Born to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter, Dominic's career has spanned Europe, US and Asia Pacific. Dom's spent 10 years at Atlassian as their resident Work Futurist, and is the in-house “Team Doctor” helping distributed teams at Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective. A keen traveller, Dom has traversed over 53 countries so far, but as the father of twins, love trips to the park.

Cameron is the Chief Revenue Officer at Atlassian where he runs our marketing, sales, and support organizations. Cameron joined Atlassian in 2012 and has held a variety of roles including Head of Server Business, Head of Growth, and Head of Customer Advocates. Prior to joining Atlassian, Cameron worked in leadership positions at Jive Software and BEA. Cameron holds an MBA from the University of Montana and a degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis.

Patrick drives the overall vision and strategy for Atlassian’s Data Center products and is passionate about building strong product teams and processes to tackle big goals.

Prior to Atlassian, Patrick spent over 12 years in a variety of senior product management roles in the internet and tech industry. In his free time, Patrick loves making American-style slow-smoked BBQ and watching Alabama football. He also has a black belt in Taekwondo, a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and jumps at any opportunity to travel and explore new cultures.

Junie leads the product marketing team and go-to-market initiatives for the Server and Data Center business at Atlassian. Junie has worked at Atlassian for ~five years, and prior to that, has held product marketing leadership positions at technology companies. When not thinking about messaging and products, Junie enjoys supporting Michigan Football and making wine.

Matt has worked with Atlassian tools for fifteen years as an administrator, system administrator, app vendor, and consultant toolsmith. He's the author of two O'Reilly books about Jira and helps run the San Francisco Bay Area Atlassian User Group. He is part of the Jira team at LinkedIn now.

Maggie Roney serves as the Head of Product Marketing for Platform and Enterprise at Atlassian. Since joining the company in 2016, Maggie has played a pivotal role in driving the adoption and expansion of Atlassian's cloud products and platform. Her unwavering focus on customer advocacy throughout Atlassian's transition to cloud, coupled with her commitment to delivering enterprise-grade solutions, has empowered organizations to confidently bring their systems of work to the cloud.
A recognized thought leader in product marketing, Maggie is passionate about fostering world-class teams and shaping the future of the discipline. She frequently shares her expertise on building impactful product marketing organizations and navigating the evolving landscape of the field. Maggie holds dual degrees—a Bachelor of Science in International Business and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies—from Elon University.
Outside of Atlassian, Maggie brings her energy and enthusiasm to teaching barre classes, training for long-distance running events, and spending time with her cherished dogs, Delilah and Talulah, who have affectionately earned their status as honorary members of Atlassian’s product marketing team.

Kevin is a Technical Account Manager at Atlassian, he spends his time empowering enterprise customers by providing advice and guidance on how to scale, and transform businesses with Atlassian, and get maximum value from their development toolchain.

Before joining Atlassian, Kevin spent more than a decade managing software teams, evangelising agile and devops methodologies.

Vlad Cavalcanti joined Atlassian in 2012 as a Channel Manager for the Southern EMEA region. He currently manages over 30 partners across 15 countries. Vlad has been working in the software sector for over 20 years now. He is passionate about technology and is keen on helping companies improve their team's productivity through the power of software.

Claudio Ombrella is the Chief Operating Officer at Beecom AG - Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner and developer of the application JSU - Automation Suite for Jira Workflows.
With a 27 year career at Autodesk, he started to use Jira and Confluence in 2007 by proposing them to a small team of 30 people. The success of his implementation gradually extended to the rest of the engineering teams, information technology and other non technical teams; his success story was shared at 3 Atlassian Summits. Claudio holds a bachelor in Information Systems from UADE - Universidad Argentina de la Empresa and a postgraduate in Communication Networks from the EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology: in 1996 he implemented the HTML GZIP compression today used in all browsers.

Feico runs the channels team in EMEA for Atlassian. With more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software including roles in partner management, pre-sales and product marketing, he feels at home at Atlassian and intends to stay there till his retirement in 2037.

