At Atlassian, we know you’re only as strong as the Team around you. Today at Team ‘26 Europe, we are celebrating this year’s Impact Maker Award winners. These organizations have been selected because they are transforming how their teams scale, thrive, and do their best work in the age of AI.
This year’s winners represent global enterprises, public sector pioneers, and high-growth disrupters who are turning modern ways of working into measurable business advantage.
Please join us in congratulating…
The Digital Transformation Titans
Recognizing organizations executing enterprise-wide modernizations to connect teams, retire legacy tooling, and establish unified operating models.
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley knows finance. Morgan Stanley is completing the execution of a multi-year migration of Jira and Confluence to Atlassian Cloud. They have relocated their entire software developer community onto a modern SaaS platform, standardizing usage and cleaning legacy data. This realizes game changing SDLC practices and rollup reporting across their Technology organization. They are putting Atlassian Rovo into the hands of thousands of developers, scrum masters, squad leads and project managers across the organization to introduce efficiency gains and drive up quality.
“Atlassian Cloud is at the center of the SDLC process for thousands of technology users across our organization, and is a mission critical part of our software development toolchain”
— Gary Meadhurst, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Development Environment, Morgan Stanley
Axpo
Axpo knows sustainability. When their legacy ITSM tooling slowed down their progress and siloed their work, they migrated IT to Jira Service Management in under five months – creating a pull that HR and other functions are now following.
“Our engineers used to live in Jira but log ops tickets in ServiceNow: two tools, two logins, two mental models. Now service requests, incidents, stories, and demand items live in one place, and we can trace how each connects to the others. That wasn’t possible when work was split across two systems.”
— Alexander Temperli, Head of IT Service Engineering, Axpo
VodafoneZiggo
VodafoneZiggo knows connectivity. To boost teamwork between business, marketing, and tech, VodafoneZiggo focused on AI enablement. Using Atlassian tools like Rovo and Loom, they increased AI adoption by 20x in five months, cutting duplicate work and boosting collaboration.
“Replacing long status meetings and slide decks using the Teamwork Graph and Rovo to carry an initiative from intake all the way to risk tracking changed the way our business teams operate. People spend less time asking for updates and more time actually getting customer communication out the door.”
— Belinda Gerdt, Chief Marketing Officer B2B, VodafoneZiggo
Amadeus
Amadeus knows travel technology. By migrating more than 20,000 employees to Atlassian cloud, Amadeus drove a global digital-workplace modernization, standardizing collaborative planning worldwide and eliminating silos.
“When you have tens of thousands of people working across different time zones, you cannot rely on multiple email threads and disconnected documents. Moving our teams to the Atlassian platform means everyone is looking at the exact same plan.”
— Melanie Carle, Head of Digital Workplace Services, Amadeus
The Industry Shapers
Recognizing market leaders driving deep engineering excellence, lifecycle modernization, and domain-specific innovation.
Daimler Truck
Building on 130 years of manufacturing expertise while meeting stringent automotive safety standards, the company took on the responsibility of modernizing their software engineering while maintaining rigorous compliance.
“By unifying more than 15,000 users on a single Atlassian platform, we built the foundation for modern engineering at Daimler Truck. Standardized processes, connected data, and AI-enabled capabilities help our teams focus less on tooling and more on innovation.”
— Toni Schwager, Team Lead Software Engineering, Daimler Truck
Autodesk
Autodesk knows design and make. To continue powering global design and creation, Autodesk moved its enterprise footprint to Atlassian Cloud. Supported by purposeful change enablement, Autodesk teams are benefiting from more connected workflows and ways of working.
“Moving to Atlassian Cloud was about transforming the way our teams build together. We modernized how engineering teams work, strengthened governance and security, and unlocked automation and AI capabilities that help engineers focus on higher-value work and innovation.”
— Padmaja Manjunath, Senior Manager, Enterprise Technology, Autodesk
Axel Springer
Axel Springer knows media. As an international media company with brands across Europe and the US, Axel Springer embedded intelligent workflows and the Teamwork Graph into the developer experience, linking design assets, documentation, and delivery data to reduce context-switching.
“True developer velocity isn’t just about writing code faster. It’s about having all the background context already connected. Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph links our designs, docs, and delivery data so engineers can build without the usual guesswork.”
— Martin Bild, Head of Product Excellence, Axel Springer
Stellantis
Stellantis knows the automotive industry. To support software development across multiple automotive brands, Stellantis consolidated legacy tools into a unified platform for 16,000 employees, accelerating cross-brand code sharing, early defect detection, and release cycles.
