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.
Speakers
Avani Prabhakar
Chief People & AI Enablement Officer
Avani Solanki Prabhakar is a highly accomplished Chief People and AI Enablement Officer and seasoned board member, recognized for her leadership in guiding organizations through enterprise-scale AI transformation.
Under her leadership, the team is building one of the first AI-first enterprises at scale — embedding AI as core infrastructure and running live experiments through Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab to design the future of roles, skills, and teams. Leading Atlassian’s Forward Deployed Engineering motion to accelerate AI adoption, Avani is building evidence-based playbooks for human + AI collaboration that guide Atlassian’s own transformation while helping enterprise customers navigate the same shift.
A TEDx speaker, member of Chief Executive Women and the WSJ CPO Council, and an i4CP board member, she is a leading voice on the future of work.
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 is a marketing leader at Atlassian, where her team develops and owns thought leadership about how to deliver results in the AI era. Liz is also an expert on effective teamwork and the author of the best-selling books Big Feelings and No Hard Feelings, which have both been translated into 20+ languages. Her work has been featured by Harvard Business Review, Good Morning America, TED, NPR, The Economist, and The New York Times.