Giacomo is driving the Maersk Agile Transformation. With a background in innovation management, Giacomo has worked in different industries as Business Consultant and Change Lead for more than 15 years. Lately he has led workshops with senior executive on Business Agility and is speaking at conferences that address these topics. Originally from Italy, he now lives with his wife and their 3 kids in Copenhagen. He grew up in South Africa where he lived with his family from when he was 6 until he was 17 years old.

Robert is an Atlassian Ambassador from the first minute he joined in 2015. Being addicted to Partner and customer success he has lead many initiatives in the DACH region to go beyond the usual business. Outside of work he enjoys hiking (living close to a mountain) and spending time with his kids. If you follow him, it could turn out as an experiment navigating the absurdities that present a threat in the age of permanent disorientation.

With over 30 years of experience in the software industry, Julio Chez manages Latin America Channel for Atlassian. Julio’s role is to build the necessary infrastructure of Solution Partners and internal Atlassian to prepare Atlassian in LATAM for exponential growth. Julio has been with Atlassian for 5 years. Outside of work, Julio enjoys spending time with his family and playing any sport.

Markus Bause has been with SERVIEW GmbH since 2004 and has been responsible for consulting and training as Managing Director since 2006. After completing his studies in communications engineering, he worked in various companies as a manager of internal IT organizations and is therefore able to take on the perspective of his current customers. He has extensive experience in strategic IT consulting as a consultant, coach and trainer, especially in consulting corporate clients on organizational development and governance issues and on complex tasks in service management and DevOps.

Link to Xing profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/Markus_Bause?sc_o=ps2867
Link to LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-bause-99877076/

Marc Kilgus works as a Technical Account Manager (TAM) at Atlassian with the mission to support and guide large Enterprises through their digital transformation and their scaling challenges. Passionate about solving business problems, Marc is one of those lucky individuals motivated by deadlines. He enjoys bringing people together into an exciting, comfortable, and humorous working environment.

Experienced professional in rolling out IT development and operations processes in the finance area. Skilled in optimizing IT as business with working experience in architecture, programme and project management, business analysis, design and information management. Knowledge holder of all IT frameworks like IT4IT, COBIT, ASL, TOGAF, BABOK, SWEBOK and change methodologies like SCRUM, KANBAN, PRINCE2 and MSP. Professional in making tools and associated working processes and practices available and achievable for large communities in complex companies.

I am a seasoned Atlassian wizard and have been around the Atlassian Ecosystem since 2008. I used to be a Platinum Partner with focus on the Enterprise customers. Since a few years back I am full time employee with Klarna Bank AB responsible for the Atlassian Tools stack. Working these days primarily with Data Center related stuff in AWS but I also work closely with the organization implementing new awesome processes in JIRA, Bitbucket and Confluence

Ada Chen is Product Marketing Manager for Confluence Server & Data Center at Atlassian. She is passionate about collaboration and helping teams work better together. Outside of work, you'll find Ada at the park with her dog or at her neighborhood yoga studio.

Joe is an Atlassian Channel Manager working with Solution Partners in Canada and Central US. In this fast growing area, he has a strong focus on partner growth and development. Before Atlassian, he spent time in Channel marketing and development for several global software companies. He also ran Field Marketing for a large SI so brings experience of how to accomplish goals for growth. When not working with his large and fast moving partners, he's having fun with is large and fast moving family.

Matt has worn many hats, despite the fact that he rarely is seen wearing a hat. His background is in technology consulting, particularly from a process perspective and how it maps to tools. Having joined Atlassian almost five years ago, Matt has spent his time speaking with customers throughout their Atlassian journey, and works with our Enterprise Advocates and Solutions Partners to help them scale with Atlassian products and services. In his spare time, he loves playing basketball with his fake nephews in San Jose.

Shana is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Jira Software at Atlassian, where she works on go-to-market and positioning for all self-managed versions of Jira (Server and Data Center). She has worked in technology her entire career, on everything from conferences to technology research and digital experimentation. She’s passionate about software products that drive transformational change and enable teams do their best work together.

