2018 Kickoff: "Your Burning Questions" and "Automating Everything Atlassian"

Name: 2018 Kickoff: "Your Burning Questions" and "Automating Everything Atlassian"
Start: 2018-02-05T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2018-02-05T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Schlafly's Bottleworks

St. Louis

Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 12:00 – 2:00 AM UTC

This 2018 Kickoff Event marks our 5th year and 25th meeting - milestones to celebrate! The Schlafly-Maplewood location got a big thumbs up last year for its great meeting space, adjacent-to-building and ample parking, plus good food and drink.  This event has a lot of great content that anyone from beginners to experts will enjoy. We have a panel discussion and a presentation. RSVP Now!

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About this event

Come to our 2018 kickoff meeting at Schlafly Bottleworks (Maplewood) on MONDAY February 5, in the spectacular Crown Room.
This event features a two-fer: a PANEL DISCUSSION and a PRESENTATION!
PANEL DISCUSSION.  We'll start with an Answers to Your Burning Questions panel hosted by Contegix Experts Don West, Josh Boivin and Hillary Mosca.  They are prepared to answer questions such as:
What is the number one piece of advice for securing a JIRA or Confluence instance?
What are the performance impacts of having an instance on a public cloud?
If you have a question to pose to the panel, send it to me in advance (and I'll have it to choose from as the panel moderator) or ask it live. 
PRESENTATION. Followed by a brief break, we have a guest, Jonny Carter of Adaptavist, visiting us to present on the topic, Automating Everything Atlassian.  
His abstract for this presentation:
One of the strengths of the Atlassian Suite is the plugin system. Each product has a set of APIs that lets app developers extend the functionality of Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket Server, and the rest. That power is available to regular administrators too, through different automation apps, all of which give you the power of automation without the overhead of writing your own custom app.
See more details on all of this in the agenda below.
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In addition, there will be mingle/networking time and as always we provide free beverages, this time served from the Crown Room's own bar staff (non-alcoholic beverages included), food (including pizza) and updated-brand Atlassian swag.   
Don't miss hearing what we have in store this year, and as always if you have a topic you'd like to share with the group (in any way - presentation, one-on-one with those who might have experience with what you are looking to do or working on, etc. or are comfortable asking the entire group an open question), let me know. We can build these opportunities into  meetings.
If you can make it be sure to say hi and let me know what you want to experience as part of our AUG - be it topics to hear presented, issues or challenges you have that you'd like to connect with others on, or anything else. Remember, this AUG is for you.

When

Tuesday, February 6, 2018
12:00 AM – 2:00 AM UTC

Where

Schlafly's Bottleworks
7260 Southwest Ave
Maplewood, 63143

Agenda

12:00 AM	Doors officially open.	We'll actually be in the Crown Room setting up the hour prior, so if it's convenient for you to drop by early, go for it. You can just hang out or start networking with other attendees (last year, we had quite a group who arrived prior to the official door opening). We'll start the tab at 6pm or slightly prior.
12:30 AM	Start program.	Tom will welcome the group, and provide some quick AUG and Atlassian updates.
12:40 AM	Panel Discussion: Answers to Your Burning Questions	This panel will consist of Contegix experts who will be able to answer many questions about Atlassian products, particularly in the areas of configuration and security. Panelists include: Josh Boivin, HIllary Mosca, and Don West Go ahead, try to stump them. They will begin with a few questions from the moderator to get warmed up and we will then open it up to the audience.
1:10 AM	Brief Break	Get a beverage refill or more food while we set up the presentation.
1:15 AM	Presentation: Automating Everything Atlassian	Jonny Carter from Adaptavist is excited to chat about one of his favorite topics. As you might gather from the abstract (in the event description above) he has a lot to say on this topic. He will cover examples across Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket Server on how to: - Automatically respond to important events like a new software release - Scheduling tasks to run in the background automatically - Provide even deeper integration between both your Atlassian products and external systems There will be time at the end for questions.
1:50 AM	Final Words, Swag Handout	Find out what's coming up for the St. Louis AUG, snag the newest swag from Atlassian (with their new logo) and hang out for a while if you'd like (we need a few minutes to clean up and close the tab). If you want to hang out after the room is closed down, the bar is just across the hall. ;)

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