How to Level Up Jira & Confluence — 10 Years of ACE Cologne
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🎉 Cologne’s Biggest Jira & Confluence Customer Event
Official 10 Years Anniversary & Team ’25 Europe Highlights
If your team runs on Jira or Confluence, this is the event for you:
🚀 Atlassian Team ’25 Highlights – What’s new for Jira & Confluence users in Europe. Including AI-powered teamwork trends
⚙️ Practical insights – Get the latest for your projects & integrations, Atlassian tips
📸 50x Free Professional Headshots – Get a new LinkedIn/Jira/Confluence profile photo on us
🤝 Networking with 100 peers – Meet local admins, users, consultants, developers, product owners & Atlassian partners
🍸 Cheers to 10 Years – Celebrate with free: drinks, food & Atlassian Swag.
✅ Be the first in Cologne to hear what’s next for Jira & Confluence
✅ Trade real-world tips in a high-trust, relaxed setting
✅ Grow your network with top Atlassian partners and users
🚀 Fresh from Barcelona: Atlassian Team ’25 Europe Highlights with Lisa Grau
Couldn’t make it to Atlassian Team ’25? We’ve got you covered. Lisa Grau (Atlassian) will deliver the key takeaways straight to Cologne — including AI, Forge, and product updates for Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management. Lisa is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Atlassian, leading ITSM acceleration in the DACH market. With 10+ years of experience, she’s known for simplifying complex concepts and helping teams improve practices and processes. Plus: our sponsors will share customer insights and trends directly from the conference floor.
✨ Special Premiere: “Atlassian Forge Queen” Caterina Curti comes to Cologne
For the first time in Europe outside London, we welcome Caterina Curti, (Atlassian) Senior Developer Advocate — known internationally as the Forge Queen. Bring your team’s burning questions! After her talk, Caterina will be at her booth to inspire you and demo Forge in Action.
Forge is Atlassian’s cloud app development platform that helps teams build secure, reliable, and scalable custom apps for Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, and Rovo on the Atlassian Cloud. Caterina will show how Forge makes it easy to create powerful customizations, share real-world sample apps, and kickstart your own journey into app building.
🙌 An Event for Builders, by Atlassian Customers
Led by Krimo Khermane and Andree Lindenblatt, the driving forces behind Cologne’s Atlassian Community. With 10 years of events, countless Jira & Confluence stories, and experience from companies like Unitymedia, Deutsche Bank, GoDaddy, and Host Europe, this is a celebration built by customers, for customers.
👏 Thanks to Our Sponsors
This event would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Meet them in-person and learn to improve your Atlassian products for your teams.
Revyz, View26, SaasJet, Decadis, Communardo Products, Epic Sum Up by Aptis and ONETEEM.
When & Where?
🗓️ Wednesday, October 15, 2025
18:00–22:00 (doors open 17:30)
Location
Networking in the most fun location we could found. Charge your phone and get excited about the event location and spot to mingle exclusively for Atlassian Customers.
Walkthrough: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKHDKB9MdHY/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/houseofbates.de/
📍 House of Bates, Cologne
Luxemburger Straße 78
50674 Köln
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🚉 Nearest stations: Köln Eifelwall/Stadtarchiv (Tram) or Bahnhof Köln Süd (Train)
Parking space
Follow the insights of Parkopedia to find all the nearest parking space. Here are two suggestions:
- Rotonda Parkhaus
Pantaleonswall 27, 50676 Köln
Open 24h, 750 m / 12 minutes away
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- Tiefgarage Hohenstaufenring
Hohenstaufenring 29-37
50674 Köln
Open 24h, 800 m / 13 minutes away
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Don’t miss this event
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Questions, Issues or want to be a sponsor?
Contact cologne@atlassiancommunity.com
FAQ’s
How much does it cost to attend?
This event is 100% free for Atlassian customers. Seats are limited. Register to join today.
Can Partners attend?
Sponsoring Partner attendance is welcome, however space is strictly limited.
How do I get a ticket?
Complete the free registration form.
Can I watch this event digitally if I can’t attend in person?
Content will not be recorded, so please join us live in Cologne.
If I have other questions, whom should I contact?
