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.

 

发言人

Avani Prabhakar

Chief People & AI Enablement Officer

作为首席人事官，Avani Prabhakar 领导着 Atlassian 的人事组织，这涵盖了 Atlassian 在全球范围内的人力资源、雇佣关系、人才、总报酬、人事洞察、人事并购、多样性、公平性与包容性，以及全球分布式团队。

Avani 的工作重心是支持业务转型、培养世界一流的分布式优先团队，以及制定流程、政策和实践，使 Atlassian 员工能够充分发挥其潜力。

Avani 热衷于释放跨职能团队和合作关系的强大力量，以取得具有重大影响的成果。

她在亚太地区、中东和美国拥有 20 多年的工作经验，涉及科技、航空、工程和专业服务等行业。

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 带领团队协同产品营销、调研、销售及公关部门搭建企业战略性品牌信息传播平台。她同时是全美畅销书《Big Feelings》与《华尔街日报》上榜畅销书《No Hard Feelings》的合著者及插画创作者。