01 · Winner · Rising Star
Atlassian Partner of the Year: Rising Star
Recognizes a new Solution Partner driving rapid growth and impact in the Atlassian ecosystem. Three winners total, one per geography. We took the Americas.
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We were at Team ’26.
We walked out four awards heavier.
Winner: Atlassian Partner of the Year 2026 Rising Star, Americas. Finalist in three more categories: AI Innovator, Teamwork Solutions, and Strategy Solutions.
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Anaheim Convention Center · May 5 to 7, 202602026 Partner Awards nods, including the Rising Star win for the Americas
3 daysAnaheim Convention Center, May 5 to 7. We were in the Platinum Solution Partner Pavilion.
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Accepting Rising Star, Americas.
Atlas Bench accepted the 2026 Atlassian Partner of the Year Rising Star award for the Americas at the Partner of the Year Awards Ceremony during Partner Accelerate, alongside Atlassian channel leadership and hundreds of fellow partners.
Presented by- Brian Duffy, Chief Revenue Officer, Atlassian
- Bill Hustad, Head of WW Channel and GTM Ecosystems, Atlassian
- Rich Figer, VP of Americas Partner and Alliances, Atlassian
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Four nods. One win. Same team you’d be working with.
The Atlassian Partner Awards recognize the partners delivering the most impact for Atlassian customers. Atlas Bench was named a finalist in four 2026 categories across the Americas and took the Rising Star win for the region.
02 · Finalist · AI Innovator
Atlassian Partner of the Year: AI Innovator
Recognizes a partner leveraging Atlassian Intelligence, Rovo, and AI to deliver groundbreaking automation. Smart Issue Templates and Await Cortex run in production for half a million Atlassian Cloud users.
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Atlassian Partner of the Year: Teamwork Solutions
Recognizes a Solution Partner leading the charge with business teams using the Atlassian Teamwork Collection. Jira, Confluence, JSM, and Rovo at scale across thousands of users in regulated industries.
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Atlassian Partner of the Year: Strategy Solutions
Recognizes a partner using the Atlassian Strategy Collection to manage work at scale. Our DC-to-Cloud playbook and data-lake-driven roadmaps move enterprise customers across the line.
Explore our strategy practiceThe most decorated Atlassian partner in the Americas.
Atlas Bench won 2026 Atlassian Partner of the Year Rising Star for the Americas, plus finalist nods across AI Innovator, Teamwork Solutions, and Strategy Solutions.
What the awards represent in production.
The work behind the four 2026 Partner Awards nods, including the Rising Star win, in the categories enterprise buyers actually buy.
Enterprise migrations
Thousands of users, millions of issues, complex multi-product migrations across Server, Data Center, and Cloud.
AI deployments at scale
Forge agents running large-scale AI risk classification and automation in production for enterprise clients.
Managed services in regulated industries
Embedded operations for healthcare, financial services, defense, and federal customers.
Cloud licensing strategy
Licensing optimization with Enterprise tier, marketplace consolidation, and renewal posture for large estates.
The 2026 results didn’t come from nowhere.
Atlassian holds tiered specializations. Atlas Bench has the ones that matter for enterprise delivery, plus a World-Class Software Development finalist nod for 2024 to 2025.
Platinum Solution Partner
Atlassian’s top tier of Solution Partners. Reserved for firms with proven scale, certifications, and customer outcomes.
Cloud Migration Specialized, AMER
Certified for migrating mid-market and large enterprise customers to Atlassian Cloud. A credential earned through audited project delivery.
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Service Management Specialized, AMER
Specialized for deploying Jira Service Management in mid-market and large enterprise customer cloud projects.
World-Class Software Development Finalist
Recognized as a finalist for the 2024 to 2025 cycle for software delivery excellence across the Atlassian platform.
Atlassian’s biggest event of the year. Three days that changed how our customers ship.
Team was the largest gathering of Atlassian customers in the world. Three days of keynotes, hands-on labs, partner sessions, and the kind of hallway conversations you can’t get on a Zoom.
The whole agenda was organized around one shift: human-AI collaboration at scale. Rovo, the rollout of new product launches, and the sessions led by the Atlassian PMs and engineers who actually built them.
