Sycorr leveraged the flexibly of JIRA and GreenHopper to create a real-time disaster recovery system that any enterprise disaster team would love. Dashboards, triage, detailed reporting, and a living disaster recovery plan are some of the things you can have too! With one day of setup and a little planning you can impress your boss and have the Swiss Army Knife to fend off your own flood, tornado, earthquake, zombie apocalypse, or angry nerd attack.

Using JIRA to build a culture of innovation

David May, EFI

  As an issue tracking solution, JIRA has provided a powerful set of tools to help us automate the processes around our product deliverables and support. But process is around us everywhere. How many times have we used excel, email or share point to manage our processes. With JIRA workflows and schemes, you can bring many of your existing processes right into JIRA and manage everything in one place. Come and learn about how one team has adopted a process around cultivating innovation and implemented a JIRA workflow to gather and discuss new feature and product ideas.

Pull Requests = Code Review

Nicolas Venegas, Atlassian

  Learn about how you can use Bitbucket and pull request as a light-weight code review for you and your team.

Plugin Manager Updates & What's Coming

Zachary Davis, Atlassian

  The plugin manager is the JIRA & Confluence admin's ally, interacting with the plugin exchange, finding plugins compatible for your product version, and performing common management tasks. There are some big changes to come with the new Atlassian Marketplace, so hear directly from our team what they've been working on, the motivations behind development, and what to expect coming soon.

JIRA REST Client for Python

Ben Speakmon, Atlassian


  REST is the foundation of tomorrow's Web as well as the future of Atlassian integration. Learn how to use Python and the new JIRA 5 client library to bring your application and JIRA closer together.

3:10 PM – 3:20 PM

Time Topic

How to Avoid the "Oh Shit" Moment with Team Calendars

Ryan Anderson, Atlassian

  A lot of work we do revolves around people, projects and content that can't be tracked using a Personal Calendar. With so many different schedules and projects happening at once, getting everyone on the same page is nearly impossible, increasing the liklihood of an 'Oh Shit!' moment -- the moment you realize you're going to miss a deadline, a feature has to be pulled from an upcoming release, or quality must be sacrificed. These moments are standard for any group of people attempting to work as a team. Learn how Team Calendars is your best defense against future 'Oh Shit' moments.

Workflow Magic

Jonathan Doklovic, Atlassian

  Our very own workflow wizard, Jonathan Doklovic, shares some of the latest tricks he's been shoving up his sleeve.

Setting Up Your Scrum Board in GreenHopper

Martin Jopson, Atlassian


  In this session Martin will demonstrate how you can quickly get your team up and running using the GreenHopper Scrum preset. Martin will show how to get the most out of a planning session and how to set up reports for your JIRA Wallboard.

5 Ways to Adopt Code Review

Atlassian Speaker


  Super charge your organizations code quality by adopting code review. In just 10 minutes learn easy ways to get developers reviewing code.

Troubleshooting JIRA & Confluence

Jeff Curry, Atlassian

  With Atlassian Support as your guide learn how to diagnose your JIRA and Confluence installation like a pro, where to look for solutions, and tips for getting a quick response from us when all else fails.

Publishing Your Plugin in the Marketplace

Stacey Shkuratoff, Atlassian


  This quick talk will give you the low down on how to use the many features that the marketplace has to offer to help you sell your plugin. This includes making the best use of your customizable plugin page as well as understanding the functionality of the site to help your plugin stand out among the rest.

3:20 PM – 3:50 PM

Time Topic

Break

  • Art of Collaboration
  • JIRA Everywhere
  • Scrum & Kanban
  • Art of Dev Speed
  • Admin
  • Plugin Developer

3:50 PM – 4:30 PM

Time Topic

Connecting Cross-functional Teams During Product Development with Confluence

Wesley Walser, Atlassian

  Join Wes for a look into how the teams involved during the concept and planning phases of product development collaborate online. Learn how to bring geographically dispersed teams – Development, Product Management, Marketing, QA, Tech Writing, and Sales – closer together than ever before.

Improving Software Quality with Effective Feedback

Andreas Knecht, Atlassian 

  Getting early feedback from the users of your software is imperative for raising the quality bar. Listening to your customers, testers, and peers can make the difference between shipping the next killer feature or a dud. Learn how Atlassian leverages JIRA to capture feedback and incorporate it into our software development process.

GreenHopper State of the Union

Shaun Clowes, Atlassian

  Today GreenHopper is used more widely than ever - from software development to support and operations teams. In the GreenHopper State of the Union we will share the latest and greatest features for Scrum and Kanban teams and give you a sneak peak of what is around the corner. Come and learn about the Rapid Board and how your team can start using it to gain better visibility into what you will deliver to your customers and when.