Tristan is the Territory and Partner Manager for France at Atlassian. His role is to mainly ensure there is adapted, added-value Atlassian expertise for end customers across our partner ecosystem. Prior to Atlassian, Tristan held various positions ranging from pre-sales consultant to Sr Business Development Manager at different software companies.

Giulio Iannazzo is an Enterprise Solution Engineer at Atlassian, where he guides customers through the execution of high profile product evaluations using in-depth knowledge of Atlassian Enterprise tool set and industry best practices. Leveraging his extensive experience in roles ranging from development to operations, from consultancy to solution architecture, Giulio has been tightly working with enterprise customers to guide and support them through the adoption of Agile and DevOps practices.

Pat Anemone is Atlassian's Americas Channel Manager for the US East. ​She is also on various internal teams that support Atlassian's Cloud, giving the channel/partner perspective a voice.

She joined Atlassian in 2014 and is proud to be part of the ​​TEAM that has grown and matured Atlassian's Experts into Atlassian's Solution Partners.

Pat has held various Channel Management positions at technology companies BMC, Numara Software and Intuit.

Her party trick is that she is ITIL Foundation certified and in her spare time she rescues shoes from​ Neiman Marcus​ and Nordstroms.

アトラシアン株式会社で、日本唯一のエンタープライズアドボケートとして、アトラシアンのミッション・バリューやプロダクトをお客様に提唱。信頼されるだけでなく、「公私に渡り付き合いたい人」と思われる事を目指しながら、常にお客様目線での情報提供や提案を行う。伝統的な国内IT企業での15年弱の経験と、外資での経験・知見をフルに活用して、日本企業の課題の探求やその改善への貢献に意欲的に取り組む。「日本の全ての企業の可能性を解き放つ」がモットー。

〜1997年 早稲田大学 商学部 卒業
1997年〜 ダイエー
2002年〜 日立ソリューションズ
2015年〜 コーナーストーンオンデマンド
2016年〜 アトラシアン

高い自発的モチベーション、お客様志向、常に挑戦・成長。家族、自身の倫理や哲学、社会への貢献を大事にする。40歳を越えてテニス熱が再燃し、頻繁にプレイするだけでなく、ボランティア活動として、近所の子供達にテニスとその楽しさを教える。

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Rei is an Enterprise Advocate who represents Atlassian’s Mission/Value/Culture/Products for customers and propose solutions that align with clients’ needs and goals. Rei is a reliable/trustworthy/attractive contact, with whom the customers come to want to work with. With over 16 years of experience in IT industry and career in both traditional Japanese companies and foreign capital companies, Rei is passionate about considering/studying Japanese companies/teams/people and contributing to Japan society. Personal mission is “Unleash the potential in every team in Japan.”

-1997 Waseda university - Bachelor of Arts (BA) (School of Commerce)
1997- Daiei, Inc.
2002- Hitachi Solutions
2015- Cornerstone OnDemand
2016- Atlassian

Self-motivated, Customer-focused, Challenging. Prioritize his family, his ethics and philosophy, contribution to the Society. Love watching/playing tennis and teaching it to kids in the neighborhood as a volunteer work.

Himanshu Chhetri is the CTO at Addteq and has a background in DevOps & Atlassian Tool implementations. His technical interests range from chatops and event-driven automation to full-stack monitoring. Outside of work Himanshu like reading, podcasts and long walks.

認定スクラムマスターを持つスコットは、複数の大手コンテンツマネジメント会社に20年勤務。現在は、シドニーに拠点を置くソリューションズエンジニアチームに所属する。アジアパシフィック地域におけるアトラシアンのエンタープライズ規模のお客様への対応を通して、サーバー版からData Center版まで異なるプラットフォームの組み合わせで様々に構成されている環境について、深い知見を持つ。

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Scott is a Certified Scrum Master who has worked for major content management companies over the last 20 years. As part of the Solutions Engineering team based in Sydney, Scott collaborates with some of Atlassian's largest customers across APAC. Their environments encompass a mix of products which span from Server to Data Center offerings in a variety of configurations.