If you were already running Jira, Confluence, or JSM, this was where you found the next 12 months of leverage. If you were considering Atlassian, this was where you watched the platform make its case.
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of attending companies left with new tools and solutions in flight
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of attendees connected directly with Atlassian product and solution experts
A few of the names that took the stage.
The full speaker list ran into the hundreds. These were the headliners we blocked time for.
Mike Cannon-Brookes
CEO and Co-Founder, Atlassian
Ethan Mollick
Innovation Expert and AI Thought Leader, Professor of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School
Emily Chang
Emmy Award-winning Journalist and Author, Leading Voice on Technology
Alexis Ohanian
Founder, Seven Seven Six, Reddit Co-Founder and Former Executive Chairman
Three days. Hundreds of sessions. One award that mattered most.
Curious what we brought back from Anaheim? Get on a call.
We’ve been at the show. Here’s the kind of work we cover.
Interviews and walk-throughs we’ve recorded with Atlassian product managers, engineering leaders, and partners. A Team ’26 batch is on the way.
Atlas Bench Video
How Rovo Dev Is Transforming Software Development with AI-Powered Automation
Matt Colman, Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian, explains how Rovo Dev supports developers across the entire software lifecycle by automating tasks, understanding context, and resolving 51% of vulnerabilities through AI-driven workflows.
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How Atlassian for Startups Helps Founders Scale Faster with Free Access to Atlassian Tools
Adam Gilleland, Product Marketing Manager at Atlassian, shares how Atlassian for Startups empowers early-stage founders with free access to Premium tools like Jira, Confluence, and Loom for 12 months, helping over 2,500 startups build stronger foundations.
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How DX Is Redefining Developer Experience and Productivity Through Data and AI
Justin Reock, Deputy CTO at DX, explains how DX uses research-backed surveys, system metrics, and AI frameworks to help engineering leaders measure developer experience and boost productivity.
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How Atlassian Advisory Services Helps Enterprises Accelerate Cloud Adoption and Scale Success
Marcus Asmar, Senior Solutions Consultant at Atlassian, explains how Advisory Services helps organizations achieve faster results, stronger adoption, and smoother transformations as they migrate to Atlassian Cloud.
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How Atlassian Home and Teams Keep Everyone Connected and Aligned
Jacqueline Bietz, Product Manager at Atlassian, shares how Atlassian Home and Teams help users stay connected and organized across all their work with new AI-driven recommendations and team management features.
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We found people on the floor in Anaheim. Now we’ll find time for you on a call.
Eight tracks. The ones that mapped to roadmaps we work on.
Sessions were curated into eight tracks, so attendees could build an agenda that lined up with what their team actually ships next quarter.
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Agentic Software Development
Forge agents in dev workflows. Atlassian Rovo for engineering teams.
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Collaboration & Knowledge Management
Confluence at scale, content automation, and connected docs.
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Service Management & Operations
JSM, Atlas, Compass, and operational excellence patterns.
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Strategy, Analytics & Reporting
Atlassian Analytics, Data Lake, AI insights for executives.
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Platform & Administration
Atlassian Guard, identity, governance, and platform admin.
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Developer Experience
Bitbucket, Compass, CI/CD, and the path from idea to deploy.
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AI & Automation
Rovo agents, Forge AI, and automation that actually saves hours.
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Industry Solutions
Healthcare, financial services, public sector. Regulated patterns.
Five days. Three full conference days. Here’s how Team ’26 played out.
High-level view of how Team ’26 unfolded. All times Pacific Daylight Time. The official Atlassian agenda is the source of truth, this gives you the shape of it.
- All dayArrivals & hotel check-inThe Atlas Bench team was on the ground by Sunday night. Dinners and side-conversations with partners and customers ran late into Monday.
- All day
- 8:00 AM to 5:00 PMPre-event programs and registrationBadge pickup, partner program briefings, and on-site certifications.
- 12:00 to 5:00 PMLearning sessionsPre-conference deep dives. Limited seats, registered ahead of time.
- 1:00 to 6:00 PMExpo Hall openedAtlas Bench was in the Platinum Solution Partner Pavilion from the moment the doors opened.
- 5:30 to 6:30 PMOpening Keynote: The new shape of teamworkAtlassian executive leadership opened the conference.
