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Unleash Agile & DevOps in Toronto

Jan 16, 2024, 6:00 – 11:00 PM (UTC)

Toronto

Join fellow Atlassian product users, agile & DevOps practitioners, and super fans for a user-driven Atlassian Community event!

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Unleash

About this event

Join our community of innovators to explore today’s agile trends and challenges and how to tackle them with industry best practices, customer stories, and peer-to-peer connections. At this Atlassian Community event, you’ll walk away with actionable insights on how to inspire your teams to build and ship world-class products, together.

All Attendees will receive a voucher for the Atlassian DevOps Essentials on-demand course.

Speakers

  • Neil Mansilla

    Atlassian

    Principal Developer Advocate

  • Mark Cruth

    Atlassian

    Modern Work Coach

  • Mike King

    iTMethods

    VP of Sales & Customer Success

  • Maruan Haidar

    IGM Financial

    Agile Coach

  • James Ciesielski

    Rewind

    Co-founder and CTO

  • Lotta Mikkonen

    Atlassian

    Senior Solutions Engineer

  • Peter Kerrigan

    Adaptavist

    Solution Engineer

When

When

Tuesday, January 16, 2024
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

6:00 PM
Registration
In-person
6:15 PM
Intro by Toronto ACE Leaders
A short welcome from your Toronto ACE leaders (Danny, Susan and Saurabh)
Virtual
In-person
6:30 PM
Developer Experience Discussion
Mark Cruth (Modern work evangelist, Atlassian) will walk us through an interactive discussion of the Developer Experience
Virtual
In-person
7:00 PM
Mike King (IT Methods) - Cutting Costs, Not Corners: Tackling DevOps Tool Sprawl
Explore strategies to streamline your DevOps toolchain, reduce complexity, and cut costs without sacrificing quality. We'll dive into real-world challenges, discuss consolidation and best-of-breed approaches.
Virtual
In-person
7:20 PM
Agile and DevOps - 2 Sides of the Same Coin - Peter Kerrigan (Adaptavist)
Discover the powerful synergy between agile and DevOps at the Atlassian Unleash event. Join Adaptavist experts as they explore how these methodologies revolutionize businesses, enhance collaboration, and drive efficiency.
Virtual
In-person
7:40 PM
How to Increase Developer Joy with the Atlassian Toolstack - Lotta Mikkonen - Atlassian Senior Solutions Engineer
Learn why developer experience matters and how to boost productivity with Atlassian's latest innovations. You’ll also get a look at new features in Jira Software, Compass, and Atlassian Intelligence that help you build a world-class engineering organization.
Virtual
In-person
8:00 PM
Coffee/Tea Break
Take a refreshment break, meet our sponsors
Virtual
In-person
8:45 PM
Magic Show
Mike King will start off the afternoon with a magic show
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In-person
9:00 PM
Build a Backup & Recovery Strategy for Atlassian Apps - James Ciesielski - Rewind
In this session, we’ll delve into the importance of securing your Atlassian cloud data with a secure and reliable SaaS backup and recovery solution and the impacts of not having one. We’ll discuss how your data is currently stored in the cloud and how to build a robust and dependable Backup & Recovery Strategy. We’ll also weigh the pros and cons of building an in-house solution versus outsourcing–and how Rewind can help.
Virtual
In-person
9:20 PM
Super-charging Agile & DevOps workflows with Forge - Neil Mansilla, Atlassian Developer Advocate
Developer Productivity is top of mind for many software teams these days, and Jira’s flexible workflow engine allows teams to streamline workflows to improve the efficiency of their developers. But in the age of Artificial Intelligence, wouldn’t it be great if Jira workflows were a bit… smarter?
Virtual
In-person
9:40 PM
The Never Ending Agile Transformation Journey by Maruan Haidar
sharing my personal experience of being part of a small, medium and large Agile Transformation. What it takes to make it lasting, robust and embedded into the organization DNA o Agility is not linear o The fusion team working with the top/mid/button ledgers to create the self-sustain energy to keep Agility machine alive o Stop the tree-huggers, get dirty o Fit-4-Purpose, be real and pragmatic
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In-person
10:00 PM
Cocktail hour
Enjoy some cocktails and network with your colleagues, Atlassians and sponsors. Thank you Sponsors!!
Virtual
In-person

Community Leaders

  • Susan Hauth

    Toronto ACE Leader

    Atlassian Event Leader

  • Saurabh Sharma

    Banking and Financial

    Atlassian Community Leader

  • Majken Longlade

    Tatari

    Toronto ACE Leader

  • Jovanka Jazic

    Adaptavist

    Operations

  • Danny Zuccaro

    TD Bank

    Senior Manager

Global sponsor

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Atlassian

Sponsors

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Adaptavist

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IT Methods

Rewind logo

Rewind

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Contegix

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