BIT Schedule
Hear directly from real teams, community leaders, partners, and builders who are transforming the way they work with Jira, Confluence, JSM, Rovo AI, and Forge.
Day 1
EXPO OPEN ALL DAY
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
Breakfast & Expo
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM
Opening Keynote
9:00 AM – 9:25 AM
Rovo: Search Smarter, Chat Faster, Work Less
Rovo is Atlassian's AI platform for Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management — built to help you find information faster, get instant answers, and offload repetitive work to AI agents. This session is designed for entry- to mid-level users and requires no technical background.
You'll learn how Rovo Search surfaces answers across your connected tools, how Rovo Chat turns natural-language questions into real work (status updates, new tickets, quick summaries), and how Rovo Agents can take on tasks like triage, documentation, and reporting — all within your existing permissions. We'll close with a live demo showing Search, Chat, and an Agent in action, so you leave with practical, everyday use cases you can start using immediately.
Cassie Goss (Your Solution Architect)
9:25 AM – 9:30 PM
Speaker Transition / Break
9:30 AM – 9:55 AM
Autonomous by Design: Putting AI to Work Inside Your Workflows
You’ve seen Rovo answer questions. This session is about what happens when AI stops waiting to be asked and starts running inside the workflow itself. Built for builders and technical teams who already know Rovo, we go past single-task helpers to autonomous agents: AI that triggers on events, moves work through Jira and Jira Service Management on its own, reaches across your connected tools to act, and pulls in a human only when it hits an exception. Through live product visuals and real scenarios, you’ll see where autonomous work is headed and leave with concrete ideas for putting it to work on your own team.
Amanda Cortez (Atlassian)
9:55 AM – 10:00 AM
Speaker Transition / Break
10:00 AM – 10:25 AM
MCP + Atlassian at Scale: A Governance Playbook
Atlassian's MCP integration unlocks powerful AI capabilities across Jira, Confluence, and Compass, but scaling it across teams introduces real governance challenges: Who has access to what? What data is flowing through your agents? How do you move fast without creating security blind spots?
In this session, we'll walk through how we deploy and manage Atlassian's MCP server through an MCP gateway in production, including real examples from our own team and customers. You'll leave with a practical governance playbook: how to structure permissions, enforce policies, and give your security and IT teams the visibility they need to say yes to AI.
Becky Brooks (MCP Manager by Usercentrics)
10:25 AM – 11:00 AM
Expo Crawl
11:00 AM – 11:25 AM
How customers build powerful solutions with Rovo and Forge
Are you curious how enterprise customers are using Atlassian Forge and Rovo to unlock their own System of Work? In this session, we’ll look at customer case studies with the apps that constitute their “Proof of Concept”, and the lessons even these early stage apps teach. If you are a customer learning to build solutions, you’ll find practical advice about how Rovo & Forge fit into a wide landscape of Atlassian Cloud platform capabilities.
Ian Buchanan (Atlassian)
11:25 AM – 11:30 PM
Speaker Transition / Break
11:30 PM – 11:55 PM
Using Rovo Studio to build Forge Apps to Solve Real World Problems
When Roku’s Project Shield tightened contractor permissions in Jira and Confluence, managing access requests manually wasn't scalable. To solve this, we leveraged Atlassian’s Rovo Studio to kickstart three custom Forge apps: a Permissions Lookup Tool, custom Jira Automation Actions, and a Confluence Access Error Helper pop-up.
In this session, discover how Rovo Studio provides a solid, best-practice framework for solving real-world enterprise challenges. Learn how combining Rovo Studio's rapid AI generation with hands-on tweaking via GitHub Copilot bridges the gap between quick AI builds and robust, production-ready code.
Darryl Lee (Roku & Atlassian Champion)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch & Expo
1:00 PM – 1:25 PM
Learning Jira as You Go: 10 Do’s and Don’ts from Someone Who Started With the Basics
I didn’t start as a Jira expert — I started with basic-level knowledge and had to build real fluency fast, including leading a full team migration along the way. This session shares 10 practical do’s and don’ts for learning Jira on the job: what to prioritize learning first, which mistakes are recoverable versus costly, how to build confidence configuring workflows and hierarchy without formal training, and where limited experience actually worked in my favor. This isn’t a highlight reel — it’s an honest, practical guide for anyone who’s been handed Jira ownership without feeling fully ready for it, built from actually living through that learning curve.
Jillian Payne (Quility Insurance)
1:25 PM – 1:30 PM
Speaker Transition / Break
1:30 PM – 1:55 PM
Claude + 3 files = Forge expert
Claude is great at general dev, and confidently wrong the second you say "Forge." Wrong manifest fields, hallucinated imports, deprecated UI Kit syntax. This 20-minute live-coding talk shows the 5 minute fix: a 3 file context pack (CLAUDE.md, a Forge cheatsheet, and an llms.txt index of canonical docs) that turns Claude Code into a real Forge collaborator. We build the same Confluence macro twice - once cold, once with the pack - and watch the difference. You leave with a folder structure you can drop into any new Forge project, and the same pattern works for any framework Claude wasn't trained deeply on.
