Kelly Allard
Director, Portfolio Lifecycle Management Agility & Technical Solutions
Red Hat Inc
Kelly Allard is Director of Agility & Technical Solutions within Red Hat's Portfolio Lifecycle Management organization, where she owns the Atlassian ecosystem supporting one of the world's largest open source engineering portfolios. With over 20 years of experience in portfolio and IT management — including multiple enterprise-wide platform migrations — Kelly brings a practitioner's perspective to complex, large-scale transformations. At Team '26, she shares lessons learned from Red Hat's journey migrating Jira Data Center, Confluence, and JSM to Atlassian Cloud, and what it means to make that move as an open source company.