For additional questions, please reach out to cologne@atlassiancommunity.com
Agenda
6:00 PM: Doors Open
Check-in, free welcome drinks & free professional headshots
6:30 PM: Lisa Grau | Fresh from Barcelona: Atlassian Team ’25 Europe Highlights
Fresh insights from Atlassian Team ’25 Europe — what’s new and what matters for your daily Jira/Confluence use
6:50 PM: Caterina Curti | Enhance Your Jira Experience: Forge-Powered Visualizations for Custom Fields with External Data
Discover how to push the boundaries of Jira customization by leveraging Forge to create powerful custom fields. This session will guide you through integrating data from external systems directly into your Jira workflows, enabling dynamic and context-rich task tracking and reporting. Additionally, learn to utilize the UI Kit's visualization options to transform your custom field data into interactive and insightful charts. Through practical examples, you'll gain the skills to build sophisticated, efficient, and visually appealing solutions that elevate your team's productivity and decision-making capabilities.
7:20 PM: App Elevator Pitches | All Sponsors
Meet on stage each Atlassian Marketplace Partners in 2-min lightning pitches.
7:40 PM: Community Impulse (Interactive)
Who’s in the room? Share your Jira & Confluence challenges and get instant answers from peers. A quick, low-pressure session designed for both introverts and extroverts. 📱 Bring your smartphone or tablet to join in.
8:00 PM: Networking & Headshots
Enjoy free drinks, food & relaxed conversations with fellow peers.
10:00 PM: End of the event
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Speakers
Krimo Khermane - Atlassian Community Cologne (Principal Digital Experience Manager)
👋 Hi I’m Krimo,
Atlassian Community Leader in Cologne since 2015. I’m passionate about connecting real users, showcasing customer success stories, and building high-impact events.With 10+ years of experience in digital product, service management, and enterprise marketing, I’ve worked with telcos, banks, and media companies to deliver value using Jira, Confluence, and the Atlassia…
Andree Lindenblatt - GoDaddy | Atlassian Community Cologne (Sr. SaaS Platform Systems Engineer | Atlassian Community Champion)
Andree Lindenblatt is a Senior SaaS Platform Systems Engineer at GoDaddy, where, as part of a global team, he helps scale and optimize Atlassian tools across the enterprise. With more than 25 years of experience in IT, from System Administration and Software Development to leading development teams, he combines technical depth with agile leadership and enterprise platform expertise.
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Caterina Curti - Atlassian (Senior Developer Advocate)
Caterina is a Developer Advocate at Atlassian, focused on helping developers building apps that add functionalities to the Atlassian products.
When she is not working, you can find her admiring the Australian ocean and beaches or playing with a dog. And now also filming it for her YouTube channel.
Lisa Grau - Atlassian (Senior Partner Solutions Architect)
Lisa is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Atlassian, leading Partner Solutions Acceleration for ITSM in the DACH market from Wiesbaden, Germany. With a decade of experience, she helps teams maximize their potential by improving practices, processes, and traditions, known for her ability to simplify complex technical concepts. Outside of work, she loves hanging out w…
Sanket Parlikar - REVYZ (Co-Founded)
Bitten by the entrepreneurship bug I co-founded Revyz, with a mission to bring Enterprise Data protection into the SaaS apps world! With 13+ years of experience in Data protection & security domain, most of my career I focused on interacting with customers directly, getting to know the real world problems and providing effective solutions for it. Before building Revyz, as a Professional Se…
Faizal Moidu - VIEW26 (Chief Executive Officer)
Stepan Fedortsiv - SaaSJet (Chief Product Officer)
Thorsten Letschert - Decadis (Product Marketing Management)
Empowering Teams Through Collaboration with Atlassian Tools
Jira Workflow Architect | Atlassian Community Champion and Certified Administration Expert.