A Migration Story – How Development Changed from Then to Now?

Randy James, Zillow

  Randy will take you through the changes in Zillows development from 2004 to today. Learn about their migration challenges, how they managed key risks in development process and ways to improve their velocity (every action involves a cost).

Disposable Testing Environments: There's Nothing Like Production Except Production

Jay Ballinger, Eyefinity 

  Application environment and content are both critical to practical and useful test environments. Running your Confluence or JIRA instance in a VM allows for easy creation of sandboxes, or copies, of your production environment. Done correctly, having a snapshot copy of your environment opens up many possibilities - such as testing upgrades, testing plugins, or running 'what-if' scenarios. Your servlet container, attachments directory, database, and plugin configurations are all important to your instance and must be considered when creating a copy of production. Eyefinity will also share a real-life report of the ease, and unexpected consequences, of exporting users and content from one instance of Confluence and importing them in to another instance of Confluence when VM copying may not be available or desired. Expect to hear: - Real-life examples - Gotchas - Steps anyone can follow - Considerations important to most Confluence instances

The Developer Experience

Pamela Fox

  We all know what “user experience” is and we know that it’s important. But we rarely talk about the “developer experience” - what we all go through each time we try to use a developer tool, library, or API. How do we decide what tool to use? Is it easy to integrate with our development environment? How flexible is the API? Where do we go when something goes wrong? Those are the sort of questions that we can ask to understand what it’s like for a developer to use a product - and where it can be improved. Whether you simply use developer products or you actually build one yourself, you should walk away from this talk with ideas on how to make a great developer experience - and why it matters.

4:40 PM – 5:20 PM

Time Topic

Atlas Hugged: How Atlassian Tools Enabled a Software Internalization Team

Sarah Day, QAD, Inc.

  Software internationalization requires the involvement of people around the world in different roles, from sales and marketing to engineering and management. Join Sarah as she tells the story of how the combination of Confluence and JIRA enabled QAD's Internationalization Team to come together and work closely to meet requirements efficiently and effectively.

Robots are Team Members, Too!

John Stalker & Jim Meldrim, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  The Genome Sequencing Operations group at the Broad Institute rely on JIRA to manage laboratory operations and instilled a high level of collaboration and communication between lab techs, project managers, and even robots! Learn how these robots use REST APIs to become active collaborators in a number of JIRA projects, and how you can integrate your own external applications to automate your interactions with JIRA in exciting and useful ways.

In Conversation with Eric Ries

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

  In this moderated discussion with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, we will explore innovation, customer development, the DevOps movement and more. Bring your questions for Eric and learn from the lean startup guru.

DVCS Cagematch

Atlassian Speakers

  This is a cagematch and hopefully no one gets hurt. Listen to Atlassians discuss, or rather defend, controversial topics around Distributed Version Control Systems.

JIRA Performance After 300,000 Issues

Claudio Ombrella, Autodesk

  Learn how Autodesk broke the 300,000 issues barrier without impacting performance, keeping excellent uptime, with more than 3000 registered users and average of 1800 concurrent users. In this session you will discover the hardware architecture, system settings and other interesting data from Autodesk experience in the field.

Bitbucket as a Platform

Sam Tardif, Atlassian

  Bitbucket's REST API exposes a lot of cool functionality that allows developers to build apps using Bitbucket as a platform. In this talk I'll demonstrate some of this functionality through AgileBucket, a card wall application for Bitbucket's issue tracker that I built using Bitbucket's REST API. I'll give an overview of the process of developing a web app on the Bitbucket platform, show you what the REST API is capable of, and hopefully inspire you to build some cool stuff too!
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Get on Track

We've broken content into seven tracks across two days with information about all parts of the product and services development lifecycle - from engineering to QA, and product management to tech writing. 

The Art of Collaboration

Who: Confluence admins and wiki champions

  • Adoption tips and tricks
  • Taking Confluence beyond the technical team
  • Documentation as a form of communication
  • How the Confluence team uses Confluence

JIRA Everywhere

Who: JIRA "fanbois" of all shapes and sizes

  • A dozen ways to get more out of your JIRA instance
  • Mobile development with JIRA
  • How the JIRA team uses JIRA
  • The state of the possible with JIRA APIs

Art of Scrum & Kanban

Who: Scrum masters and dev managers

  • Going Agile with big teams
  • When to shift to Kanban?
  • Agile quality assurance (QA)
  • Scrum with the GreenHopper Rapid Board

