Codegeist 2026 Build Session: Atlassian Forge and Rovo Demo
Engineering The Branches Between Prompt and Outcome
Danny Thompson, Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian, shows how he turns meeting transcripts and voice messages into Jira tickets using Atlassian Forge, Rovo, and coding agents. Tue, Nov 17, 12:00 to 12:45 PM ET on Zoom.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE
Join Danny Thompson, Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian, for a hands-on demo exploring how to build AI-powered workflows with Forge, Rovo, and coding agents. Danny will showcase real-world applications he's built, including an AI-powered meeting pipeline that turns transcripts into actionable Jira tickets and Confluence recaps, a WhatsApp integration that transforms voice messages into structured development tasks, and a sprint dashboard that converts project data into Google Slides presentations. See how these tools work together to automate workflows, connect context across applications, and accelerate development from idea to execution. This session will inspire Codegeist participants to build their own context-aware apps with Forge.
FORMAT
About 30 minutes of live demo, then about 15 minutes of Q&A.
WHO IT'S FOR
Anyone building, or thinking about building, a Codegeist 2026 app. Beginner to intermediate. New to Forge? Watch the demo first, then set up from the step-by-step guides in the workshop repo.
WHAT YOU NEED
A free Atlassian account
Forge CLI installed (you can create a demo site with it)
Optional, to follow along: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/intermediate-forge-development-workshop/src/main/
FAQ
Do I need to be registered for Codegeist 2026 to attend? No, you don't!
Will there be a recording? Yes, on YouTube after the session.
What is Atlassian Forge? Forge is Atlassian's cloud platform for building apps that run inside Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian products.
What is Rovo? Rovo is Atlassian's AI assistant and agent platform.
ABOUT CODEGEIST 2026
Atlassian Codegeist 2026 is a hackathon for building apps on Forge that use connected context from Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket, Teamwork Graph, or Rovo. $120K in prizes, including 24 bonus prizes of $1,500. Submissions close Tue, Dec 22 at 12:00 PM PT. Register here and see the rules: https://codegeist2026.devpost.com/?utm_source=devpost&utm_medium=luma&utm_campaign=codegeist26&utm_content=build-session-nov17