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Developer Day | Toronto

Sep 26, 2024, 12:00 – 9:00 PM (UTC)

Atlassian Developers

Join us in Toronto for a brand new, FREE, special version of Atlassian’s Developer Day. Spend the day with Atlassian product and engineering leaders, industry experts, and like-minded software development professionals, as we host discussions and hands-on workshops covering topics like platform engineering, developer experience, optimizing developer workflows with custom apps, Forge, AI and more!

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About this event

We’ve got an amazing day planned where you’ll get to meet dozens of Atlassians and other like-minded software development professionals and learn best practices from industry experts. This is a full-day, multi-track event, full of inspiring talks and workshops designed to help your teams up-level.

Pick the track that suits your interests:

  • World-class software development—In this track, you’ll learn from Atlassian engineering leaders on their approach to various topics such as building a successful platform engineering team, collaborating with product management, and improving software health at scale. We’ll also have a session on optimizing the Atlassian platform for a great developer experience.
    • This track is best suited for software development professionals interested in learning from Atlassian engineering leaders how they approach challenges. Participants will leave with tips and approaches they can apply in their own organizations. 
  • Platform extensibility - In this track, you'll learn how to customize Atlassian tools and unlock new use-cases with Forge, the next-gen app development platform for Atlassian Cloud. Forge allows developers to host apps on infrastructure that is provisioned, managed, monitored, and scaled automatically by Atlassian. With just a few lines of JavaScript, build useful apps for yourself, your team, or thousands of customers on the Atlassian Marketplace.
    • This track is best suited for app-builders and includes a hands-on workshop. To ensure you get the most out of the workshop, attendees should:
      • Be familiar with Jira as an end user or admin
      • Be familiar with JavaScript or TypeScript and comfortable using the command line
      • Set up their Forge development environment before the event (we’ll provide help if you get stuck)
      • Bring a laptop & charger

See the full session lineup in the agenda section below. 

Spots are limited, so secure your seat today! 


Speakers

  • Dave Meyer

    Atlassian

    Head of Product, Jira

  • James Dumay

    Atlassian

    Group Product Manager, Ecosystem

  • Daniel Tao

    Atlassian

    Head of Engineering, Confluence

  • KellyAnn Fitzpatrick

    Redmonk

    Senior Industry Analyst

  • Caterina Curti

    Atlassian

    Senior Developer Advocate

  • Chris William

    Atlassian

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Ian Gil Ragudo

    Atlassian

    Senior Developer Advocate

  • Raghu Venkatesh

    Atlassian

    Sr. Engineering Manager, Compass

  • Sean McLucas

    Atlassian

    Head of Engineering, Bitbucket

  • Warren Marusiak

    Atlassian

    Sr. Technical Evangelist

  • Karen White

    Atlassian

    Senior Product Marketing Manager, Developer Platform

  • Josh Frank

    Atlassian

    Director of Product Marketing, Dev Solutions Core

  • Mark Kobold

    Adaptavist

    Principal Developer

  • Christiaan Veerman

    TD Bank

    Head of Developer Experience

  • Olanrewaju Okunlola

    Atlassian

    Sr. Engineer, Platform Engineering

When

When

Thursday, September 26, 2024
12:00 PM – 9:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

