Monday 1:30pm

Confluence State of the Union

The past year was a big one for Confluence — the Office and Widget Connector, major search improvements, updates to the rich text editor — and 2009 is the year Confluence went social. This session explores major innovations in Confluence in the past year and discusses a few to anticipate.

Atlassian Speakers: Bill Arconati, Per Fragemann

Key Takeaways:

• Understand key new capabilities
• Discuss direction and strategy with product managers
• Highlight: Confluence 3

Monday 2:30pm

Three Uses of JIRA Beyond Bug Tracking

Everyone knows JIRA is a great bug tracker, but not everyone realizes how multi-purpose JIRA really is. This session features three customers who use JIRA for key business operations, from project management to HR onboarding.

Customer Speakers: Modha Khammammettu of California Casualty, Barney Bolt of Chordiant, Christina Noren of Splunk

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding JIRA's versatility beyond bug tracking
• JIRA plugins and customizability
• Deployment best practices

Monday 3:45pm

Scaling Confluence: From Performance to People

A good wiki grows — more people and content, uses and demands. What begins as a simple experiment in collaboration, explodes into a new Intranet or a mission critical web application. This session focuses on how to architect Confluence for scale and configure it for growing user needs.

Atlassian Speaker: Charles Miller

Customer Speaker: Tim Colson of Cisco

Key Takeaways:

• Best practices in tuning and performance
• Administrative tips-and-tricks for improved performance and management
• Lessons from customers

Monday 4:45pm

10 Killer Confluence Plugins

One of Confluence's defining strengths is its plugin architecture, and there are heaps of incredible plugins that make Confluence absolutely sizzle. This session assembles some of the best commercial and opensource plugins, presented by some fo the best plugin developers.

Partner Speakers: Adaptavist, Balsamiq, Comalatech, Gliffy, Near Infinity

Key Takeaways:

• Explore the plugin ecosystem of Confluence
• Highlight key ways Confluence can be extended
• Discuss key use cases for Confluence+plugins

Tuesday 9:00am

Confluence adoption: techniques for growing your wiki

Whether you're starting small, or aiming big, it helps to have a good set of ideas to aid adoption. This session discusses some of the best tools in the wiki adoption toolbox - from where to start, to how best to grow.

Atlassian Speaker: Bill Arconati

Customer Speaker: Michael Mielke of Deutsche Bahn

Key Takeaways:

• Success patterns for wiki adoption
• Roles and activities to aid a successful deployment
• What to try, what to avoid

Tuesday 10:00am

The Anchor Store: Four Killer Confluence Examples to Root Your Deployment

A mall is only as successful as its anchor stores. Similarly, any Confluence deployment should be anchored by one or two critical business applications. This session explores four key Confluence applications from four different deployments.

Atlassian Speaker: Per Frageman

Customer Speakers: Rick Mazzarella of Asyst Tech, Brian Gregory of CPO Consulting, Daniel Pohl of InDorse Tech

Key Takeaways:

• Key, business critical uses of Confluence
• Deployment best practices

Tuesday 11:00am

How Confluence Plays Well with Others — from CRM to SharePoint

Confluence is often at the center of a number of different enterprise systems. This session discusses different integration scenarios with Confluence and common enterprise systems, like portals and SharePoint.

Customer Speakers: Peter Jones of Autodesk, Charles Hall of EADS Astrium

Partner Speaker: Rob Castaneda of Customware

Key Takeaways:

• Common Confluence integration scenarios and approaches
• Understanding Confluence's role alongside other collaboration tools

Tuesday 1:30pm

Building Killer Communities and Taking Confluence Social

What's with all the hype around enterprise social computing? And how can Confluence be used to support collaborative applications that are social? This session breaks through the hype around social computing, discusses the practical benefits of being people-oriented, and explores approaches to use Confluence in a social context.

Customer Speakers: Guy Fraser of Adaptavist, Ali Ouni of KAPIT, Peter Reiser of SUN Microsystems

Key Takeaways:

• New social capabilities in Confluence 3.0
• Primer on enterprise social computing
• Approaches to make Confluence deployments social

Tuesday 2:30pm

Three Confluence Deployments That Will Blow You Away

There are lots of great Confluence deployment stories. And then there are a few that are just mind-blowing. This session highlights three incredible Confluence deployments that will make your head turn.

Customer Speakers: Nate Nash of BearingPoint, Tim Colson of Cisco, Connie Taylor of Premier Inc

Key Takeaways:

• Incredible Confluence examples
• Innovative uses of a wiki and enterprise collaboration