Name: BBQ & DevEx: Unifying Tools, Teams, and Priorities
Start: 2025-07-16T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-16T20:30:00+01:00

Enjoy delicious BBQ and fresh perspectives on DevEx from Appfire’s Ed Gaile and Christopher Pepe. They’ll dive into how disconnected tools and siloed workflows create challenges for developers —and how unifying your tools, teams, and priorities can drive clarity and success.

This is a hybrid event. Join the event virtually at https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-london-presents-bbq-amp-devex-unifying-tools-teams-and-priorities/
or in person at

28 Scrutton St - 28 Scrutton Street Greater London, EC2A 4RP

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Agenda

6:00 PM: Welcome and drinks

Coma and get a drink and get comfy ready for our session

6:30 PM: BBQ & DexEx session

Fresh perspectives on DevEx from Appfire’s Ed Gaile and Christopher Pepe. They’ll dive into how disconnected tools and siloed workflows create challenges for developers —and how unifying your tools, teams, and priorities can drive clarity and success.

7:30 PM: BBQ

The bit you have all been waiting for - Ed Gaile waives his magic BBQ wand and delicious BBQ food appears, which you can enjoy with a beer

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Speakers

Ed Gaile - Appfire (Principal Solution Architect)

Edward Gaile is a Principal Solution Architect at Appfire. He has over 30 years of experience in software application development. His specialties include enterprise application design, DevOps, and change enablement optimization. He has been involved in the Atlassian eco-sphere for the past 15 years, including leading the Atlanta Atlassian user community for the past 10 years. He holds m…

Christopher Pepe - Appfire

In the beginning I was an embedded systems engineer, and tinkerer. Back in my day several of my projects were featured on Make’s website, and I contributed to the uClinux Blackfin community with software and hardware.
I have been using Jira since 2004, and an Atlassian partner since 2010. After engineering I held roles that would now all be considered DevOps. As a senior member of a smal…

Nikki Závadská - Appfire (Lead Product Manager - Agile)

Nikki is the Lead Growth Product Manager at Appfire, with almost a decade of experience aligning organizations with lean and agile methodologies. She also loves to geek about and share insights on startups, growth, product management, and productivity.

Hosted By

Stuart Capel, Head of Technical Delivery

Head of Technical Delivery at TiPJAR / Atlassian Community Leader / PMP

Jay O., Service Desk Manager

Bruce Cullen, Director of Products

I am Head of Products and a founding member at Eido software, driving product & marketing strategy and go to market for our Microsoft Intune reporting and management tool. In past lives I have been a Director of Products building dashboarding software, founder of a company building integrations and a Senior Delivery Manager, running multiple projects in parallel and delivering software projects in teams of up to 500 engineers spanning the globe

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Global Partner

Atlassian (http://atlassian.com)
Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality.

Partner

Appfire (https://appfire.com/)
Enterprise collaboration solutions built for your team, ecosystem, and best work — because when work flows, productivity does, too.

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