Steve Elliott has a proven track record of leading successful teams and transforming large scale organizations to agile. His software startup AgileCraft was recently acquired by Atlassian, dedicated to pioneering enterprise agility, for 166M USD. Prior to this, he has already led several other startups, sales, support, strategy development, and engineering teams.

His passion lies in designing tools and finding ways to help organizations scale all aspects of business operations. He enables leaders to excel in their management duties through the use of agile to transform the way they do business.

Now Head of Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft), Steve’s brainchild makes all work visible across an enterprise in real time, finds consensus on roadmaps, scope, and dependencies across teams and portfolios, and uses value engineering to rapidly drive value and lean thinking to accelerate digital strategies.

Lonny is a recognized leader in cybersecurity, with 36 years of Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) experience. His 21 years of service in the US Army and 15 years with the National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA) provide Lonny with unparalleled operational cyber experience. Joining NSA/CSS in May 2001, he served in leadership positions for his entire service at NSA in both the operations and the technical support, ranging from Office Chief, to running NSA’s counterterrorism effort, to Technology Director/CIO, and culminating as the Deputy Director of Operations.

At the forefront of our national intelligence mission, particularly in counterterrorism and SIGINT operations, Lonny dramatically improved the way the NSA collects, delivers and shares information in direct support of our nation’s decision makers and armed forces. He is a recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Presidential Rank Award and the 2013 DoD Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

In his current capacity, Lonny advises federal agencies and leading industry leaders on how to make their organizations more secure and resilient to cyber threats. He oversees a team of approximately 80 people in three separate focus areas: government services, government capability development, and a commercial cyber security effort, Domain5.

Andrew Politi is an expert Agilist and product development specialist. He has introduced Agile techniques to garage-based startups, large multinational organizations, and federal agencies. With a focus on emerging technologies, Andrew has most notably helped develop wearable eye-tracking products and cloud IaaS solutions. Currently a Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, Andrew provides Agile coaching for The Office of the CTO and The Office of Digital Infrastructure Technologies at the General Services Administration.

Mr. Steve Latsis is a retired USAF Acquisition Officer with a BS in Math, BS in EE, and MS in Systems Management and is a certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agilist.  While in the Air Force and for the past 20 years in the Defense industry, he has been a leader and innovator in Rapid Prototyping, Spiral Development, and now Agile Software DevOps implementation.  Over the past 12 years, he led the Air Force’s Global IT Network Infrastructure portfolio of over 1M network systems and components, including the USAF’s enterprise deployment of Remedy. This past year, he has led the design and development of the Air Operations Center’s Remedy replacement system based on Atlassian’s Jira Service Desk, Insight CMDB, and Confluence application suite.

Ken has twenty years of experience in the IT industry. He started his career fixing computers at the University of Pittsburgh and held several different positions there. He then did a short stint as a defense contractor writing code on various projects ranging from simple signal deconfliction to complex control systems. Just before joining Atlassian he served ten years in public service as a civil servant within the Intelligence community working to build and maintain one of the largest and most complex multi-tenant Hadoop cloud systems.

Ken has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a certified flight instructor and serves on the board for his local flying club.

Harsh leads go-to-market initiatives across Atlassian's enterprise cloud platform, editions, and ecosystem. He spent the last decade building and scaling global marketing teams at high-growth SaaS companies like Slack and Zendesk. Harsh started his career as a product manager trying to put his engineering and design skills to good use, building online experiences at companies like Sapient and PayPal, but somehow ended up as an accidental marketer.

Brad Kramer is a Solutions Engineer for Atlassian’s Jira Align. Brad helps customers succeed at Agile transformation or improve existing velocity and quality to improve market competitiveness and achieve results. Previously, as a Sr. Business Technology Architect at CA Technologies, Brad was responsible for designing DevOps, Security, and Agile Management solutions for a variety of customers, collaborating with key decision makers to design solutions that meet business and technical goals. Prior to his twenty years at CA, Brad spent 17 years as an IT Director, Help Desk Manager and Desktop Support Manager at financial services, retail and marketing companies spanning network and systems management, project management, systems implementation, helpdesk management, desktop support and business assessment consulting. Brad has spoken at conferences on a variety of topics, is ITIL Expert certified, and a SAFe certified SPC. Brad spent two years on HDI’s Desktop Advisory Board and authored several white papers.

