Today at Atlassian Team ’26, we are thrilled to recognize an extraordinary group of visionaries, architects of change, and digital pioneers. The Atlassian Impact Maker Awards celebrate the organizations that aren’t just using our tools, they are redefining what it means to work, innovate, and scale in the era of AI.
From automotive legends to healthcare lifelines, this year’s winners have migrated massive global footprints to the cloud, automated the “impossible,” and embraced Rovo and AI to unlock productivity at a scale we’ve never seen before.
Please join us in celebrating the 2026 Impact Maker Award Winners.
The Digital Transformation Titans
Honeywell set a new gold standard for enterprise agility this year. In just over 12 months, they migrated tens of thousands of users to Atlassian Cloud. But they didn’t stop at the migration; they continued to push boundaries with the use of Atlassian Rovo and Atlassian Forge agents to automate highly regulated release reviews.
The migration of over 30,000 users to Atlassian Cloud, integrated with Atlassian Rovo and Atlassian Forge agents, has established a high-performance foundation for our digital transformation. This unified environment has enabled us to automate complex workflows and scale our technical capabilities through a sustained, strategic partnership.”
Kaushik K, Director, IT, DevSecOps, Honeywell
Speed is the currency of the travel industry, and Expedia Group moves faster than anyone. Their team migrated to the cloud in a staggering 90-day window. Following the move, they rolled out Rovo company-wide, achieving 70% adoption within 8 weeks with ~200 agents created.
Consolidating our operations into a unified system of work on the Atlassian platform in cloud has been key to increasing our organizational velocity. The transformation helps our global teams move faster and ship more reliable, traveler-centric products, enabling real-time support and frictionless experiences in every market, and helps travelers explore the world. One journey at a time.”
Chris Burgess, Deputy CIO, Expedia Group
Innovation is in the DNA of Mercedes-Benz. By leveraging Atlassian across its global operations, the automotive leader is maintaining its competitive edge in a shifting market, using modern collaboration to create the software-defined vehicle of the future.
Our shift to software-defined vehicles is driven by a deeply integrated collaboration backbone. With Atlassian embedded across our global development lifecycle, we’re accelerating product innovation, shortening time-to-market, and delivering the next generation of vehicles with the engineering excellence that defines Mercedes-Benz.”
Tobias Langjahr, Product Manager, Mercedes-Benz
The AI & Innovation Leaders
An Atlassian partner since 2010, NVIDIA is moving beyond “AI theater” to operationalize AI at an enterprise scale. With 16,000 Jira users and 25,000 Confluence users, NVIDIA’s Director of Engineering, Shivam Khullar, has implemented a disciplined three-phase lifecycle—Experimentation, Pilot, and Production—to ensure AI tools deliver measurable business outcomes rather than just high adoption metrics.
Atlassian plays a critical role in our Work OS across NVIDIA, enabling the orchestration of complex workflows while maintaining high standards of delivery at a global scale. It underpins how we organize cross‑functional work and drive productivity across the enterprise. As innovation continues to shape the future of work, we are excited to partner on this journey forward with Cloud.”
Shivam Khullar, Director of Engineering, Employee Experience, NVIDIA
Cisco is powering an inclusive future by integrating AI-driven workflows across its diverse product lines. By using Atlassian to bridge development and operations, Cisco teams are working smarter, accelerating development cycles, and refining complex processes.
Our transition to Atlassian Cloud represents a fundamental shift in our operating model rather than a simple infrastructure migration. This partnership has been transformative for Cisco Networking, allowing us to re-engineer our internal processes and achieve greater agility in a high-demand market.”
Jason Andrews, VP Strategy & Planning – Engineering Operations, Cisco Networking
Docusign is harnessing Atlassian AI to completely overhaul internal collaboration practices and drive organizational efficiency. By integrating intelligent automation directly into their workflows, they are breaking down traditional silos and enabling their product and engineering teams to work more cohesively. This strategic drive towards a unified, AI-enhanced environment ensures they remain at the forefront of innovation in the digital agreement space.
Our collaboration centers on a shared commitment to secure, governed AI. Atlassian’s focus on robust agent frameworks and co-innovation has made them a strategic partner in our digital ecosystem, ensuring that our AI-driven collaboration remains both highly efficient and compliant with enterprise governance standards.”
Shivi Verma, Sr. Manager, Cloud Apps Engineering, Docusign
Pythian sets the standard for AI-driven ROI by treating implementation as a strategic evolution. Utilizing internal experts to ensure seamless integration and robust governance, the organization has transformed its global data operations into a high-performance model. By prioritizing change management alongside technology, Pythian demonstrates how data-driven companies can achieve measurable operational gains through AI.
With the integration of Atlassian and Rovo AI, we’ve seen 100% adoption across our organization. These tools have been instrumental in automating and optimizing our team’s delivery workflows, modernizing how we work as a data, analytics and AI service provider.”