The Art of DevOps

Who: DevOps folks, build engineers & dev managers

  • Kanban for DevOps teams
  • Shorten the gap between the Ops and Devs
  • Release management secrets
  • Tricks for mastering puppet

The Art of Dev Speed

Who: Software devs and dev managers

  • Secrets of a highly productive development team
  • How we got to daily builds
  • Running your development process on the full Atlassian stack
  • How we moved to DVCS
  • DVCS debate: Pull request vs code review, Forking vs. Branching

High Performance Admin

Who: JIRA and Confluence admins

  • JIRA workflow
  • Performance tuning tricks
  • App links & activity streams
  • Confluence gardening and scalability

Plugin Developer

Who: Corporate and indie devs

  • Atlassian remote applications
  • Dev Ecosystem State of the Union
  • A corporate developer's primer on Atlassian APIs
  • Extending Atlassian with modern web app dev techniques
  • Atlassian API breakdown

Workshop: Want to get a head start on selling your plugin on the Atlassian Marketplace? Register for our free workshop to find out how!

Travel

Venue

This year's event will take place at the Design Center Concourse, located in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood (corner of 8th and Brannan).

Registration will open on Wednesday, May 30th, for training at 9am and stay open through Thursday morning. The opening reception cocktails will begin at 6pm on Wednesday in the West hall of the Concourse.

Design Center Concourse
635 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Venue Map

Hotel

We've reserved a discounted room block at the Parc 55 Hotel. We'll be shuttling attendees to and from the hotel throughout the day. More details on shuttle service to come.

Parc 55 Wyndham San Francisco
55 Cyril Magnin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 392-8000

Transportation

Airport

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the closest airport to the event. 

Ground transportation from airport:
  • Taxi fare is $40.00 (one way).
  • BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) has a stop at Powell St, which is located two blocks from the Parc 55. The trip takes approximately 45 minutes and is under $9.00 for one way to or from the airport.

Parking

If you are driving to Summit, we suggest parking near the Parc 55 and taking the shuttle or finding street parking near the Concourse. There are also public parking lots near the Concourse that charge daily rates. 

Shuttle

Shuttle service will be provided from the Parc 55 to the conference. The driver will be holding an "Atlassian Summit" sign outside of the main Parc 55 entrance. Your badge (or your EventBrite ticket, if you haven't picked up your badge yet) will be your ticket onto the shuttle. You don't have to be staying at the Parc 55 to take the shuttle, but we recommend it. Shuttles to and from the evening events will also be available. Shutttles on all routes loop continuously per time blocks listed below.

Wednesday:
Route 1 (between Parc 55 and the Concourse) 7am-8pm
Route 2 (between Gliffy After-Party at Mars Bar and Parc 55) 8-10pm

Thursday:

Route 1 (between Parc 55 and the Concourse) 7:30am-6pm. Last shuttle leaves the Concourse at 6pm!
Route 2 (between Parc 55 and Summit Bash at Epic Restaurant) 6pm-10:30pm

Friday:

Route 1 (between Parc 55 and the Concourse) 8am-5:30pm

Dress Code, or Lack Thereof

We're a very casual bunch, come comfortable but bring a sweater. San Francisco can be notoriously chilly in the summer.

Sponsors

Sponorship is sold out! Come meet with 35 sponsors to see the latest integrations, add-ons, and services available with Atlassian products.

Atlas Sponsor

New Relic is the all-in-one application management provider for the cloud and datacenter. Over 16,000 organizations use us to optimize over 6 billion transactions daily. Implemented in minutes, New Relic provides 24x7 real user monitoring and code-level diagnostics for web apps deployed on dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments.

All Sponsors

Adaptavist are global Enterprise Atlassian experts. We specialise in providing solutions that help Enterprises successfully use Atlassian products at scale, based on best practices.

ALM Works products Structure and JIRA Client are powerful add-ons for JIRA, offering advanced work breakdown with issue hierarchy, offline desktop interface and much more.

Atlassian's largest Enterprise Service provider in North America, Appfire enables the most advanced product development teams to quickly innovate, develop and drive products to market.

Solving some of the hardest and most common mixed-system workflow challenges, SSO,  and integrations with Atlassian, Jive, IBM, UserVoice, Box, GoogleDocs, Alfresco, and much more. YES!

Balsamiq is the maker of Mockups, the rapid wireframing tool. We believe work should be fun, and that life is too short for bad software.

Clearvision are global Atlassian experts providing consultancy, plugin development, training and support. Also specialising in Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Zendesk, Black Duck and IBM Rational.

JIRA and Confluence development service the way you need it.