Ian Gates is the APAC Enterprise Advocacy lead at Atlassian. He works with Atlassian’s largest customers across APAC building relationships based on the values, culture and people of Atlassian. As an Enterprise advocate Ian’s role is to raise awareness and grow adoption of Atlassian solutions with our strategic enterprise customers.

Having worked for 20 years in technology industry. Ian bring experience across development, project management and consultancy services to Atlassian.

Scott has over 30 years of experience in Technology, the vast majority of which has been spent working with large customers in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Specifically at Atlassian: He was hired as SE #1 for APAC in 2017. In the last few years, Scott has been focused on managing and growing the regional Presales division as part of the Senior Leadership team.

Responsible for Sales in EMEA & APAC at Atlassian. Reporting to the Global Head of Growth in San Francisco. Joined Atlassian coming from Veritas Technologies where he was the Managing Director for the Benelux. Before that Chris built and led the Dropbox organization in Western Europe as Managing Director, ran Sales for Google Cloud in Benelux and managed the multi-national accounts team at Cisco. After many years in the Tech industry he is specialized in building teams that work in a hyper-growth environment. Scaling up fast based on experimentation and strong collaborative culture.

Aileen leads Atlassian’s marketing efforts for Ecosystem, Cloud Plans, and Cloud Migrations. She’s been with Atlassian for close to 6 years and prior to her current role, she was focused on driving adoption of Server and Data Center products amongst Enterprise customers. Outside of work you can find Aileen hiking and running trails around Austin, TX with her dog.

Warren is a Solutions Engineer at Atlassian and a regional thought leader in scaled agile implementations and practises. Warren bring of 20 years of Enterprise Agile expertise to his presentations on Atlassian Value Stream management.

Tammy leads the global product marketing team overseeing Atlassian’s cloud offerings for enterprises. Her approach blends technology, problem-solving, and story-telling to uncover unique solutions that address complex customer challenges. When not immersed in go-to-market strategies and pondering the direction of disruptive tech, Tammy enjoys baking and being in nature.

Has Joined Atlassian mid-2019, coming from Oracle where he was responsible for the Oracle/Netsuite Benelux Professional Services (PS) team. Previously he has fulfilled the roles of Vice President of Professional Services (EMEA) at Netapp and ASG managing large PS delivery organizations.

The early career of leading large implementation projects within the enterprise evolved into leadership roles within product-related IT organizations delivering professional services to their (enterprise) user community. The focus has been on creating customer satisfaction, and customer retention as well as P&L for the business.

The Atlassian TAM community faces the challenge of managing massive expansion while maintaining the high standard of professional delivery and exceptional CSAT scores.

Kim is a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the Enterprise Cloud team, partnering closely with engineering and other teams across Atlassian to support customers in their cloud journey.

Prior to Atlassian she spent 7 years at Microsoft, where she was focused on enterprise security and productivity. Outside of work Kim loves exploring the outdoors and skiing in the winter.

Novi is a Certified Enterprise Architect who has worked for BRI over the last 9 years and is a key architect who define BRI IT strategy. Their company is one of the biggest Atlassian user based in Indonesia and have implemented Atlassian as part of their global DevOps strategy.

Jason Miller has been executive editor of Federal News Network since 2008. Jason directs the news coverage on all federal issues. He has also produced several news series – among them on whistleblower retaliation at the SBA, the overall impact of President Obama’s first term, cross-agency priority goals, shared services and procurement reform.