Kasia Wakarecy, VP Enterprise Apps & Data, Pythian
Shaping the Future of Industries
Digital transformation at Publicis Groupe isn’t just an IT initiative—it’s a revolution in how creative and operational teams deliver client solutions globally. By standardizing on Atlassian, the organization has streamlined complex workflows at an immense scale, proving that modern collaboration tools can transform the entire creative lifecycle and drive agency-wide excellence.
Standardizing our global operations on the Atlassian platform has established a unified architectural backbone for the enterprise. This consolidation has streamlined cross-functional collaboration, ensuring a consistent and scalable approach to service delivery across our entire agency network.”
Erik Gottesman, Group Vice President
In the public sector, the California Department of Health Care Services is modernizing governmental service delivery to better serve millions of residents. By adopting Atlassian’s modern technologies and agile processes, the department is proving that digital transformation can transcend industry boundaries, allowing public institutions to innovate with the same speed and efficiency as the private sector.
The implementation of Atlassian demonstrates that large-scale public agencies can effectively modernize legacy infrastructures. By leveraging these tools, CA DHCS has successfully increased the speed and transparency of our service delivery, directly improving our responsiveness to the citizens we serve.”
Christine Corona, Engineering Operations and Support Services Section Chief, CA DHCS
In the world of connected health, ResMed utilizes Atlassian as the foundational platform for its IT Service Management (ITSM) and modern service practices. By centering their internal operations on a unified system, they have streamlined the delivery of life-changing medical technologies. This commitment to operational excellence ensures that their global teams can maintain a relentless focus on innovation and patient outcomes.
The consolidation and modernization of our internal workstreams within the Atlassian platform is a critical driver of our mission. By optimizing for operational efficiency and removing collaborative friction we’ve created an agility that translates into high-quality care and innovation for our global patient population.”
Jay Cameron, Senior Manager ITSM Product and Process, ResMed
In the high-stakes, 24/7 world of digital assets, Kraken relies on Atlassian to achieve the extreme speed and adaptability required to stay competitive. By optimizing their IT operations and enterprise productivity through a unified platform, Kraken ensures that their teams can respond to market shifts in real-time, maintaining high-performance standards across their global crypto operations.
Our transition from a legacy environment to a unified, cloud-first, and AI-powered platform has been a cornerstone of our technical strategy. Atlassian has provided the necessary infrastructure to support our teams’ adaptability, allowing us to maintain a high-velocity innovation cycle within a complex digital asset landscape.”
Ted Moskalenko, Director of AI Enablement, Payward
Driving Efficiency and Scale
RV Tech is a masterclass in operational efficiency. By utilizing Atlassian-driven automation, they have achieved a significant reduction in annual tooling expenditures.
Atlassian has enabled RV Tech to fundamentally re-engineer our operational model by consolidating disparate tools and implementing intelligent automation. This streamlined infrastructure allows our teams to remain focused on our core mission of moving automotive onward while maintaining a high degree of organizational efficiency.”
Gustavo Moura, Senior Manager, Digital Workplace, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
To create world-class audio products, you need a world-class technology architecture. Bose utilizes Atlassian to connect disparate systems and streamline workflows, accelerating the journey from a sound engineer’s idea to a customer’s headphones.
By rebuilding our technology foundation on the Atlassian platform, we have created a seamless thread that connects our global teams from initial product ideation through to final manufacturing. This integrated ecosystem ensures that our engineering and product development cycles are both agile and highly synchronized.”
Josh Steckler, Enterprise Architect, Bose
PayPal powers billions of transactions, and resilience is non-negotiable. They rely on Atlassian to build the platform engineering foundations that support global commerce, ensuring their services are scalable, secure, and always-on.
Atlassian serves as a cornerstone of our engineering strategy and a critical driver of our service delivery model. By centralizing our workflows, the platform provides the stability and scalability necessary to support the high-volume financial services we provide to our global customer base.”
Peter Matla, Director, Platform Engineering, PayPal
Indeed, a global leader in job matching and hiring, connects millions of job seekers with new opportunities everyday. This requires a robust infrastructure that allows for collaboration across teams. By using Atlassian to streamline the way we work, Indeed ensures its teams stay focused on the core mission of helping people get jobs.
The standardization of Jira Cloud was a key enabler of productivity, improved collaboration, and faster work delivery for Indeed. Partnership with Atlassian and Isos, allowed us to transform the way we work across the technical organization. This effort allowed us to significantly simplify the Indeed Jira instance and drive meaningful developer productivity gains.”
Julie Dlugokecki, Director Technical Program Management, IT Solutions, Indeed
Breville is a leader in kitchen appliances, with a portfolio of iconic brands trusted in homes across the globe. Atlassian sits at the centre of their technology operation, and establishing a unified system of work has brought consistency and unlocked new possibilities.
The platform is only part of the story. Atlassian gave our service teams a common language and a consistent way of working. But honestly? The use cases we’ve landed outside traditional service management have been the real win. We’re not done, but we’re well on our way.”
Roni Nestorovski, Director, Workplace and Core Platforms, Breville
Join the Movement
These winners represent the pinnacle of what is possible when the right people, the right culture, and the right tools come together. We are honored to be a part of their journey.
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