Atlassian Team '26 – why context, not 'just AI', is the bet behind Rovo, the Teamwork Graph and Dia
Asked the day before his Team ’26 keynote in Anaheim how to tie the week’s announcements together, Atlassian Co‑Founder and CEO Mike Cannon‑Brookes says quickly:
Context in AI would be the singular thread.
What he means by context is the live, evolving model of an organization’s people, work, code, assets and events that humans and agents can act on safely. The Atlassian pitch is that years of Jira, Confluence, code changes, approvals, documents and tickets have already been feeding the company’s Teamwork Graph – the organizational graph that sits under the platform and underpins its Rovo AI strategy.
Cannon‑Brookes admits much of what he says this week qualifies as what he calls a “narrative violation”. Three times in the briefing he flags ideas that cut against current AI orthodoxy: customers using agentic development tools “tend to grow faster, and they use our tools way more”; he is “bullish on the...
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