Derek Fields is the Atlassian Practice Manager for the RightStar. He has over 5 years of experience as a Jira and Confluence administrator and teaches administration classes in all Atlassian products as well as teaching Git to software organizations new to the technology. Prior to joining RightStar, Derek spent over 20 years as a developer, software architect and project manager in the telecommunications industry. He has extensive experience with various SDLC systems and most major software languages and development environments. Derek has introduced several key DevOps principles to his software organizations, including Agile practices, continuous integration and deployment and software componentization. He has taught DevOps practices and introduces organizations to DevOps through the G2G3 DevOps simulation. Derek has achieved PMP certification as well as being a certified Scrum Master and has achieved Atlassian certifications in Agile for Jira and Jira Administration.

Margo Visitacion is a vice president and principal analyst helping application development and delivery professionals address the challenges of scaling Agile planning and delivery practices to the enterprise level. Her research focuses on scaling Agile practices to the enterprise, Agile financial planning, strategic portfolio management as a means to deliver successful business outcomes, and program and product management. Margo also covers collaborative work management that enables knowledge workers to be more productive.

Previous Work Experience
Margo has over 30 years of experience in IT, developing and implementing QA, and in PMOs. Most recently, she was global industry market manager of the public sector/aerospace and defense markets for Primavera Systems, a leading provider of project portfolio management tools, where she was responsible for developing an integrated go-to-market strategy for Primavera's suite of products. She was a regular contributor to industry trade magazines such as Contract Manager and spoke at industry conferences such as PMI's program management and earned value conferences. Margo was also an assistant vice president at BHC (now FiServ) Securities, where she was responsible for creating project office and quality assurance organizations, which managed the IT portfolio and the implementation and testing of the company's client/server and Internet trading systems.

In his role as research director, Michael leads a team of Forrester analysts in Asia Pacific focused on helping business and technology professionals embrace digital transformation to deliver increased business value. Michael’s coverage focuses on how firms can embrace innovation and adopt organizational structures, processes, and technology to improve customer experience and drive operational excellence.

Michael's views on technology trends and digital disruption in Asia Pacific are commonly cited in prominent publications and broadcast media, and he is a highly sought-after speaker at industry events throughout the world.

Michael has over 20 years of research and consulting experience and joined Forrester through its acquisition of Springboard Research. Prior to Springboard, he led software infrastructure and application integration research in Asia Pacific for Gartner, advising large organizations on strategies for sourcing, implementing, and managing enterprise applications and software technologies. He previously conducted software research and implementation at Meta Group, Hurwitz Group, and Prudential Insurance.

Jim Hannon has over 15+ years of diversified experience in the Information Technology and Financial Services Industries, functioning primarily as a Agile coach /senior Project Manager/Executive with proven experience in various fields. Mr. Hannon has also consulted with government agencies /defense / manufacturing/education / ed-tech and pharma industries. He has an expert level of project management and agile skills and has led a multitude of very large, multi–organization projects with a great deal of success. Mr. Hannon has developed the “pro-active PMO model” through the use Business Intelligence (BI) and leveraging various risk management and project forecasting resources. He recently led a company-wide transformation to Agile development methods for over 4,000 development global resources. Mr. Hannon has large scale project experience in ERP/CRM/business process re-engineering implementations and reaching project objectives in a timely manner.

Mr. Hannon also is an adjunct faculty member with two major universities teaching in Project Management and Agile and in Financial Management. He has over 15 years of undergraduate and graduate teaching experience. He is also a frequent speaker at PMI events. Mr. Hannon is currently a EdD student and will be focusing in on the use of teams and Agile methodologies to enhance learning. He is an active participant in the Agile in Education movement and has presented his findings at major conferences in the past years. He is active in activities for St. Jude New England, the Jimmy Fund as well as in local town causes such as the Opioid Task Force in Natick, MA as the Social Media/ Website Project Manager.

Sam’s professional engagements in the private sector, as well as state and federal government, assist him in addressing the unique technology challenges found in diverse industries such as financial services, healthcare, education, transportation, and mining.

Sam's research focuses on business and IT alignment, CMO and CIO collaboration, and the employee experience for IT teams and technology leaders as well as local and regional adoption of emerging technology and digital transformation.

