Whew! What a Summit!

This past June 9-11th a group of Contegians went to sunny San Francisco, CA to attend the 2010 Atlassian Summit. Contegix was a sponsor of the event this year, and had a booth presence in the partner pavilion, where we spent time talking to clients, answering questions and speaking to several new faces about our services. We had quite a few familiar faces stop by and say hello, and even more step over to introduce themselves – some from as far away as Sweden, Brazil and Italy. It was encouraging to know that they had heard about Contegix, even in the further stretches of the globe.

During the Summit, we were able to catch up with our many of our partners, listen to some exciting presentations, and participate in the Launch Pad Competition – an event where sponsors competed for the best presentation of a product that they were “launching”. Hats off to our client, Gliffy, who won with their great presentation that they delivered dressed as pirates!

For our presentation, delivered by our CTO and Co-founder Craig McElroy, we decided to make a special announcement of our expansion into the European market.  The forthcoming presence will be a state-of-the-art data center offering our hosting, colocation and cloud services in the European data center with all support remaining  stateside from our global headquarters in St. Louis, MO. Overall, the feedback on our presentation and news was great from the audience. We got more than a few laughs and many people offered congrats. We are really excited to be offering services in Europe. It is a huge step for our company, and a sign of the bigger things to come.

The Summit was not only very informative when learning  about all the latest Atlassian products and new features, but also fun! The good folks over at Appfire, another partner of Atalssian, hosted one heck of  party, (The Firewater Party) in the Presidential Suite of the InterContinental Hotel, where the Summit was being held. We got to catch up with Mat Gauvin, Appfire’s COO, and hear a bit about some hot new technologies that they have in place to support the Atlassian products.

The next day at the Summit, a few of us manned the booth, while others took the opportunity to learn about the latest updates to some Atlassian products -namely, JIRA. There are many great advancements to the Studio product this year, that we are sure developers will love. The 2nd day at the Summit was great, but the Atlassian Summit Party was even better. Tom Cruise (or a very believable likeness) stopped by to say hello to all the attendees, and pose for a few pictures. We wrapped the night toasting to new found friends and of course, planning the strategy for next year’s Summit, which we are really looking forward to.

Here are more photos from the Summit. Feel free to browse here and our Facebook Fan Page to see what your favorite group of geeks were up to during the Summit…