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:
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.
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.
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.
How will teams evolve? Why you should redesign the work before you redesign the org chart, starting with tasks, then skills, then roles.
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.
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Avani Prabhakar
Chief People & AI Enablement Officer
Als Chief People Officer leitet Avani Prabhakar weltweit die Personalbereiche von Atlassian, bestehend aus Teams wie Human Resources, Employment Relations, Talent, Total Rewards, People Insights, People M&A, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sowie Team Anywhere.
Avani konzentriert sich auf die Unterstützung von Geschäftstransformationen, den Aufbau erstklassiger global verteilter Teams und die Entwicklung der Prozesse, Richtlinien und Praktiken, die es Atlassian-Mitarbeitern ermöglichen, ihr volles Potenzial zu entfalten.
Avani setzt sich leidenschaftlich dafür ein, das Potenzial funktionsübergreifender Teams und Partnerschaften auszuschöpfen, um wirkungsvolle Ergebnisse zu erzielen.
Sie verfügt über mehr als 20 Jahre Erfahrung im Asien-Pazifik-Raum, im Nahen Osten und in den USA in Branchen wie Technologie, Luftfahrt, Engineering und professionelle Dienstleistungen.
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 leitet ein Team, das in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Produktmarketing, der Marktforschung, dem Vertrieb und der Kommunikationsabteilung die strategische Markenbotschaftsplattform des Unternehmens entwickelt. Sie ist außerdem Co-Autorin und Illustratorin des nationalen Bestsellers Big Feelings und des Wall Street Journal-Bestsellers No Hard Feelings.
