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Atlassian Summit & Developer Day 2019


Speaker Submission Deadlines

Atlassian Summit: December 04, 2018 at 23:59 PST

Developer Day: January 25, 2019 at 23:59 PST



Call for Speakers

Atlassian Summit is coming to Las Vegas, Nevada on April 9 – 11, 2019. It's your turn to share your story, best practices, and expert advice.

And for the first time, we're introducing Developer Day at Summit, a special event dedicated to the Atlassian Ecosystem and our community of developers.

We're looking for business leaders, developers, end users, and industry experts to join us as session speakers for both Summit and Developer Day. Join us to share your expertise around:

  • Technical content and best practices, including demos and how-to's
  • Use cases for how Atlassian is used in all teams
  • Best practices for Atlassian at scale

Take a look at the specific tracks for each event below to inspire you.
We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to submit a speaker proposal. If you're selected as a speaker, you will get a free conference pass to the respective event you'll be speaking at. The selection process is competitive, but we've got tips and tricks for submitting a winning proposal.

These sessions are not for service and product pitches. If you're interested in marketing your solutions, please take a look at our Sponsorship opportunities.

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Atlassian Summit Tracks

See where your talk would fit into one of our eight tracks at Summit.

People, Practices and Culture

This track is about how people and teams can work more effectively together. Tools are an important foundation, but it's what people do with the tools and the practices around them that are even more important. Share with us the culture and practices that allow your team to thrive.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • navigating major cultural changes
  • managing remote and/or distributed teams
  • rituals to work better together
  • creating psychological safety
  • embracing diversity and inclusion
  • scaling teams
  • AI and the future of work

All Team Use Cases

This track is about how teams across an organization use Atlassian. Inspire others with new and interesting use cases.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • Facility management
  • HR onboarding
  • Website redesign
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Legal approval
  • Quarter end close
  • Operations

DevOps

This track is about how development and operation teams are breaking down silos and working more effectively together. Share how your teams have brought visibility and better collaboration into the software development and operation process.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • building a seamless development and operation pipeline
  • ensuring continuous delivery and deployment
  • bringing visibility in the development process
  • supporting a microservices architecture
  • 'shift left' testing
  • code collaboration

Plan and Track

This track is all about how to organize work as a team and continuously adapt the plan. Share how your teams stay agile with changing requirements, multiple stakeholders and feedback loops.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • agile tips and tricks
  • scaling agile
  • managing and organizing your team's work
  • moving from roadmap to backlog to product
  • backlog grooming
  • personal productivity tips
  • organizing work
  • workflow design and management
  • tracking work, progress and planning releases

Service and Support

This track covers topics from end user support to managing IT services. Share how your IT teams collaborate, operate, and deliver solutions fast in a service-first world.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • bridging collaboration between support and development
  • lean ITSM
  • lean change management
  • automation in support
  • running support at scale
  • incident management
  • ITIL
  • optimizing IT operations
  • 'shift-left' with self-service & service management

Collaboration

This track is all about how teams collaborate, share knowledge and work better together. Share how your team use tools and practices to foster discussions and create open communication channels.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • knowledge management
  • how bots and apps can bridge communication gaps
  • tools help tearing down silos
  • how to foster discussions
  • how Atlassian has helped to start the conversation inside
  • teams and between departments
  • collaborative documentation
  • tips and tricks how to get the critical mass into
  • collaboration tools

Scaling Atlassian

This track is all about how to run Atlassian in larger organizations and at scale. Share how you and your team set up Atlassian for high availability, scalability, and performance.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • customer stories about scaling teams on Atlassian
  • Atlassian Datacenter
  • running Atlassian Datacenter in the Cloud
  • high availability
  • performance improvements
  • managing 1000s of users
  • risk management and compliance
  • governance

Atlassian Admin

This track is all about managing, upgrading, and supporting the Atlassian stack. Share best practices on how to get started, how to get the most out of the Atlassian stack and how to roll-out Atlassian to your organization.

▲▼ Some Example:

  • upgrading Atlassian products
  • monitoring Atlassian products
  • migrating to Cloud
  • consolidating instances
  • testing / staging / validation of instances
  • administration tips & tricks
  • best practices to set up projects in Jira
  • the value of certifications and training
  • Atlassian as a career

Developer Day tracks

Developer Day at Summit is a special event dedicated to the Atlassian Ecosystem and our community of developers. Showcase your ideas and best practices in one of our two different tracks at Developer Day.

The Atlassian Platform for Developers

Get up to date on APIs, roadmaps, features and new services that will set you up for success. Are you developing an app for our products or services? Hear from the product and service teams on what's new.

Advanced Atlassian Development

Dive deep with the greatest minds in the Atlassian Ecosystem. Advanced topics include app development, DataCenter/Server, testing, and performance tuning and scaling. Additionally, business topics like using the Marketplace API to help inform your business.

Session Review Process

All Summit and Developer Day speaker submissions will be reviewed and graded by a program committee comprised of Atlassian employees, Partners, and customers. Speaker details will be anonymous during preliminary selection to ensure we have an objective assessment of each submission.
Atlassian is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive event that showcases the contributions of people from all backgrounds in technology. Collecting demographic data about our applicant pool and speaker lineup is a key part of that mission. We will not use this information to inform our selection process, but rather to understand how effectively we are reaching and supporting speakers from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds at Atlassian Summit.

▲▼ Read more about how we're increasing the diversity of Summit Europe and AtlasCamp speakers!

Selection committee

There are 25+ different people on the selection committee reviewing our all submissions. Our reviewers come from a wide variety of demographic backgrounds and possess a broad range of expertise. To ensure that we have the benefit of a diversity of thought when selecting the kind of content that will be presented at Atlassian Summit 2019 and Developer Day 2019.

Blind review

When speakers submit their proposed topic, reviewers won’t be able to see any identifying information about the presenter while the content is being evaluated. This will allow us to assess the true merit of the proposal without allowing someone’s demographic characteristics or speaking experience to bias our decisions. After determining the highest quality submissions from each track, our selection committee will meet to ensure that we have an appropriate balance of speakers. In addition to the diversity and experience level of our speaker line up, we also try to ensure a good mix of Atlassian employees and customers.

Speaker training

The last hurdle to overcome is a structural one. We know that because of implicit bias, people from underrepresented backgrounds may be less likely to have significant prior speaking experience compared to their majority-group counterparts.
We want to ensure that all of our speakers are comfortable and confident when speaking. To that end, we’ll be offering live speaker training to selected presenters who would find it valuable. We believe that this training will pay a wide variety of dividends: it will ensure that we have a high-quality set of talks and increase the confidence of all our speakers.

Tips for a winning submission

When our committee is evaluating your submission, we only have what you provide as a part of your submission to take into consideration, so make it good! To improve your chances at being selected, be sure to cover the following points.

  • Tell us why your topic is interesting, relevant, and unique.
  • Share what your audience will walk away thinking/knowing/doing, that they didn't know prior to your session. Be specific when providing your key takeaways!
  • Provide detailed context about your subject matter, and your intended audience.
  • Give concrete examples of the specific topics you'll cover - e.g. solutions to problems/issues, successful use cases, demos, best practices, teachings, how-to's, tips and tricks.
  • Keep your abstract as short and concise as possible.
  • Submitting a session with multiple Atlassian speakers will not be allowed so be able to carry this content on your own.

Here are some examples of abstracts from a previous Atlassian event.

Important Dates

  • Call for speakers for Summit 2019 tracks ends 04 December 2018 at 23:59 UTC+1.
  • Call for speakers for Developer Day tracks ends January 25, 2019 at 23:59 PST
  • The agenda for Summit 2019 and Developer Day 2019 will be announced in February 2019.
  • Atlassian Summit 2019 will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on 9-11 April 2019.
  • Developer Day will be held at XXXX on Monday, 8 April 2019.

Code of Conduct

We want everyone who attends Atlassian Summit to feel safe and included. We expect Summit staff, speakers, attendees, and sponsors to be respectful and collaborative, regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, religion, or any other personal characteristic. This applies to all areas within the conference venue, talks, workshops, parties, and any online media or spaces associated with Summit.

▲▼ Read more about our Code of Conduct

We're an open company that values an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone can be their full selves without being subject to unacceptable behaviour, including demeaning, harassing, abusive, violent, discriminatory, derogatory or demeaning conduct.

Conference staff is always available to help anyone who believes that this code of conduct has been violated. Conference staff can be identified by their "staff" t-shirts if there are any potential concerns, or participants can report incidents to the contact listed below. We reserve the right to take any action we deem appropriate, including expulsion from the conference, to maintain a positive, inclusive atmosphere at Atlassian Summit. Staff are also happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist anyone for the duration of the conference.

If you see or experience something that violates this code of conduct in law or spirit, please Be the Change You Seek and report the incident!

To report an incident, contact personnel at the registration desk or summitconduct@atlassian.com at any time. Reports may be made confidentially.


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Splunk Event Code of Conduct

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DO

  • Have fun and learn!
  • Respect other participants
  • Be kind and respectful to others
  • Engage with others
  • Remain professional and courteous
  • Use good judgment
  • Consider others' feelings before you act

DO NOT

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Event staff will be happy to help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, provide safety escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe during Splunk events. We value your attendance and cooperation. Thank you for attending!