Sherif Mansour Distinguished Product Manager and Head of AI, Atlassian

Sherif Mansour is a Distinguished Product Manager for Atlassian and Head of AI (Rovo, Atlassian’s generative AI platform). With over 20 years of software development under his belt, Sherif has played a key role in both developing new Atlassian products including Atlas, Stride, Team Calendars and Confluence Questions, and also in driving existing products forward, like Confluence, a popular content collaboration tool for teams. Sherif now spends his days solving problems across all of Atlassian’s cloud products. Based in Sydney, Australia, Sherif enjoys running, pretending to be a professional soccer coach with kids under 10, and is a wannabe cartoonist.

Sherif Mansour will draw on his experience as Head of AI and Product Management Craft at Atlassian to explore the real tensions shaping AI product development today — not as problems to solve, but as forces to navigate. From knowing when to bolt on AI features versus reimagining workflows entirely, to understanding how AI is reshaping team roles and the junior-senior dynamic, Sherif shares candid insights from the coalface of one of the world’s most recognisable software companies. Expect practical frameworks, hard-won war stories, and an honest look at what it actually takes to build AI products that work for people.