Hernan Montes & Anthony D’Ambrosio (Movonte)
1:55 PM – 2:00 PM
Speaker Transition / Break
2:00 PM – 2:25 PM
Architecture Masterclass: Real Solutions For Problems the Forge Platform Wasn't Designed For
"Forge can't do that." If you've spent any time building on Atlassian Forge, you've probably heard those words. This session challenges that assumption. We'll move beyond Forge features and explore Forge architecture at a systems-design level. Through real-world examples, you'll learn how seemingly impossible requirements can be solved with the right patterns and mindset. How do you refresh data every 30 seconds when scheduled triggers are not able to? Crazy long pagination, processing millions of work items? etc...
The answer isn't more Forge APIs, it's learning how to design distributed solutions where Forge is one component of a larger architecture. If you've ever been told "Forge can't do that," this session is for you.
Zishan Aslam (Valiantys)
2:25 PM – 3:00 PM
Expo Crawl
3:00 PM – 3:25 PM
ESM with JSM at CU: Navigating the Acronym Jungle
In this talk Paul Stallworth with show and tell how non-IT shared services departments at the University of Colorado Boulder use Jira Service Management for marketing, communications, human resources, business services, and more to the point that "nothing happens if isn't in Jira"
Paul Stallworth (University of Colorado Boulder)
4:25 PM – 4:50 PM
Dia Replaced Chrome as my Favorite Browser come Find out Why
In this session, you will learn all about Dia, including how to install it, its capabilities and features, and the infrastructure that it is built on top of.
Danielle Larregui
4:50 PM – 5:10 PM
Day 1 Wrap-up
Day 2
EXPO OPEN ALL DAY
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Breakfast & Expo
9:00 AM – 9:25 AM
Joiner, Mover, Leaver: ESM in the Agentic Era
Onboarding and offboarding get all the attention, but what about everything in between? When an employee transfers departments, their access needs to shrink before it grows. When someone leaves, you need more than a closed ticket to make sure nothing is left running somewhere it shouldn't be. And the coordination across recruiting, HR, IT, facilities, legal, and physical security? That's where things fall apart.
In this session, we'll walk through a real-world Joiner, Mover, Leaver process built on the Atlassian platform, from what ESM looked like before agents and automation to what's possible now. You'll see how agents can disable badge access, audit knowledge base contributions, confirm end dates with managers, and handle the cross-departmental coordination that used to require a small army of messages and spreadsheets. If your ESM strategy stops at "IT gets a ticket," this talk is for you.
Ed Gaile (Appfire) & Larry Brock
9:25 AM – 9:30 AM
Speaker Transition / Break
9:30 AM – 9:55 AM
The Distance Between Knowing and Doing
For the last few years, we've been obsessed with what AI can answer. The next few years are going to be about what AI can reach.
AI can write the code, explain the architecture, and tell you exactly what needs to happen next.
We built the smartest technology in history and somehow made the human the middleware.
The next AI bottleneck isn’t intelligence. It’s the distance between knowing what to do and being able to do it. This talk shows how MCP and better workflows close that distance.
Danny Thompson (Atlassian)
9:55 AM – 10:00 AM
Speaker Transition / Break
10:00 AM – 10:25 AM
Governing AI in Atlassian: Is Your Environment Rovo-Ready?
Atlassian's Teamwork Graph holds 150 billion objects and relationships — and Rovo sees all of it that your permissions allow. That's not a feature. That's a governance problem hiding in plain sight. Most Atlassian environments were designed for human workflows. Permissions were set for human eyes, Confluence was structured for human navigation, and nobody asked: what will the AI surface? This session walks through the AI Health Diagnostic — a practical framework for identifying permission gaps, stale content, and Jira hygiene failures before they become Rovo problems. You'll leave with a pre-deployment audit checklist you can run this week. Good AI output starts with good governance. Let's make sure your instance is ready.
Rodney Nissen (The Jira Life)
10:25 AM – 11:00 AM
Expo Crawl
11:00 AM – 11:25 AM
What Changed? What Broke? What Now?
A comprehensive platform for unified Data Security, Compliance, and Administration. Keep your Atlassian environment fortified, compliant, and under your command.
Rainier Gracial (Spin.ai)
11:25 AM – 11:30 AM
Speaker Transition / Break
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch & Expo
1:05 PM – 1:30 PM
The 10½ Principles of AI Governance for C-Suites and Boards
AI is moving quickly into everyday work, but many organizations are still adopting tools faster than they are defining accountability, decision rights, human oversight, and governance. This session gives technology, project, and business leaders a practical framework for responsible AI adoption. Mendy Ouzillou shares concise principles that help teams evaluate AI readiness, communicate uncertainty, protect trust, and create useful guide rails and guardrails before deployment outpaces judgment.
Mendy Ouzillou (MMOmentum Coaching)
1:30 PM – 1:35 PM
Speaker Transition / Break
1:35 PM – 2:00 PM
Tempo Session: Details Coming Soon
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Expo Crawl
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Closing Keynote/Feedback
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM