Atlassian Summit 2020 Call for Speakers
Speaker Submission Deadline
November 04, 2019 at 11:59 pm PST
What’s Your Story?
We're looking for inspiring voices, ideas, and expertise from industry leaders and storytellers like yourself.
Atlassian Summit, taking place March 31 - April 2, 2020, is where thousands of people from every kind of team and industry will come together to learn about the most innovative ways to work and improve collaboration.
Share the ways you improve your own work day, workplace, and work life, and help others on your team do the same. Have you found a new way to use Atlassian tools or apply agile practices? How did your organization navigate digital transformation? Do you have personal tips and tricks to get work done more efficiently and effectively?
Whether it's your first talk or your hundredth, we invite you to build the future of work. Learn more about our tracks and submit your talk today. 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. The selection process is competitive, but we have tips to help you submit 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.
To submit a session for Atlassian Summit 2020, create an account below, or log in to finalize and submit a draft / additional sessions.
Tracks
Atlassian Summit tracks: Scale, Modern Development & DevOps, Operate & Support, Plan & Track, Collaborate, Leadership, Teams, Organizations
Atlassian Summit Tracks
See where your talk would fit into one of our eight tracks at Summit.
Scale
Discover how successful, large teams set up Atlassian for high availability, scalability, and performance, as well as manage, support, upgrade, migrate, and optimize the Atlassian stack. In this track, you'll learn all about how to run Atlassian software at scale, transform your organization, and help teams get the most out of your Atlassian products.
▲▼ Some examples:
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Server to Data Center: The Tipping Point
- Why/when Server > DC upgrade
- Server / DC customer stories
- Managing cloud trust and security in uncertain times
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Charting your path to Cloud
- Cloud Migration customer use cases
- Tips, tricks, steps
- ECTL
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Performance at scale
- High availability
- Improvements for Enterprises (DC & Cloud)
- Best practices & tips (DC & Cloud)
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Scaling Atlassian with your organization
- Monitoring Atlassian products
- Consolidating instances
- Managing 1000s of users
- Access
- Customer stories about scaling teams
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Insider’s guide to Atlassian Administration
- Tips & tricks
- Testing / staging / validation of instances
- Upgrading Atlassian products
- Product & deployment-specific best practices
- Access
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Transformation through mastery
- Value of certifications and training
- Atlassian as a career
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Balancing infrastructure with growth - scaling on AWS and Azure
- Running Atlassian Data Center in the AWS/Azure
Modern Development & DevOps
Modern software teams are changing the way they work as they move to the cloud. This shift is driven by the desire to bring software from idea to production faster and with better results. From Cloud Native CI/CD, to Automation and DevOps culture, this track will help you bring modern software development practices home to your teams with Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jira Software, Jira Service Desk, Opsgenie and Statuspage.
▲▼ Some examples:
- Cloud-Native CI/CD
- Better build pipelines
- Continuous delivery/ deployment
- Bringing more visibility in the dev process
- How Atlassian can support a microservice architecture
- 'shift left' testing
- Code collaboration
- Transparency in development/ operations
- Automation
Operate & Support
Running and supporting systems is a critical part of company operations. Learn how modern IT teams can collaboratively deliver, operate and support services in an increasingly software-centric world.
This track covers topics from end-user support to managing always-on IT services.
▲▼ Some examples:
- Bringing development and IT operations together deliver great support and services
- IT service management
- Incident management (linking IT Operations with DevOps)
- Change management (dealing with change in a continuous delivery world)
- Problem management and continuous improvement
- ITIL
- Enterprise service management
Plan & Track
Learn how agile organizations build teams, practices, and products that can keep everyone on the same page and quickly respond to change while delivering customer delight. Hear tips, use cases, deep dives on how to create thriving agile teams, develop visual plans, and how to deliver at scale.
▲▼ Some examples:
- Agile & Agile at Scale
- Lean/Agile Portfolio Management
- Manage & organize your & your team's work
- From roadmap to backlog to product
- Backlog grooming
- Workflow design & management
- Tracking work, planning releases
- How bots & apps can bridge communication gaps
- Balancing governance & team autonomy
- Tools to help tear down silos
Collaborate
Learn how Atlassian tools helps teams across the organization—HR, marketing, legal, design, and more—create, discuss, organize, and complete work, together. Hear use cases, deep dives, and tips on project management, collaboration, knowledge management, keeping every one on the same page, and more.
▲▼ Some examples:
- Manage & organize your & your team's work
- Project collaboration
- Knowledge management
- Employee engagement
- How bots & apps can bridge communication gaps
- Collaborative documentation
- Tips & tricks how to get the critical mass into collaboration tools
- Best practices on open ways of working
- Future of Work
- Non-technical use cases (HR, Legal, Marketing, Facilities)
Leadership
Want to make a bigger impact at work? You don't have to be a leader to lead. Learn to be the change you seek by enhancing productivity, embracing lifelong learning, emphasizing emotional well-being, and driving value for your team.
▲▼ Some examples:
- Maximize productivity without minimizing emotional well-being
- Bring your true self to work: how being who you are makes you more effective at the workplace
- The value of EQ: how connecting with others strengthens your career
- Wellness & mental health
- Lifelong learning
- Career building through personal action: how to define key value drivers to become a champion in your org
- Purposeful time management: how to channel your energy to maximize your efforts
- Project management for your personal life
Teams
Learn how to unleash the potential in every team thru practices designed to help teams do the best work of their lives.
▲▼ Some examples:
- Playbook practices
- Design thinking
- Capacity planning
- OKRs and goals
- Project Management
- Prioritization and how to make the right trade-off
- Managing remote and/or distributed teams
- Team health
- Agile team practices
- Psychological safety
Organizations
A thriving work culture is arguably the single most competitive advantage a company can have over its rivals. Learn the strategies you’ll need to shape a successful organization in a time of rapid change.
▲▼ Some examples:
- Hiring for the future
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Digital transformation
- Distributed teams & remote work
- Diversity and inclusion
- Change management at scale
- Designing an open organization
- Foundation/Giving
- Employee performance
- AI & Automation and its impact
- Transparency in the workplace
Session Review Process
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.
▲▼ Read more about how we're increasing the diversity of speakers!
Selection committee
There are 25+ different people on the selection committee reviewing all submissions. Our reviewers come from a wide variety of demographic backgrounds and possess a broad range of expertise to ensure there are diverse perspectives when selecting the content presented at Atlassian events.
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. In order for us to prevent bias during the blind grading process, please do not include self-identifying information in the session abstract or message to the program committee.
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’s good! To improve your chances of 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. Provide specific 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 - use the outline section to tell us more about your session specifics.
- 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 2020 ends November 04, 2019 at 11:59 pm PST
- We will start notifying speakers in December 2019 with the status of their submissions. Reach out to summit@atlassianevents.com if you have not received notice by the end of January 2020
- The agenda for Summit 2020 will be announced in February 2020
- Atlassian Summit 2020 will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 31 - April 2, 2020
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.