On April 27, Shannon Mason, Chief Strategy Officer at Tempo Software and a well-known voice in the Atlassian ecosystem, will explore how modern portfolio management is evolving in the age of AI.

“Big data” promised real-time adaptability. In practice, most teams ended up with better dashboards but the same slow decision cycles.

The bottleneck was never the data. It was how quickly teams could interpret signals, align on tradeoffs, and act.

That’s starting to change.

AI is beginning to compress the gap between insight and action. For teams working in Jira- and Confluence-centered ecosystems, this creates a shift: from managing static plans to actively orchestrating how work flows across the organization.

For project, program, and portfolio leaders, this is a meaningful evolution in the role.

You already sit closest to how work actually moves—where priorities collide, where capacity breaks down, and where strategy gets lost between teams. With AI in the loop, those signals can be surfaced and acted on much earlier, and with more consistency.

In this session, we’ll explore what that looks like in practice:

• How to surface tradeoffs as they emerge, not weeks later in reporting
• Ways to rebalance work continuously against outcomes, not fixed scope
• How to connect fragmented data across tools into coordinated action
• Where AI can realistically reduce coordination overhead (and where it doesn’t help)

We’ll keep the conversation grounded in real-world Atlassian environments: messy backlogs, competing stakeholders, and limited capacity. This is not a “future of AI” talk; it’s a thought leadership session on how operating models are starting to change for PMOs and PPM leaders.

Shannon brings deep experience across agile delivery, portfolio management, and enterprise tooling ecosystems. Together, we’ll unpack practical patterns, common pitfalls, and early signals teams are seeing as AI becomes part of day-to-day execution.

If you’re responsible for connecting strategy to execution in an Atlassian-heavy environment, this session will give you a clearer picture of what’s changing and what to do about it.

Event Details

📅 Monday, April 27, 2026
🕛 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM UTC / 6:00 PM CET
🌐 Virtual (Global ACE – Program/Project Masters Chapter)

Who Should Attend

• Project Managers, Program Managers, and Portfolio Leaders

• PMO / EPMO practitioners

• Atlassian (Jira / Confluence) power users working across teams

• Anyone responsible for aligning strategy with execution at scale

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