“Building software across multiple automotive brands gets complicated very quickly. Now that we use Atlassian to create common workflows across our teams, it’s much easier to share code, spot issues early, and build together.”
— Thomas Gaertner, Director, Software Integration Platform, Stellantis
Santander
Santander knows banking. With governance and compliance front and center, the Santander team modernized their software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) across retail and commercial banking by establishing a unified Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and SDLC Center of Excellence.
“By embedding Rovo Agents and automation into our engineering ecosystem, we are reducing cognitive load and simplifying how developers interact with increasingly complex platforms and processes. The goal is simple: automate the complexity so our engineers can focus their time on innovation and delivering value”
— Dilip Kumar, Head of Application Lifecycle Management, David Moreno Miguel – SDLC CoE lead, Santander
The AI & Innovation Leaders
Recognizing trailblazers who are actively embedding artificial intelligence, agentic workflows, and cutting-edge knowledge systems to reinvent how work gets done.
DeepL
DeepL knows translation. As a category-defining AI company, their teams chose Atlassian to scale alongside them as they continued to reach new heights in their business.
“As our company expanded globally, our internal IT couldn’t afford to become a bottleneck. Keeping our service desk and onboarding fast and automated lets our engineers stay focused on our core products.”
— Sven Ladovic, Engineering Lead (IT Ops), DeepL
The Drivers
Recognizing organizations that have optimized service delivery, streamlined operational complexity, and scaled productivity across distributed teams.
Canal+
CANAL+ knows entertainment. This year, the global media and entertainment group, operating in 70 countries, went one step further in connecting European broadcasting, consolidating service and discovery workflows on a high-velocity cloud foundation.
“We replicated 40 years of challenging governance systems and rules into a Rovo Agent. In the first two months alone, this agent has reduced the volume of meetings and freed up our experts to focus on creativity and adding value.”
— Emmanuel Aldeguer, EVP of Coordination, Synergy, and Convergence, Canal+
BarmeniaGothaer
Barmenia knows insurance. Navigating a major industry merger, Barmenia streamlined complex insurance operations and service management on a centralized Atlassian platform, gaining end-to-end visibility.
“The merger of Barmenia and Gothaer required us to bring together teams, processes, and technologies at scale. By migrating to a shared Atlassian Cloud platform and centralizing our operations, we gained greater transparency, aligned priorities, and enabled more effective collaboration across the organization. This recognition reflects the collective effort behind a transformation that is helping shape the future of BarmeniaGothaer.”
— Benjamin Livoreka, Product Manager, BarmeniaGothaer
AKDB
AKDB knows IT. With a record of trailblazing, they have set the blueprint for how highly regulated EMEA organizations can modernize while maintaining strict data residency and security compliance.
“Public sector technology requires strict data protection, but it also needs to be easy for municipalities to use. Standardizing on Atlassian gives us the cloud security certifications we need while making local government service delivery fast, practical, and scalable.”
— Dr. Denisa von Reinersdorff, Head of Quality Management & Digitalisation Quality, AKDB, Martin Senft, Vice President of the Digital Citizen Services & Identity Product Group, AKDB
SpotOn
SpotOn knows Practical AI. SpotOn puts AI to work where the work already happens. Since adopting Atlassian Rovo, SpotOn has built a system of work that automates repetitive tasks, connects information spread across tools, and surfaces the insights teams need to scale the business. SpotOn is saving around 40 hours a month with one Rovo agent.
“Rovo works the way our teams already work. Instead of asking our team to adopt another standalone AI tool, we brought AI into Jira Service Management, Slack, and Confluence. That’s what turns AI from a pilot into part of how the business runs.”
— Ryan Boyd, Vice President of IT, SpotOn
Barclays
Barclays knows scale. With Atlassian as their System of Work, the Barclays team scaled engineering productivity and service management across a large-scale financial services infrastructure.
“The real test at our scale is making sure our technology and operational teams aren’t working as disconnected islands. Bringing our service management and engineering workflows onto Atlassian connects the dots across the entire lifecycle, from customer issue to code fix.”
— Lubos Housa, CTO, Atlassian and Work Management Engineering Manager, Barclays
Google Cloud
Google Cloud proved its enterprise prowess this year by deepening its alliance with Atlassian—scaling mission-critical platforms like Jira and Confluence on Google Cloud, powering intelligent workflows with Gemini, and driving frictionless distribution via Google Cloud Marketplace.
“Our goal with Atlassian is simple: supercharge enterprise collaboration with generative and agentic AI. Delivering deep integrations across Google Workspace, enterprise-grade cloud resilience, and unified procurement through Google Cloud Marketplace means organizations can focus on building what’s next.”
— Tara Brady, EMEA Cloud President