Dan serves CIOs and digital strategy leaders by guiding them through the challenges of digital transformation. Dan helps define strategies that deliver business benefits from new digital business models and drive sustainable innovation. Dan's particular focus is on the emergence of digital platforms and the related business models as well as the underlying business innovation strategies. Dan is also an expert in the key technologies underpinning digital platforms, such as the internet of things (IoT), mobile technologies, and social collaboration technologies. Dan evaluates and guides CIOs and their teams to manage the diverse demands around digital transformation and provides guidance on how to unlock the CIO's role as a business enabler.

Dan has been in the ICT sector for more than a decade and a half. During this period, he held positions in investment banking, industry research, and vendor strategy and operations. Prior to joining Forrester, Dan worked at Deutsche Telekom's enterprise division, T-Systems, as a strategic marketing consultant. The role involved strategy planning and communication initiatives. Before Deutsche Telekom, Dan worked as an EMEA consulting director for telecommunications and networking at the research firm IDC and as a research director at Ovum. Dan also worked for more than half a decade in the investment banking industry as an equity analyst for Nomura International in London and for Credit Lyonnais Securities in Paris. His focus was on Pan-European telecoms, both integrated and pure mobile operators. During that period, Dan participated in several equity capital markets and private equity deals.

Mike has been a government employee for 22 years with the Department of Justice. He started in Litigation Support and moved to software development 18 years ago with the US Trustee Program. He helped move the software development model to Agile in 2010 and began implementing DevOps practices in 2015. Mike is leading the US Trustee Program's 5-year modernization project that will combine all of their monolith applications and mainframe into a single case management application using cloud-native services. When not managing software development, Mike likes to enjoy food, wine, technology, and playing hockey.

Jeffrey helps CIOs and digital leaders succeed by working with them to improve their software delivery capability and by helping them assess the relevance of emerging software technologies. As a 25-plus-year software industry veteran, he's helped clients improve their development shop culture, apply Agile and continuous delivery best practices, and build successful developer ecosystems. Jeffrey's been a developer; managed development teams; built award-winning commercial development tools; and, over the past decade, has helped Forrester clients navigate mobile, cloud, IoT, DevOps, and low-code technologies and tools.

Joanne is the Channel Manager and regional lead for Canada at Atlassian, focused on strategic development of both the Solution Partner and Atlassian ecosystem in 'The North'. Joanne brings over 20 years of Canadian Channel experience to the role, having held Channel positions at software start-ups as well as large Enterprise organizations like Tech Data, Infor and Seagate. She has been an Atlassian for just under a year! Outside of work, she can be found playing golf, planning her next big trip or working out at the local F45 gym. Joanne holds a Bachelor of Science from McGill University and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Coming from a multi-faceted technology background, including Software Development and Quality Assurance, James is a passionate Atlassian expert and champion. James uses his expertise to support and enable others throughout the Software Development Life cycle and unleash the potential in the tools they utilize.

Michael has been working in the sports & IT sectors for the past 10 years. He builds and operates an internal service agency for digital business solutions inside ESL, and led the digital transformation to support a global scalable operating model by creating and using state of the art solutions in a hybrid environment. He also has broad experience in digital sports operations.

Kamal’s career at TD Bank of 23 years has always been focused on varied areas of technology ranging from networking, application support, testing, deployment, integration, and security. He manages TD Bank’s Enterprise self-hosted Data Center instance of their Atlassian Suite. Tasked to increase adoption, stability, and scalability, his team was able to support the rapid growth from 5,000 to 25,000 users on JIRA and Confluence in 5 years. Kamal also co-leads the Atlassian Community Events in Toronto and Peel Region. His free time is spent with his lovely wife and 2 daughters. His other passions include motorcycling, photography, and cooking.

Sandra Tesoro is the Product Owner for the Atlassian Suite of Tools and Lucidchart at the Royal Bank of Canada. Within 2 years RBC has experienced exponential growth in our Atlassian Community; In order to manage the demand and foster an environment of transparency and collaboration the RBC AUG was created. Atlassian's Company User Group has been a integral support system to RBC's journey to implement Jira, Confluence and Jira Service desk as vital tools to our Enterprise tool suite.