As Product Marketing Manager at Decadis, an Atlassian Platinum Marketplace Partner, Thorsten is on a mission to spread the word about streamlining Jira workflows and the power of automation. With a background as a technical consu…
Yassin Bennaceur - ONE T.E.E.M. GmbH (Founder & Atlassian Expert)
Anxhelina Qyli - Communardo Products (Product Owner)
Starting as a Working Student Product Owner at Communardo more than two years ago, Anxhelina quickly gained a broad overview of customer needs and product requirements. Her passion for improving products and delivering value to users led her to become a certified Product Owner. With international experience, including a semester abroad and a certification to work globally, as well as collabora…
Johanna Pichotka - APTIS (Marketing Manager & Software Enthusiast)
Moderators
Krimo Khermane - Atlassian Community Cologne (Principal Digital Experience Manager)
👋 Hi I’m Krimo,
Atlassian Community Leader in Cologne since 2015. I’m passionate about connecting real users, showcasing customer success stories, and building high-impact events.With 10+ years of experience in digital product, service management, and enterprise marketing, I’ve worked with telcos, banks, and media companies to deliver value using Jira, Confluence, and the Atlassia…
Andree Lindenblatt - GoDaddy | Atlassian Community Cologne (Sr. SaaS Platform Systems Engineer | Atlassian Community Champion)
Andree Lindenblatt is a Senior SaaS Platform Systems Engineer at GoDaddy, where, as part of a global team, he helps scale and optimize Atlassian tools across the enterprise. With more than 25 years of experience in IT, from System Administration and Software Development to leading development teams, he combines technical depth with agile leadership and enterprise platform expertise.
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Tai Ngo - Tai takes Pics (Fotograf & Videograf)
Tai will take professional photos of you for your Jira & LinkedIn profile. Visit his work at https://www.instagram.com/taitakespics/?hl=de;
Hosted By
Andree Lindenblatt, Atlassian Community Leader
Andree Lindenblatt is a Senior SaaS Platform Systems Engineer at GoDaddy, where, as part of a global team, he helps scale and optimize Atlassian tools across the enterprise. With more than 25 years of experience in IT, from System Administration and Software Development to leading development teams, he combines technical depth with agile leadership and enterprise platform expertise.
In 2023, Andree received the Atlassian Cloudy Award for contributing to one of the industry’s most ambitious Atlassian Cloud migrations in partnership with Isos Technology. Today, GoDaddy operates one of the largest Atlassian environments worldwide, supporting 12,000+ Jira Software users, 8,000+ Confluence users, 3,000+ Jira Service Management users, and more than 30 mission-critical apps.
Outside of his role at GoDaddy, Andree is an Atlassian Community Champion. He leads the Cologne chapter, Germany’s second largest, and co-runs one of the most influential Atlassian-focused YouTube channels globally. His certifications in Scrum Mastery, Product Ownership, and PRINCE2 reflect his commitment to agile practices and effective project delivery.
Passionate about building smarter workflows, transparent ecosystems, and knowledge-sharing communities, Andree bridges the gap between user experience, enterprise administration, and community impact.
Krimo Khermane, Atlassian Community Leader
👋 Hi I’m Krimo
Atlassian Community Leader in Cologne since 2015. I’m passionate about connecting real users, showcasing customer success stories, and building high-impact events.
With 10+ years of experience in digital product, service management, and enterprise marketing, I’ve worked with telcos, banks, and media companies to deliver value using Jira, Confluence, and the Atlassian ecosystem.
Previously Product Manager at catworkx (Teamworkx), now focused on growing authentic, insight-driven community experiences — online and in person.
Let’s connect!
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Partners
Revyz (https://www.revyz.io/)
Revyz helps organizations simplify protection of their data in SaaS DevOps tools such as Atlassian through our cloud-native, performant platform. Our mission is to provide peace of mind to our customers by protecting one of their most critical assets — their data.
VIEW26 GmbH (https://www.view26.com/)
Insights made Easy - We provide solutions for Atlassian's development tools that empower teams to gain actionable insights easily.
SaaSJet (https://saasjet.com/)
https://epicsumup.com/ (https://epicsumup.com/)
Communardo Products (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/95/communardo-products-gmbh)
Communardo specializes in creating innovative apps that improve the digital workplace experience in communication, digital transformation, and agile work. As an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner and Atlassian Platinum Marketplace Partner, Communardo focuses on developing apps that solve recurring problems, elevating the performance of Atlassian solutions. Headquartered in Dresden, Germany, the group includes the successful companies bitvoodoo and Mibex.
Decadis (https://www.decadis.de/)
ONETEEM (https://www.oneteem.com/)
At ONETEEM, we want to help companies actively shape the future of work - a future where people, AI, and cloud technology are used to sustainably drive innovation and productivity.
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