Comalatech is a product innovator in the Atlassian Ecosystem. Since 2007, our solutions power a myriad of industries, universities and not-for-profits alike.

Creately is the ultimate diagram plugin for Confluence & JIRA packaged with thousands of templates, from Flowcharts, Mindmaps, UI Mockups, UML, Org-charts to Gantt Charts

CustomWare has a strong services culture and builds Training, Support, Connectors and Professional Services for leading cloud-based software. Including Atlassian, Box, Get Satisfaction and Zendesk.

15 years delivering great products, agile solutions, and innovative IT services. Now, we are 'Atlassianing Spain', from Startups to Big Corporations. We are plugin builders.

Salesforce Desk.com is the killer app for customer support. Connect to your customers via Email, Web, Facebook, Twitter, Live Chat, and Phone.

Enterprise Tester is the JIRA-integrated testing platform. Full test coverage from User Stories to Defects... If you're a fan of Atlassian you'll love Enterprise Tester!

Flowdock replaces IRC, IM or Skype chat and frees your mailbox from automated e-mails.

Freshdesk is a multi-channel, multi-lingual customer support software, delivered as SaaS. It includes helpdesk trouble-ticketing, Facebook and Twitter support, forums, a knowledgebase & self-service portal.

Gliffy is the most popular diagramming tool in Atlassian products, featuring plugins tightly integrated with Confluence and JIRA, enabling collaborative communications that are visually impactful.

As an Atlassian Platinum Expert, Go2Group provides its clients with world-class SPLA solutions. Our integrations support offerings from Atlassian, HP, Perforce, Salesforce, and other environments.

Herzum, an IT consulting firm and full-service Atlassian Expert, specializes in agile development, software architectures, and Atlassian implementations, plugins, integrations, customizations, and hands-on training.

Innotas provides Cloud PPM, APM, and IT Governance Solutions for IT Management of Resources, Applications, and Projects across all of IT.

We build tools for single source-publishing and wiki-based documentation. Our Scroll plugins help 500+ customers around the world to plan, author and publish great documentation and online help with Confluence

Lucidchart offers the best diagramming experience using Confluence and JIRA, whether downloaded or OnDemand. Import and export Visio files, and collaborate with teammates in real-time!

Parature is the leading provider of cloud-based customer engagement solutions that empower organizations to deliver more efficient and effective customer service across multiple channels.

Perforce lets teams create, develop and version everything. Its version management platform integrates with the best agile tools including JIRA, Eclipse, Mylyn, Ant, Maven, Hudson.

Qmetry is a premier Total Test Management solution that integrates seamlessly with numerous defect tracking, requirements management and test automation platforms.

RefinedWiki focuses on developing plugins which improves the user interface and functionality of Confluence. RefinedWiki's plugins are used by customers in 55 countries.

Semantic Web Company focuses on developing semantic plugins for Atlassian products to conquer the Babylonian language confusion. Our text analytics improves tagging and search.

Distributed teams stay—and feel—connected throughout the day in Team Space, with its visual map for navigating conversations that include content, apps and services.

Whatever your drive is for time-tracking, look at Tempo. JIRA and Tempo provide a painless way to connect your organization's activities and report on them.

UserVoice is the complete, modern, web-based customer service solution that’s incredibly easy to set up and use. Become experts on your customers, not your customer service software.

uTest provides in-the-wild testing services for web, desktop and mobile applications by leveraging its global community of 50,000+ professional software testers from 185 countries.

Application Lifecycle Management specialists, Valiantys provide consultancy, plugin development and training services for Atlassian tools. Our plugins VertygoSLA, PowerReport and nFeed bring added-value to JIRA.

Making Confluence beautiful and easy-to-use. Design, best practices, extensions, and featuring Zen Foundation: complete branding, advanced design tools, drag-and-drop layouts, navigation, micro-editing, drafts, and more.

Zendesk is the proven cloud-based help desk that is the fastest way to enable great customer service. It is so easy, support teams love it. 

Zephyr makes test management easier, test cycles faster and test team members more effective by providing real-time visibility into quality at every stage of development.

  • "The connections you make at the event are invaluable to the betterment of the Atlassian tool implementations and to enable the success of our business processes." David Silk, Verisign
  • "So much good information, was like drinking from a firehose." Anonymous
  • "You'll never learn so much about Atlassian in so little time." Zachary Ludwig, Comskil
  • "Summit is the apex of knowledge-sharing, collaboration and networking in the Atlassian world." Joanna Thurmann, Polycom
  • "Atlassian's products and events are so mature for such a young company, that it speaks volumes for their employees and company culture." Anthony Pelosi, MiTAC Digital Corporation