12:00 PM
Open registration + Breakfast
Pick up your badge at registration from 8 AM - 9 AM and join us for breakfast.
1:00 PM
Opening Keynote: Atlassian Developer Solutions and Ecosystem (All Tracks)
Hear from Atlassian product leaders, building Jira and Atlassian’s ecosystem, to kick off our day. They’ll share roadmap and vision updates for our developer-focused products and ecosystem. They'll also go over highlights from our recent report on the state of developer experience.
1:45 PM
Panel Discussion: The State of Developer Experience (All Tracks)
The words “developer experience” get thrown around a lot today. What does developer experience really mean to engineering leaders, practitioners, and industry analysts?  How do leaders think about giving teams more autonomy while scaling governance? What does the emergence of AI mean for the role of developers? Join us as we discuss topics like these, as well as Atlassian’s own recent state of developer experience report with KellyAnn Fitzpatrick (Sr. Industry Analyst, RedMonk), Daniel Tao (Head of Engineering, Confluence), Christiaan Veerman (Head of Developer Experience, TD Bank), and Catarina Curti (Sr. Developer Advocate, Atlassian)
2:45 PM
Forge Application Development for the rest of us. Led by Platinum Marketplace Partner, Adaptavist (All Tracks)
In this session, we’ll demystify the complexity of building customizations for your Jira or Confluence cloud instance by simplifying the concept of Forge Apps. Discover the essential technologies required to get you stared, some of which you may already be familiar with. Plus learn effective strategies for managing and maintaining your Forge application post-development.
3:15 PM
Forge Deep Dive (Platform Extensibility Track)
Take a technical tour of Forge, Atlassian's cloud development platform. You'll learn what's under the hood and see how admins and developers can build powerful apps for products like Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
3:15 PM
Atlassian's approach to platform engineering (World Class Software Development track)
Platform engineering is quickly becoming a standard in organizations seeking to accelerate development velocity and improve developer experiences. During this talk we’ll talk about Atlassian’s journey to platform engineering and how we run our own platform engineering at scale to help with compliance and improving developer experience. We’ll share tips on getting started and succeeding with platform engineering initiatives in your organization. We’ll also cover how Atlassian products can help set your platform engineering organization up for success.
4:00 PM
Lunch Break
5:00 PM
Forge Workshop (Platform Extensibility track)
Learn Forge foundations and build a functioning app during this guided 3 hour workshop.
5:00 PM
Concept to Creation: How Compass Engineers Use Jira Product Discovery to get closer to Product Management (World Class Software Development track)
Join Compass' Sr. Engineering Manager, Raghu Venkatesh, for an in-depth exploration of how Atlassian’s practices, culture, and tools drive innovation within the Compass engineering team. This session will highlight how Jira Product Discovery helps the Compass team manage and prioritize ideas, foster collaboration with the Product Management team, and enables engineering leaders to maintain a strategic overview and ensure alignment with business objectives.
6:00 PM
Manage the Sprawl: Optimizing engineering operations with Atlassian tools (World Class Software Development track)
In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, engineering teams struggle to manage escalating operational costs, service sprawl, security vulnerabilities, compliance requirements, while also striving to add value for customers. Join Bitbucket’s Head of Engineering, Sean McLucas, to learn more about Atlassian’s own practices, and how we leverage tools to address operational challenges while still maintaining a pulse on developer experience and productivity. 
7:00 PM
Optimizing Jira and the Atlassian platform for a great developer experience (World Class Software Development track)
Did you know Jira can be configured so that your engineering team almost never needs to update it? That’s because automation can make it so Jira keeps itself up-to-date based on what’s happening across your software stack. During this session we’re going to cover key ways to set up Jira and the Atlassian platform to reduce the cognitive load on your developers and inspire greater productivity and just an overall better experience across Atlassian products.
8:00 PM
Happy Hour
End the day with networking and a drink.

Community Leaders

  • Dugald Morrow

    Atlassian

    Atlassian Developer Experience Team Member

  • Caterina Curti [Atlassian]

    Atlassian

    Senior Developer Advocate

  • Karen White

    Atlassian

    Developer Marketing

  • Maggie Norby Adams

    Atlassian

    Product Marketing Manager, Ecosystem

  • Ian Ragudo

    Atlassian

    Developer Advocate

  • Melissa Paisley

    Atlassian

    Developer Advocate

  • Kelsey Van Scoy

    Atlassian

    Content & Campaign Marketing Manager

  • Helen Rincon

    Atlassian

    Marketing Manager

  • Anmol Agrawal

    Atlassian

    Developer Advocate

  • Charissa Ong

    Product Marketing

  • Tim Pettersen

    Atlassian

    Head of Developer Experience

  • Neil Mansilla

    Atlassian

    Developer Advocate

  • Ian Buchanan

    Atlassian

    Developer Partisan

  • Ash Moosa

    Community Leader

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