Leading with Context: Lessons from Atlassian’s AI journey

Learn what it actually takes to close the gap between AI adoption and enterprise-wide ROI. Join Atlassian's Chief People & AI Enablement Officer Avani Prabhakar and Head of Engineering, Developer Infrastructure Hari Lingamagunta for a candid conversation drawn from Atlassian's Leading with Context report.

85% of knowledge workers now use AI. But only 6% of executives can point to clear, organization-wide ROI.

The organizations pulling ahead aren't just bolting AI onto existing tools; they're rewiring their workflows, culture, and knowledge systems around it.

At Atlassian, we’ve spent the past year embedding AI into how our teams plan, decide, and deliver. In this session, Atlassian's Chief People & AI Enablement Officer Avani Prabhakar and Head of Engineering, Developer Infrastructure Hari Lingamagunta share the five questions every enterprise leader is asking and what Atlassian has learned answering them:

  1. How do we drive accountability? Why some AI transformations stall, how to put the right owners in place, and the goals each function should own.
     
  2. How do we unlock the ROI of AI? Why models aren't the moat; your organization’s institutional memory is, and how connecting AI to our connected context cut token usage by 48% without sacrificing speed.
     
  3. How do we make AI part of our culture? How leadership modeling, structured rituals, and protected time for experimentation drove over 99% of Atlassians to use AI in their daily work, without a single mandate.
     
  4. How will teams evolve? Why you should redesign the work before you redesign the org chart, starting with tasks, then skills, then roles.
     
  5. How do we measure success? How to shift from tracking adoption to measuring real business impact and why a single AI superuser lifts their entire team's performance by 56%.

Whether you're a CIO, CHRO, CTO, or transformation lead, you'll walk away with a practical framework for turning AI activity into business outcomes.

 

Intervenants

Avani Prabhakar

Chief People & AI Enablement Officer

En tant que Chief People Officer, Avani Prabhakar pilote l'organisation People d'Atlassian, qui regroupe les fonctions Ressources humaines, Relations avec les collaborateurs, Gestion des talents, Récompenses, Insights, Fusions et acquisitions, Diversité, équité et inclusion, et Team Anywhere à l'échelle d'Atlassian.

Avani Prabhakar a pour mission d'accompagner les transformations métier, le développement d'équipes distribuées de premier ordre, et la mise en place de processus, de politiques et de pratiques qui permettent aux équipes Atlassian de libérer tout leur potentiel.

Elle est animée par la volonté de libérer le potentiel des équipes et des partenariats transverses pour obtenir des résultats à fort impact.

Elle a acquis plus de 20 ans d'expérience en Asie-Pacifique, au Moyen-Orient et aux États-Unis dans des secteurs tels que la technologie, le trafic aérien, l'ingénierie et les services professionnels.

Hari Lingamagunta

Head of Engineering (Developer Infrastructure)

Hari Lingamagunta is the Head of Engineering for Developer Infrastructure at Atlassian, where he's currently leading the company's AI-first engineering transformation. Hari leads a global team building the platform, developer loop, and tooling behind Jira, Confluence, and Trello.

With 20+ years across Amazon, Concur, and SAP, Hari is known for building high-performance teams and obsessing over reliability, scalability, and performance at scale.

Liz Fosslien

Head of Thought Leadership, Atlassian

Liz Fosslien dirige une équipe qui développe la plateforme de communication stratégique de l'entreprise en collaboration avec les services marketing produit, recherche, ventes et communication. Elle est également co-auteure et illustratrice du best-seller national Big Feelings et du best-seller du Wall Street Journal No Hard Feelings.