- 6:30 to 8:00 PMWelcome receptionDrinks and apps in the Expo Hall. The best night to find people, lowest signal-to-noise of the week.
- 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- 8:00 AM to 6:00 PMExpo Hall open all dayAtlas Bench architects were on the floor for walk-up conversations the whole day.
- 9:00 to 10:30 AMFounder Keynote: Human-AI collaboration at scaleMike Cannon-Brookes (CEO and Co-Founder, Atlassian).
- 10:30 AM to 6:30 PMBreakout sessions, workshops, and roundtablesEight tracks ran in parallel. AI/Forge sessions filled within minutes of the doors opening.
- 6:15 to 9:00 PMBash After HoursAtlassian-hosted party. Three hours on our feet, well worth it.
- 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- 9:00 to 10:00 AMClosing Keynote: Permission to buildAtlassian leadership wrapped the conference.
- 10:00 AM to 3:00 PMFinal breakouts and certificationsLighter crowd, easier 1:1 access. The best window we had for locking in product team conversations.
- 3:00 PMConference closedExpo Hall tear-down. Atlas Bench was out by 5 PM.
- 9:00 to 10:00 AM
- All dayDeparturesSNA was the easier exit. LAX added 90+ minutes for anyone who hit afternoon traffic.
- All day
We built our agenda around customer asks. Want yours next?
Send your priorities when you book a 1:1 and we’ll match them to what we brought back.
The keynotes worth re-watching.
500+ sessions ran across eight tracks. These were the must-sees, the ones with standing-room only crowds we’d recommend whatever your role.
Tue, May 5 · 5:30 to 6:30 PM
Opening Keynote: The new shape of teamwork
Atlassian executive leadership opened the conference.
Wed, May 6 · 9:00 to 10:30 AM
Founder Keynote: Human-AI collaboration at scale
Mike Cannon-Brookes (CEO and Co-Founder, Atlassian).
Thu, May 7 · 9:00 to 10:00 AM
Closing Keynote: Permission to build
Atlassian product leadership wrapped the conference.
AI Building AI-Native Teams with Atlassian RovoTeamwork Teamwork Collection KeynoteStrategy Strategy Collection: Drive strategy with AI insights
Want our full session-by-role guide?
We kept the curated list for admins, IT, engineering, executives, Confluence power-users, and Cloud migration leads. Happy to send it.
Travel, hotels, and the app. What worked, what to know next time.
A debrief on the logistics. Anaheim is two hours from Disneyland, and local hotels and roads fill up regardless of the conference. Plan accordingly next cycle.
Travel
John Wayne (SNA) was the closest airport, about 20 minutes from the venue.
LAX ran 50 to 90 minutes depending on traffic. Budget two hours either way.
Anaheim Resort Transit shuttles ran from the major hotels. The Disneyland-area hotels had their own loops.
Hotels
$300 to $500 per night at the official Team ’26 hotel block during conference dates.
First-come, first-served. The official block filled out by mid-February. Book early next cycle.
Walking distance: a handful of properties were blocks from the convention center. Everything else needed a shuttle.
Conference App
The Team Conference app held up. Venue Wi-Fi did not. Worth downloading before you arrive next time.
- Build your custom session schedule
- Expo map with sessions and exhibitor list
- Notes & recordings, sessions landed in the app within 24 hrs
What we’d tell a first-timer next year.
Small things that made Team ’26 less exhausting and more useful. File these away for the next cycle.
Comfortable shoes, then better shoes
The convention center is huge. We logged 15k+ steps a day. Pack the pair you trust, not the pair that looks good.
Block 1:1 time before keynotes
Calendars filled within 48 hours of registration opening. Reach out to product teams the day the agenda drops next cycle.
Hit the Expo Hall on Tuesday
Tuesday afternoon was the quietest the floor got. By Wednesday the partner pavilion was three deep and product teams were slammed.
Pace caffeine, hydrate hard
Anaheim is dry and the conference coffee was a strategic resource. The hall had refill stations on every concourse.
What we talked through when you found us.
Atlas Bench delivers across every Atlassian Solution Collection. In Anaheim we set up in the Platinum Solution Partner Pavilion and walked customers through their situations, then matched them to the right Atlas Bench architect.
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Team ’26 · Anaheim, California · May 5 to 7, 2026